Ch. 1: Meet Abrielle Ainsley

Chapter One: Meet Abrielle Ainsley

Standing on the porch of her new home Abrielle Ainsley smiled to herself. She had finally accomplished one of her biggest goals, getting out of the home in which her parents resided. Abrielle’s childhood wasn’t terrible by any means; she lived in a decent house with both of her parents, and was allowed to do pretty much anything she desired. Sounds pretty great, but for her it was far from that.

She grew up in the small rural town of Riverview, North Carolina. As a child Abrielle thought life was good. Her parents bought her loads of toys and always let her play at her friends’ houses. But as she got older she realized what she once thought to be “love” was nothing like that. They bought her toys to keep her busy, and sent her to friends’ houses so they could get some more work done. They always seemed to care more about their work than their only daughter.

With them it was always “Not now Abrielle.”

Or, “Maybe later Abrielle.”

So as Abrielle got older she started thinking of them as nothing more than roommates, and soon they just became people she saw on her weekends off from Smuggsworth Prep. Because as soon as Abrielle turned 15 her parents enrolled her in boarding school. She could hear her mother and father argue every night about whether Smuggsworth was the right choice or if Peace and Art may be a better decision. But after a few weeks her father won out (just like the schmoozer he is) and she was packing her bags to head off to her new home. 

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Smuggsworth wasn’t all that bad though. She met a lot of, well, interesting people, and the boys there were decent looking. Within the first week of school she had made a new friend, Kyler Gray. A lot of the girls at school thought Kyler was a strange boy and never thought of pursuing him in any way, but he was kind to Abrielle, and showed her the ropes. Soon they became inseparable.

The more time they spent together, the more people could see how much Kyler adored Abrielle, but it was an unrequited feeling because she had her eyes on another boy. Jadrien Berkely. The boy of Smuggsworth. Every girl was crazy about Jadrien, so Abrielle knew it would never go anywhere, but a girl can dream right?

 

Why is any of this important? Well, as soon as Abrielle graduated she secured a job in Sunset Valley at Doo Peas Corporate Tower, which was about a 35 minute drive from Riverview, and the town in which both Kyler and Jadrien lived. Her parents had bought her a car (their reasoning being, hey it will get her out of the house), so every day she drove back and forth from home to work, and work home. Until finally, on her 21^st birthday she decided it was time to get out of her parents’ home. With the money she had in savings she bought a town home in the middle of Sunset Valley.

And that brings us to the present, where Abrielle is now zealously staring up at her new dwelling. But she couldn’t waste much more time standing there; she was a practical person, and knew that if she wanted to keep the house she would need to find a roommate.