My name is Cara DuBois. Pretty awful isn't it?My brother Will hates it with a passion but I love the meaning behind it;Friend of the Wood. It reminds me of the elves from J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. I would love to be able to communicate with nature like they do.Sometimes I prefer the company of nature to other people.All the kids used to tease us about our names, but that was before the incident.After that everything changed,so drastically in fact that we moved to a different country. We moved all the way from America to England. You must be wondering why I'm referring to this so calmly, I mean a 12 year old kid surely wouldn't be happy to move halfway across the world away from everything they knew? Not in my case. I was actually pretty glad to get away from that place. Everyone had tried to help after the incident but it all felt so fake, I just couldn't stand it.
When we went to England everything got better. No one knew us or what had happened to us, so no one acted any differently towards us. We both lived like ordinary kids.I couldn't believe it at first.I was so used to being singled out and treated differently because of sympathy, that I had almost forgotten what it was like to be normal.
I remember on the first day at my new school, Will walked me to the gates.Because I was the new kid AND was American, I had a swarm of kids around me almost immediately, but before I lost sight of him I remember Will gave me this look,like he was trying to tell me something. What surprised me was at the time, I didn't know what. Will and I had always been closer than other brothers and sisters. We didn't know why but we always knew what the other was thinking, even feeling sometimes! It was only later in the day that I realized what he meant. Not to let on about what had happened and to act like the average 12 year old who was several thousand kilometres away from home, disoriented and confused. I understood the first part but though I was glad to be away from my old home, I was still confused and disoriented. It seemed I wouldn't have to act that much.... Which was good 'cause I wasn't a very good actress!
You will see through this story that I would have gotten nowhere without my friends.
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I just thought that would be a good place to stop.I know it's not very long.At the moment I don't have a beta so please excuse the grammar mistakes.Constructive criticism is welcome in the comments. I hope you are enjoying the story and thank you for reading!
Nessa Greenleaf
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Tears of Home
Novela Juvenil"I never meant for this to happen." "Everything happens for a reason lassie, maybe this is your destiny." " If it is then I don't want it!" Cara DuBois just wants to be ordinary, unfortunately this doesn't look like it will be happening anytime soo...
