Chapter 1
This book is dedicated to
Guys who want something meaningful
But are scared to admit it
Guys who believe in
true love
Girls/guys who are lonely
And need someone
You are all amazing and deserve true love. Don't let anyone take that away from you
N/A: IF YOU'RE REREADING THAN CHAPTER FOURTEEN HAS BEEN CHANGED AND THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER FOURTEEN IS NOW CHAPTER FIFTEEN.
N/A: THIS BOOK IS UNFORTUNATELY NOT EDITED SO YOU'RE DEFINITELY GOING TO COME ACROSS SOME MISTAKES. I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE.
"So you finally got them to agree huh?" Sarah , my best friend asked as she played with her long strawberry blonde hair.
"Mmhm" I nodded. "And trust me Indian parents are not easy to negotiate with" I chuckle.
"You know you could of just came and lived with me in the house" she said. Sarah is a wealthy young women, her mother and father are like CEOS of well known companies and they make money like crazy, her mother and father are so rich that they rented out a 5 bedroom house for Sarah and her twin brother to stay in just for college.
"You know I like my privacy", I say trying to find another reason to not live with her brother, Jason. Jason's a nice guy, he's quite the catch as well. Sarah and him have the same colored hair, smiliar features and jason works out alot... alot. I don't hate the guy but he's like the world's best man w***e, I'm surprised the kid doesn't have an Std by now! And plus he always brings him those jock friends of his who are always trying to hit on us.
"whatever." She says as she takes out her phone and goes through tumblr looking for hot guys. "Well your gonna love collage, its loads of fun", she says. Sarah is one year older than I am so she started last year, I choose the same collage as her which will be great since she's going to be there, obviously. We live in imperial while the collage is in San Diego so its only about an 18 minute drive.
"I hope so" I say while finishing off my packing.
"It's so cool that your aunty looks after that apartment" Sarah squeals.
"Yeah, its an old place but its pretty cool", I say. Even though the apartments only have one room and a bathroom, I'm still as happy as can be.
"I just have a problem with the size, its just so small", she says putting off her phone and looking at me.
"Shut up and help me get these bags out of the house and into your car. I'm done packing" she huffs and we start taking my 3 bags to the car and load them in the boot.
"Get ready for the crying buddy, even though your not going far there will be an ocean full of tears" Sarah laughed and I rolled my eyes and headed inside to say my good bye's to my parents.
I entered the house and was greeted with the sounds of my mother sobbing as she rushed to me and hugged me tightly until all the air in my lungs escaped.
"My little baby is leaving" she said.
"Ma, I'll only be like 18 minutes away" I rub her back trying to comfort her, just then my father walks in.
"Priya she won't be far away, we will still get to see her" my father said, I could see he wanted to laugh his ass of but I sent him a glare.
"Just make sure to call regularly and make sure to be safe" she says letting go of me.
I hug both of them and headed outside where Sarah was waiting for me in her car. I jumped in and waved at my parents as we drove off.
"So Ms Mattu, how do you feel about finally being free?" she says using her reporter voice.
"I feel great!" I scream throwing my hands in the air, luckily Sarah owns a convertible otherwise I'd probably be crying right now.
"That's the spirit, we're coming bitches" Sarah yells as she speeds up.
"If we're going by this rate, we're gonna get there in less than 18 minutes" I chuckle and so does she.
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"Thanks for the ride sarah", I say as I take out my last bag.
"Anything for you, you know I would've of stayed but my brother is having a heart attack from burning something in the kitchen" she rolls her eyes and I chuckle at her.
"Bye" I say and hug her.
"See ya my main hoe" she says as she speeds off. I laugh at her rawness and head inside the apartment building. Thank the lord my aunty takes care of this place or I would have never got a space.
I push open the old rusty doors and see my aunt ,May, sitting at the front desk typing away. I head to the desk rolling my bags with me and stand right in front of her. She finally looks up and her eyes go wide as she sprung up from her chair.
"Ooh my word, dear how are you?" She says, she basically ran around the counter and hugged me.
"Wow, I won't be too good if you keep squeezing me like this" I laugh.
"Sorry, so you finally got them to agree huh" she crosses her arms and looks at me through her thick rimed glasses, you gotta be kidding me, its like replay with Sarah.
"Guess so" I smile.
"Well luckily I kept just one room for you" she says as she heads around the desk yet again and starts typing. "Just need to register you in the system" she says. I look around and everything here looks so vintage, I kinda liked it though.
"So how old is this place"I ask.
"Well its about 70 years old, I started work here in 1981, I was only 20 at the time" she giggles to herself.
"Wow" I murmured to myself.
"Okay let me just get the key and I can show you where your room will be" she heads into a pantry of some sort and comes out with a key.
We head upstairs to the second floor. Things around here are really old but they look like they've been taken good care of. Every door is this retro brown wood and polished to perfection.
"How are things so neat here?" I ask aunt May.
"Well, I don't really have anything to do all day so ya know, I clean up around here" she says and my mouth drops.
"This place has like 40 rooms" I say and she giggles.
"You wouldn't believe how much free time I have" she stops at a door and I almost bump into her back. "Okay here it is, room B8, I'll let you settle in, once you're ready you could come down to my room and we could have dinner together?"she asks.
"That would be awesome!" I would never turn down my sweet aunty. She smiles and hands me my keys before walking off.
I unlock the door and slowly walk inside. The walls were painted a cream-ish kind if color the kitchen was to the right and it was basically an open plan to the bedroom. I could see a door on the left side which probably meant the bathroom was there. This place was so cute. There was a single bed in the middle of the bedroom, and I practically dropped all my bags and jumped on the bed laughing at how amazing this feeling was.
This is gonna be the best years of my life.