Paige Jackson's Story

Mikaela laid still asleep in her bed with her blankets wrapped around her body incasing her in a cocoon of warmth. The sound of tiny feet running through the halls followed by small barking could be heard throughout the mansion. As her bedroom door was swung open all Mikaela could here was the sound of her little sister Isabella. "Kale! Kale! Kale! Wake up! Wake up! WAKE UP!", the little girl yelled as she pulled herself up onto Mikaela's bed and started jumping up and down. Mikaela groaned and mumbled as she slowly opened her eyes to see her sister enjoying herself as she bounced up and down on her bed. "Izzy!" she said pulling herself up in her bed "Parada con el remote. I'm up." Saying the last two words with a yawn Isabella obeyed her older sister flopping down on the bed which made Mikaela laugh.

At the side of her bed Stelena was still barking as she leaped up and down on her hind legs not big enough to be able to jump up. Unwrapping herself she swung her legs over the side of her bed and bent down to pick up her dog. Placing the pomeranian on her bed with her sister Mikaela got up out of bed and walked over to her to the vanity that was in her room. Looking at her reflection she sighed "God I look terribly in the morning" she said thinking aloud as the sound of small giggles could be heard in the background.

Turning to her sister who was in the middle of rubbing Stelena belly Mikaela asked "Where are mom and dad?". Still petting the dog Isabella looked at her sister and shrugged her shoulders "There not home." Mikaela figured they either worked late and hadn't made home yet or they had left early. Her parents both worked in the medical field which met working long hours and besides that they owned multiple private clinics all over California which meant they always had some work that needed to be done. That enough left Mikaela, Isabella and the house of servants to themselves. As a child Mikaela figured probably one of the reasons she was so awful was being she was acting out to get their attention. While she had come to terms with her parents absent and tried her best not to hold it against them she wanted to make sure Isabella never felt the same way she felt when she will little. Which was why she did her best to give the little girl all the attention she needed and deserved.

"I love your outfit today! Did you pick it out yourself?" Mikaela said as she walked to the other side of the room where her closet was located. Sliding open the door she walked inside and started searching around for an outfit to wear to school. "Yeah! I picked it out and Mrs. Garcia dressed me." Isabella said as she too walked into the closet with the dog at her side. Mikaela's closet was gigantic and while she wasn't that organized when it came to most things when it came to closet it always had to look perfect. Of course because of how many outfits she tried on just to find the right one whenever she left her room in the morning her closet was a mess but by the time she got home everything was always back in it's place thanks to the wonderful workers that she couldn't be anymore thankful for.

"What do you think about this?" she asked Isabella showing her a red valentino dress. The little girl shook her head "Isn't that a little much just for school?" the girl asked making Mikaela giggle as she placed the dress back. "Alright so what are we doing for breakfast?" she said knowing the young girl hadn't eaten yet as she always waited for her sister to eat breakfast. Isabella shrugged "Whatcha making?" Mikaela looked at her sister "I'm not making anything. As long as it takes me to get ready you know I won't have time to do that." She could hear her sister sighed but ignored it as she took down a pair of jeans with rips in them. "Eggs," Isabella said following behind her sister as she walked over to her tops section of her closet "Sunny side up, scrabbled, over easy .." Isabella thought about for a moment "Pouched" the girl said watching Mikaela decide on a top.

"I'll let the kitchen know what were eating. Since your already dressed you can walk Stelena." Isabella smiled "Come on Stelena!" the girl said running out of the closet with the dog yapping at her heels. It took Mikaela about twenty minutes to finish picking out the rest of her outfit accessories and all. Placing her clothes on her bed she walked over to the intercom system that was on the wall by the door, pressing the button for the kitchen she spoke "Morning guys! Today for breakfast were going with poached eggs. With bacon .... make it canadian and let's go with some toasted english muffins and don't forget the hollandaise sauce." Turning away for a moment as she quickly turned back around "Oh, and to drink orange juice for Izzy and let me get a strawberry and banana smoothie," pausing for a moment she thought if there was something she was forgetting "thank you" she added lastly.

Between showering, doing her hair, makeup and finally gathering up all her things for school it took her a little over an hour to be done and ready for school. Glancing at the alarm clock on her end table it read 6:49 am which for her was good timing. As she exited her room the house maids entered, she greeted them as she walked by and headed down the spiral marble staircase. Walking into the dining room Isabella was sitting at the table coloring and off to the side of the room Stelena was eating her gourmet dog food. The table was in the middle of being set when Mikaela entered, turning to one of the family's servants she said "Do me a favor and bring my car around we're gonna need to get going as soon as we're done eating. Also can you get me my laptop I left it upstairs." the man who's name she couldn't recall at the moment nodded "Yes Ms.Chandler."

Taking a seat next to her sister the man returned moments later with her laptop in his hands. Placing it down in front of her she smiled "Thank you" she said as she opened and turned on her luvaglio laptop. She multitasked as she ate, drank, checked and updated all of her social profiles. Once both her and Isabella was done the workers started doing their job of clearing the table as the sisters left their home goodbye after saying to Stelena and those they passed on their way out the door. Isabella ran over to Mikaela's blue bmw m6 convertible and got into the backseat. Getting into her car Mikaela placed her bag on in the passenger seat next to her and started adjusting her mirrors "Izzy do you have your seatbelt on?" she asked putting on her own as a means of setting a good example. "Yes Kale" Isabella said as the sound her seatbelt clicked, "Top down!" she shouted excitedly. Mikaela laughed "As you wish" she said pressing the button that made the car roof go down. Turning on the radio Mikaela drove pass the gates that closed off her home to the outside world and made her way to Isabella's school.

From Isabella's school to the high school was about a twenty minute drive and as she got to the student parking lot she parked in her usual spot. Getting out of the car she found three of her fellow squad members awaiting her arrival. Checking her phone as she walked over to them she saw that it was 7:51 am which meant she wasn't late. "Hey girls!" she said as they began to all greeted and hug each other. "Has Paige gotten here yet?" she asked as they shook their heads "Are we waiting for her?" Mikaela thought about for a moment "No I guess we can go. Well just save her a seat in class," she said as she lead the way through the doors and into the school.

Before class, Stephen decided to explore the library. It was relatively large and it had a lot of books. He was currently reading something, but he was grateful that there was a good selection of books here. He browsed the section on religion, but found nothing that he had not already read. With a shrug, he decided to take a seat and read. Class hadn't started just yet and he decided he could get a page or two of the Bhagavad Gita and looked for somewhere to sit. There was hardly anyone here, but he saw one girl reading a book. He decided to take a seat in front of her. He opened his book and spoke.

"Hey. I'm Stephen. Peace and blessings be upon you this day."

He looked at her curiously. Her clothes looked well-made, but it didn't look like she used that many products on her hair, which he didn't mind to be honest as it looked more natural that way. He opened up his book and read through it aloud.

“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection,” he paused for a moment, contemplating it, "But how do you live your destiny perfectly? Is there such a thing as "perfect"?"



Ian walked through the hall. As he did, he noticed everyone talking, either about who was dating who, which teachers they liked and which were total jerks, about the new kid, and other miscellaneous talk. As he was walking, he noticed a group of cheerleaders, Mikaela among them. He felt a torrent of emotions flare up in his stomach, as they always did when he saw her. A mixture of hurt, affection, longing, and, yes, anger. He tried to wave at her, but he felt himself trip. He groaned as he fell on his face.

"Careful where you step, honey," one of the cheerleaders said sweetly. This wasn't a nice one like Mikaela and Paige. It was barbie clone with a sweet smile and cruel eyes, like she was grown in a government laboratory somewhere. He knew she saw what he was doing and she responded in what she deemed an appropriate manner. He fidgeted with his glassed. One lens was cracked, great.

"Right, of course," he said bitterly and a little sarcastically as he headed for his locker, which was next to Jacob Thompson'. He glanced at Mikaela, wondering if she noticed or cared. Then, he turned to Jacob and another girl, Indigo Green, he remembered.

"There's a new kid at school," he told Jacob, trying to get attention off himself, "He looks just like you, but dresses weird."

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Paige grumbled, tossing and turning most of the night with her hair sprawled out messily around her head. Un-expectantly there was a bright light that just randomly lit up in her room and Paige groaned loudly. She smashed her hand down against her bed then searched the night stand next to her bed in hopes that there was a magical light switch that would turn off the light that was forcing her awake this early in the morning. Little did she know that she was actually half an hour behind her usual schedule in the morning which means that she was up half an hour later than usual. "Paige!" She could hear her mom's voice clearly as she yelled at her to get up. "You also need to clean up your stupid dog's mess that he left on my bed! Andrew was furious with him since that was his side of the bed that stupid dog decided to do his business on!" With that she heard her door slammed open. "Get up Paige! You need to remember that you have a lot to do today and I'm not dealing with you staying home. Plus you’re getting up late again today!" She exclaimed then was already making her way down the stairs and was going to the kitchen to make her daughter food.

Paige was smiling against her pillow while her mother yelled about Louie, but as soon as she announced that she was already behind she shot up from her bed. She looked at Louie who was staring back at her, "Good boy." She whispered before crawling over to him and scratching his head. "Let's clean up your mess before I get ready." She mumbled before scooping her dog up into her arms and carrying her to her mom’s room. She snorted, seeing the mess that her dog left on her mom's bed. "Oops," She mumbled with a grin as she shoved her dog's nose in it. "Bad dog!" She exclaimed loud enough for her mom to hear her. Afterwards she put her dog down then held out her hand, "Give me paw." She whispered with a soft giggle. Her dog Louie put his paw on her hand before it slid off onto the ground. "Okay come on," slowly she straightened up and walked out of the room.

Louie followed close behind her to her bedroom where she went to her hug walk in closet and started searching through her mass amount of clothes for something that she could wear today for school. Once she finally found an outfit that she find suitable she stroked her dog then stripped down and threw herself into the shower. After her shower she changed into the outfit that she had picked out earlier, and then she started to apply her make-up. When she finished applying her make-up she glanced from Louie then back at the mirror and made her eyes real wide with she puckered her lips. A soft laugh escaped her lips as she shook her head and stopped right then. She looked over at Louie and he barked at her.

It wasn't until she finally looked over at her alarm clock when she realized how late it was. "Oh crap!" She gasped as she darted from her room and skidded down the steps that lead not only to several other rooms on the first and second floor of her home but also lead straight for the front door. Andrew, her mom's boyfriend, was about to walk out the door when Paige came barreling through him and went straight for the car. "Excuse you Paige!" He snapped at her and she rolled her eyes as she slipped in the car. "Maybe if you moved faster Andrew you wouldn't have worry about my barreling through you." She yelled at him, through the window. "Well sorry! Plus you can't talk that way to me Paige. Treat me with as much respect as you give your mother!" He demanded and all she could do was to quickly start up her brand new Honda Insight EX before squealing out of the driveway.

On her way to school she mumbled something angrily under her breath about her mom and her new boyfriend. Of course now she was going to be late to class and that wasn't going to look too good that she was late to class since she usually is rarely late to class. While driving to school which wasn't far from her large house she wondered what Mikaela was doing right now since she wasn't there with her best friend. Sighing softly then she started to nibble on the bottom of her lip as she pulled into the student parking area. This is where she quickly parked her car, checked her make-up and then slid out of her car. Once she made sure she had everything and the car was parked she started towards the school, flipping her blonde braid over her shoulder.

Soon enough she was at the school, the bell hadn't quite rang yet so that was good but she still couldn't waste any time getting to class. Rushing to her locker she stopped in front of it, throwing the necessary things for class into her bag, and quickly slamming it shut. She smiled beautifully, waving at a few people who smiled at her and then rolled their eyes. She sighed softly, pushing her bag onto her shoulder as she started towards her class. Clumsily she stumbled over her own foot, an accidental curse word or two came from her lips as she tripped and fell forward. She heard a few people laugh as her books -that she had decided just to carry to class- fell all over the floor. With one move of her hand and as she stood up straight again she looked over at those who laughed, giving them an evil glare and instantly they hushed before walking off. "Isn't this just a great start to the day?" She grumbled angrily under her breath as she leaned down and started to collect her things that had fallen on the floor.

Finally once all of her books were together she straightened up, looking around and pushing a rebellious strand of her blonde hair out of her face. All she could do was smile as she collected herself and made her way towards her first period. Just because she fell in front of people and well embarrassed herself she wasn't going to let anyone think anything was wrong. Next time she wouldn't walk to fast because she didn't want to end up tripping over her own foot again. All she really wanted was to sneak off and cry for reasons that she wouldn't explain to anyone but Mikaela. Inhaling deeply and leaned against the wall next to the hallway that lead to her first period. Honestly she did not want to be here right now. A soft sigh escaped her lips as she just stood there, thinking about what just happened, and if she was actually ready for today.

Only making it a couple of feet from her locker before Aaron along with his group of jocks pulled over the cheerleaders. In most occasions when people tried to wave her over at most she would give them a small wave and keep it moving but for her football jocks she didn't mind being late. She played along with Aaron's flirting she wasn't really interested in the guy but she had to admit she liked the attention besides having someone hit on you was always flattering.

"What is that bitch looking it ?!" Mikaela looked from Aaron to Nicole "Omfg! Nikki it is way to earlier for this shit. What's wrong ?" Mikaela said as Aaron started playing in her hair. "That girl with the bushy ass eyebrows is over there grilling us mad hard. Like damn I know were beautiful but that staring stuff is really creepy." Mikaela laughed when Nicole mentioned the girl's eyebrows as she glanced over at the girl that was looking in their direction with a raised brow. They were cheerleaders which meant there was always someone looking at them for one reason or the next.

"Do you even know who she is? Her name? Her clique? Anything?," the girls all looked around at each other than at the guys before looking back at Mikaela with shaking heads and shrugging shoulders. "Then that makes the bitch irrelevant and unless you have the energy to waste there is no reason to stress unimportant people," the girls nodded and Mikaela could still see Nicole eying the girl which made her chuckle.

Just then another body managed to hit the floor this time not Ian but a red headed girl Mikaela wasn't able to put a name to just by looking at her. The collective group of jocks and cheerleaders all laughed along with the rest of the crowd "What is up with everyone today. Did any of these losers learn how to walk right ?!" Nicole said loud enough to be heard over the hall of laughter by her clique. When the girl began to laugh along with the rest of them the amusement in it all fell and Mikaela sensing that things were over decided now would be a good time to get to class. "Well looks like the fun is over here. Come on girls let's get to class," hugging the jocks one by one she made her way pass them and started down the hallway.

When they arrived to class the room was still empty seeing as the bell hadn't rang yet. There was still no sign of Paige but Mikaela wasn't worry about it because unlike her Paige was almost never left for class. Sending her cheerleaders off to save their seats Mikaela went to the bathroom. She didn't really have to go but it wasted time and she got to run into she knew. On her way back to room she uploaded a photo she taken of herself to instragram. As she got closer to the room she noticed a familiar blonde just outside the room "Paige!" Mikaela screamed as she ran over to her bestie wrapping her up in a hug of love. "It took you long enough to get here!" she said as she peeled back her arms to let her friend out of her grip. "You know I don't stay awake during class if your not there to annoyingly keep me awake."