Danielle

Chapter 1 - A Penny For Your Thoughts?

Danielle

Leaves rustling, birds chirping. It's 7AM in the morning and this is the first time I can wake up before my alarm goes off.

Last night I was drown in my work, listing things that I would review tomorrow since I'm a part-time beauty influencer. I just graduated from high school and find my life quite bored, so I decided to explore the beauty world. I always dreamed of becoming a model, the superstar kind. So maybe, I can start by entering the beauty world first.

My phone buzzed from beside my pillow. I look at my phone and sigh. It's 7AM and still morning. My one and only bestfriend, who is also my personal assistant, Hazel, already texting me about my schedule today.

Wake your lazy ass up, D. We need to clear today's schedule early. We still need to meet few people and do some finishing up for your birthday plan, since you're so eager to throw a party in some God damn floating luxury cruise ship.

Right. Tomorrow is my birthday and I'm so excited since this is the first time I'm gonna throw a party as an influencer. I've a list of beauty influencer, famous make up artist, famous model, and celebrity that I already invited last week.

Guess I'm not as lazy as you think. Lemme take a bath and I'll review few things that I already sort out yesterday. Help me with the Instagram post, will ya? And about the appointment, I'll give you the guest name later. I'll tell ya the details later, bye.

I lock my phone, get up lazily from my bed, walk towards my walk-in closet. I direct my gaze to the mirror located in the middle of my closet, standing in front of it.

I examined the figure in front of me, 5'2" petite brunette. Just to be honest, I never really like my height, my dream is to become a damn model when most of them is like 6' tall or much. I tried many method, even exercised to get my tiny legs longer, but maybe high heels is my forever best friend. Dark brown hair. Well.. you can say I look like a lion for now, since I just woke up from my sleeping beauty session, and because I'm such a lazybones and has almost zero energy to wash my hair, I decided to tied them up into a bun and walk towards my bathroom.

Pounding noise come from my front door, I assume its Hazel about to slit my throat open because I'm so late. I opened the door and there goes Hazel burst through the door in a split seconds, I can tell that she's super pissed by the looks on her face.

"Can we go now?" Hazel doesn't try to hide her pout.

"Where? What? Oh. Okay, absolutely, why not. " I reply her with a grin.

"You're lucky you have this beautiful look and I love you, or I won't reconsider ruining your pretty face for making me wait so long." Hazel mutter as she walks out heading her car.

I can't help but grinned widely and follow her. Hazel were my best friend for six years now, we met in high school, fortunately I'm the type that everyone want to be near with, but I find no comfort in everyone. And there come Hazel, the not-so-nerdy-but-badass type and has no friends at all. There's this one day when bunch of girls who used to hangout with me, group up and harrasing Hazel, accusing Hazel of what, cheat with one of the girl's boyfriend, when I know clearly that boy is a fuckboy and he messed with every girl in the school, that's why I stood up for Hazel. Hazel thank me and apparently I find comfort in being friends with her. And-

"Are you going to get in the car or you're just gonna stand there and look at me like you want to rape me?"

I was pulled out from my mind, not answering Hazel, I quickly open the front door and get inside. So, long story short, we've been best friends since then.

"It's not like I don't like girls, but you don't turn me on." I mutter sarcasly, loud enough for her to hear.

Hazel gave me a deadly glare and I chuckled. Locked my focus on my phone, I ignore Hazel nagging along our way.

We arrived at the edge near a beach, there's many small to medium ship sailing.

From where I stand, I could see a big cruise ship sailing off not so far from the beach.

"I'll go inside and talk to the manager. You coming?" Hazel ask.

I shook my head, "The guest list is inside my phone, check notes, I'll stay here for a while." I reach my purse and gave Hazel my phone.

Hazel took it and nodded quietly, she left me admiring the view. It's almost 6PM and I can see the sun is setting, I look around, there were hardly a person near the edge of the beach, just me, admiring the crashing waves. 

I'm wearing a simple backless one piece dress. As the cold breeze blows through my bare skin, sending shiver all over my body. 

This view makes me recall both my parents. They often take me to the beach, they know how much young me loves to burried my parents in the sands, or how much I love playing in the edge of the beach. My dad was born in Chicago, he is a loving daddy and CEO of his own company. 

My mom was something else, she's asian, she was born in Indonesia, when she's graduated from high school, she study aboard to Los Angeles and from my parent's story, dad's bestfriend was mom's boyfriend. Mom's boyfriend cheated on her and dad come to the rescue, I guess that's where they come to love each other.

"A penny for your thoughts?"

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