"FRIENDS ARE LIKE STARS, THEY ONLY SHINE WHEN ITS DARK AROUND YOU."

PROLOGUE

Gemma POV

The striking sound of the glass being beaten by the heavy rain outside didn't seem to fazed me neither did the nagging voice of the passengers nor the small bumps the bus made over the soft muddy road. I felt out of this world, drunken with the though f my narrow escape knowing fully well of Lukas disappearance but I could feel his presence engulf me with so much darkness it felt hard t breath.

Shortly, the bus stops and the bus driver shouts

"Here's the bus stop"

I got off the bus feeling the rain hit me like little stones me and credenza threw at each other when we were younger but the more we grew up the more we felt apart and now I stay drench in the rain in the black ruined gown I wore for over days after the burial.

I walked over the house not too far from the bus stop. I didn't wander off to an unknown house. I was in credenza house, the huge duplex house she wanted painted brown and white with her black Lexus car parked at front of the fresh trimmed roses she loves.

The scent of engine oil lingered in the air meaning she just arrived home not too long ago. Thank goodness but I couldn't help but still be afraid and frightened at the fact that maybe just maybe my sister may not love me again, may not even want me again. But I wanted to know because with the fright I felt I still had this curiosity to know what roamed her mind.

I was carefully enough to go around the bushes and check the windows around the living room but she wasn't there, so I moved over the kitchen window and there she was credenza Richardson, my sister. She was taking a bottle of wine from the tall LG fridge. Pouring herself a glass but then she stopped looking down at the marble table that stare below her.

Soon after, I hear the sneezing sound and then she raised her face up as her black curly hair clear up as in the midst of the rain. I know I clearly saw her crying.

"Gemma why do you have to go?" she laments through sobs. I couldn't watch again. Never have I ever seen credenza cry before talk less of crying for me. She was the strong and resilient one. The different one who never gives up to any circumstances but creates her life. Something I was never known for.

The screams that credenza made deaf me, the voice of her crying and lamenting for me made me weaker than I already felt. Sunken like a snail inside its shell, which flinch at the smallest touch.

I knew what I had to do. I couldn't stand here and allow my younger sister cry over me. Because she's the last precious person I have left. I just couldn't. I walked over the front door slowly as if slowing down time or reducing the fear of the kind of expression credenza will give to me, maybe anger, sadness or emotionless either way I'll have to face it. I push the golden bell button making a ding dong! Sound echo in the halls of the house.

My long braids that stick to my face dripping water, my makeup ruined and my outfit ragged. My heartbeat increased its pace as it was the only thing I could hear except the clicking sole of credenza shoe getting closer and closer. Once it stopped the doorknob twisted and I felt my heart dropped along with the doorknob.

All this misery, suffering all started with my laurels of FAME & LOVE

That's a pretty good starting of my book FAME & LOVE. Hope you loved it. Im gonna be writing this book this festive time but don't worry I'm  sure to update cold embrace very soon. Also this book is to make up for the time I left my readers in suspense. Im putting a lot of work in this book. Hop you all like it. Get ready to see more of GEMMA LOXLEY!!!!.