CHAPTER ONE
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Celine's POV
" Good morning my friend" I rolled my eyes and stared at the pretentious friend of mine, as she walked towards me with a tray held in her hands .
" Breakfast already?" I asked
" Yes darling" Sandra said
I knew her motive, she was only pretending to be my chum just to get close to me and discover my secret. Something I have been hiding for ages.
" Look at your skin... Glowing, radiant that youthful glow .. oh bestie tell me your secret?"
" You're not so bad yourself" I replied and dashed out of my room and into the study. Fred was seated as usual... Buried in a voluminous book, slowly perusing the leaflets. He smiled and looked up at me.
" Morning Celine "
" Morning " I replied
" What brings you here this early?"
" Oh " I replied and remembered that I loved studying late at night... Probably I was a night owl and not the morning person... Waking up early, doing yoga or jogging... Or meditation... That's not my thing.
" It's a miracle you woke up early today"
" It is indeed" if only Sandra would let me sleep in peace, this days she was getting on my nerves... Turning my things upside down looking for answers that probably wasn't there, I was even afraid of breathing.
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Sandra's POV
I searched her room again and again, still found nothing, dead end.
I smirked and picked a piece of scale from the floor. What was this? What was a scale doing in her bathroom floor? Was she? Was she using fish to ...? I'm I overthinking? I thought and dropped the idea... I knew that Celine hated sea food and I was rather amused or let's say surprised to find a scale ... Could it be that she was... My eyes widened... She was secretly eating fish in her room while she acted all tensed in front of everyone... Such a hypocrite.
Celine was the apple of an eye, she had shares of the company... An outsider with shares while I the daughter remained like an outcast. No shares nothing... Just them complaining and comparing me with her...
Can't you be like Celine, can't you act like Celine, look at Celine... I was literally tired of them all. I wanted to find something that would make them all turn against her once and for all... But what was it? What was it? Celine was perfect... Beautiful, long blonde hair, big beautiful eyes, pink pulpy lips, a curvaceous figure, her hips looked like a mermaids curves. Only mermaids are this beautiful...wait could she be a mermaid? I shrugged the thought off and even laughed out loud for having such a stupid thought... Mermaids never exist...
I walked out her room, disappointed, tired and looking forward for a good breakfast... Thinking about breakfast... the pancakes I had prepared for that jerk had totally gone to waste... It was a set up... Pancakes with the truth serum... Cupcakes baked with true serum, the coffee also had the true serum in it... If she'd taken the breakfast... I would really enjoy listening to her blubbering... Telling us the secret, her secret.
The dining off course Everyone was present apart from the perfect miss that stole ever I once had, before my life was sweet. I was the little princess. I had everything I wanted with just a snap of my finger but now? Everything was different.
" Oh morning my daughter... My beautiful girl" grandmother was the only one who adored me.
" Seat darling"
" Yes Grandma" I said
" Mhh I like everything here today"
" Off course you do... While girls like you are busy working hard to be what they desire... You're here admiring everything... Wanting everything served at the table" Miss Claude .. my mother looked at me in disgust.
" I'm not gluttonous mother" I said
" You're not darling, I know that" my grandmother smiled at me...
" Oh where's Celine?" Miss Claude asked
" She's gone for the shoot... You know she's working for the best magazine in the country now..."
" Oh that's great!" Miss Claude said
" I'm also a model" I muttered
" What have you done? What achievements?" Miss Claude, my mother said. I frowned and dropped the fork and stormed outside.
" Sandra " I could still hear my grandmother call after me but I was done...
I clutched the steering wheel and drove fast. All i wanted was to unwind. Clear my mind... I was trying to overtake the cars and then boom... The ice cream van, me trying to dodge... I hit the huge tree... Darkness... I was lost in the dark...
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Celine's POV
" Excuse me Ma'am will you turn?"
" Like this"
" The angle is perfect... J'adore mi hija"
" Merci, " I smiled and after the shoot, I walked to the changing room... The buzz, I picked the phone and scrolled.
" MISS SANDRA ADMITTED TO WORLD HEALTH HOSPITAL AFTER A CRASH" I read the headlines, shocked. What had happened? What really happened?
" Madame are you ready for the next shoot?"
" Oh just give me three minutes " I said and dashed to wear my red dress... This was supposed to advertise the red wine company... Oh I loved the dress... It was beautiful.
" Did you hear the news?"
" Yes just read it" I said frowning.
"She was over speeding, they say" the manager said
" Such a spoilt little brat" he added and the crew laughed
" She's not that bad... " I tried to defend her...
" We know her Mi hija... We know her, remember she tried to burn you alive? In the conference room... Remember? And you're still defending her... Karma is great. "
I frowned, I was just cautious of her but I didn't want anything bad happening to her, she was like my sister. I loved her and I sometimes understood why she was acting strangely. She was insecure. She was afraid i would steal her family. But I was not here for that reason. I was here because I wanted to stay in the land and feel like a human.
Our kingdom was in war and I was supposed to hide. The only disguise safe for me was in the human world. Fred's family took me in, treated me like their very own and even adopted me as their child. There was no other safe place than Fred's home. Sometimes I missed my parents, I wondered how they were copying with the war and the raging king from Nebula kingdom. It was hard to believe that the king from Nebula kingdom was actually Dad's brother. This days blood is no longer thicker... Family turn against each other, hurting, tormenting, torturing even killing each other.
" Hola " I looked at the studio, suddenly back to the present time.
" Lost in the sea world my princess" the manger asked
Sometimes I wondered why the manager was so sweet to me,
" Now say your lines "
" Sweet wine... Red wine is the best... Try red.. Try chora red wine"
The staff applauded
" Cut" the director, who was obviously exhausted wore his coat and pulled his bag out and walked away.
" See you tomorrow" he said leaving the studio in haste.
" Okay director" I said laughing loudly, he'd probably drunk too much last night, the eye bags, the way he forced himself to work through the day, it was so hilarious.
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Fred's POV
I dropped the phone, my hands shaking vehemently, sweating profusely. Sandra had an accident, she was in the ICU.
I watched the doctors run to and fro trying to save her, mother embraced my father and they sobbed softly. Celine entered the hospital, calm, confident and beautiful as always.
" How's she?" She asked
" She's in a critical condition" I said.
" Oh dear ... What should we do? Let them allow me to enter I might save her?"
" How ?" I asked totally confused, she was just a medical student, how could she save her? How could she compare to the surgeons in the hospital? This was the best hospital in the entire world and they were failing!
" I can stop the bleed ... "
" What do you know apart from the leucocytes and forget it" I muttered
" I can save her.. believe me Fred. I'm your little sister now"
I frowned, little sister! I didn't want her as my little sister... I wanted her as my own woman. My lover ... Not just a ' sister'
" Okay"
She smiled and after changing her clothes and entering the ICU... I saw the doctors leave the room.
" What's happening?"
" It's too late" They said
My mother screamed and collapsed on the floor, my dad wailed
" It's all my fault.. I failed you Sandra... I failed you" he said.
" Yes you did" her voice, it was Sandra's voice.
" What? She was dead I swear " the doctor said totally astonished and stupefied
" How did she come back? She's a witch... She's a witch " the doctor collapsed
Celine walked out of the warden with a sweet smile planted on her angelic face.
" She wasn't dead... I checked her pulse, her carotid pulse... She wasn't dead"
" I believe you" I said and pulled her into a tight embrace, she was a life saver.
" I owe you this one Celine... Thank you "
End of Chapter one...❤️❤️❤️
