thantophobia
(n.) the fear of losing someone you love
-in which a lonely girl finds comfort in a friend she thought she lost long ago
Years ago, Aurora Potter was just a small girl, pushed away by her own brother and his friends. All she had was Dra...
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"THE POWER OF INFLUENCING A COURSE OF EVENTS THROUGH MYSTERIOUS OR SUPERNATURAL FORCES"
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26 YEARS AGO
AURORA. Her name reminded her of the old fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty. She longed more than anything to have the life of a princess. She would love to have her own kingdom and a prince. A prince who would sweep her off of her feet. She would give almost anything to get away from this orphanage.
She had been stuck here for as long as she could remember. The staff had mentioned she was brought here at merely one-year-old after her parents had died in a terrible accident. She had been staying with an uncle at the time, so she wasn't there to witness it. Not like she would have remembered either way.
The one thing that confused Aurora was why she had been given to the orphanage instead of her godparents. Did they not want her?
Well, it wasn't like the orphanage was that bad. The staff didn't dislike her. (She wasn't sure they liked her either.) And the kids didn't get too annoying most of the time. She mostly stayed in her room, on her own, most of the time.
Aurora had tried to make friends at first. She would talk to the other kids her age, and they liked her. But all of them got adopted at some point and left her. Eventually, she stopped trying. She was getting too old, and there weren't any kids her age being put into here anymore. She was able to have her own room because there wasn't anyone else to share it with. So she made the most of it. Hours every day she spent in her room, all alone, only surrounded by books.
The weird things had started happening right before her 11th birthday. She had been sick and bored. There wasn't much you could do while bedridden. The bookshelf was too far to reach without getting up. Taking inspiration from one of her favorite childhood books, she attempted to move the books with her head. Just the one she wanted to read. Surprisingly, it worked. She managed to get the book close enough to pick up without moving.
Looking back on it later, Aurora didn't believe that she actually did it. She passed it off as merely a hallucination caused by her fever. That was until a letter arrived one day.
