"Sophie."
"SOPHIE."
"SOPHIE ELIZABETH FOSTER, WAKE UP RIGHT NOW AND GET YOUR LAZY SASQUATCH BEHIND OUT OF YOUR BED- oh, Sophie, you're awake!"
Sophie woke up to a especially glittery Biana.
Wonder who she's trying to impress. Probably Dex.
Not that Biana wasn't always glittery, but yesterday Linh had convinced Sophie to go to a cute little cafe in Atlantis and get some mallowmelt and custard bursts with their friend group, and whenever Biana went out, she became extra glittery. She also became extra glittery when Dex was coming.
Not that Sophie wanted to go. She went because she didn't want anybody to find out her secret.
After all, who would want to be friends with the depressed, genetically modified human-raised freak? Her friends had already all had a fall from safety when they met her. She shrugged it off and pretended to study Biana's outfit, which was teal themed: and the exact color of her enchanting teal eyes; the same shade as Fitz's.
Biana was wearing a smooth teal tunic with intricate embroidery along the deep collar that hugged her frame in just the right ways to make her body look flawless. She paired it with sparkly clear lip gloss and eyeliner edged along her eyes, drawing even more attention to them and making them look almost fierce. Smooth, deep mahogany waves fell past her shoulders in golden jeweled combs.
Paired with her white leggings and knee-high teal boots, Biana looked flawless.
"Who are you trying to impress, Biana?" Sophie sleepily snapped back, throwing back her covers and reaching for the loose black tunic she usually wore, hanging on her bedside table, which was embedded with the same amethysts and diamonds that draped from her ceiling.
Sophie watched in amusement as Biana's cheeks flushed a pretty rose-pink.
"Um.. Since when are you the love expert? Just get dressed." Biana stuttered, muttering "Oblivious" under her breath.
Wondering what she meant (A/N: SOPHIE FOSTER, HOW DO YOU STILL NOT KNOW?!) Sophie grabbed the loose black tunic, but Biana stopped her.
"You're not wearing that."
"Why no
"You look wayyy better in regular colors."
"Hey, black's a color! JUSTICE FOR BLACK!"
"SOPHIE!"
"Fine."
"Wise choice."
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"I heard what you said about black earlier," Tam whispered to Sophie as Edaline started serving cinnacream, passing it around the fancy table.
Sophie grinned at him.
"I agree." Tam said, cracking a smile.
Sophie giggled. "I know, right?"
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The shop was even more horrifying than Sophie had been imagining.
It was cute. Small, tucked in between a towering skyscraper of an office building studded with diamonds and a gigantic boutique with rubies and pink tourmalines with tons of poofy dresses.
It had animal silouhettes as well: she could make out an alicorn, a T-rex, a mammoth and a mastodon right on the spot. And it was pretty too. An assortmnt of different-colored jewels arranged in rainbow order in cheerful patterns adorned the hanging white tarp on the beautiful small building.
So why was it horrifying?
Because it was happy.
Sophie wanted to vomit from all the rainbow and cheerfulness. Her brain was not capable of handling it anymore. She just wanted to get lost in her own dreamy mind, lucid to the world around her.
Waiting for someone else to do her mistakes.
Her stupid, foolish mistakes.
They haunted her. Taunted her, might be a better word. Laughed at her from their safe havens in the past, mocking her for doing the undoable.
Sophie shook her head and covered her ears, doing a deep, long sigh. Now was not the time to let her depression act up. Nobody could know about it - if she was battling the Neverseen, she could handle a condition that only existed to her.
She realized everyone was watching her and covered her flushing cheeks, cursing Biana in her head for forcing her to wear such a bright, shiny tunic.
Tam coughed, clearly sensing her miscomfort. "Alright, show's over, let's get some mallowmelt now." He announced, snapping his slender fingers loudly.
Sophie averted her gaze to the ground, releasing her hands from her cheeks and ended up walking next to Tam, who causally bumped her arm. "Oops, my bad. Sorry." Tam said, loud enough for everyone to hear. Sophie answered with a nod.
She saw Tam's shadow stretch as he angled his body in a way that his shadow would fall over hers. That meant their shoulders had to touch though, so she pretended to be whispering a joke to him about something. He chuckled, and his shadowy voice whispered in her ear as he shadow-whispered.
"I know you're not okay, despite what you always tell us. What's wrong?"
Sophie froze.
No.
No.
This couldn't be happening.
Tam didn't have to find out. She could just lie. Pretend that she thought they could save this dark, shadowy world with vortexes sucking up the last remaining shreds of light.
"Don't lie, I want to help you. Please."
She blinked, pretending to tug out her eyelashes but really clearing the traitorous tears that had arrived, uninvited, to her soft brown eyes.
She wanted to open up.
Wanted to at least share one secret.
Get rid of one burden.
One mistake she couldn't undo.
Just one simple, "Okay."
But it wasn't that simple.
She opened her mind to his, and whispered softly into it,
"I'm fine."
A/N: Double update^^
Okay so, I know nobody reads this book but if you saw this, thanks for reading! Be sure to stick around for my next updateee!
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Fantasy"I can't. I can't pretend I'm who everyone thinks I am anymore." "Sophie, wait!" --------------------- This is my first ever fanfic, so it might be a little bad - sorry about that. This is a Sotam (Sophie Foster x Tam Song) fanfiction. ...
