A/N This is my new story I'm going to try and name the chapters now hopefully I'll remember to. Number one got the most votes so thank you to those of you who did vote! I hope you like this story.

Chapter 1 - New Beginning
(Flora's POV)

I sigh as the car pulls up outside my Grandmother's house, my last living relative. My new home in Gardenia and hopefully my first permanent one as when I was living with either my mum or dad they'd both be travelling a lot, they were divorced. My mum died first in a car accident and then my dad was murdered. I pull my hood up and grab my bags before getting out of the taxi and paying. "Dea,r it's so good to see you." My grandmother greets me warmly. I smile.

"It's good to see you too." I reply. She opens the front door and I follow her in with my bags. I smile looking around the house as she locks the door behind us.

"Follow me Flora, your room is just upstairs." My grandmother tells me as she leads me upstairs and into a bedroom. The room has a white door and one window. There's a bed with pale green bedsheets, the walls are painted a baby pink and there's a white carpet covering the floor. There's a cream dressing table, two sets of draws, an average sized wardrobe and a bedside table. The window is framed with pale green curtains the same colour as the bedsheets.

"Thank you grandma, the room is lovely. I'll just get settled in and then I'll be down." I tell her as I put my bags neatly on the floor. She smiles and nods.

"Okay, I'll call you when dinner is ready." She replies before she leaves and goes downstairs. First I unpack and put away all of my clothes in the draw or in the wardrobe before I put away the little make-up and jewellery I have in the dressing table as well as my hairbrush. Once I've done all that I put away the rest of the little thing in the draw on my bedside table like pictures of my parents and other little things. I hang up some pictures and put some plants out before heading downstairs having finished with my room.

"Grandma I've finished unpacking everything, I was thinking that I could look after the garden." I suggest hopefully. My grandmother smiles warmly at me.

"Of course you can, I haven't had much time to look after it lately and I can't do much even when I have time." My grandmother explains. "I'll call you in when dinner is ready, it's getting late and the food won't be long." She adds as I walk outside. I can hear talking from next door. It sounds like boys my age. I ignore it and scan around the garden. The grass has been cut but that's about the only thing that's been looked after. I tend to the plants, making sure they've all got water, after that I pull out all the weeds and harvest everything that was ready to be picked from the greenhouse.

"I've watered everything and pulled out the weeds as well as harvesting all the food from the greenhouse that was ready to pick." I tell her as I put away all the food I got. She smiles.

"Thank you Flora, you came in just in time. Dinners ready so you should go and wash up before coming to eat, don't worry I remembered that you're a vegetarian." She tells me. I laugh a little before I go to the bathroom and wash my hands as well as a bit of dirt on my face. Once I've done that I go back to eat with my grandmother, she made vegetarian lasagne.

"Grandma this is amazing!" I comment truthfully as I take another bite. She laughs a little.

"I've been cooking for years especially vegetarian meals, I don't know if you know but I'm also a vegetarian." She tells me with a small smile.

"I didn't know that but I didn't get to see you often and I hardly got to talk to mum or dad when they were here because of their work." I say sadly as I begin to tear up a little. She dries my eyes before pulling me into a hug.

"It's okay, they wouldn't want you to be upset." My Grandmother tells me gently calming me down. I dry my eyes and force a smile on my face as I pull away from the hug.

"Thanks." I thank her. "When do I start school?" I then ask changing the subject.

"Well tomorrow is Sunday so you're starting this coming Monday but if you feel like you need to spend a few days here that's completely fine, after all you didn't loose your parents very long ago." She replies and I can tell that she's worried about me.

"I'm fine really, I'll be fine to start school on Monday, it'll help me take my mind off things." I assure her but in a way I'm also trying to assure myself. After we finish eating dinner I wash up while my grandmother goes to have a shower and go to bed. Once I'm finished washing everything up I close all the windows and make sure the front and back door are locked before I head up. I take a quick shower before I go to my room. I look out my window to see everything next door is peaceful. I quickly close my curtains and switch the light off before I get into bed and drift off to sleep.

I wake up early in the morning and I can't help but sigh. I just miss my parents so much. The funerals weren't very long ago as they were held very soon after their deaths. I force myself up and I make my bed. I get dressed into some jeans, a pink shirt with dark pink flower patterns on and pink ankle boots. I quickly brush my hair and grab some of the money I'd earned from the jobs I had when I was living with my parents. I go down stairs and leave a note in case my grandmother wakes up while I'm gone. After that I head out to the shops so I can do something to surprise her.

I walk until I reach a medium sized flower shop. I can't help but gasp as I enter. There's so many different flowers in here! The woman at the till laughs a little. "I see you like flowers?" She asks me. I nod.

"Yes I do, I don't suppose you have any part time jobs available here?" I ask. If I could get a part time job here it could make things slightly easier for me and my grandmother.

"Actually there is one, it's to work here Saturday afternoons and Sunday morning. The pay is very good as we get a lot of business in here." The woman replies. "I do take my shop very seriously however so prove to me now what you know about plants." The woman tells me with a smile. My eyes light up.

"Well I know a lot about plants, starting with flowers and with the roses and their meanings, each colour has a different meaning and sometimes there's also a different meaning depending on how many there are or what condition the flower is in and two different colours given together can make one meaning. A single red rose means 'I love you'..." And so on I went. I could tell the woman was listening to my every word.

"Well you've defiantly got the job if you want it and by the way my name is Lilia." Lilia tells me. I smile.

"I'd love the job thank you." I tell her. She smiles warmly at me.

"No problem you start Saturday as I'm already working, now I'm guessing that you may of come in here to buy something as well." Lilia says thoughtfully. I nod before I walk off to the seeds. I grab so many different seeds for so many different flowers as the garden doesn't have much. After paying I head back home to see my Grandmother up and in the living room.

"Did you have a good trip?" My grandmother asks me. I smile and nod.

"Yes I got so many seeds for the garden as well as a part time job at the flower shop, I'll be working Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings starting this coming Saturday." I explain happily. I'm proud of myself for getting a job on my own.

"That's wonderful Flora!" My grandmother tells me as she gives me a small hug.

"Well I'm going to plant these seeds in the garden, I might be a while there are a lot." I tell her before I go upstairs and quickly change into some old trousers and an old T-shirt with some boots. I go into the garden and start planting all my seeds as well as looking after the garden. Once I've finished that I go back inside and wash my hands before eating a quick piece of toast.

"Oh Flora the neighbours are coming for dinner, their children won't be coming, they invited you to stay with their two children as you probably don't want to eat with us. They have a son your age and a young daughter." My grandmother tells me.

"No thank you grandma, I think I'll just stay here, don't worry I'll eat early and I'll probably stay in my room." I reply, I don't really want to be around strangers anyway.

"Okay, I'm going next door to tell them, you should get some proper dinner." My grandmother tells me before leaving to go next door. Once she's gone I cook myself some pasta which I eat with cheese before I clean up everything. As I go to head upstairs my grandmother returns but with the neighbours. A middle aged woman with long dark blue hair, dark brown eyes and fair skin as well as a middle aged man with messy black hair, pale skin and ice blue eyes. I quickly go upstairs before my grandmother sees me, I know it's rude but I just really don't want to talking to strangers or anyone really right now.

"I was lucky." I mumble to myself before I grab some pyjamas from my room and head to the bathroom. I lock the door and close the curtains making sure I put my towel in here when I unpacked which luckily I did. I have a quick shower before getting into my pyjamas and brushing my hair and teeth. I then head back to my bedroom with my stuff and close the door behind me. I look out the window and sigh, I hope I can make at least one friend here as I haven't been able to at any of my other schools. I turn my bedroom light off and close the curtains before getting into bed.

(Lila's POV -Flora's Grandmother-)

I sit with the neighbours at the table as we've just finished eating and washing up. "It's been so good to talk to you and the food was amazing." Aria comments. She's the woman with long dark blue hair, dark brown eyes and fair skin.

"Yes it's been wonderful, we hope that we can meet your granddaughter soon as well." Jackson adds. Jackson is Aria's husband and has messy black hair, pale skin and ice blue eyes. They're our neighbours but their children aren't here.

"It's been wonderful to have you both here and you'll probably meet my granddaughter Flora soon but she's going through a very hard time for now. I'd appreciate it if you didn't say anything about what's happened to anyone including you're children." I tell them. They nod understanding.

"We won't say a word." They promise.

"Thank you, I'm just worried about how she'll settle in at school." I admit concerned.