Author’s POV"Tell me, what did you find out?" Madeline asked."Well, my friend, whom I told you guys about, spoke to his friend and he found out that Pearl is actually Aaron's twin sister and was studying in another school but suddenly left. I guess that's when she came to our school. Besides that, he couldn't find any incriminating thing about her. In fact, she was the best student in her old school," Daniel said. Madeline wasn't too surprised by the new information she had gotten since she had always suspected the relation between Pearl and Aaron."So what are we going to do now? I was thinking we would find out some dirt about her to push her out of our school but now that there's none, we can't get her to stop troubling me," Madeline said."You see, babe, you can't extinguish negativity by engaging in negativity. If you want to protect yourself from Pearl's attacks, we need to find a better approach.""What better approach?" Madeline asked."Talk to her and find out why she's do
Author’s POV"Really? From which school?” Madeline asked excitedly.“From NYU, I haven’t opened the email yet. I wanted to do it with you by my side,” Daniel said.“Okay, are you home now?” Madeline asked.“Yes I am. You can come over,” Daniel said to her.“Okay; I’ll be there in a minute,” Madeline said, ending the call.She jumped out of bed and got dressed in more proper clothing. She quickly walked out of her room, made her way down the stairs and saw her parents in the living room watching television.“Where are you off to?” Lucian asked as he saw her walking towards the door.“I’m just heading to Daniel’s; he received an email from one of the prospective colleges. We want to check it out,” Madeline answered.“Don’t stay out late,” Anne said.“Okay mum, bye dad,” she said as she opened the door and walked out.She made her way out of the Mansion’s premises and walked over to Daniel’s house, which was just a few blocks away. When she got to Daniel’s house, she rang the bell and th
Author’s POVMadeline rolled her eyes because she obviously knew who had just spoken. She turned around to find Jessica, the school’s queen bee and her minions standing behind her. She opened her mouth to speak but someone beat her to it.“What are you doing here, Jessica?” Emily asked, a frown etched on her face. Jessica said with a smug smirk, “Oh, just checking if losers like you got an invitation to the prom.” Madeline couldn’t help but become irritated. Choosing not to lose her composure, she answered, “Well, Jessica, you’re invited to the prom too just like everyone else, loser it is not. You don’t have to fear losing your crown. It’s not like any of us on this table are going to compete with you for prom queen.” “Please, I wouldn’t be caught dead at a prom with the likes of you,” jeered Jessica. “ I should be doing better things,” she added. Madeline turned to her friends and dismissed Jessica’s jeers, saying, “Let’s not waste our time on negativity. We should be con
Author’s POVThe next day when Madeline went to school, she had a feeling that something was going to happen. She didn’t know if that feeling was triggered by Daniel’s last statement the previous day.As she drove into the school, her friends were waiting for her. It was weird seeing them there as they hardly ever waited for her there in the morning. As she got down from her car, she walked over to join them with a questioning look on her face. “What’s going on guys? Why are you here?” She asked.“Nothing; we just waited for you so we could escort you into the school,” Sarah said.“Escort me into the school? I’m confused; is something going on in the school?” Madeline asked.“Nothing is going wrong, Madeline. You know we all will soon be separated and gone to different colleges so we thought we spend the little time we have left with each other before that happens,” Emily came in. When Madeline got to school the next day, she could feel something coming. Although she wasn’t sure wh
Author’s POVSlowly but eventually, prom day arrived. Emily and Sarah were at Madeline’s house. They wanted to go to prom together so they decided to stay in one place so their dates could come pick them up from one location.During the week, Emily and Sarah got asked to prom by two different guys. Both guys were fraternal twins and had claimed they’d been crushing on the girls for a while. Emily and Sarah agreed to go with them, just so they wouldn’t have to go alone.As the girls were getting ready, gisting and laughing, Madeline heard a beep from her phone and walked over to her bed where the phone laid and picked it up. She opened her phone and saw it was a message from NYU. “Girls, it’s am email from NYU. I think they’ve taken me out of the wait-list and now wants to admit me,” Madeline said, both excited and nervous.“Open it then,” Emily said excitedly.Madeline closed her eyes and took a deep breath, her heart pounding really hard and fast, before opening the email. The first
Author’s POVWhen Emily and Sarah heard the principal was going to name the prom queen, they looked for Madeline but couldn't find her. They went to where Daniel was standing by himself and saw him. "Have you ever seen Madeleine? They're going to announce the prom queen, and we haven't seen her in a while," Emily enquired. "I haven't seen her since she mentioned she was heading to the restroom," Daniel responded. Sarah said, "You stay here, and Daniel and I will go look for her." After Daniel gave his OK, the two of them quickly left Emily behind and left the basketball court. The principal went on, "Drum rolls, please..." The drum roll was requested by the principal, and the school band complied. "...Madeline Hawthorne," he said. Everyone in the class cheered, with the exception of Jessica and her companions. Jessica was secretly relieved that Madeline had been confined to the bathroom because she couldn't believe Madeline had won prom queen. The principal called ou
Author’s POVThe next few minutes were spent by Madeline and Daniel, talking about how schooling separately would affect them. Anne and Lucian had left them because they knew the two would want to spend some time alone.After they finished discussing, Daniel decided it was time to go home. Madeline escorted him to the door and after sharing a goodbye kiss before he left.Madeline went up to her room, changed out of her prom dress, took a shower, got changed into her pyjamas and climbed her bed. She decided to get her mind off the whole Columbia situation by texting her friends only to find out that there were messages from them already on their group chat.Emily: Hope you're okay? Don't think too much about the rejection.Sarah: Yeah, just pray that Columbia accepts you both. Here she was trying to forget about Columbia. Madeline picked up her phone and began to text her friends back.Madeline: Thanks guys but Columbia won't be possible either. Daniel got rejected and I haven't even
Author’s POVAs the girls left the pub, Amanda and Stephanie couldn't stop talking about how handsome Jake was ad kept teasing Madeline about the way he was looking at her and even joked that they could end up dating."Remember I have a boyfriend, Daniel. You both have met him on FaceTime. So nothing will happen between me and that Jake guy. Just because he saved us doesn't mean I have to date him," Madeline said. "Well you're right. It's just that he's so cute and you're so cute and we think you both will make the cutest babies," Amanda said and Stephanie nodded in agreement."Well, get that thought off your mind cause it's not happening," Madeline said.The three friends continued to stroll down the dimly lit streets, the cold night air enveloping them. The night's quiet tranquility was accentuated by the fading of the pub's lively atmosphere and laughter. Madeline found herself mentally reliving the events as they strolled. She thought about the unexpected meeting with Jake, t