The Sun and the Moon

The Sun and the Moon chapter 1

Lilli awoke in a cold sweat, her sheets tangled around her body. "The dreams are getting worse" she whispered to herself in the darkness of her small bedroom. Wiping the sweat from her brow, Lilli breathed deeply concentrating hard on ignoring the searing pain ripping through her arm. The tiny half sun permanently imprinted on her wrist was red and hurt so much she could barely bare it. Everyone was born with part of a shape on their wrist, with her parents, it had been half a star each. That's how people figured out who to love, they would have the same symbol. But Lillis was the only one in her family that ever seemed to burn. That night she had been dreaming of traveling through the a forest, so thick with vines and fog that they seemed to choke her. Lilli had a companion in the dream, although she couldn't tell by the face who it was. Lilli had been awoken by a loud beeping noise coming from the alarm clock beside her, it was 8 am and time to get ready for the day. Lilli got up and walked across the cream shag carpeted floor over to the light switch and flicked it on. She flinched as she moved her wrist, the pain was beginning to subside. Walking over to her mirror she stared at herself, her pale white skin and long dirty blonde hair tied in frizzy knots hanging down to her waist. " What am I gonna do, I'm already 18 and I still haven't found my other half." By this time in most people's lives, they'd met their soulmate, but Lilli was still searching. Slipping a baby blue v-neck t-shirt over her head and pulling up her jean shorts, she heard a knock on her door. The sweet high-pitched sappy voice of her mother rang through the door, "Sweetheart, are you up? It's time for your appointment." "I'm up mum, I'll be out in a minute" Lilli sighed. "Hurry up or your gonna be late!". Quickly shoving on a handful of mismatched bracelets and dragging a brush through her hair she was out the door and in the front seat of her mothers red SUV.