I sit up and rub my eyes, my alarm clock beeping. Then it hits me. October ninth. I feel tears threatening, and try to push them back. My efforts are in vain. Tears stream down my face. I look at the little box on the top of my wardrobe. I walk past my spectral mirror, Sabrina on the way to the shelf.
Sabrina appeared in the corner as I walked past. She looks about 15 appears wearing a teal strapless dress. "No way Ivy! You said you weren't gonna do it ever again!" Sabrina exclaimed.
I look at her, consider, and nod. I slump onto my bed. "I'll be back for you soon? Four years isn't soon!" I say.
"Let's just get you ready for the day. Go wash your hair," She smiles at me. Sabrina may be a piece of technology, but she is still the only friend I have. I nod again and go to take a shower.
Five minutes later, I stop the water and drape a towel around myself. I walk to my closet and change into my Foxfire uniform. I grab my cloak, then look at my three pins. The song pin, a lark with an open beak and spread wings, and the Nightlander pin, my mother's pin, a wolf howling at the moon, and my personal pin. This is the pin I have been using for three years. For the first year of being a Song, I truly believed my Mother was coming, so I wore her pin, but she didn't. Then I made my own pin, and now I use that, even though every day I tell myself maybe, just maybe I'll wear the Song pin. I never do. My pin has a black cat, jumping across its surface, over a glacier, to show my ability, Froster.
I slide my pin into the cloth and look at the mirror. "See you after another day of torture," I say to Sabrina, and then I'm out the bedroom door, ready for my first interaction with Mr. and Mrs. Song for the day.
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In the Shadows of the Shadow Twins
Fiksi PenggemarFor four years Ivy has struggled to make sure she never reminds her "parents" of her older cousins. Each day Ivy can only hope her new guardians won't see Lihn and Tam when they look at her. Of course, a part of her knows that's all they'll ever se...
