Prologue

Loud roaring sounds of the clouds echoing throughout the busy town. Everybody was rushing to their destinations before the heavy rainfall. I was looking at the busy street and enjoying the mind blowing gift of nature, standing on my small balcony which was containing many flower plants. A few minutes later it started raining cats and dogs.

Cold breezes, the sounds of raining, and the wet smell of nature during rain is really amazing especially in the evening. It blows my mind, relaxes my body and nerves.

When soothing smells of roses and lilies hit my nostrils, I closed my eyes and took a deep inhale. Darkness was surrounding me but the only lights I could see were coming from the street and the lightning.

"Talia!" My mother's voice came from downstairs.

"Coming, mom!" I got up and walked downstairs.

I have such a typical strict, hot tempered and at the same time a very loving, caring mother. I got the exact same feature from my mother. Long dark hair that falls on the ass, dark eyes and flawless fair skin. Everybody says that I'm the younger version of my mother.

"Your granny finally agreed to visit the doctor. She is coming tomorrow morning and told me to book an appointment." Mom sighed.

"That's impressive, mom." I laughed.

"And I don't wanna hear any complaints from her about you. Be careful when she's here." Mom smiled tightly.

Well, my granny, my mother's mother never agreed to visit the doctor so we have to manipulate her in many ways. She thinks that she can heal without medicines and the doctors are useless. They just prescribed a bunch of medicines and that's why she became more weak.

She has even problems with everything we modern people do.

I had to wear a scarf when I went outside and had to wake up at 6 am in the morning, whenever she came to our house. Even mom and dad fear her grumpy mood. This old lady even hates my two best friends because she thinks they're impolite, irritating and foul.

But she loves us unconditionally. And actually I enjoy her grumpy mood.

"I don't do anything stupid. She always finds a problem in everything."

"Don't talk about her like this. She's your grandma. She does that because she is a cultural and pious woman and she's not used to living in the modern decade. Don't disrespect her. You know she loves us more than anything in the world."

"Yeah, I know. I'll be careful. I won't upset her anymore." I nodded.

"Good."

"You know you're more lazy than Nova's cat, Natalia." Ellerie scoffed.

Ellerie, six years old baby brother of mine who has a big smart mouth and a tiny figure. He has some weird habits like throwing things here and there when he gets angry, bringing things from neighbors house without telling them though they know it's his habit, wailing and screaming 'mom' for simple reasons.

"I'm not." I slightly pinched his cheeks.

"Don't touch me with your hands."

"Do you want me to touch you with my legs?"

"What! Mom!"

"Natalia!" Mom warned not to make him mad.

"What? Did I say something wrong?" I grinned.

"I told dad to bring chocolate ice cream and chocolate muffins only for me." He smirked.

"Then I'm gonna steal all of them from you." I grimaced.

"Mom!" He started wailing.

My father is a big grocery store owner. He's a very charming and handsome man. Ellerie got my dad's hazel eyes and brown hair.

Many women who come to dad's store regularly have a huge crush on him and one day mom saw a young woman trying to flirt with dad so she grabbed her hair right then and threw her outside of the store.

Dad and I were laughing at that funny scene but mom was so angry that she shattered a vase right there and made us hide behind the shelves.

"If you steal my muffins again, I'll tell everyone that you're a thief who steals muffins and ice creams. And then I'll ask uncle Jacob if he can arrest you and throw you into the jail." Ellerie smiled widely at his own idea.

"No way." I surrendered as I held my hands up and laughed.

Aunt Hannah Hernandez is our neighbor who lives next to our house. She's a kind and generous woman. Her husband, uncle Jacob Hernandez is a police officer. She has a ten year old daughter named Nova. She's quite adorable and brilliant.

I made my way to the kitchen with mom and helped her to serve the dinner. A few minutes later, dad arrived at home with Ellerie's favorite ice cream and chocolate muffins.

"Thank you dad!" I heard Ellerie yelling and dad was chuckling.

"Here's my princess. How was your day, my little girl?" Dad smiled as I went to the living room.

"It was good. How about yours?"

"Busy as always. I've heard that your granny is coming."

"Yes. She finally agreed to visit the doctor." I hummed.

"That's good. But if she keeps hiding her sickness like this, it'll be worse later." He sighed.

"Yeah. But she doesn't want to understand that." Mom sighed too.

After dinner I headed upstairs and entered my bedroom.

I'm in high school and the next year I want to admit myself into a good college in the city so I was trying hard.

It was already 11:40 pm when I finished my assignments. After a few moments of scrolling through social media, I shut my laptop and walked into the bathroom. Finishing my daily night routine, I turned the lights off and got into the bed.

Our town is blessed with natural beauty, surrounded by a big forest from the southeast part and the ocean. The ocean has passed by the west side to another city flowing behind the deep forest. To the north side, there is the main road and railway station by which people communicate with cities.

Though this town is almost inside of a forest and at the edge of the country, it's quite developed. Many travelers come here every year to visit the beautiful, enchanting beach. This town is a hidden little paradise inside the globe without a doubt.

The sky was clear, stars were twinkling and the moon was shining brightly as the rain stopped pouring. Moonlight was showering my room through the open windows. The sweet smell of roses was coming from the balcony, the thin curtains of my room were dancing with the wave of cold breezes.

I smiled widely and sat on my bed and looked outside through my bedside window. I closed my eyes and inhaled deeply as a cold breeze mixed with the smell of roses and lilies hit my nostrils and filled my lungs.

It felt like I was in heaven.

I wanted to walk on the moonlight showered street during the midnight, I wanted to shiver when cold breezes would hit my skin, I wanted to stand beneath a street light which would illuminate me, I wanted to watch those twinkling stars in the dark sky everyday.

I wanted to enjoy many many moonlight nights alone when the whole world would remain sunken in deep sleep.

I laid down and smiled as the moonlight was showering me. A few minutes later my eyes felt heavy as I fell into a deep sleep.