Chapter 5

The house had a huge crafted antique wooden door with beautiful designs all over it and I loved it. I ranged the classical doorbell that blends in well with the door.

Footsteps can be heard walking towards the door.

My grandma opened the door and just then and there enveloped me in a tight warm hug. She smelt like lavender and cookie dough. She felt so soft and motherly. It felt like home in her arms.

She released me from the hug and grabbed me by the shoulders , she stood back a bit to fully see me. She eyed me up and down. "Dear you've gotten so big over the span of years. I can't believe that I'm finally seeing you in real life. Chad would be so proud to see how a strong young lady you've become." My grandmother says with tears in her elderly eyes.

"Hallo grandma." I say lovingly. "I hope you would be glad to hear that I'm staying for good." I break the news to her. "My mom had done some terrible stuff that I found out about 5 hours ago and I just couldn't..." my grandmother cut me of mid sentence. "Dear , it's okay , that women ain't good and I don't know how you survived all the years with her and ofcourse I'm ecstatic that you are here. Come in now , it's late."

When I entered the house it felt so warm and welcoming. My grandma tooked me upstairs and showed me to a room. "This room is your bedroom from now on forward. I always dreamed about you being here with me. It has it's own bathroom and there is a small cosy balcony out the class door. Make yourself at home and when you're ready come and find me in the kitchen. We really need to talk about what made you come here." She said and then walked out and closed the door behind her.

The walls are painted beige with a pink undertone. 'Gorge I know'. There is a king size bed in the middle , with a white bedding that also has purple printed butterflies on it. Lots of pillows are neatly stacked on the bed with the coziest looking light pink flannel blanket. In the far side of my new room there are a cozy section with a creamy coloured beanbag and a cozy two seated couch. A flatscreen television hanged on the wall directed at

my bed above a shelf that is screwed into the wall for me to put my things on.

My room also have a window seat with pillows and a silver cozy blanket. 'How lovely.' When I'm standing on my small balcony the view is amazing. We have a big backyard with trees and a huge pool with a pool house at the back.

'My life living here will be so amazing. This house and my room is so amazing , so therefore my life would be better , no better is the biggest understatement of the year , it will be great , no awesomely amazing.

I went and showered in my grey and pink marble bathroom. The shower is amazing with all the settings that it has. The whole ceiling above the shower is filled with small lights and bluetooth speakers to listen to my music. There are also water sprinklers above my head for the water to fall all around me and onto me ,I love it.

When I dried myself of I went and picked out an outfit to wear , so I tooked my suitcase and picked out my black Adidas tracksuit , with my red flax Adida tekkies.

I dried of my wet hair with my microfiber towel and decide to just let it loose and let it dry naturally. It always gives of that beautiful soft waves and I absolutely adore it.

With my phone at hand I made my way out of my room and into the hallway. There are a lot of photos , family portraits to be exact. Everyone in the photos look so young and radiant with their beauty. There is one man in all of these portraits that looks really similar to me.

I walked down the hallway and down the stairs. When I'm at the bottom of the stairs I went into the lounge room , through the dining room and that's when I found the kitchen where my grandma is busy preparing dinner for tonight. On the table are a variety of biscuits and all sorts of cookies.

"Dear , you can have some if you'd like." she said from infront of the stove. "Uhh , t-thank you." I smiled awkwardly.

The reason for my awkwardness is probably the talk that is going to come next. I really don't want to repeat all the things that Ava told me about and I can't even bare to say all of the things out loud that Camilla had done to me in the past span of years. It was am awful time.

My grandma Jennice finished up with the food and joined me at the kitchen table while sitting across from me. "Camílla it's time for you to tell me what's been happening in your life that had you made this drastic decision in your life." she stared into my eyes with her warm hazelnut coloured ones. It felt like they are staring into my soul and tearing down all of my walls that I had build up so high over the past years.

"Well , my considered best friend Ava Evens had returned to Riverside on Tuesday. She was gone out of my life for 5 years , she left me without a word without so much as an explanation , I was so happy to see her again and then it hit me. Why was she gone all those years and why did she break contact with me? So I asked her and she said that she was in a reforming school in Boston, New York. I was so shook , what could she have done for her to be send to a reform school. I asked her and she was like didn't you watch the news , cause it was all over it." I paused to wipe away a tear. My grandma tooked my shaking hands into hers , while rubbing them in a comforting way I began to talk again. "I went home and dropped the groceries in the kitchen , my mother complained about how I tooked to long and I said that Ava is back. She went bazaar and told me to stay away , because the Evens family is according to her very dangerous. So I decided to look up into this matter on the internet for what could've happened that day. Ava contacted me short after and told me to meet her at the café. So I rushed there." I told my grandmother everything Ava told me and I was literally a mess. My grandma also shedded a few tears , but I can see she's holding back the most of it.

"My dear that is horrible. For a 13 year old girl to go through such hell." grandma wipes away the tears on my cheeks. "You're mother is a truly horrible woman. A disgrace for the female race." Grandma Jennice spat with disgust and hatred laced in her words.

When I was just about to say something a man entered the kitchen. The one from the portraits. I stared at him and visa versa.

Grandma Jennice looked at us both and than she smiled at me. "Camílla , this here is your-"