There once lived a girl named Avery. She was the most beautiful girl in the land- she had silver straight hair with a golden highlight and big green round eyes that anyone could spot in a mile. Since Avery was too unique, she had to wear a robe whenever she had to go out to the food market or the library.

Avery had one brother- Liam. Unlike Avery, Liam looked like an average person. He had light brown hair and brown eyes. Because he looked normal, people would usually want to become friends with Liam rather than Avery. Avery only had one best friend named Jeanette. Jeanette and Avery both met at the library and bonded over romance novels the first time they met. Because of their love for books, they have been inseparable ever since.

“Hey, Liam. Tell mother that I am going to go to the library today,” Avery says as she puts on her robe and walks out of the house. As if it was not new, Liam waves at her as she leaves.

Today was like any day- Avery went to the library everyday to get a new romance novel because she would finish each of them in a flash.

DING! The library’s doorbell went off as Avery walked in. She smiled at the owner and hurried to the romance novel section in the library. There, she spotted her best friend, Jeanette bending down to get a book on the lower shelf.

“Jeanette!” Avery whispered happily. Jeanette turned around and smiled a big smile.

“Hello Avery! What a lovely surprise!” Jeanette said in joy as she hugged Avery. After they hugged, they both went to talk about new books they have never read before.

“I heard they are bringing in new books to the library!” Jeanette stated to Avery, who was in shock. This local library never really renewed their books often so with this statement, Avery was super happy.

“That’s amazing. I was almost finished with all the romance novels in this library too,” Avery replied, “anyways, what book are looking at? Is that a new book?” Avery saw Jeanette holding a velvet book that was super shiny.

The red velvet book was a book that Avery had never seen before- the books in the local library usually had a green hard-cover.

“I-I won’t allow you to read this book,” Jeanette says nervously as she gripped the book tighter to body. This comment left Avery in shock because Jeanette has never told her that she couldn’t read a book. They would always share their books that they have read.

After a few brief seconds, Avery thought optimistically and asked, “Is it not a good romance novel?” Jeanette looked down to the floor and replied back to her.

“It is. Truly it is, but I don’t want you to read this book,” Jeanette says shyly.

“Why is she acting like this? This has never happened before. Maybe it is a really good romance novel?” Avery thought.

“Come on, I bet you’re hogging a good romance novel,” Avery playfully pulled the book from Jeanette but Jeanette pulled the book back.

“L-let go of the book!” Jeanette said in an angry tone which made Avery upset. But still, they both kept tugging on the book.

“N-no why are you hogging this book Jeanette?! You have never acted like this before,” Avery pulled on the book harder. Jeanette screams as Avery snatched the book from Jeanette.

Just before Avery opened the book to read the contents, Jeanette yells, “Please don’t open it Avery! This book is about you!”

“W-what do you mean?” Avery says as she opened the book because her curiousity got to her.

When Avery opened the book and read the contents, Avery dropped the book in shock.

“W-why is my name in this novel? W-why does this book describe me so perfectly?” Avery asked as she started to shake in fear.

Do I have a stalker that I don’t know about? Avery thought in fear.

“This is a romance novel in which real people are involved. I didn’t think much of it, but when I was reading the first chapter through, I realised it perfectly described you,” Jeanette says as she starts crying on the floor.

“W-why do they know so much about me?” Avery asked as she grabbed the book once more and this time read what it was about.

“Crown Prince appearance, Holly falls in love, Liam meets Holly, Villainess Avery downfall…” Avery reads some chapter titles outloud. Suddenly, Avery flipped to the chapter of her downfall and skimmed through.

“Y-you get killed by the Crown Prince,” Jeanette says as she wipes her tears, “you fell in love with the Crown Prince but you were jealous how he liked Holly so you tried to sabotage them. I helped you but we ended up getting killed by the Prince’s sword.” Jeanette sheds more tears once again.

As Jeanette was explaining, Avery stood in major shock.

“When does this all occur, Jeanette?” Avery asks.

“Next year, when we go to Dudamen Academy for the Elite.” Jeanette states. At that exact moment, Avery thought of the best idea.

“Then I won’t fall in love with the Crown Prince,” Avery states as she smirks to Jeanette who looks confused by the sudden statement.

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After that day, Jeanette started to train for the upcoming year and their downfall. Avery started to practice swordfighting with her brother, Liam. When that was going on, Jeanette was prepping tools and preservatives they would need if they would have to leave the academy.

“So my brother falls in love with Holly too,” Avery says outloud as she reads the red velvet book that Jeanette let her borrow, “and he isn’t even my biological brother. My parents died a long time ago, but my current parents were friends with them…”

“Hey, what are you saying?” Liam walks into her room the same time Avery hides the book.

“Oh its nothing! I was just talking about how excited we get to be in the same academy next year!” Avery says as she smiles to Liam. Liam looks at her confused and then sits in one of Avery’s reading sofas. He eyes her and then scoffs.

“You have been acting weird ever since you came back with that red velvet book,” Liam continues, “then you started to join in on my swordship training.” He then glares at her, expecting to have a good reason to her recent activity.

“Uhh, so you see. Um,” Avery thought of a reason quickly before her brother suspected her, “I want to be a knight.” She blurts out the best possible reason other than her having to protect herself.

“YOU WANT TO BE A KNIGHT?! YOU?!” Liam yells, appalled. Avery knew that Liam would not believe that she would want to be a knight because ever since Avery was little, she wanted to become a princess who would never get her hands dirty.

Avery sighs, “Is that a problem? To be honest I want to be stronger and protect myself in the future. I don’t want to have guards who are afraid of me because of my hair color. They all think I am a witch. When the time comes, the guards are definitely not going to help me.”

Liam’s eyes widened in surprise by this sudden remark.

“Okay then,” He says as he pats her head, “but we are going to fire your guards.”

“Huh?”

“Because I have someone in mind to guard you. Besides, if your guards are scared of you, what is the point of having them? Anyways, you will soon be separate from me because we are in different grades so I won’t be able to protect you in the academy,” Liam states bluntly.

“What do you mean?” Avery continues, “Who do you have in mind?”

Liam smiles devilishly and states, “Damien.”

"Damien, your best friend?" Avery screams nervously. Damien has been Liam's best friend since they were born. Unlike Liam- Damien was unfriendly and cold, but still somehow managed to get a crowd of fangirls anywhere he went. The reason why he had fangirls was because he looks beautiful- he had dark black hair that was long enough to be wavy while his eyes were light gray which could pierce your heart if you stared to deeply. Even though his complexion was beautiful, his personality was rotten.

"Uhh, I think he would refuse to guard me. He hates my guts," Avery states as she tries to back out of having Damien being my personal bodyguard.

"When did I say that?" Damien walks into the room as if he was listening to their conversation the whole time. Damien glares at Liam as he was patting Avery's head unconsciously. This made Liam uncomfortable and he stopped patting.

"H-How did you-" Avery was about interrogate him until he cut her off.

"Your mother let me in and I happened to hear your guy's conversation," Damien stated. Liam chuckles at his reply when she rolls her eyes.

"She would let anyone in the house, huh. It is like our house is open to anyone," Avery mentions.

"Well besides that fact, what are you doing here Dam," Liam questions him.

"We were supposed to practice sword training right now idiot. Your dad is furious," Damien says.

"Oh shoot, I forgot!" Liam stands up from the sofa, "I got to go now but lets continue this conversation later, Avery." After that, Liam runs out of Avery's room in hurry, leaving Avery and Damien.

"Uh so how are you doing?" Avery asks, hoping to break the awkwardness after Liam suddenly left. Damien and Avery share no similarities ever since they were little. Even though Damien and Liam were best friends, Avery was just an outsider to Damien. Of course, Avery knew this too.

"I'm good. How about you?" Damien stands stiff near the door of Avery's room.

"I am good too, thanks for asking," Avery replied.

"I overheard your guy's conversation talking about needing a new bodyguard. I will do it," Damien suddenly states as he leaves.

"Whoa I did not expect that," Avery says under her breath.

"THANK YOU!" Avery smiles and screams loud enough so that Damien could hear her through the hall. Damien and Avery have never had a full conversation before but she always thought that he hated her. Now that she knows that he doesn't hate her, she feels relief.

After that event, Avery opened the red velvet book once more and continued where she left off.

"Damien also fell in love with Holly." Avery said shocked as she read through the book, "She must be a great person if she make Damien, a cold person, to fall for her!" Avery smiles.

As she continued reading on, she noticed something shocking.