Chapter-I (The beginning)

On a sunny day of summers in Seattle, in a home of our protagonist.

"Ember, Ember ,Wake up quickly or you are gonna be late for the school"Aria Goldmym shouted."Mom, Why are shouting in the morning? it's my birthday so what if I slept a little more" Emberlyn Eastwood replied.She came downstairs and sat with her father cajoling him "Good morning, pa, Can't your wife be a little cool like you?what did you see in her to end up marrying her. You are so handsome and cool but she, SHE is a lady dragon always scolding me for this and that". Leonardo Eastwood laughed and said "In this family only you know my true worth, princess"

"Leo, You are sleeping on sofa tonight" Mom said coming from the behind. I said "It's fine pa can sleep with me, I don't mind sheltering him to save him from his dragon wife". Dad laughing on side enjoying the cute argument. "Emberlyn Eastwood, if you don't shut up now then no breakfast for you" Mom said."Okay, Okay my lovely mom nobody's stealing your husband, don't be jealous of me ,your own very beautiful daughter "I said. Dad said "Enough now, stop this useless argument "

"Don't you both get tired of your daily drama " Dad said. "NO" mom and I shouted in a union and we burst out laughing. "Happy Birthday, my beautiful daughter" mom said. " Happy Birthday, Princess". I giggled and asked,"where's my gift?I want a big present for my 18th birthday" ."Your gift will arrive a week later, you will have to wait " .At that time I didn't know my life was gonna turn upside down in the upcoming week.

We moved to the table to have our breakfast, just then the doorbell sounded, knowing very well who arrived I went to open the door. Just when I opened the door someone jumped on me for a tight hug and said "Happy Birthday, Lyn" this was my best Damir Frost, his personality is like a puppy always cheerful."Thank you, Mir"then I moved my eyes to the person standing with him, Kenzo Ashford, my another bestfriend we both smiled."Ember, take Mir and Ken inside" mom shouted from dining room." Leave her now, she might get suffocated by how tightly you are hugging her"Kenzo said to Damir and just then I noticed that he was still hugging me. We separated, Kenzo hugged and wished me birthday too. I blushed when he hugged me but instantly calmed my restless heart, 'this secret crush ,uff' in my mind.

We moved to the dinning room and they both had lunch with my family. I said bye to mom and dad, and we went school together in my family car.

We reached our school, Elite Imperial, this is a best school of the city and its extremely difficult to get in. Good for me that friendiends with Ken and Mir, these topper guys always help me in studying with this mind I giggled and walked towards my class.We entered the class and as usual Damir sat with me which Kenzo sat behind us alone. I sometimes don't get how the hell I managed to make friends with this iceberg, he is literally a human insulator. But I know given our family backgrounds not a lot of people approach is with pure intention even I would not be able to be close to him if it weren't for the fact that we know each other since childhood and our families have business ties, and worst of all I somehow ended up having a crush on this human iceberg , poor me.

"That's it for the class today. Your results of your pre finals are outnow, Go and see notice board" teacher said interrupting my thoughts. " What's the point😑, First three positions of the grade will be held by these three as always, with Kenzo being first as always , Damir Holding his Second position and miss.lazy being the third" Someone said. Well, even though I suck at studies being friends with toppers has it's perks since they both religiously shower with their immense knowledge on me. Well, if it weren't for the results I would have never considered studying with these demons , they are crazy with heaven defying smart ass brain, but to match their level I have to pull several all-nighters and sacrifice my beauty sleep to consistently hold my third position. And you might be wondering why I have to study with them, well it's because of a stupid rule we made in childhood that we will be in everything together. If I could go back to past I would warn my silly self to never make such promises. And it's not like only I am forced to match their pace, I remember I was sick during of our exams once because of which I couldn't give any exam and these two nutjobs also avoided going to school to give exam, after being relentlessly persuaded by me they finally went to give exams. If at that time I knew what these two were gonna do I would have never persuade them in the first place.After my recovery when I again attended the school I was called to teacher room along with them I thought they might called me because of results, I was shocked to hear my teacher being helplessly asking these two about why their results were like this, My confusion was written on face I thought these two must have topped the exam as usual but why was the attitude of teacherconflictingting, the teacher sighed and explained that we three were on the bottom of whole grade because Mir and Ken perfectly avoided giving even one single correct answers. I was shocked and questioned why did they do this? After coming out from the office, to which they answered "Our Promise, we agreed to be together in everything, right". I was shocked to see how seriously they took my words and fulfilled our promise.I think that incident further solidified our friendship after that we were basically inseparable.

"Emberlyn, are you going to have party tonight?" a classmate asked pulling me out of my memories.I replied "Yes, and you all are invited as usual "then I looked at Damir and Kenzo, and smiled, despite being confused about the reason of my smile they still smiled with me.

On the way back after school, we passed the corridor where we came across some students bitching about me, saying stuff like "If it weren't for Damir's and Kenzo's family backgrounds, I wouldn't have made friends with them" or "that I am a vain person without any actual qualities "and stuff like that. I as usual chose to ignore them cause having jealousy around me was something I used to.But before I react Kenzo's cold voice sounded "Listening to your chatter just now. Now, Even I want to know exactly what type of person she is?".Damir replied " Ken, our Lyn is beautiful, elegant, intelligent, smart, witty and most important unlike some people she's kind not like them taking behind everyone ". Those few students lowered their head in shame of being found out talking shot about someone, "Leave it , they are not important, don't loose your temper with them, let's go , today's my birthday there is lot to prepare at home ". " Before talking about Emberlyn consider of you can bear the consequences of offending three powerful families "Kenzo said and we got on our way.

On the way home we dropped Damir at him home first since he lives in our opposite lane and then we got home as Ashford mansion is just besides our mansion.

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