CHAPTER 1: the beginning

Every time I close my eyes, I can't help but remember that night nine years ago. These memories that took place so long ago that were quite literally burned into my mind still feel like yesterday when my life fell apart. The sun peeked through my curtains waking me from my sleep, I opened my eyes, I rolled over to the other side of my bed, not wanting to wake up. That is until I saw my alarm clock sitting on my bedside table, which read seven o clock.. I groaned as I sat up

"Another day of school... great"

. I stood up from my bed and made my way to the shower. The cold brisk water helped me wake up and forget last night's memories. I dressed myself in my school uniform, a simple white button-up shirt with black trousers and a maroon jumper. I exited my room grabbing my bag on the way out, As i entered the main room i saw my roommate james a pale lanky kid around my age with messy brown hair scarfing down a bowl of what he called cereal but what was actually just glorified balls of sugar

"You know you're taking years of your life eating that stuff right,

. James turned to me before sticking out his tongue

"it's not any worse than the stuff i've seen you eat."

We both laughed as I grabbed an apple from our kitchen counter and shoved it into my bag. James quickly scarfed down the rest of his "cereal" and we exited our apartment together, after spending our fair share of years in the orphanage we both decide to get a place together once we both turned 16, luckily for us i had just been given my inheritance money from my deceased parents which will get us through until we graduate and james promise he'll pay his half once he gets a job when he finishes school. We walked down the road watching as each car passed by, the cold air hitting my face.

"So did you hear?"

I turned to face james

"Hear what?"

"Toms throwing a party tomorrow,"

"Tomorrow? On a thursday, why"

James shrugs

"It's the only day his parents are away. You going to go Noah and Liam are going"

"Yeah, I'll go. I don't have anything better to do, "

James turns to face forward again

"Sweet"

After no more than 20 minutes of walking, we reached our destination, Duvlin Academy.