a new era of me

~different~

~Adaline Rosewood~

Percy Hawthorne was an interesting boy.  He made all seem right, he liked to make Luna and I laugh.  He was funny and I had a thing for funny.

He'd do silly things just to get a smile out of us.

His eyes always tended to find their way towards mine.  He had such pretty eyes... pretty was a girl word, but it was true.

His eyes were so pretty.

He was absolutely handsome, I think I liked him.  I didn't talk much but with him and Luna, I became almost a chatterbox.

Which was something I wasn't, I kept quiet, I kept to myself.  So talking a lot was clearly something new for me.

He was so handsome.. I day dreamed about him.  About us, eventually being something.

Something beautiful.

Something beautifully mine.

Romance was something that excited me just a bit, it made me forget about my parents.

To add to that, my 'past', everything.

It made me forget about everything.

We were chatting along in the courtyard when a dark eyed boy caught my attention.  He was to himself, with a group of strange boys.  But he seemed...

Different.

I gave a small smile and returned my attention back to my friends.

I was a timid girl, truly. 

But I try my best. 

I was never truly lucky, I didn't fit in anywhere.  Not with my mother and father, not in the girls home.  Nowhere.

Luna and Percy accepted me, took me in as their own in some way.

It made me feel wanted. 

My mother made me feel wanted,

I like to blur and push away those things.

Those memories.

They stuck to me, I hated it.  I felt the pain, the embarrassment, the everything.

"I'm off! I've got to put up lost posters for my trinket collection," Luna exclaimed as she stood up, her voice was soft and melodic. 

She was so fun, many called her eccentric.

Eccentric was a fun word that I liked.

She and Percy said their goodbyes and she wandered off, skipping away.

"So, it's just you and I, Ms. Rosewood," Percy's voice held a tone of light teasing.

I nodded with a small, timid smile.  "What should we do?"  My voice was quiet, he still made me nervy.

He gave a small shrug. "We could... explore?"