Chapter 1
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Hi I'm Elara Bauman..., Krystal Elara Bauman, a 22 year old girl, living in a crappy old apartment with a family of 6, aunt Felicia and I make a modest living as a housekeeper to our wealthy neighbors, that's what we do, the funny thing is, according to my aunt Felicia I was born in the house of Leo with the planet Jupiter rising at twenty five degrees ascendant, this means I am destined to do great things and I will find the one true love of my life, astrology? total bullshit, as if that would happen, the only great thing that I could possibly do is to get out of this apartment and buy a Celestron 22203 AstroFi 130 Wireless Reflecting Telescope which is worth 5000 dollars, I have been eyeing that telescope for years, my dad once had a telescope but it was taken from the thugs that killed my mom. Dad was devastated at that night, he never told me about the incident, he was never open about the past.
"Elara"
"What?"
"You finish the kitchen"
"Not yet"
"Well you better hurry, we have more houses to clean"
"I'll be fast"
I'm pretty sure you know what a housekeeper does, so basically I clean their bathrooms, wash their dishes, clean the floors, etcetera etcetera.
My life goes like this, I wake up, make coffee, go to work, go back home, and sleep which is my favorite part of the day. It's not much, there's nothing new, not interesting.
"Elara get up"
"Elara make the coffee"
I hate my life.
"Elara hurry up"
"Elara throw the garbage after this"
I hate my life.
My phone rang while I was cleaning the toilet. It was my only friend Christine, I paused and answered the phone.
"Hey Chris what's up"
"Girl I need your help"
"Help? for what?"
" Help me pick out my outfit, Clark Mason asked me out on a dinner date"
"Oh, okay I'll be there after work."
I continued cleaning, I worked as fast as I could so that I can get out of here and go to Christine's apartment early. Christine's house was just 2 blocks away, so I'll just go there by foot. Christine is my bestfriend, in fact she's my only friend, we were classmates in highschool but we never communicated that much, we only started to converse at college when I was looking for a place to sit on the first day, she immediately called and told me to sit beside her.
"Hey, you sit here beside me."
"Uh, okay"
"Your Krystal Elara Bauman right?"
"Yeah, just call me Elara"
"We were classsmates in highschool, but we never had a real conversation"
I remained silent, I never really had friends in highschool, I was pretty much a loner, I only talk when I was asked or I was required to.
" I never had a reason to talk to you or to anyone."
"Girl, you serious? You don't need a reason to talk to anyone. I think you're just shy, don't worry you can talk to as long as you like, even if you talk nonsense."
Since that day, I never hesitated to talk to her, we became friends and eventually bestfriends.
"Elara! Help Please?"
"Chris calm down"
"How can I calm down, I only have 1 hour to prepare, I haven't prepared my outfit yet."
"You can just pick out a nice dress in your closet and you'll be ready to go"
"Girl, I don't wanna let Clark Mason think that I'm not taking him seriously, I want him to be head over heels for me"
"Wow, okay what's the occasion?"
"Clark Mason is taking me to dinner. I think he's gonna ask me to be his girlfriend"
"Do you like him? or do you even know him?"
"Elara, he's the number eighteenth richest and hottest bachelor in America, plus he speaks fluent French and German"
"Sounds like a fairy tale doesn't it?" Chris added while drying her hair.
"Sure"
"Elara have you ever fallen in love?" she suddenly asked me with this ridiculous question. Of course I have fallen in love, it was some sort of puppy love.
"You know my dad said that love is just for kids. It's all just urges, responsibilities, and obligations."
"That's kinda harsh."
"You want my advice Chris?"
"Yes" she shifted her body towards me.
"If he's really in love with, he'll understand that you're just overwhelmed and you need more time to think."
"That makes sense"
"Chris seriously!"
"Okay whatever, what do I wear now, something that says "I'm not a w***e and I'm not a virgin either"."
"Did you just quote that from white chicks?"
"Uh huh"
I went in her closet and picked out a red Versace dress, Chris suddenly screamed, I peeked from her closet door and saw her unconscious and floating like she was being carried by invisible creatures.
"Oh my"
The creatures started to appear clearly, I couldn't believe what I saw, they were little gray aliens, one was holding some sort of an extraction gun, extraction device? honestly I don't know. They extracted something from Chris' neck, their device went red like it was showing an error in the process. I immediately took out my phone in my pocket and took a picture to make sure I was not seeing things, the moment that I took the picture, guess what dad called, what an awesome timing, just great. The little grey aliens shifted their look towards me, from that moment I know that I was caught.
"Oh s**t"
The next thing I know I was on Chris' closet, laying on my back with no memory with what just happened.
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