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"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory." – Dr. Seuss

Xander's pov

(His house above)

Being rich doesn't necessarily mean being happy.

Being a son of a powerful business man wasn't as easy as it seemed to be. The position came with its expectations, pressure, stress, and challenging yourself to prove your worth all the time.

My father Robert Clain is a well known billionaire, our family was famous for its long chains of hotels, restaurants all around the globe. He is great at doing the only thing he seems to care about which is earning money.

To have what we have, i lost both of my parents, I feel like I don't even know my father as he is mostly away on business trips. Money is all he seems to care about.

My mother was Emily clain, She was a famous interior designer but she died because of lung cancer when I was 5.

Don't get me wrong, I know that he is a good man by heart and still loves my mother and me a lot, but he forgets the fact that people require attention, care and time from loved ones. He is one of those who wanted to accomplish as much as he possibly can for which he works day and night.

I don't know about his father side to be honest, the only fatherly duty he does is providing me with cash.

With him becoming old, and me becoming an adult he started fearing that I won't be able to handle this business. For some reason he never had or has any faith or confidence in me. For him I am just a spoilt child who doesn't know anything, and hence will bring the business down with myself.

He doesn't know how much his lack of confidence effects me, I try to do everything for him, I live the way he wants me too, I am the best at football and all other sports, I am famous at my high school, I participate in extra curricular stuff for him, I do it all to make him proud of me but he never is.

He fails to understand that I am not like him, neither I can be like him. I have different interests, I like to have a normal life with my friends and not be obsessed with business all the time.

Friends, both Cole and Jacob are like brothers to me, we are best of friends since we were small, because our families are also close. Which also meant that they faced the same problems at home which I did and seemed to understand it.

Cole's father is also a business tycoon, and his mother is a brilliant chef. Cole seems a bit rude to those who don't know him, but that's only because it takes him time to trust people.

Jacob whereas is the most social one among us. His father has his own mobile company and also produces other technologically advanced things. He is also the kindest among us, as he always respected others and thought about there feelings way more than we ever did. He didn't like using girls just for distraction purposes whereas me and Cole didn't mind having some attention on ourselves.

The three of us are great at everything, except studying. That is something which we aren't  good at, we don't have that level of concentration when it comes to reading books.

And that is a big problem for us , because in order to prove our worth to our parents we need to have good grades.

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"Xander, please wake up otherwise you're gonna be late." said my housekeeper Donna, she was the one who used to wake me up everyday herself.

She has taken care of me since I was a child and treated me as her own son. She is also kind of protective over me like a mother is. I treated her with same respect and affection.

"Uhh I just slept, and it's morning already" I groaned.

"What time is it" came a voice from beside me, I looked over and saw it was just a random girl from school who I hooked up with yesterday. I didn't really felt guilty about these one night stands because even the girls knew what they were getting into and I guess that is what they wanted from me too.

"Donna please take care of her, and get one of the drivers to drop her at her house." I told Donna, she was already aware of my habits and didn't complain often about them. Although I do know from her looks that she disapproved of this. Nonetheless she did what I told her to do and soon the girl from last night was gone.

With this I went to shower and got ready for my day ahead. I finished eating my eggs with bacon along with a cup of coffee, and went to my garage to take my baby out. I loved riding a bike, it made me feel like I am alive and free in this world, and I am the only one who controls it. Obviously my father and donna disapproved my idea of riding a bike but fortunately let me have it.

After a good 20 minutes ride, I reached school. It was fun for me because I used to hang out with my best friends all the time. We many a times used to skip our classes and hangout instead, or spend our time to play football which we all love.

"Hey clain, how are you" said Madison, knew that voice was her's I can identify it easily.

You see she and I used to hook up at times. During that time I made it clear to her that I was only using her and she told me she was doing the same. But with time she became a bit obsessed with me always clinging by my side, always crying at stupid things to have my attention, tried to make me jealous etc.

No doubt that she was beautiful but to be honest she wasn't really my type. She doesn't  care much about other people and love the attention she always get. Honestly she is just full of herself all the freaking time.

"Go away Maddie" I said in a irritated tone. I walked away from her and meet up with my friends and finish my day with them. After which we decided to go to a nearby restaurant to eat as we were mostly alone at our own house so we used to eat together quite often.

"Our final exams are coming soon" said Cole. "Yeah we gotta do something about the whole studying thing because we all need good grades to pass" Jacob replied. "Guys what if we hire a tutor to teach us?" I suggested. It was actually a pretty great idea because we don't have any idea about what is going on in our course and having a tutor would actually solve our problem.

I saw a girl approaching towards our table, she looked familiar, "isn't she Bella from our school?" said Cole. Oh so that's where I know her from. She is actually very cute with her uniform and her hair tied up in a cute bun.

But she looked sad to me, it was as if she was empty inside and had no life left in her. Her beautiful eyes were bagged with dark circles, she looked skinny as if she didn't get to eat enough. She looked so helpless that I really wanted solve all of her problems for her.

And that's why I said " Guys she is a nerd and she looks pretty sad and upset about her life, I think we should make a deal with her in which she'll tutor us and we'll pay her more than she makes here".

Then we had a talk with her, where we explained why did we need a tutor etc and surprisingly she agreed to be a part of this deal. I was actually happy that she agreed because for some reason I wanted to know more about her. I wanted to know who this girl really is and why does she looks so sad. I could tell that she was doing this only because of money but that didn't matter to me, it looked like she really needed it.

From this talk I gathered somewhat little information about her, she got nervous whenever I said anything at all which actually made me feel good, her voice was so soft, she sounded like an angel, she worked or used to work now, at two different jobs one being a bakery which I was looking forward to see, and one at that restaurant. Other than that she spent her time studying. Her life seemed really tough and no problem of mine seemed to be in any comparison with hers.

I am looking forward to know you Bella.

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Hope you like the story so far💕

Yashasvi~