CHAPTER ONE
"Aria, get down this minute, don't leave your sisters waiting" Maria yelled from the living room "stupid child"she cursed under her breath.
ln the Shaw family, the situation is a bit tense. Greg Shaw married two wives, Bella and Linda but also impregnated another woman outside. The woman having died of cancer left her nine years old girl child to the other two wives. As time went on, Linda also died of cancer when her daughter was twelve.
Bella was the only wife left and she started doubting if her co wives really died from cancer because the event was suspicious, she became more careful and cautious about her husband and the other two children. Bella's only wish is for the Shaw family wealth and riches to go to her daughter, Genevieve Shaw, every other thing is just an instrument in her music.
As usual, the stupid child did not reply her, at times she even made Bella scared because she was too quiet and unpredictable yet not easily bullied.
Aria descended the stairs, walking like she owned the house, according to her stepmom. "how was your night" Bella Wilson asked Aria. Aria nodded in response not wanting to talk too much besides she knew Bella didn't like her so much. She calmly went to her seat in the dining. As she was about to take her seat , Rhea quickly sat down on her seat.
"l want to stay here today,close to mom" she said with a smug.
Everybody in the house found her silence uncomfortable and wanted to just get a reaction from her. Aria understood this but Rhea stooping so low to taking a mere seat all to stay close to a woman that dislikes her so much is insane.
Not wanting to argue, she went to another chair and as she was about to seat, Rhea swiftly sat on the chair.
By that time, Bella had started to glare at her with annoyance. She dislikes Rhea than Aria, the child had no manners. "if you keep causing unreasonable argument in the dining table every day, you might as well be banned from coming too. it's not as of your presence matters. Sit your a*s down and eat" Bella gritted her teeth angrily. "mom, the foo..." Genevieve did not like the way her mother heaped her plate with a lot of food and her sisters with less, she wanted to talk but she met her mom's fierce gaze "shut your damn mouth!" Bella screamed at her daughter, she even wished Aria was her daughter, all her plans would have been falling into place but having this stupid girl was the beginning of her problems, she was the angel of the house. Why must her daughter be the kind and meek one? At times she preferred if her daughter was at least a little bit like Rhea, it would have been better than this odd situation. "I'm sorry" the poor girl bit her lips while apologizing. "the driver is waiting outside eat your food and get going, all of you and behave yourselves." Bella said finally before leaving, not even glancing at her daughter. "so.... pitiful" Rhea who was using her fork to play with her food remarked with a smirk.
Tears clustered Genevieve's eyes and she was not able to eat "in your case l should call you daughter's mommy" she continued to tease while clicking her tongue, Aria ignored the both of them and focused on her breakfast.
When they were done eating, the driver took them to school but Bella never came out once to bade her daughter goodbye. They arrived at school after about thirteen minute, Genevieve and Aria were one year older Rhea but Rhea protested that she wanted to join her siblings in the same class till her mom pleaded on her behalf then and her father agreed so Aria and Genevieve were used to it already.
"hey baby girl how are you?" Cherry lunged at Aria beaming with smile."I'm good" Aria replied coolly without returning Cherry's smile. "as usual you look beautiful today but l think you'll look so amazing if you also try a girlish hairstyle" Cherry said for the hundredth time since she knew Aria. Aria had a short hair, not that she couldn't grow it but she liked it this way. The hair made her look like a boy but her feminity could not be hidden, long curly lashes, green almond eyes, silky hair, small lips and chubby hourglass figure. The only thing that made her look like a tomboy was her black hair, she might have liked to wear boylish clothes to school but they had a school uniform for males and females.
"thank you"Aria replied as they strolled through the corridors. "oh l forgot my project I'll be back, go save a spot for us in the lab" Aria nodded and Cherry dashed out. As Aria was walking she suddenly bumped into a strong arm, due to her good stamina she didn't fall but she was captivated by the person she bumped into.
She had to raise her head to see him because he was far way taller than she was.He had an alluring emerald brown eyes, there was a lollipop in his mouth and he was wearing a black headphone.
The sun from the glass window illuminated every feature about him.
"done staring at my handsome face"he asked, expressionless "yeah" Aria was blunt and she started walking away. For a moment everyone in the corridor who had gathered were shocked.
They've known Aria and she was stoic but not to the extent that she would not be affected by one of the seven golden princes infact the top one of them.
Cherry ran after Aria and when she finally caught up to her, she pulled her to a halt "what just happened? what did l miss? "she was shrieking. "nothing much, I just bumped into the guy" she replied dryly. "do you know who you just bumped into, one of the seven golden princes and you're referring him as guy, you even walked out on him. Girl you're getting worse day by day. If l were you l would drag that matter on for so long till we fall in love. l would even go as far as going to his house and when his parents questions me l would say he bumped into me and still owes me" she was grinning from ear to ear while holding her project. "oh l see" she managed to say. Cherry kept chit chatting till they got to the lab. News spread like wildfire about the seven golden princes. They were all in Crystal Brooks academy and all the girls were in cloud nine. Students hardly focused on lectures and most planned to thank their parents thoroughly for enrolling them in Crystal Brooks academy. The school was noisy despite what the teachers did to counter their noise. What was more exciting was the that they were in grade ten to twelve.
In grade eleven, they were two of them but one was always sleeping while the other one was always angry unluckily for grade eleven but they were very handsome. Zeus was the sleepy one and Rhys was the anger addict, according to Cherry.
Aria watched how the girls became crazy and fooled themselves while some boys got jealous especially Steve who used to be so full of himself because of his looks.