Chapter 1
Goodbye! she said.
As she went down the path, walking while holding her breath for a few seconds. She tried her best not to cry. As she waved farewell to that man.
Bye.. He said.
As he strongly tried to fight, the sadness and loneliness that’s bout’ to come. The remarkable misses have reached, the moment they said goodbye. They wished to see again. He went onboard quickly, as the ships start to horn. Everybody on the jetty waved goodbye to their love ones. Tears started to fell, as broken hearted strangers felt disappointedly surprised . As the ship sails away, everyone onboard screamed and shouts
‘ We are gonna miss ya ! ‘ they said.
‘ We will be back soon aight’ ! they said.
Genevieve, the girl who said goodbye to the man she loved, couldn’t possibly watch the ship sailed away. She ran down as fast as she could; to a place where nobody should. As she reached, she gently pushed the rustic doors, carefully tip-toed as there’s glass shattered on the floor. She sat in the corner, hugged her knees and began to cry. The emotions came out as the tears rolled down, many feelings she is overwhelmed. She cried and she cried and she cried.
‘ I miss you Antonio ! ‘ she said.
As she leaned her head towards the wall while hugging her knees. Her thoughts of misery starts to roam around her mind,
she looked down with an awful blank mind, feeling devastated , missing the man she truly love. In the place where she is, is so dark and black pitch. As she watched the sunlights reflects on the broken glass, from the broken mirror,
from the broken window. She gazed, day dreams and closed her eyes, soon she fell asleep .
The next morning, she woke up to the cold winter morning, she is freezing definitely. Her eyes are red and puffy;
as she cried a lot last night. The moment she opened her eyes, her heart expects
‘ this… is just a dream. ‘ it said.
To her sadness of doom, it isn’t a dream. She gets up, and starts to leave the old crooked place. She took a deep breath, and put a forced smile on her face. As she walked out, she carefully tip-toed as there’s glass shattered on the floor. She gently pulled the rusty door as the sun shines bright in the sky, while she felt the sunlight lingers on her skin. She walked out slowly, to not make any sound. She then pushed the rusty doors closed and when she turned around, she saw three little children. Walking to school, with happy faces and laughing mischievously, skipping to school. Genevieve smiled at them,
‘ good morning little ones ‘ she said with a smile.
As the little children turned around and heard.
‘ Good morning Genevieve ! ‘ they said with a sweet melody voice.
The little children puts a smile on her face, but her heart isn’t any better at other ways. She continued walking .. She walked and walked, going to the destination where it’s called home. She went pass down the barber shop, she went pass down the road filled with cars and busses and carriage-horses. The cold wind starts to blow , as it whistled through her ear. She walked even faster this time, as she do not want to catch a cold. She skipped a couple of steps and starts to run, She began to shiver, as visible air flow through her chattering teeth.
‘ I am reaching ! ‘ she said with motivation that it’s in her head.
‘ Just a couple more trees ahead and I’ll be home ‘ she said.
As she counted those trees that she walked pass on the sideways, from 15..
14.. 13.. 12.. 11.. as she reached to 5, she ran. She ran as fast as she could. Till’ she reaches the front door of her lovely home. She knocked impatiently,
‘ hurry up! Open the door, I’m freezing! ‘ she said.
As she heard soft voices of her little brother
‘ I’m coming Genevieve ! ‘ he said.
As he took the keys that’s hanging on the wall as he stand, on the stool that’s placed down the wall. He tip-toed with his palms stretched out wide grabbing the keys, with his little finger-tips. And he managed to reach it.
‘ I got the keys ! ‘ he said.
As Genevieve shivers, on the cold winter day.
‘ now hurry up ! ‘ she said.
Her little brother slides the key in the hole, unlocking the door. As soon as he tried to turned the doorknob , Genevieve rushed through herself in.
” oh my god! I am freezing ” she said.
her mother, from the kitchen heard Genevieve’s voice,
” Where have you been ? ” she said with a furious tone.
” I was lost mother. I was walking through the woods.” She said with her lying guts.
Genevieve sat down at the fireplace, warming herself up. She felt cold and tired, she began to fall asleep on the couch.
As soon as she wakes up, she noticed that she’s been wrapped & tucked with a soft cotton blanket . The cold air outside has been blocked with fireplace that warms up the house, it’s night time, and the lights are all off except the light of the fire, which accompanied the darkness of it all. Genevieve was laying down, staring at the fireplace, thinking what had happened the other day. Antonio is still floating around in her head. She misses him all night and day. She starts to regret to the things she haven’t done, to spend time with her loved one. She buries her face under the blanket, as she cries silently while everyone’s asleep. Her parents do not know, her siblings have no clue. So does her whole family too. She closed her eyes and went back to sleep, as she thinks the flashbacks that’s in her skin.
Genevieve is in love. She is madly in love. she’s in love with a boy named Antonio Danial Thorez. He’s a young boy, that she’s obsessed. He has blue-green eyes, and dark brown hair. He is 174 cm tall than any boys in the town, he’s the handsomest one of them all. He’s 22 years old who looked so dearly young, as his baby face is so full of charm. Genevieve admire him. Really she do, she would watch the way he walk, the way he talks, the way he moves. She’s crazily in love.
You see, Antonio is the popular one. He’s the senior in the school, graduating in a year of time. Many girls crave for him. He is nice and sweet and loyal. And absolutely with a kind heart . He has many friends that are mostly girls, but none of them could steal his heart. He does not want to be a part, of any relationship as his parents are so sick. He comes from low-wealth life, wearing patched pants and torn shirt. He has his hopes up high to be a successful man. He dreams to have wealth and spend the money he had for his parents to get well.
That’s one of the things that Genevieve admired.
On the other hand, Genevieve is an average looking girl. She is 160 cm tall, between the girls they said she’s too tall and all. She has long brown hair, wavy and straight . Genevieve felt hopelessly insecure where she never called herself a pretty girl. She comes from a wealthy life, full of diamonds and surprise. She isn’t really well-known in her school or in the small town where she’s in disguise. Her school is so far away from where she stays as her life is secretly unknown. Nobody knows that she’s rich, and the girls in her class are always a bitch. They teased her, they bullied her. Oh how she wished they’d be gone in a glitch. Everybody in her class doesn’t know who she really is. She’s a 19 year old girl, who speaks through her mind,but not her lips. In the class, she’s the most timid. Nobody knows why she’s like this. She’s so scared of everything that’s been happening. She wasn’t really proud of her life, so much disaster that’s happening in her life.
On a hot summer day, Genevieve went out to the park to have a stroll alone . As she walked pass by the pond, she saw this boy, who’s she so fond of. She went panicked, her heart starts pumping , and her knees are trembling. Her heart caves in and her tummy went feeling funny. She paced and hid behind a big old oak tree. As she took a peek to see a boy who looked like a prince. She smiles to herself while watching him. As he feed the ducks with small little pieces of bread. Genevieve, who’s feeling nervous
‘ how perfect is he ? ‘ as she whispered to herself.
She leans against the bark while watching him from afar. She’s so smitten with a smile. Her cheeks turned tomato red and she wishes to stay this way. She wanted to talk to him, but she’s scared, if he rejects her like he rejected others in his will. She stood there, so still without moving an inch. Carefully without making a sound of anything, she gazed at him , looking at his soft, lush, dark brown hair, seeing his smile is the most unexplainable thing that she ever felt. She’s happy than happy, like the type of happiness where you finally reached your dreams. She stood there for 10 minutes, as long as she wants, because she wouldn’t want to miss this chance. Soon, it’s about to dawn. Genevieve decides it’s time to go. As she’s about to turn, two good looking boys have been standing there all the time.
She gasped .
‘ What are you guys doing here ? ‘ she said with confused and nervousness .
‘ well, we were about to ask you the same thing. ‘ said one of the boys.
‘ nothing! I was just enjoying watching the pond with ducks! Not as if I was looking at your perfectly gorgeous friend I was just … ‘ she talked with stutter
, but before she was about to finish her sentences, the two boys budged in
‘ oh we know what you were doing. You were looking at our friend aren’t ya? ‘ they said with a sneaky smile on their face.
‘ come on now, we’ll bring you to him. ‘ they said.
As they grabbed and pulled Genevieve’s wrist while leading her to him.
Genevieve panicked and shrieked, struggling her wrists as she decides to flee.
‘ Please! Please let me go! I don’t want to meet him! I’m .. I’m.. I’m shy … ‘ as she looked down while saying those words.
The boys, named Rauhl and Peter, laughed at her sweet silliness.
‘ He won’t bite. ‘ said Peter.
‘ Ya he won’t ‘ repeated Rauhl.
Peter and Rauhl are bestfriends of Antonio. They are very close. Like the best of bros. They are very naughty, so full of tricky thoughts.
As Peter grabbed Genevieve while walking towards Antonio, Genevieve covered her face with a beautiful red scarf.
‘Hey there man!’ said Rauhl and Peter with mysterious smile and cheeky face.
‘ Hello gentleman!’ said Antonio with a smile and delight on his face.
‘ Who is that? ‘ said Antonio with curious.
‘ Oh she ? She’s just someone big fan.’ said Rauhl with tricks up his sleeves.
‘Im sorry, I’ve go to go now, it’s nice meeting you boys! Goodbye!’
As she said with full rush and about dash.
‘Hold on there girl’ said Peter.
‘ Hey Antonio, we caught her while she was..’ as Peter was about to finish his
sentence,
Genevieve moved her hand so quick, and covered his lips.
‘ He doesn’t know what he’s talking about !’ Said Genevieve feeling dumb and displeased.
Peter laughed at her cute mischief .
‘How about we hang out here for while?’
Said Rauhl with a half smile on his face.
Genevieve tried to run, but as soon as she looked at Antonio ,
‘ this could be quite fun ‘ as she whispers in her heart.
So she sat down, on the big pile of rock
between Peter and Rauhl.
‘ So. What’s your name beautiful? ‘
said Rauhl with smitten on his smile.
‘ uh. Genevieve . Genevieve Luna Maria .’ she said with a timid voice ahead.
‘ Perfect name ‘ Said Antonio with a smitten smile on his face.
Genevieve smiled too, as her cheeks turned gradient pink which looks adorably cute. Rauhl looked oddly different on his face, as he turned to Genevieve closer to her face.
‘ Do you like him? ‘ he whispered softly .
‘ WHAT? NO! ‘ Screamed Genevieve.
Antonio and Peter was shocked by her loud screaming voice. Genevieve smiled with a hidden grin on her face. Rauhl suspects with a strong mind on his head that Genevieve is in love with his mate.
It’s almost night time , it’s time for Genevieve to go. But the boys wouldn’t let her go,
‘ I need to go home now, my mother is going to be furious ‘ said Genevieve feeling scared and afraid.
‘ no. Not yet ! ‘ said Rauhl with disappoint face which he tried to make it fade.
‘ let her go home guys. She’s a girl, she can’t be out late at night . We can always meet the next day’ said Antonio with a excitement on his face thou he tried his best to hide it again.
‘ Can we? Can we meet again? ‘ said Rauhl with eagerness but not too eager.
‘ well okay then! We shall meet again soon! ‘ said Peter.
‘ But wait! we haven’t introduce ourselves
!’ said Antonio.
‘ Well then! My name is Peter , pleased to meet you! ‘
‘ I’m Rauhl ‘
‘ And I’m Antonio ‘ he said with a sweet smile on his face while he shook her hand.
Genevieve is all smitten again, she tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled with her pink gradient cheeks feeling all shy.
‘ Goodbye everyone, see you real soon ‘ said Genevieve as she walked away.
As Genevieve went back home, Rauhl and Peter talked about her.
‘ She look kinda cute isn’t she? ‘ said Peter.
‘ Kinda?! She’s perfect!’ Said Rauhl with full of joy.
Antonio smiled and looked at them with a little chuckle . He lied down on the clean, green grass while staring at the stars.
‘What’s it like to be in love ?’ Asked Antonio with clueless mind in his head.
Rauhl and Peter joined along.
‘ when you start to feel both happy and afraid ‘ Said Rauhl.
‘ Why would you want to feel afraid when you’re in love ?’ asked Peter.
‘ Because you should be afraid. Someone else could take her away. ‘ Said Rauhl with emotions running inside.
Antonio ponders and wonders, he took a deep breath and let out with a convincing sigh as he close his eyes and feel asleep that night. The boys usually camp outside, no tents and no tiles, just on the natures ground. They stayed overnight like they always use to. Rauhl and Peter fell asleep too. Antonio, soon wakes up and starts to questioned his mind. He wonders why he never felt this shivering heart as Genevieve’s face starts to roam in his mind. He felt a funny feeling in his heart. Antonio left a half smile on his face and dream of Genevieve again.
‘ Why do I have visions of her in my head?’ he asked with full of confusions.
Antonio stands up and head to home. He left his best-friends lying on the ground like he always use to, jokingly. It was half past nine and only the street lights are on. The bright beautiful town turns into a deserted area at night. Everybody are fast asleep on this time as they have to wake up on the time of sunrise. It’s Monday today, it’s a start of the first day of school. Genevieve had her breakfast made by her own personal cook. While Antonio, he’s the only cook. Early in the morning, he wakes up, make his bed and went straight to bath. He cooked up small portion of meal, boiled two eggs and toast one slice of bread. He did not eat, but it’s for his parent that needs to feed.
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Genevieve is having quite a good meal, served on a beautiful gold platter, filled with scones and jam and butter. She has a side bread of croissant with an omelette right up front and a delicious orange juice to quench up the thirst. It’s time to get up and head to school. Genevieve wears an average looking shoe, to complete the disguise she’s been through. Antonio too, wears his shoe, tying the knots of his torn shoe. Genevieve has her own chauffeur, while Antonio rides his bicycle to school. Genevieve got down 3 blocks away as she has to walk on her own. She can’t be seen in a car with her own chauffeur. While Antonio was cycling down the road, To his surprise… He saw Genevieve, stepping out of the long black car. Antonio looked with his eyes wide open. He was shocked. Antonio was utterly speechless. He pressed the breaks so hard that the bicycle almost tripped over.
He stopped and he watch Genevieve said goodbye and thanked her chauffeur. Genevieve went straight on walking along the pathway that leads to school, Antonio continued to cycle. As they reached, Antonio quickly get down and lock his bicycle, after he’s done, he went up to Genevieve to ask something curious.
‘ Is that your dad? ‘ asked Antonio .
Genevieve who heard the terrifying question, she began to felt scared and afraid . As she heard those words, she tried her best to stay away. Genevieve ran as fast as she could, while Antonio looking shocked and curious, went up and chased her. They ran up the stairs, through the classrooms, through the hallway, through the canteen and unfortunately, there’s no place for Genevieve to hide. Antonio managed to confront to her and again, he asked.
‘ is that your dad? ‘.
Genevieve had no choice but to tell.
‘ No. He’s not. ‘ said Genevieve with full of guilt.
‘ Who is he then ? ‘ asked Antonio.
‘ He’s .. He’s my .. My… My.. Uhm.. Chauffeur ‘ she said while looking down with full of shame.
‘ YOUR WHAT ? ‘ yelled Antonio.
‘ My chauffeur !! HE. IS. MY. CHAUFFEUR. ‘ as Genevieve yelled back.
The two of them are alone at the back of the school trying to get the questions through.
‘ If I tell you, will you promise that you won’t tell anybody else ? ‘ asked Genevieve.
‘ I promise ‘ said Antonio.
Genevieve took a deep breath, closed her eyes and she reveal the hidden truth.
‘ I am.. I am the Town Minister’s daughter . ‘ said Genevieve with both relief and regret.
Antonio gasped as he’s speechless for that. The two worlds are so much different for them. It’s a secret that Genevieve should not tell.
Genevieve wanted to live a normal life. Going to a normal school with normal people, she does not want any special care, she has her own set of mind different than anyone. Her heart is soft but her head is strong, she’s stubborn like her dad and soft like her mom. She convinced her parents to let her go to a school, a normal school with no bodyguards and with no help. Just her alone. At first, her father disagrees as he is afraid if something bad happens to his dear daughter. Her mother , on the other hand, agrees strongly. Her mother gave her some sweet comments and helpful advice.
‘ are you sure you want to do this? You can always homeschool . ‘ asked Mdm. Thorez.
‘ yes mother ! Daddy, you do not have to worry. I’ll be fine . I will tell the chauffeur to stop 3 blocks away so that no one will notice me. ‘ said Genevieve with happiness and confidence .
‘Alright then, you will have the permission to go to a normal school BUT, there is one condition ‘ said Mr Thorez.
‘What is it daddy ?’ Genevieve asked with wondering on her face.
‘ If anything happens to you, homeschool it will be ‘ Said Mr Thorez with a serious tone.
‘ Alright daddy! I promise! Nothing is going to happen ! ‘
The town ministers has one son and one daughter. They do not want the public to know they have their own children as it is danger to them. They are afraid if their lovely children is kidnapped and been taken away. To keep them safe, they have to keep them alone in their head.
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After Genevieve explained, Antonio was speechless. He sat down on the floor leaning his back on the glass door.
‘ Why didn’t you tell us yesterday ?’ Antonio asked.
‘ Because.. I can’t. I’m not allowed to. I can’t tell anyone, and that is why I want you to keep this a secret! ‘ said Genevieve.
The bell rings and they’re late for class, quickly they went a head to class. Genevieve is having history, while she was writing, she started to worry.
‘ What have I done ! This is bad. This is very bad ! ‘ she regrets.
Genevieve felt awful . She’s feeling all paranoid and she kept avoiding from everyone during recess . After school, Genevieve decides to go straight back home after what happened . She was walking to the same pathway as her car waits ahead. Antonio, was smart enough to wait at the same place. He watched her from afar and carefully followed her. He followed the car until it reach the house. He had to cycle for 2 hours as she stays very far. When they reached, Antonio hit the breaks really hard as he saw the big big house. The front gate was huge and so tall, with sharp pointy edges with vintage style. The front yard was decorated with beautiful pond and a statue of the town’s minister – Genevieve’s father. Flowers planted at the side of the road leading to the front door. The house was brown and huge with white pillar and maroon roof. They have their own pathway filled with golden brown sand and shiny pebbles at the sides. At the front of the gate there are two bodyguards standing strong and tall. Antonio looked with his mouth opened wide. He hid behind the bushes squaring down. While the car went in and they gates are close he get up and rides home .
‘ why are you late my boy ? ‘ asked Antonio mother while she coughed.
‘ sorry mother , I had some extra classes just now .’ He tried to cover up with the white lie.
‘ it’s time to eat your medicine mother. ‘ said Antonio with a smile.
He feeds his mother and his father and tucked them in warmly under the blanket. Antonio starts to take bath in the hot shower while thinking about what had happened.
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Genevieve is still worried. She starts to questions herself with many things. Her mind is full with scary things. She starts to day dream and imagining what could go wrong. As the sun sets, Genevieve went straight to bed as she doesn’t want nasty thought growing in her head. Antonio thinks about what she said,
‘ should I tell my friends? ‘ Antonio questioned himself.
‘ hmmm I guess I should not, she did told me to keep a secret ‘
as he promised himself to not tell anyone. Antonio starts to cook dinner for his parents with only one can of baked beans. For a moment there, he’s mind randomly thinks of Genevieve, as he cooks he sings and smile to himself. His heart starts to beat even faster this time
‘ why’s my heart pounding every time I think of Genevieve ? ‘ Antonio wonders.
The beans are cooked and it’s time to wake his parents up. ‘ Mother, Father wake up its time for your dinner ‘ he said with a soft and tender voice . He blows the beans and feeds them. Antonio felt sad sometimes. He doesn’t was anything bad happens to them. His parents is the only thing he got. He doesn’t need any friends or any other people, he just wants them and needs them. His mother has cancer and his father suffered stroke. His father got in an accident 3 years ago, and his mother had cancer 6 months ago. Before his mother had cancer, she’s the only one who can take care of her husband. Antonio was busy with his school and work as he comes home very late. Antonio applied for a new job, he have to carry heavy packages and wrapped them in a box. He gets very strong and muscular while doing his job. He earns 3 bucks per hour and it isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to afford his parents medicine, he can only get to buy it when he saves his money till it gets a lot. The big boss at his workplace is very mean and very rude. When it comes to Antonio’s payday, his boss avoids and gives whenever he wanted to give. Antonio was very upset and stress. He doesn’t know what to do. His life is so miserable but he’s very happy. He’s parents are his happiness. He would do anything for them. He works on the weekends in the morning to the midnight even when he works overtime, he does not get extra pay as others in his workplace gets it except for him. The big boss is very unfair. He only gives who wears clean outfits with living in appropriate homes. Antonio lived in a half build house. A very small house, nice enough for him and his parents, it is lucky that he’s the only child as it would be squeeze and hard to move.
It’s 8pm now and everybody is about to go to bed. Antonio has to stay up a little late to finish up the homework he has been given. Although it’s a big stack he managed to finished it as fast as he can. He is very smart and he’s a quick thinker. He’s the only person in the class and the in the school to have a high IQ . He passed almost every test and exams with really high marks. Well, full marks to be exact. Genevieve, oh she is very bad. Very bad at studying. Her mind’s always float somewhere whenever she opens her textbook, it’s a thing that she hates to do. Her Maths is very bad and so is her chemistry , except for history. That’s her favorite subject, it’s the only thing that her brains went to a quick act.
‘ How am I going to pass every test ? ‘ Genevieve asked herself.
Genevieve have homework too, but she is having trouble solving it. She fell asleep with her head on the book feeling tired and used. At 2am, Genevieve suddenly wakes up, and looked at her book.
‘ Oh my! I have not even answered one! ‘ Genevieve said while writing as fast as she can.
None of the answers makes any sense. She went straight back to sleep when she’s done. It’s 6am now and she needs to get up. Everybody wakes up at 7am as they live closely by the school. She had her quick warm bath , and eat her breakfast at 6:15. At 6:20 she rushed out and head to the car.
