CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER ONE
Aella POV
Here we go again traveling from New York to California I'm not on a field trip or something. We are here
to attend our family's reunion. This happens every two years where our relatives from different sides of
United States, and world will go at our Grandparents' house to celebrate this event. It’s a one day
celebration but we're going to be there for one week. All of my relatives residing in New York including
us had the same flight, and now we're in a van. Actually, we're using three long vans to accommodate
every one of us. My relatives, and I don't usually see each other because they're living on a different
planet, they're like a different species, we're human, and they are.....vampires. Ha! Ha! Ha! Oops! It's
not a vampire story; I just wanted to make fun of myself. So back to reality, as I was saying, we only
see each other every two years.
Oh by the way, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Melody Aella Moore, 27 years old, and I'm working as
one of the Managers of the Golden Luxury. Oh it's not a jewelry store or something. It's a club for
people with deep pockets. Yeah, those kind of people--- the rich, and famous
I've seen, and assisted Paris Hilton, the Jenner sisters, Selena Gomez, and others. They're very
Professionals when they're talking to me. Of course
I was deep in my thought when I exclaimed because my mother talked, and offered me hotdogs. I
smiled, and get it. "Thanks!" I said.
I am excited to see my grandparents from my mother's side, and the pool, and the garden. It’s very
refreshing. It’s like I'm in another world when I’m there.
But at the same, this event makes me nervous, and anxious every time.
"We're here!!!” shouted my niece, Christina. She's now a teenager, and an honor student. She's been
offered as a scholar at New York's University, and with allowance per month. Meaning, we won't be
paying for anything when she entered college next year.
"Yeah…" I said as the Van entered my Grandparents' premises. It’s actually a big house, and enough
for us but since it’s a reunion, some of us need to sleep at the living room because that's how big our
family is. The rooms upstairs are only for our parents, and guests. Why we didn't rent a room in a
hotel? That's because our Grandparents don't want us to do that.
Since it’s California, my niece, and I brought out our sun glasses that we bought yesterday. She gave
me a high five.
"Let's go, Aunt Aella." She said, as she jumps out of the Van, and ran like a little child inside shouting,
we're here!!! I shakes my head.
When we entered the house, it looks modern, and refreshing because at the back of the house is
where you can see a beach. Yes, a beach. My Grandparents are rich. Here, we have our own pool; it
has a rectangular sized pool, and a small round pool beside it for the children who would want to swim.
"There you are!" I heard my Grandmother say. I approach her, and gave her a warm hug. "You look
beautiful in that dress of yours." She said.
"Thank you GM." I replied to her, and yes I call her GM. Why? Because we don't feel like calling her
Felicidad or grandmother because that is too long so my cousins, and I came up with a solution, and
that's why we call her that.
"My friends’ children heard Nancy called me GM when we were having some groceries, and they
asked if that Gm means group message." She said, laughing.
"What did you told them”? I ask her as we walk towards the resting area at the corner, beside her
garden.
"I told them that it’s good mother." She replied, giving me smile.
The table in the resting area has fruit’s, and other sea foods like crabs, shrimp, fish, and others. My
parents are sitting, and admiring the view, and eating. They're very sweet.
"Oh? Where's GF”? I ask my parents.
"He's at the airport." They replied, and I nodded.
"Aunt Aella?!!!" Christina shouted, and I turn around to where my talkative niece is.
She changed her clothes to a swimwear.
"Let's go swim." She said as she ran towards me, and pulling me to get up.
"Fine fine fine" I said as I saw my parents, and GM, smiling.
"It’s good to see her laughing after the incident." I heard my Grandmother say.
Tina's mother is my only sister but she died because of an accident at work. She's a Sous chef at one
of the restaurants, and when the customers had a fight over a dish, she was accidentally stabbed by
that customer in her heart. That’s what the CCTV showed us. She's trying to calm the raging customers
on whose dish is much tastier.
When we arrived at the hospital she just said a word or two, and died at her daughter's hand.
The customer who accidentally stabbed her is still in the jail, and needs to give us fine. “I’m hoping that
he rots there.”
Tina's father?, that's out of the question. From the moment my sister told to that man that she's
pregnant, he disappeared.
"Come on, Aunt. You're so slow. You're getting older, already." She said, laughing as we enter at my
parents' room to help me change.
"Wait." She stopped me. "I have something to give you." She said as she get something from her bag, Content protected by Nôv/el(D)rama.Org.
and give it to me.
It’s a pair of swimsuits. Cycling shorts similar to her, and a bikini top which is color black.
"I saw that on the mannequin, and thought of you." She said, smiling.
"Aww... Thank you." I replied, giving my niece a very warm hug.
"Aella! Tina!" Someone shouted outside the door.
"Yeah”? I shouted as Tina opened the door, showing my cousin, Nancy. She's blonde, thin, and has
blue eyes.
"Aunt Nancy!" Tina said as she hugs Nancy.
"Hello kiddo! I missed you." Nancy said as she responds to her hug, and sways.
"Hey! How about me"? I said as I walk towards my closest cousin, and gave her a warm hug.
"Of course I missed you." She said, hugging me. "Wait. You're going to swim”? She asked.
"Yes."I said nodding. I was about to ask her to join us but Tina beat me to it.
"Join us!! The more the merrier!" Tina suggested, happily.
"Yeah, yeah" She said before she left. "Wait for me there." She added before she went inside her
parents' room.
I changed my clothes, and went to the pool together with my niece.
As we are walking towards the pool, and saw Nancy already there, an idea came to mind. I walk fast
towards my cousin who is standing at the side of the pool,, and pull her with me, and jump to the
awaiting pool.
"Aaaaaaahhhh!!!!" Nancy shouted while I'm laughing. Tina also jumps in.
"I'm going to drown you." Nancy said as she tries to swim towards me.
"As if you can" I said as I swam farther away from her.