Chapter 1

Veronica P.O.V

I am lying on my bed, on my back, scrolling through the messages of the many people who have slipped into my DMs, telling me how much they love me, or saying they hoped we'd meet someday. Some even invited me to birthday parties and asked me to bring Nino to DJ for them! 

If you're wondering who I am, I'm the lead vocalist of the band Musical Havoc, the highest-scoring student at Francoise Dupont High School. 

My mother, father, brother Vicky (short for Victor), and I currently live in Paris. Since both of my parents are away on business, Vicky is staying at his friend's house for the entire week. 

Suddenly, the doorbell rings and I hurry down the stairs, nearly tripping, and open the door with a wide grin.

"Hey, Bree! Where are Alden and the rest? "

"Won't you let us in? They're here!"

I chuckled and opened the door wider as Nino, Alden, and Allison appeared from behind her.

I've invited my best friends to my house for a four-night sleepover. They all told me that they intended to stay for all four nights. I was getting lonely at home, and we had holidays for the next two weeks.

Alden, a well-known model, and drummer for the band, virtually has all the girls in Paris drooling over him. But he only has heart for Aubrey.

Two of the guys in my class are huge fans of Aubrey. She is a popular singer and actor. She sings backing in my band as well. She also has the utmost love for Alden. Her parents own the renowned Monnet Bakery.

Allison, our band's pianist, is also a highly well-known blogger. She is also in charge of the school blog. She is dating Nino.

Bree and Alden are in a relationship. But before they were well-known, they were already friends and had fallen in love.

Nino is a highly sought-after DJ who is invited to each, and every party held in Paris. He also serves as the DJ for all school events. He plays the guitar in our group. Yes, he's the same Nino that one of my 'fans' asked for me to bring to their party.

We five are among the most popular children in all of Paris. Sure, there are more, but I like to believe we're the more popular ones.

Audrey, Aubrey's sister, is a year older and resides in New York City. Tyler, who is two years her junior and stays in New York City with Audrey, is another one of her siblings. Tyler is a well-known young actor, and Audrey is a singer.

Anyway, back to the present.

"We are all here. No need to fret. Let us in, will you?" cited Allison, hurrying inside. As I led them up the stairs, we chatted about our upcoming concert. We were releasing a new song, and our band had declared a public hiatus for two weeks.

We all climbed up the stairs and I suddenly remembered the snacks. I hurried down quickly, with Aubrey right behind me.

I brought the snacks with Aubrey from the kitchen while the guys and Als organized their items. 

I helped the girls lay down their sleeping bags as we discussed everything we would do today.

Smiling to myself at the cheery voices around me, I sat down.

Just as I began wondering what we should do now, everyone began discussing what to do first.

And that always started with a game when Allison was around. She was a very daredevil, but then again, also the most mature among all of us.

We eventually decided to play a game after a lot of argument about whether or not we should start with a dance-off or a game when everyone had settled down. 

"Let's play T or D," said Als. We all concurred and got rolling. This would be very interesting.

Als commanded Aubrey "Truth or dare" and when she chose truth, Allison forced her to choose to dare. 

As Allison would.

As soon as she agreed to do a dare, Allison shot, "Kiss Alden."

It was a classic, but neither Alden nor Bree were fans of PDA, so that gave us incentives to give them the same dare.

 Blushing, Aubrey kissed Alden before quickly sitting back down. I love the fact that they still have that effect on each other after 3 years of being together.

"Vera, now, T or D?" Bree asked.

"Truth", I declared.

"Do you have any information about yourself, that you've never told us or hid from us?" 

I smiled internally at the formal, interrogative tone she was using.

Yes, I didn't tell them, that of all individuals, I had a 'Past' that I didn't want to discuss.

I mean- they knew there was something because of the incident that happened for six months when I first came to Paris, but they probably forgot about it. 

I said, "Yes." 

"What? What is that?" She curiously questioned.

"Only ask one question at once, you know!" I spoke in a commanding, calm yet comical tone. After she had calmed down, it was now my turn to ask someone, so I chose Alden. 

"Alden, okay, T or D?" 

"Truth"

Okay, so this was challenging. I could give him a thousand dares, all of which he would undoubtedly reject, but I wasn't prepared for a truth.

Okay, so this would be an inspiration from a recent book I'd read.

"Have you ever been skinny dipping? If so, then with whom?" 

He fluttered. He remained silent for a minute. I was starting to get suspicious.

"I once went, ... I-" 

"What?!" 

Before I could even begin to speak, Allison screamed. I'd known him for 4 years and I never knew he went skinny dipping. And I'm surprised he never told us.

I mean- how had we not known? And even Allison hadn't known?? That's very suspicious at this point. And Nino was what-? Smirking?