Fey Academy

Chapter 1

I’m in a car with, silently thinking to myself why am I in this car? I can't remeber. Most people remeber why they get in cars don't them? I look to see who is in the car with me. It's my family. My family consists of only my mother and father. We are going out to dinner at a local pizza parlor. This I somehow know. A family tradition for us to go every Friday, and if we can’t go out we order in. I am telling my parents about my day, but at the same time I’m not. It’s like I know I’m telling them about school, I just don’t know the details of what I saying. This must be a dream. Our conversation dyes out and I start to look out the window. It’s a bright day, and the sun is shining cheerfully. It’s not too windy out either, but there is a breeze. I smile. You should always smile on a nice day. This will make your day and everyone else’s day better.

A voice keeps telling me that I should look ahead but don’t want to turn my head. I’m watching something. It’s beautiful. I don’t know what it but it dances in the sun. Maybe on the sunlight would be a better description. It looks other worldly. All cute and fluttery, in the light, maybe it’s a dandy lion, or a different type of flower. I can’t figure out what it is. Flower seems most logical, but it’s the most magical flower I’ve ever seen. Oh, but I don’t care what it is, I just want to continue watching it forever. I hope no one distracts me.

The car suddenly swerves. A voice in the back of my head that tells me to look forward is even louder now. Liz, it screams, don’t me a fool, and look at your parents. They are in danger. I start to resist it. I don’t want to look ahead. This is a free country. Imaginary voices don’t have any power over me. The voice continues to scream at me. It sound strange, but I can’t pinpoint it. Why does it sound so strange? It suddenly hits me, this is my voice. It’s trying to tell me something. I should listen to my own voice. I try to tear my eyes away from the sunlight. They won’t move. I try again, and again. Why can’t I look away? What’s going to happen to my parents? I start to panic. My fingers tighten around the window frame.

Please let me wake up. This is a dream, right, so I can wake up and this can all be over. I beg the voice. I don’t want to see what happens to my parents. I want to wake up. Please. My voice talks again, but you already know what happens to them.

At that moment the car crashes. I fell it do so in slow motion. First the nose of the car hits the tree then my eyes finally look ahead. I see my parents. They get hit with the newly broken glass of the wind shield. The cars back lifts of the ground for a second then falls. My body bounces with it. I can’t think right now, my mind is blank. I think I hear me parents screaming. I think I’m screaming too. A light buzzing sound is in my head. It starts to get louder very quickly and after only a minute it’s a pounding head ache. 

Welcome to Fey Academy. If this is your stop please excite through the door to your left. This voice isn’t mine. Whose is it? It sounds electronic. Then my head ache goes away, and the dream is over. Slowly the car scene fades away and my vision comes back. It takes me some time but I can see that I’m in a train. I think about what is happening for a second. I’m going to Fey Academy, my new guardian’s school.

I get up slowly, and reach for my bags overhead. I don’t have many clothes. Most of them reminded me of my mother and when I went shopping with her to get them. Dragging them behind me I get off the train. All that I can see is a train station, and woods. My new guardian told me about this town so I know that the only thing in it is this station and the Academy. This is going to be a long walk. I can see the Academy in the distant mountains, and that’s far away. Taking a deep breath, I walk forward. 

I start to think about my dream as I walk up the path. Now that my mind is clear, I’ll be able to think about it clearer. Why couldn’t I look away? What was it that kept me so preoccupied that I didn’t notice the crash until it had happened. I don’t even know why we crashed. My head ache comes back as I try to think harder about it. Then it becomes too much. I can’t think about it anymore or I will break down on this path. I single tear slides down my cheek. “I’m sorry Mommy, Daddy.” I say out loud. 

I have to calm down. I can’t go to this school looking like a mess. Breathe, in out in out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, everything will be fine. My urge to cry diminishes and my heart rate slows. This is the way to go. Slowly, there is no reason to rush. 

It takes a while and by the time I am done I am at the Academy. My breathing is now labored. I never had been a sporty girl, and that had to be at least 3 miles. I look up to see the place where I will soon be living in. It is huge, and looks like it came out of a fairy tale. The entrance is blocked by a cast iron gate, with intricate swirls, and surrounded by brick wall. I look inside the gate and there is an opening, big enough to be its own park. It has stone sidewalks, and perfectly mowed lawn where there isn’t any. Trees and benches are scattered everywhere impeccable, and it’s all symmetrical. I slowly raise my eyes to see what magnificent building that can match the gate and lawn I have seen already. My words can’t even describe it, without doing in injustice. I am lost for words.

I turn my head from side to side to see if there is anything I missed. I spot a girl, the only one out here. The other students must be in class right now. It would make sense. I look at my watch. It’s almost 10:50. I make my way over to the girl. She spots me too, and is waving and jumping up and down. I can tell I like her already. She is petit, and has shoulder length brown hair that bounces with her. Her eyes are brown and they sparkle with excitement. I think her smile is the biggest one I have every sees, I almost brings a smile to my own face, but I don’t smile anymore.

When I get about five feet away from her she cups her hands around her mouth, breathes in, and screams, “YOU MUST BE LIZZ! MY NAME IS TRISH. I AM YOUR ROOM MATE.”