Boundaries

Chapter 1 The Beginning of Everything

Everyone has their own set of skills and abilities based on their personality and interest. Today, the society encourages a lot of crossovers for hobbies. Girls doing the impossible, breaking records that man can't even attempt. Boys might like to do fashion, or things that are deemed for girls only.

However while some are acceptable to society, some are unacceptable by the other half. They seem to find it difficult to accept and break out the stereotype that they see. It's hard for them to adapt to the change, but is it really impossible? This comes down to a family in the United Kingdom.

Being the only child in the family, Giselle is currently studying in Chichester High School at the age of 15. Before going to school on Fridays, Giselle has to clean her room which she made it into a habit by her strict mother, Julia.

Living in the same household, Julia doesn't have an issue with her father, Robert. The trio were able to stay in the same household until a problem rose, Giselle's interest to archery. Ever since Giselle expressed her interest, Julia has been showing her disinterest for her to start.

"Giselle, I don't understand how you have the idea of starting archery without asking for my permission?" Julia questioned the 3 year old Giselle. "And you, how are you having the courage to send her to lessons every week behind my back?"

"Julia, Giselle is exploring her interests, and it's not easy to find. For her to finally find one that she loves. Can't I just come out with a buck to support her?" Robert quickly defends his actions and protect Giselle.

"No! I cannot let this continue! Archery is only for boys! Giselle should learn something interesting instead, like cooking or sewing. I am willing to support her if she stop whatever crap she is going right now!" Julia yelled back.

"Fine then," Robert sighed.

Because of this, Robert can only continue to sign Giselle for archery classes behind Julia. "Remember Giselle, never mention archery in front of your mother. She will roar like a lion and hit you like a circus master if you trigger her,"

Giselle doesn't understand the full situation, but continues to follow Robert's instructions till this day. As Giselle grows up, she is able to understand that all her father is doing this to avoid Giselle into an unnecessary conflict with Julia.

While Giselle cleans her study desk, she decided to stop what she is doing and open the drawers, to which a diary is inside. Although it's a place for Giselle to vent and write her feelings to a place no one knows, this isn't the case for her as the diary is always invaded by Julia.

"Not again. She opened the diary yesterday, didn't she?" Giselle opens the see the full page of yellow sticky notes. "I don't understand, why does she always like to open my diary and read all of the things that I don't want to share?"

Giselle seem to got used to the situation where she took out the sticky notes one by one and threw them into a bin. "Guess I have to throw it out later before going to school,"

As Giselle finishes cleaning her room, she packed her bag and met Robert on her way to the kitchen. "What's with the long face, dear?"

"Nothing dad. Julia looked through my diary again. How does she never stop though, since 4. When is she going to stop?" Giselle questions herself as she recall the beginning of everything.

When Julia first introduced Giselle to a diary, she clearly doesn't understand before Julia told her: "A diary is where you write all the things that happened on that day,"

"Then, who can see it?" Giselle wonders.

"Only you can," Julia told Giselle.

From then on, Giselle starts to write her diary everyday, until she noticed her things were misplaced when she came back from school the other day. She then remembered her diary inside the drawers, only to realize that Julia has left her handwriting inside her diary.

"Why is my mom's handwriting inside my diary? I don't remember showing this diary to her," Giselle didn't seem to be bothered by the problem till she starts to grow older which soon become a problem to her.

"Why is my mom's handwriting more than mine? Isn't this invading my privacy? If she continues to do this, where am I going to rant? No, I have to do something to stop this," Giselle is thinking of an idea when she saw a box at the corner locked.

"What if I put my diary in that box? Maybe it could keep my diary safe. At the same time, I can also test the waters to see if my mom is really sneaking into my room just to ready my diary," Giselle realized her idea is able to do two things at once.