My name is Sydney James, I live in Kahala in Honolulu, and for those of you who either suck at geography or live under a rock, Honolulu is in Hawaii. Yes, I live in Hawaii. People always ask me what my favourite part of living in Hawaii is, well, the best thing in my opinion, is that my neighbours are my best friends. Okay, maybe that has nothing to do with living in Hawaii, I do love exploring the forests and mountains with my 5 best friends: Corbyn Besson, Jack Avery, Lily Anderson, Daniel and Jordyn Seavey (Jordyn's a girl, just so you don't get confused).

Daniel and Jordyn are twins, I mean, you can kind of tell just by looking at them, let alone how they act together. They're 19, both have naturally brown hair but they dyed it blonde (personally I prefer them with blonde hair). They're both around 5'8 and their nickname is the giraffe twins - they both have long necks. They both have piercing blue eyes, like honestly you could go blind if you look at them for too long. Actually, that's not true, at least I hope it's not because if it is then I think Lily would definitely be blind by now, Lily and Daniel are dating, finally, they've liked each other for years.

Then there's Corbyn, he's 18, a little taller than Daniel and Jordyn, his nicknames are: Corbean, Corb*tch and ducky - he always makes duck faces. He has naturally blonde hair and equally piercing blue eyes, I'm hoping my theory about their blue eyes isn't true because I think I'd also be blind, Corbyn and I started dating two years ago.

Now, onto Jack, he's around 5'6, 17 years old, green eyes and brown hair with blonde highlights and a perm... yes, he has a perm, I'm disappointed in him too (even though I secretly like the curls) and his nickname is noodles, I don't think I need to explain that one.

Penultimately, there's Lily, also 17, I've known her my whole life, our families moved to Hawaii together, she's 5'3, the same height as myself, she has straight dark brown hair and brown eyes, she's the drama queen in the group, but I love her nonetheless.

Lastly, there's me, Sydney, 17 also, I'm 5'3 with ginger, wavy hair and green eyes. My nickname, like Jacks, doesn't need explaining - Gingey.

Like I said at the start, we are all neighbours, and where we live, it's only our 5 houses around, so we are also each other's only neighbours, our houses are arranged in a sort of circle, well a very big circle because we all have quite big houses. We're all rich to say the least, but don't worry, because I am very proud to say that none of us are stuck up or spoilt, thankfully. We live roughly 20 minutes from the nearest town, that to us means that we are completely surrounded by beautiful forests and jungles for miles, which means a lot of adventures and, in Hawaii, that's always interesting.

Although, currently, we are all 17, 18 and 19, this story starts when I turned 13 years old.

Let's just say, my life is not so normal.