Armani suits and sweet Music...

Chapter 2

Annabelle Parker, is a twenty two year old music student at the Academy of Creative Arts in Cape Town. Annabelle has always been a bright kid, but she never had it easy. Her mother died when she was merely three years old of cancer. To say Mr. Parker was devastated was an understatement, he was broken apart at the loss of his beloved. How was he to raise a daughter alone without the feminine touch a mother brings? Not to mention to keep the bills under control. Having no other choice, he hired a nanny. He had good intentions when it came to his daughter he just didn't know how to express it. So Annabelle was raised at the hands of Anne, she was basically her mother a only parent role she had. Annabelle didn't remember much of her mother, but being raised by a sweet woman as Anne, gave her an idea of she thought her mother would have been like. If she was still alive, maybe things would be different, maybe she would've had everything she wanted.

Anne was 44 when she took the job at the Parkers. Anne was newly divorced after she told her husband that she would never be able to conceive, he felt enraged and demanded a divorce. Anne was heartbroken, he was her first and only love. Her now ex husband thought it would be generous to leave her with a few hundred through rand so she could take care of herself while he find himself a new wife. Anne didn't want the money but felt as though she could use it someday for good use. She thought she would never love again after the big heartbreak. That was until she saw sweet little four year old Annabelle. She fell in love with the tiny brunette the minute she saw her and vise versa.

Mr. Parker took it as an opening to work long hours, his intentions was good but one night that changed everything.
Staying late at the office one night instead of going home to celebrate little Belle's sixth birthday, evolved in him being seduced by his secretary. Finally he found a way to deal with the pain. With the pain gone, guilt stepped in. This started to become a regular routine for Annabelle except now he brought his secretary to the house. She was as fake as her name, Barbra. She hated Annabelle and the feeling was mutual. Try as she may, Belle's father wouldn't listen to her pleas of leaving this woman. She always called Annabelle names behind her father's back, she always pinched Annabelle and always kept Mr. Parker away from her birthdays. She was nothing but cruel and her father always turned the blind eye. So Belle did what every teenager did at the age of fourteen. She found a distraction. She found music.

Seeing this Anne decided to take Belle out to her favorite little music shop, there she bought Belle a piano with some of the money her ex left her. Since there wasn't money for music lessons Belle used her brains and started teaching herself as well as joint the school's music classes. Anne would sit for hours working with her and helping her. This was her perfect distraction, taking her away from the pain, abandonment, emptiness just everything really.

Anabelle was never really bullied at school she just kept to herself, she didn't feel the need to dress up and act like the other girls, she was unique and she was going to embrace it. She liked the silence and just being on her own, but that all changed in her second year of high school. Jesse Addams arrived, new school transfer, new fly half and hottie of the school. The minute he laid eyes on her he knew she was special, she on the other hand wanted to run away from him. It was not that he liked her, he was secretly gay, but he could see a lifelong friendship with this wallflower.

"Flower, why so lonely?" He asked her smirking one day at school, finally having courage to approach her. Belle turned her head and just glared at him. "I'm not your flower Pugsley." Belle said what was supposed to be insulting, however Jesse burst out in laughter at her referral to the Addams family values film character. Belle couldn't help but laugh as well and ever since that day, the brunette and blonde became the best of friends.

They were each other's family along with Anne. After high school Anne, Jesse and Belle decided to move from Durban to Cape Town together. They all wanted and needed a fresh start, Anne used her money that she saved over the years to buy a three bedroom apartment as well as opening her own café right across the beach. Jesse didn't have a family so moving was no problem and as for Belle, her father didn't care. It worked perfectly especially since both Jesse and Belle had a scholarship at ACA. Jesse was convinced that one day they would start a band and become famous, known as the Wolven. Jesse's imagination was just too big to mention.