Chapter 1 - The Beginning

I'm Emma and I'm fifteen years old. I'm having summer holidays. But the most shocking thing is that I'm actually grounded. Literally grounded only for sneaking out and eating up all the snacks without my Mother's permission. Oh and by the way I'm the only daughter in our family, and I have 3 elder brothers. One of them is Josh. He is married, and living his own life. The next one is Alex. He is an engineer doing part time job. And the last one is Simon. He works in a pharmacy. So I sometimes consider myself as the princess of the family since I'm the only girl. My parents go out for job in the morning and they come back at night. My job in our house is to cook food, clean the house, and take care of my self when my parents and my brother leave for their work.

Now if we talk about my school life, I totally don't like Biology. I mean it confuses me a lot, and especially when I see a dead animal or a weird insect diagram, I feel like I'm going to vomit any second now or then. I quiet like Mathematics a lot. Especially when we have pop up quizzes for Mathematics. Chemistry is my second most favorite subject while English is my third most favorite subject, and the rest of the subjects are equally bad.

I'm at school right now, wondering when will the Biology period end and Mathematics period start. My Best Friend Shirley is totally opposite of me. But we magically are Best Friends. The day I joined school, Shirley was the first one to give me a hand in my confused moments. Now a days, we laugh together, we play together and sometimes we even do sleepovers at each other's houses. Our Mothers are close friends too. But not our Fathers.

The School bus just dropped me at my house right now. And I have many things on my schedule for today, because I'm going to make chocolate muffins today! Also I have to cook tonight's dinner because today is my Mother and Father's anniversary. I hope they come back from job early and not as late as they used to.

I don't know why but I feel like something is going to go wrong. This happens to me like whenever we are going to have a hard time. Either I get to know something bad is going to happen through my dreams or by my sixth sense. Some people believe that there is a sixth sense which only some people have. Which means that I'm one of the lucky people that get to know that something bad is going to happen sooner. So right now, I'm having a tingling feeling that a big problem is heading to us, but its not completely here.

Oh god, I'm still not able to find my authentic chocolate muffins recipe! What I don't actually like is that whatever recipe I try to find on the net always have a mistake in it. And for today I'm trying to make everything perfect but its actually turning into a disaster! I hope Mother and Father aren't having a bad day. Now the only way left is to find a new recipe from the net.

Oh wait someone is at the door! I ran towards the door to surprise Mother and Father but instead I got surprised by seeing Mother and Father entering in with depressed faces. I noticed something odd. There was only Mother and Father standing at the door way. Which means that Simon was not with them. My Father used to pick Simon up himself but this time he was not there.