(Prologue)

Jade Amber Scott is 18 and lives with her 21 yr old brother; Sean William Scott. Her father died in a car accident when she was 15. After the accident her mother broke down and stays locked up in her room; so Jade moved in with her brother and his friends; James, Derrick and Dimitri. To feed and pay for herself and the boys Jade, became a photographer at a well-known studio. Being the only girl in the house was hard, but Jade loved all the guys so much…and James was so much of a girl that it was almost like the scores were even.

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‘The wonders of parks’ Jade thought to herself as she wandered down the long, steel-grey footpath. It was autumn so the path was littered with sun-kissed yellow leaves, the occasional scattered fire-engine red leaf made the ground look as though it were on fire. Jade kicked through the leaves, creating whirls of colour to surround her. She look to the left, she saw through the trees a young family jumping in large piles of leave, all giggling and shout like it was Christmas morning, she snapped some photos of the family and kept walking. Coming to the rise of the small hill; all she could she on the horizon was grass-green rolling hills that met the soft, baby blue sky; broken only by a twisted mangled old tree. Clicking away, Jade failed to notice Derrick coming up behind her. He put his hands over her eyes; she shrieked and nearly dropped her camera.

‘Ahhh! Derrick! I nearly dropped my camera douche!’

How to describe Derrick, Jade thought, He’s shy around those he doesn’t know, once you know him he is the most loveable guy, never judgmental and always supportive. He is Jade’s favourite of her brothers’ friends. She would never admit it though, James would kill her, he is the cliché ADD kid of her brother’s friends, he is loud, overprotective and hyper ALL the time…even when he sleeps he kicks and rolls around… and then there was Dimitri, he was the best looking of the three (Jade never fails to notice), he is the cockiest, smartest, ‘coolest’ and has been described as a ‘god’. Jade preferred her rating system:

Looks:

1) Dimitri Sexy

2) James Hott

3) Derrick Cute

Personality:

1) Derrick Kind, Warm-hearted, impossible to anger or hate

2) Dimitri Very inconsiderate but when no one is around and he feels like it, he is very kind

3) James Much nicer than Dimitri, only reason he is not second is he is too jumpy and hardly takes things seriously enough to ‘help’ someone is a crisis situation…

‘Ummm…. Jade? Still with me? Earth to Jade…Earth to Jade…Come in Jade…Jade? JADE AMBER SCOTT!?!?!?’ Derrick’s attempts to break Jade from her trance failed.

‘Did you just…yell…at my sister?!?!?’ Jade groaned at the sound of her obnoxious, overprotective older brother’s voice.

‘Sean, get over yourself, I spaced out, Derrick was just trying to get my attention, it’s my fau----‘ Jade started only to be cut off by Sean again.

‘He was trying to GET YOUR ATTENTION!!!’ Jade just rolled her eyes at Sean puerile-ness.

There was a moment of awkward silence. Cow just died

‘Dude… I was joking…’ Came Sean lame lame lame extremely lame…excuse? Jade wasn’t sure if it was meant to be an excuse.

‘Right…’ Was all Derrick could come up with before stalking away.

‘Smooth jackass’ Jade snapped and hurried after Derrick, all the while thinking ‘Men are so hopeless!’

Bounce….Bounce….Bounce….Bounce….thwack….Bounce…..THWACK…..Bounce….THWACK thump………………………………………..’Owie…Jamey got a boo-boo’ James’s voice came out in a small indignant huff.

‘You deserve it, you little twat, now why did you wake me up at 6:00 AM on a SUNDAY morning???’ Jade snarled, angry at being awoken so early on her one day off work.

‘Dimitri is going to take me to the Royal Easter Show!!!!’ James said bouncing around EVEN more than usual.

‘James…The show doesn’t even START til 9’ Jade said exasperated.

James merely shrugged and ran off.

‘Today is going to be a looooong day’ Jade said out loud to herself.

‘You know that talking to yourself is the first sign on madness?’ Dimitri said in a very smug tone.

Jade simply flipped him off and headed to the shower.

Jade walked up to the very fortified ticket booth and bought a ridiculously expensive entry ticket. James, Derrick, Dimitri and Sean ran off to buy some ride coupons, Jade refused to buy any because she wanted to save all her money for the show bags. James’s bleach blonde hair was the easiest to pick out in the crowd, heading over to a rollercoaster. Jade groaned. She had never been on a rollercoaster. She valued her life to much.

‘AHHHHHHHH SHIT!!!!!!’ Jade screamed not 3 seconds into the ride; Jade had managed to convince the guys not to drag her on to the, appropriately name ‘Crazy Coaster’. Unfortunately for Jade, second time round was not so lucky. The whole ride only lasted less than a minute but after only the first corner Jade was screaming profanities. The round carriage started doing hairpin turns while spinning itself. Jade closed her eyes and grabbed onto the person sitting next to her.

After what seemed to be hours, (in reality it was only a couple of minutes) Jade clambered off the ride, her legs were wobbling and she couldn’t let go of the body she was dependently clinging too. She glanced up and saw Dimitri’s worried face.

‘Wait… worried!?!?!’ Jade thought

Dimitri just smiled down at her. He didn’t shrug her off or make a cocky comment as Jade expected. She smiled at him very gratefully.

‘Come oooooonnnnnnnnnnnn Jade!!!! HAUNTED MANSION TIME!!!!’ Sean and James screamed and bounced…yes bounced off to the Haunted Mansion situated near the rollercoaster. Jade paled. Jade hated Haunted Mansions more than rollercoasters. She looked up at Dimitri pleading him not to make her go in… there. Dimitri was too busy ducking-and-weaving between people to get to the ride, and not lose track of the other three boys. When they arrived at the ride; the three boys had already gone on the ride.

‘Phew!’ Jade thought. ‘I get to get out of this stupid ride’ she swept her hair into a pony tail and slumped down into the seat next to Dimitri on the haunted mansion carriage.

Oh…Dear…GOD!!!!!! Jade’s eyes widened at her unbelieve stupidity! She just willingly…well sort of willingly SAT ON THE RIDE!!!!!

Jade sat with her eyes closed and clung to Dimitri EVEN harder than on the rollercoaster…if that is possible. Dimitri chuckled but said nothing more of it. Jade tried hard to ignore the fake cobwebs that brush past her face as the carriage sharply turned rickety track. The last straw for Jade was when some creep dressed as a zombie grabbed her shoulder. Jade screamed very very loudly and jumped…literally JUMPED into Dimitri’s lap. Dimitri just held her, rubbed her back and whispered soothing words in her ear.

At the end of the ride, the others were waited on the platform and laughed when they saw the position Jade and Dimitri was in. Mortified Jade jumped up and ran off to the showbag tent. The boys starred after her, confused at what they had done wrong. Derrick rolled his eyes and ran off after Jade.

After nearly half an hour of searching Derrick found Jade arguing with a sales lady.

‘I’m sorry ma’am but the Elmo showbag is $20!”

Jade looked exasperated ‘I have $19.90! That is all I have! It is 10 cents difference!’ Jade growled in annoyance.

‘I know that ma’am but I have to charge $20!’ Jade started going red, not only out of frustration but she was getting quite a few stares as well.

Derrick walked over and handed over a 20 to the sales lady, he grabbed the bag, Jade’s wrist and briskly walked out of the show tent.

‘Prudent old hag’ Jade mutter this and other obscenities under her breath. Derrick laughed in amusement and leads her over to the show dog pavilion. Jade loved dogs.

‘Ooooooo! Look at that big fluffy white one!’

‘Oh wow! That’s a huge dog!’

‘Jesus! Look at the testies on THAT one! They are like bowling balls!’

And this is how the other boys found Jade and Derrick, a five meter clear zone around them; Derrick red in the face from laughing and Jade wide eyed and pointing at all the dogs, making comments. Some were not so public-friendly, hence the clear zone currently surrounding the pair. Soon the dog show was over and the boys were eager to get back on the rides. Jade was not so eager.

‘I’m gonna go get some more showbags. See you boys ‘round!’ and with that Jade hurried into a massive line of people.

‘Someone should go after her, I founder her arguing with the Showbag lady…’ Said Derrick as all eyes turn to Dimitri.

Grinning Dimitri hurried after her.

After buying the Tinkerbell showbag Jade was officially out of money. She was wistfully signing at the Tigger showbag when she felt arms wrapped around her waist and she heard Dimitri’s voice:

‘Which one do you want?’ Uncomfortable at his closeness, Jade wiggled out of his arms and pointed at the Tigger one and gave Dimitri puppy-dogg eyes and pouted.

‘Isn’t the girl supposed to protest the guy buying her something, and then after a while adorably give in to his good looks and charm?’ Dimitri queried with a raised brow.

‘That’s stupid.’ Jade said bluntly ‘Why offer something and then be not willing to give it? It’s like in Monty Python: Life of Brian, the scene where the shop keeper is like ‘You’ve got to haggle’ Its just stupidity pointless!’ Jade would have continued ranting but Dimitri shut her up with a Tigger show-bag. She grinned like a little kid, gave Dimitri a kiss on the cheek and ran off to a seat to explore her show-bags. Shaking his head at her puerile-ness, Dimitri followed her.

After a few more hours, Jade found herself running across the whole Easter Show to find where her brother was parked and waiting for her. At around lunch time, he had been called into the hospital, it was an emergency. (Sean is a surgeon…ha-ha! Go my alliteration…opps sorry right story!) She flung herself into the back seat of her brothers nice, black Mercedes (smacking her head on the window while she was at it). Suddenly she saw Dimitri running towards them like a mad man.

‘Wait, Sean stop, Dimitri’s coming…’ Jade said. Dimitri hopped into the car next to Jade and panted out: "The guys…wheeze…Ditched…wheeze me so I… wheeze … have to get …wheeze… a lift with… wheeze… you guys seeing …wheeze…live at the same…wheeze…place…wheezewheeze’

Laughing Jade said ‘Where did you run from Jokingly the station???’ Dimitri looked at her and nodded… ‘Can we go home now? I’m starved and I really need to pee!’

Jade rolled her eyes. ‘How so very masculine’ she thought.

Jade pulled out her beloved Ipod and stuck her headphones in her ears.

‘Please lave all over coats, Cains and Top Hats with the doorman

From that moment you’ll be out of place and under-dressed

I’m wreaking this evening’ and lovin’ every minute of it

Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring end.’

Jade smiled as Panic! At The Disco’s ‘There’s a Good Reason These Tables are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven’t Thought of it Yet’ lyrics flooded her ears.

Soon Jade fell asleep on the long ride back to the apartment. She woke to a jolt and the sight of Dimitri running inside straight to the bathroom. Jade laughed and slowly made her way up to the room. ‘Today was fun’ she thought ‘… cept for the rides’ came the next grim though; the next thought however, shocked her ‘Thank god for Dimitri, without him I would have died.’ Shaking her head, she lay down on her bed and went back to sleep.

A/N:

Does anyone ever read these? Oh well…

How did everyone like it? Review? Message?

Also, for those who are wondering…

I live in Sydney, Australia and every year, at Easter, we have what’s called the ‘Royal Easter Show’.

Basically it’s a wayyyy over-priced yet awesomely fun amusement park that’s not permanent. It has Ride, Carnies, Show-bags, Animal shows (Dogs, Horses e.t.c…), Car shows, Talks and big big advertisement things (a.k.a company promotional things).

Hope you all liked!

xoxo Mel.