My Eyes Are Open

Confusion....

Hello! I'm Moira Thomas! I live an ordinary life (as normal as a homeschool life can be) with my mom, dad, older sister, and younger brother. Today was hard. I had school, but it was hard. I don't like highschool. Anyway, I just got home from a party I went to, and now I'm going to sleep.

I hear a knocking on my door and I think it's my mom, so I say, "Come in!"
It was my brother.
"Mom wants to know if you want a burger. I need you to answer pretty quickly, because dad is leaving to go get burgers here in a minute." So, of course, I said yes.

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I was feeling tired, so I decided to go to sleep after eating my burger. As I tried to go to sleep, something appeared in my room. A strange light was beaming into my room! What the heck!

Two strange men walked out of the glowing beam of light, and then started saying something. I think they were calling me by a name I had never heard of. "Valinque". What did it mean, and why were they calling me by it.

They gestured for me to go with them, but I just sat on my bed with an expression of shock. "Valinque! Valinque!" They called for me. I decided to go.

I got into their beam of death (what I'm calling it for now) and we got transported to this strange place.
"Can someone please tell me where we are?" I asked. They didn't answer.

They put me in a room and locked the door as they left. I was all alone. I just wanted to sleep, so I got on the bed and went to sleep.

I woke up, and I was in a different room. Where was I? I didn't want to think, but at the same time, I wanted to know what the heck was going on.

I looked to my left and what do I see? None other than my worst nightmare, of course. Two identical looking ladies were staring at me. I screamed. Who wouldn't? I just wanted to go home.

"Where am I?" I asked.

They gave me a funny look, and then they dragged me into this glass chamber where I got dressed in different clothing. My hair was different too! Instead of the short, brown hair I was used to, I had long, curly, neon purple hair. What was going on.

I was dressed in a form-fitting silver dress that had slits on the sides. What happened to my comfy PJ's? I thought. I was being brought to a courtroom, or so I gathered, so they could investigate me.

I was right. The courtroom was big and noisy. The judge sat down in his seat and started talking in a language I couldn't understand. He looked at me and saw that I must have been confused, so he ordered someone to put a headset on me. Suddenly I could understand what they were saying.

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"I have done a thorough investigation, and I now decree that this young lady is the heir" Said the judge. It must've been hours since I was brought to the courtroom, and I kind of zoned out through the entire thing. Heir? Heir to what? I thought. Just then, a man came up to me and placed a crown on my head.

To be continued....