HER LIFE (1)

CHAPTER 1

I'm starting my first series guys, and also my first time posting in this community, I hope you all love it and read till the end🥰. Your corrections are welcomed too♥️

Lara's POV

I'm unstoppable...
I'm a porch with no breaks...
I'm invincible...
And I win every single game...
I'm so powerful...
I don't need batteries to play...

That's the my alarm tone, unstoppable by Sia. I love to wake up to such motivation, make me feel like I can do anything I want to and believe me I can.

I usually allow it to sing to that point before turning it off, reasons best known to me. I stood up from my bed. Today's my first day as an undergraduate in this country. I'm Lara Charles. Lost my both parents to an acident when I was six. Since then, I have been under the care of my Aunt. It's ok, she is a lovely woman. So, back to todays topic we moved down from NYC reasons being that my aunt want me to know my origin, since I was born and brought up over there.

I rushed into my birthroom and had a warm bath, then I stepped out and sat infront of my mirror.

"You better hurry up and come down for breakfast, you can't afford to be late on your first day."

"Thanks Aunt, I won't be." I replied, that was my aunt, I told you she is a lovely woman.

I quickly applied my cream and a little powder on my face and a little lip balm. I'm not a make up fan, so I like keeping it light.
I opened my wardrobe and brought out the dress I already had in mind for today, I dressed up, one last look at the mirror and I smiled to my self because I look perfect. I picked up my bag and went down.

"WHAT!!!" that was my aunt's first reaction when she saw me with my both eyes wide open.

"What's wrong aunt." I asked visibly frightened.

"Everything is wrong La, you can't wear that to school baby girl." She said almost screaming. I could see Cynthia laughing mildly behind her.

I looked at my self with my pink top, a white short and a sneakers. Everyone knows this country is as hot as hell "what's wrong with my dressing aunt." I asked very confused.

"La, I have told you severally that we are no longer in NYC, and in this country, you can't wear a denim short to school, it's not allowed baby girl." Stated my aunt calmly.

"But the weather is hot Aunt." I argued pouting, not willing to loose this.

"Don't argue with my La, just go dress up on something better, probably wear a dress and a Sandals, that would serve, you are almost running late and you can't keep them waiting."

"I think I would really do with some shopping because I ain't got nothing to wear." I complained as I turned to go back.

"Double nagation La, British don't do that, you really need to get that, and I have told you to cut down your slangs." She corrected, although saying the last part with a little piss.

" Whatever aunt." I whined totally pissed. Now this is another crazy part, this American and British Variation, it's killing me seriously, you can say this you can't say that. I feel like I'm learning English all over.

I walked into my room, changed over and wore the pink flowery gown Mia got me on my last birthday with a Sandals, I totally miss that girl, would surely give her a call when I return, just that they are 6hrs behind.

When I got down, I saw the approval look on my aunt's face.

"Now my baby girl is set, come on, your food is getting cold." She reckoned.

I joined her on the table, took few bites, I'm not the early morning food type, I only had a little because I know she would insist, then I stood up.

"Hope you remember the direction Cynthia gave you." Asked my aunt with concern.

" Yes aunt, this is not my first time going there you know. Bye." I waved and left. Now back to Cynthia, she is our house help, and also my tour guild, if not for her help, I would have been long lost in this environment.

When I got to school it was 8:20am. I was supposed to meet up with someone, she seems to know this environment very well and she seem nice too, so I could really do with some help. But we agreed to meet by 8:30am and here I am 10 minutes early.

Luckily for me within two minutes, my phone rang and it happened to her, not long after speaking with her, I saw two girl walking towards me, thank goodness I waited exactly where she asked me to.

I could see the surprise look on her face, and I don't even care anymore since I'm used to that already. So the gist is, my mum is American and for reasons I can't explain, I'm more like a photocopy of her, And that obviously made me awkward among everyone else here, since my look is screaming foreigner.

"Sorry, are you Lara Charles?" Asked a girl whom I am sure must be Wendy.

" Sure, you must be Wendy I guess." I asked standing up from where I was seating.

"Yes." She replied with a smile "Meet my friend Tosin." She introduced pointing at the girl next to her.

"It's nice meeting you dear." I greeted her with a smile, don't crusify me, I can't pronounce that name, might as well bring out time to learn it.

"Alright let's go." That was Wendy cutting short my thoughts and I followed her.

I barely sat through the class, everyone was giving me that you look strange look. How would I survive this.

When the class ended that was two hours time, I was terribly hungry, I turned to Wendy and said "Please tell me you are also hungry because I'm starving."

She looked at the obviously didn't get what I said. I smiled, I get that alot from Cynthia. "I said I am starving, I need to eat something." I repeated, this time trying my very best to talk slowly and it's really not easy.

"Ok, let's go then, let's go get what to eat." She stated and I followed her out, I just needed to be out of here, I mean out if these eyes.

Two weeks later

By now I'm gradually getting used to the environment, the awkward look in class is really less, although I think I have developed an Enemy, her name is Sophia.

She walked up to me few days ago and said "Hi, I'm Sophia, I can see you are new to this environment, just stick close to me and I would put you through everything you need to know." It really sounded crazy to me because, I was always with Wendy and this other girl I can't pronounce her name. So, I simply said. "Thank you very much for your offer, but that really won't be necessary, I've got these two and they are really awesome." On saying that she glared at me and walked out, since then she has been glaring anytime she sees me, I wonder when she would get tired. As for me, I don't care.
I mean what's the problem here, I was really at my best manners.

We are all sitting inside the auditorium, waiting for the meeting we are supposed to have, they said 10:30am, but this is already 10:45am. I wonder when they would ever arrive.

"Guys guess what." Said Wendy totally freaking out.

"Your eyes are bulging." I said rolling my eyes, guess I haven't told you guys how dramatic she can be.

"I don't care." She replied.

"So what's the big news." Asked the other girl, who obviously has more patience than I.

"James finally......

Thanks alot guys for reading till this point. I'm also sorry for the hang 🙈🙈 just that I'm trying to know exactly what James did 😂,I promise to make it worth it, if you have any suggestions, just drop it as a comment, I would try to update as soon as possible thank you so much ♥️



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I'm starting my first series guys

Amazing! We love serial content at Scholar & Scribe :)

Some tips:

  • Be sure to update all posts in the series with navigation (e.g. Last part, next part, etc.)
  • It is a good idea to eventually create an index post that lists all parts (you will need to update this as you go too)

It's a bit of extra work, but makes the experience so much nicer for your Readers.

Cheers!

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I really don't understand the tips 😭. can you break it down a little more? Please.

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Sure!

In every post of a story will multiple parts, you want to link readers to the next part and the previous part.

You can see an example of this in one of my recent story posts.

It is the "◀ Prev • [ All parts ] • Next ▶" stuff at the top and bottom of the story.

If you click "All Parts" you'll see an example of an index post with links to all the story parts.

It's like a table of contents that help people navigate the story :)

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