"Olivia?" A familiar voice asked early in the morning. "What are you doing? You're soaking wet. C'mon, get inside," Tessa shouted and returned with a soft towel and draped it around her scrawny shoulders.
"I ran away," Olivia admitted with a small sob. "I've been here since last night in the pouring rain but you weren't home!"
"Oh, Livi . . ." Tessa brought her to the fireplace and carefully lit a match and threw it in. Olivia shivered at the heat. "Are you okay?"
Olivia didn't say anything as she let the heat tickle her skin. She kept her eyes on the flame, slowly leaning closer and closer until she was pulled back abruptly by Tessa.
"What has gotten into you?" Tessa screamed. "Your face should be burned off." Tessa examined her closest friend's face which seemed clear and unharmed.
The adults rushed into the room. "Who got murdered?" They both asked at the same time. Casey released a breath when neither of her children was harmed. Both sat down next to Tessa and offered warm smiles and hot cocoa in the middle of spring. Tessa didn't tell her parents about the fire incident. She simply just strangled her friend with an everlasting hug and sweet words.
Olivia kept her eyes on the fire, watching as it grew and died over and over until it was just a small little spark. She was tempted to throw herself into the fire and warm up there. But instead, she settled for hovering next to the dying spark.
Tessa led Olivia to her bedroom. It was on the first floor right next to the kitchen. Every child's dream bedroom spot. Her room was a light blue with a collage wall where her bed was pushed against. A large window gave more than enough light to illuminate the room. The two sat on Tessa's bed in comfortable silence for an hour, stopping when Casey came into the room with a glittery smile.
"You're going to meet the family!"
Olivia blinked several times before her vision finally cleared, but she was blinded again but a large golden gate absorbing more light seemed to blind her again. Casey and Tessa leaped the girl from their human home to one of Tessa's aunts and uncles' house.
"Welcome Olivia, to Everglen," Tessa announced with pride.
"This place is big and bright and has too many floors," Olivia noted after she shadowed her eyes with her hands to look at what Tessa was talking about. Olivia had never trusted anyone with more than four floors in their house, including the attic.
Though Everglen was more of a castle than a house. It was blocked with a large golden gate that looked to absorb all the light and making it mostly impossible to see without sunglasses.
"Aunt Casey!" A boy shouted from the opposite side of the glittering gates. He was quick to swing a gate open and give Tessa and Casey a hug.
On the other side of the gate was a beautiful girl around the age of twelve with shoulder-length honey-blonde hair. She was facing away from Olivia so she couldn't get a good look at her face but she did not doubt that the blonde was beautiful. The boy was a few years older—fourteen possibly fifteen. He had chocolate brown hair with an unusual pair of teal eyes.
The boy snickered at Tessa. "What are you wearing?"
"It's the school uniform I have to wear in the human world," Tessa replied calmly.
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Project Swan -- kotlc
Fanfiction[kotlc x oc] Olivia Phantom was different, she knew that. But even dragged into a world where she hoped she would finally fit-in, she only found herself surrounded my chaos.
