"Hey, Daine. Daiinnneeee. It's time to get up."
"Why? I'm sleeping. Go away." I moaned. I was definitely not ready to wake up. But, how often do things ever go your way?
"Get up! We're here. You should really look at the place. It's HUGE."
Still groggy, I sat up and looked out the car window. Yep, it was definitely huge. It looked a lot bigger than what was advertised in the pamphlet they gave us. There was a huge front garden, with the greenest lawn you could possibly imagine. It was filled with a ton of trees, brimming with life, and flowers of all different colours everywhere. Hedges rimmed the pathways, and in the centre of it all was a fountain, kind of like the ones with the naked woman standing with a pot on her shoulder, only this one had a guy standing behind her supporting the pot as well. Kind of weird, but at least they had stone cloths draped on them so they weren't entirely naked. My eyes then drifted behind the garden to the actual building. Buildings I should say. In the centre was what would most likely be the main building, with its white double doors, surrounded by a few windows. All of it was white against the dark brown of the building's bricks. Part of the building jutted out just above the door frame, to provide shade to the guests, with stone columns coming from two of the corners. The stones resembled trees, with twining branches at the top, slowly changing to just the stump at the bottom and moulding into the steps which lead to the building.
On either side of this building, were two other structures, only these ones were much larger. Actually the one on the right was the largest of the three buildings. Both buildings looked the exact same as the centre edifice, only the one on the left had dark red windows and doors, while the right one had dark green. Also, both of them didn't have the nice columns or the jutting out part, only steps.
Overall, it looked spectacular. Let's just hope it meets the expectations for a boarding school. Yep, you probably saw this coming. Me. Veralidaine Taylor. 16 years old. Is going to be attending a boarding school.


I should probably start at the beginning. You see, during the summer holidays, my parents decided they had 'news' to tell Nate and I. Nate, or Nathaniel, is my brother. Half brother. Just so you know now. We have the same father, but different mothers. Nate's mum died when giving birth, so my dad remarried some time later and had me. (Their age difference is about 1 year. Don't ask me why the dad moved on so fast. I don't know lol.) That's why we both have the same dark shade of brown hair. Well, I have extremely dark brown hair. Nate has black. But they pretty much look the same colour anyways. He also has grey-greenish eyes, while I have almond shaped brown ones. (Note the almond. She's half asian (!)

"What's up?" I asked, half giggling because I just ate a tub of ice cream and was on a sugar high. Nate just smiled like an idiot.
"Well, you know how your dad and I have been trying to get a promotion at work for a while now?"
"Yea," I replied, still having no idea where this was headed.
"We finally got it."
"CONGRATS!" Nate yelled.
I just smiled and gave them a hug, which they gladly returned. They didn't seem too happy about it though, which was odd. My parents have been working hard for over a year trying to get this pay rise, so I knew how much it meant to them.
"Actually, what we really needed to tell you was that..."
"That we actually need to work around in different countries every few months," my dad finished off for her.
I was kind of shocked from this, so I didn't utter any words and probrably just looked like a cod fish with my jaw hanging.
"W-what?" stammered Nate. "Does this mean we're going to have to keep moving? I don't want to do that!"
"I know, I know son. But it's an opportunity we can't pass." Replied dad
"Besides, we made arrangements so that you and your sister can stay here. In Australia. After all, it's kind of hard for you to get a decent education while you're in a different country every month." continued mum.
My mouth finally decided to work. "S-so, w-what are the arrangements?"
"Basically, we're sending you and Nathaniel to a boarding school located in the city while were gone."
And continues me with the cod fish look again.
"A BOARDING SCHOOL?! Why can't we just go to our regular school and, I don't know, hire a nanny or something to look after us? Or we could stay at home by ourselves, or at uncle's house or ..." Nate rattled off.