A Wish From the Heart (EDITING)

Chapter Three-A Dream and a Star

I woke in middle of the night. It had been just a day since I made my True Wish.  I turned over in bed, wondering what it was. My sister would say my wish was world peace, for dragons and elves, my mother probably thought it was something fantastical, because my head was always in the clouds. My father would think the same as her, because they had a special link, and always thought the same things. I sighed. I would never be able to sleep with my mind this full of thoughts. I got up, slipped on my clothes from the day before, and tiptoed down the the garden.

The garden was the most beautiful thing in the village, winding its way around the house. It was lined with tulips and roses, and Ma had also planted daffodils, primroses, and foxgloves. I could see some seeds in the shed, for my mother considered the garden incomplete. I sat on a bench by the small pond filled with goldfish, and looked up at the stars. They were beautiful, as beautiful as the garden I was sitting in, and were as bright as the sun, dotting the night sky like diamonds on a silk dress. I began to make my way to the house, comforted by the stars, when a red ball shot across the sky, leaving a blood trail behind. I laughed, and followed it for a way, before making a wish. It was a shooting star, after all. As I whispered the words, I began to wonder what to wish for. I had just made a True Wish, would this wish be in effect? Deciding to take a chance, I stepped up on a stone and whispered my wish.
"I wish, I wish on that star, shooting across the sky, for me to discover magic and train in the academy, as so many elves have done before me, but some have not." Then I noticed Fleur, the girl who hadn't been in her mother's shop that afternoon. She was staring at me, looking slightly confused as to why I was whispering to a star. I stepped down from the stone and walked inside briskly, my eyes going a lighter blue, as they always did when I was embarrassed. How could I have been so silly? Ma had said that I was too old for this wishing. The only wish I was making was my True Wish, and I hadn't listened and made myself look an idiot. I still tiptoed on the stairs, but I wanted to stamp my feet.

Back in my bed, I wondered again. I wondered what my dream was, when I was older. Who did I want to be? Avie wanted to continue her family business, as did Fleur. In fact, most girls wanted to. Either work in a shop or be a housewife. But I wanted adventure and fame. I wanted to be myself, travelling around the world, not stuck cleaning houses. If only I had magic, if only I could get into the Academy...
That was certainly my dream.