Eleven

I glanced nervously at the Mercedes parked in front of the house. It's not every day you get to lie to your granny face and leave with an unknown person.

But today I'm leaving home to go live with a total stranger.

In my opinion, granny would disown me as her granddaughter, she'd tell me in her own words, "None of the Parkers bring shame to their family," so here I am, clutching my box handle, my excited friend who doesn't know the truth of what's going on and my granny who for some reason seems to know more than she's letting me know escorted me to the car.

Duncan stepped out of the car and flashed granny a fake smile. He too looked pretty nervous and I could see that he was avoiding granny's eyes.

Finally, we bade her goodbye and the car pulled out of the house and drove towards the Lowell apartment.

I couldn't help but feel scared and excited at the same time. Duncan kept quiet when I began to brief a shocked Susie.

"Why didn't he choose me?" She whined shamelessly, "I will kill to