Beverlee Hills Mummy Book 1 Chapter Outline WIP Part 1

•  Chapter 1 September First Day of School
• Meeting Thai, China, Candy. Thai invites Nakia to lunch. They leave campus in order to go to their favorite restaurant and miss fourth and fifth period because they stop to shop. Nobody Eats Except for Prince Machiavelli (Thai's dog). Halloween Party discussion, Thai's engagement discussion, Candy's and China's nose job and Thai's boob job discussion.
• Chapter 2 September Kim/Jacki/Staff Intro
• Kim has the rundown on Jacki and the staff. Jacki breaks rules as a social worker but just to help her charges, not really blackmail material. One of Jacki's clients is a classmate of the girls (Blythe). Her parents often leave town for weeks or months without paying the utility bills and their fridge is broken. Nakia tells Kim to buy Blythe a fridge and food to fill it, and also to hack into the utility company and pay the bills. Kim agrees. Another kid needs new shoes and Nakia tells Kim to buy the kid some shoes.
• Nakia's interior decorator is very sorry that she decorated Sunny's room for a six-year-old, there was a typo in the brief. Nakia doesn't care, she doesn't sleep anyway, and nobody else is going to see it (foreshadowing). Decorator is almost done with the rest of the house, any notes from Nakia? Nope!"
• Chapter 3 September Makeover!
• Candy gives "Sunny" a makeover while Thai and China play on the slides built into Nakia's bed. Candy gives Nakia a collection of beautiful bandages (instead of the sterile white gauze). Keeps conversation light, would seem superficial except for the discreet way that she gave Nakia the bandages, as well as her frank but friendly contemplation of Nakia's assets (she's got a tiny waist, delicate wrists, and cheekbones that could cut glass). Also gives Nakia a nicer version of her usual wig and better sunglasses.
• Chapter 4 FLASHBACK Arrival / Afterlife
• The first place Nakia has ever felt in perfect physical comfort, the food is amazing,  and she has The King to play Senet with forever. It's Heaven.
• Chapter 5 October School: History Lecture
• Nakia protests a fact that History teacher presents. History teacher is amused, impressed, already knows, but the truth isn't on curriculum. One kid protests, now worried that they'll write the correct answer on the test and get it wrong.
• Chapter 6 October Halloween Party
• Nakia is Cleopatra (Candy's idea). I don't know the other costumes yet. Nakia doesn't like having people in her house, and can't wait for them to leave. A hot skeleton asks her to dance. Nakia would have said no, but Candy answers for her and shoves Nakia toward the dance floor. Prince Machiavelli has a great time running around, but is never far from Nakia. She gets to know Uncle Chester a bit. He is very confident in Candy's affection and tells Nakia that Candy isn't ashamed of him because he's not hot, she just likes having a secret. But, he told her that he won't let her give him a makeover until they are publicly dating. Thai's fiance is maybe the chillest dude on Earth. Thai is the one who proposes, with her own ring, and is planning the wedding for the minute that she turns eighteen, a few days after graduation. They met in kindergarten but didn't started dating until third grade. But it's a good thing that they waited and sowed their wild oats before getting together. He has a good sense of humor. China's boyfriend seems very intrigued by the hot skeleton's costume, and doesn't say much otherwise.
• Chapter 7 October The Breakdown
• Boris's (chauffer's) car breaks down on the way to a beach bonfire. Nakia takes an Uber, after making sure that Boris has AAA on the way.
• Chapter 8 FLASHBACK Egypt: The King / Senet
• Nakia awakens in the middle of the night to pee. The princess is asleep so Nakia relieves herself and sneaks out of the room, knowing that she'll be whipped if she's caught. Finds a man playing Senet by himself in the garden. He teaches her. She doesn't know that he's The King. She sneaks back into the room and Ahmose is still sleeping. She resolves to go to bed without peeing every night so that she can have time to think.
• Chapter 9 November Beach Bonfire
• Nakia tries not to think about the time she was burned at the stake. People at the party talk about earthquakes, which reminds Nakia of being sacrificed to a volcano in Atlantis. She's not having a great time. She tries to sneak out early but China catches her, and the trio and Nakia go to their favorite restaurant where they don't eat anything (except for Prince Machiavelli who refuses to leave Nakia's lap).
• Chapter 10 November Shoe Backlash
• Blythe's parents didn't even notice the brand new fridge, but the other kid was accused of stealing the shoes that just showed up on his doorstep. Jacki handled it so the kid didn't get into too much trouble, but Kim feels awful. She bought him the kind of shoes her nephew had on his Christmas list, not realizing that they would be very noticable in his neighborhood.
• Ever since the night of the bonfire, Boris has stopped Nakia several times to apologize, to Nakia's annoyance. She tells Kim that if he doesn't leave her alone, she's going to fire him. Kim says that's what he's trying to avoid, explaining that Nakia keeping  her room immaculate, not eating the food Iz prepares, and only occasionally using Boris to drive her anywhere is causing anxiety amongst the staff. They feel like they're not needed. They were so relieved that she hosted a Halloween party because it kept them busy for weeks.
• Nakia, having been a servant in a palace, had thought she was being low-maintenance. She resolves to have Boris drive her to school every day, flush Iz's food down the toilet, and let her room be messy.
• Chapter 11 November The Ride
• Boris drives Nakia to school the next day, so happy that he's extra chatty, and she contemplates murder. Resolves to bring vehicles in from other locations to keep him entertained.
• Chapter 12 FLASHBACK Egypt: Nakia's Murder
• Nakia is set up to be a retainer sacrifice for The King after he dies unexpectedly. Princess Ahmose doesn't kill Nakia herself, but she does watch.
• Nakia didn’t cry. She didn’t beg. She just stared into Ahmose’s hard eyes. Something flickered in her gaze, a flash of the girl she had once been: running across the field, black hair catching the sun like blue fire, eyes dancing with mischief. She remembered crashing into that girl, hearts and limbs lost in a tangle of giggles.
• The last thing Nakia saw was Ahmose close her eyes and turn away. It was the remorse that Nakia found hardest to forgive. It meant that her friend and enemy were the same person. And she died, never understanding what had twisted one into the other.

One thing that I totally forgot to include is Nakia looking for The King, so I want to go back and add that. I also want to fill in each event with more character exploration and fun things. Like, what happens at a bonfire? Some kids will be running around the water, some will be making out, some will be doing drugs and drinking, some will be putting the fire together, some will be bossing others around. I also need to look up the laws for beach bonfires, because it's going to happen but it might need to be someone's dad's private beach or something, and a detail like that will be important. I also want to use these scenes to explore the dynamics between the girls. Each duo, the trio of original friends, a trio that includes Nakia, and of course, the quartet. Also, Thai, China, and Candy all have boyfriends, so we need to get to know them. And I want "Sunny" to have some potential love interests as well as friends outside the group.

I also want to figure out the girls' favorite restaurant. In my original attempt to write this, it was The Stinking Rose, but I'm pretty sure it closed down at some point, and I think I'm going to make it a fictional restaurant. I do remember the girls ordering a ton of food and eating none of it because they all have eating disorders. I was much meaner about the trio back then, but I still think it's important to talk about. Like, the girls will be openly envious of Nakia's figure, even though/because she's fully just a skeleton wrapped in bandages.

Oh! And I totally forgot that Nakia is a collector of weird cars that she has scattered around the world under different aliases. Transportation is something that she is obsessed with partly because she grew up in ancient Eygpt and partly because she has such a constant and intense need to make a quick getaway.