Shining Over Darkness

Prologue

It's that time of year when winter is becoming spring, flowers are blooming over night and animals are coming out of hibernation, it's Lily's favorite part of the year. She walks out of her treehouse-she slept there over night-and the chilly breeze hit her dead in the face. It was still dark but Lily knew morning would arise soon. She could tell from the light gray sky.

She set off to her house to get breakfast, hoping her mother made it this morning. Of course, there at the door was her mom about hit the road for work. Her dad had already left, the're both busy parents. Her mom works as a therapist and her dad works for the government, she is unsure what exactly he works as though. Lily stays home for the most part as her parents are at work.

"Mom, did you make breakfast?" Lily asks, hoping for a yes. Lily already knew the answer before her mom even responded, it was obvious.

"Sweetie, you know I have to get to work, I don't have time to do any of that rubbish. Go inside and make a bowl of cereal." She kissed Lily on the forehead for as long as two seconds and then said,"I'll be gone for awhile, stay in the house. I love you!"

"I love you too." Lily mumbled under her breath. She hates the way she never gets to see her parents, they work all year around. She gets lonely too, knowing she's the only child and that there is no way her parents would ever have another kid, other than the four year old across the street.

She goes inside until her mom is out of sight. Her parents don't like her outside when the're not home, which they never are anyway, "you could get kiddnaped" they say, "If something happens, we won't be here to protect you". These words played consently in her head like the non-stop waves of the ocean.

When her mom finally left, Lily decided between making a bow and arrows out of sticks, or going outside, like she normally would do. She hatched a brilliant idea, she can just make them inside her tree house. You're probably thinking,'I thought you said she wasn't aloud to go out when her parents aren't home' but she still goes for some reason. She knows she'll never go outside if she obeyed her mother's rules, and that wasn't going to happen.

She raced to all of the supplies in her room and quickly grabbed them. She grabbed the hot glue gun Out of her wooden drawer, sticks she washed a few days ago, and paint to make them look beautiful.

Out of the window, she saw the sun just barley peeking over the horizon, she thought it was beautiful, especially because the sunrise always comes from the pond in there backyard. She hurried even faster, she did not want to miss one of her favorite part of the day.

She abandoned the supplies without thinking, she had never missed a day of seeing the sunrise since she was three, and she wanted to keep it that way.

Her bare feet ran out of the huge house and ended at the edge of the pond. It was always muddy at the collision of the pond and land, that 's what she loved about the backyard. Her feet soaked in the mud as the sun came out and greeted her a good day.

Lily was always connected with nature. Here real name, Ilana, means "tree", but she likes Lily better, because it's a flower, and it means pure. Lily feels like she could save a lot of wild life when she growe up, maybe even be a veterinarian, but her parents say she needs a better job and she won't make a good profit by having a job like that.

Lily picks up a toad that was randomly in front of her and stroked its back lightly. It was still early in the season so Lily was suprized to see the toad outside. He was really small, he must have just turned into a toad from a tadpole very quick. "Teich!" Lily claims, that was the name of the toad.

The sunrise was over after a few minutes of siting in the mud. All of the colors in the sky faded into blue and as Lily was about to let the frog go,she felt something wet on her hands. "Damn it, Teich!" She sighed "you peed on me!" She saw red liquid coming out of his stomach. Why was it bleeding? That must have been what she felt.

Lily gave a huge gasp, from sitting on a rock by the pond, she stood up and sprinted to the tree house with the frog inside her hands. She says she trains for something like this, but honestly, she didn't know what to do, until the light bulb in her head popped out over her honey blonde curls. She needs a leaf and some tape.

She reached over the window brim and plucked a leaf off the rutted tree branch. The odor of the leaf smelled like maple, in which she believes that her tree house was made between a maple tree and an apple tree.

It's a good thing Lily keeps tape in her craft box, she grabs it quickly so Teich doesn't hop away, if he even can. Lily quickly bandages him up and she realised him back in the wild. She knew when he got older and out-grew the leaf, his stomach would be healed.

Lily was putting her tape away and closing her window when her phone rang. It was her mom.

"Hello?" Lily's mom asked to see if she was there.

"Hey mom, what do you need? I'm busy!" Lily rolled her eyes. She was kind of rude to her mom because even when her mom gets a day off, she spends it on herself. Her dad is the opposite though.

"Look, I know we don't spend time together much, but I found a spot for you to help me. There is a girl your age and needs a friend"

"Fine." She ended the call swiftly and put her phone down. She didn't want to show her mother how anxious she was feeling about therapy. She feels that she could actually accomplish helping a future friend in need and that her future friend would be joyful once more.

She grabbed a flower that she had been growing and placed it on her desk. She started sketching the flower in front of her and started thinking, maybe she could actually have a friend, not just the wild life.