HEARTBEAT

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PROLOGUE...

The weather was sunny and bright but inside the Miller Mansion, the atmosphere was gloomy and sad. On the death bed lay Mr Mark Miller, owner of Miller industries, while all around him , were his wife and 5 children. Amidst his children was his favorite, the only child of his late beloved first wife.

Staring at her deep blue eyes, Mr Miller drew his last breath, holding onto her hands. The pain and sorrow she felt, she lost her mom at the age of 5, and now 12yrs after, her beloved father, who was the only one who stood by her and gave her love. Her stepmom never loved her, and always treated her badly, but back then she had her dad. And now she is all alone in this cruel world.

Mr Miller ‘’s end was only the beginning of dear Lily ‘’s suffering.

CHAPTER 1

5 years later

The sun shined in through the only window in the basement, the “room” of the ever sweet girl Lily. The basement was small but it still had enough space considering that the only thing in it were a little reading table and a small mattress, where the young Lily slept. After five years of her father's demise, she became a maid in her own house.

Lily woke up , stared at the little alarm clock which read 6:15am , her eyes widened as she sprang up , “oh no, I over slept, am so dead.” She panicked and rushed out to do her chores before she receives another beating.

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After setting the table for the Miller family's breakfast, which she was no longer a part of, her worst nightmares came down for breakfast , something she hasn't had for the past 2 to 3 Days, as she only gets leftovers, if there is, plus she always sneaks into the kitchen at night for snacks. Her step mother, step brother and sister has chosen to make her life hell after the death of her father. Only the 2 little twins love her since she always takes care of them.

After they had all left , the twins off to school, her step mother and evil siblings gone to God knows where, Lily laid on her old mattress reading a fairytale, fairytales are her favorite, one of the reasons she believes that one day she would find her happily ever after.

Far in the countryside, Eva ( lily's step mother) was discussing with the lawyer over the properties of her late husband. “ Am sorry Mrs Miller, but I can't do o that, not without Miss Lily's consent” the lawyer hand by blantly refused Mrs Miller ‘’s request over the property, everything Mr Miller ever owned was all in lily's name, which she could access once she turned 20.

But ever since then Eva has been pulling all the strings preventing her from getting her fortune or even finding out about it at all. She left the lawyer ‘’s office boiling with anger . How could her husband hate her kids so much as to will everything to Lily. “Mom how did it go” her son Jack asked the moment she got out. “Yeah mom , did it work out, what did the lawyer say” her daughter asked next. She sighed and shoke her head as a reply to their questions. “Can't we just kill her , I am so sick of this” Jack was vibrating with anger. While Eva was trying to control her own anger , she could have killed her but if she dies everything goes to charity, which is why she is looking for a way to get it all transferred to her name . Then she would get rid of her , it's only a matter of time after all. Eva smirked at her devious thoughts.

Miller Mansion

Boring, boring, boring, that was all lily's s life has been, and at the moment she was way too bored . Reading was great but what's the point when you've read almost all the Books in a huge library. Looking at the clock , a thought got in to her head why not go out “ I ‘’ve got 3 more hours of free time” she smiled at her idea, and got up and out the window. She smiled as she worked down the streets, she thought

“hmm, why not spend some cash, Lily, you deserve a treat for not getting beaten up for half of the day” she giggled at her ridiculous achievement, whenever the Miller family travels out Lily stays in the house alone manily to ‘protect it' according to her stepmother, at those times she would sneak out like this and do minor jobs to earn some money that can come in handy one day especially when her stepmother is getting fed up with her at a fast pace.

“Thief! Thief!... Help!” a loud scream drew Lily out of her thoughts as a man swooped pass her. She looked around her and picked a stone and….. *thud * right in the head. “Well done Lily” she praised herself as she walked up to the thief and took the purse , “thank you” she turned to the voice and met the most beautiful set of grey eyes with a cute face, and long black hair almost as long as hers. Lily snapped out of her daze and returned the purse to her, “u're welcome”.

“My name is Sandra , you?” Sandra introduced herself with a sweet smile. “Lily” was her short reply as she didn't know what to say , she hasn't talk to people for a long time, it felt weird to her. “You don't talk much, but I don't mind I like you,... Friends?” Sandra offered a hand at Lily who looked at her with so much surprise, she never had a friend and it warmed her heart to hear someone interested in her. She smiled and took her hand “ friends”. Lily smiled as she felt she was on cloud nine thinking ‘can this day get any better ’

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Luther Mansion

Beep…Beep…Beep... The sound of the alarm clock rang for like the 100th time that day, but he won't get up being the lazy log he was. Alexander Luther; a handsome, rich, carefree guy who happens to hate waking up on Tuesdays so much it's 12:00pm ,so he decided to face the world.

Rolling himself out of his bed only to walk sleepily and stumble upon something on the floor and fall face flat, he looked for the offender only to meet the angry eyes of his pet seashell. Which happens to be a lion he raised from infant.

Alex a.k.a AXL is a weird guy you could say, room is painted his favorite colour which is pink, he would prefer a chocolate to a healthy meal anytime, any day. Back to the story. Alex smiled like a fool to his pet and said “sorry buddy didn't see you there” he then got up only to stumble on his dumbbell that was laying around but caught himself before he could fall again “oww..oww..oww” he jumped around on one foot holding up the other and then fall backwards into his dirty clothes,

it was then he took his time to scan his dirty room, if anyone walks into his room they would think a hurricane swept by. He groaned and screamed”AHHH”, this is why I hate Tuesdays… can this day get any worst” he kicked his legs back and forth while lamenting, seashell just stared at him and shook his head. His friend is really dumb.

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