Wings

Right

  After dealing with those little boys,more like monsters, I walked faith back  to her room. I decided to go back to my room and take another shower. Apparently playing with Faith got me all sweaty.

  I got into the shower and started to clean myself with my Strawberry scented shampoo and body wash.

  When I got out and walk into my room, I saw my mom sitting on my bed reading a newspaper. Hey what can i say, just because were angels doesn't mean we don't do

human things.

Mom didn't seem to notice i was out were so I made a coughing sound.

  " Oh Rose, come on, its time to get you ready." she said trying to get the excitement out her voice. I knew my mom was excited. Hell, she was more excited than I was for myself.

 

  When I was all primed and proper, I turned around to examine  myself in the mirror. I gasped. There looking in the mirror was a stranger. I looked so different, I could barely recognize myself.

    

My black hair was pinned on the sides letting my black curls fall on my back. I had a diamond rose hair pin on my right side of my hair. I had a shade of silver eyeshadow on my eyelids with a light line of eyeliner, some mascara on my already thick eyelashes to make my green eyes pop out.  My usually full pink lips were a light tint of a blood red, but what really had me going gaga over myself was my outfit.

   I had on a pure white strapless dress that went to my knees. The upper part of my dress was heart shaped. The dress was like a second skin. It showed all my curves in the right way. When I looked down, I saw that I was in silver wedges. They had a small rose on the side of them. All in all I looked stunning. I felt a new wave of confidence come over me, and couldn't help but smile ear to ear.

    I looked up to thank my mother but was shocked to see that she was already gone. I walked out the room to find her outside waiting for me. 

"Come on Rose, we have to go."

As we walked to the garage, Faith pop out from the door with Lucy, her babysitter.

  "Mommy can I please go with you and Ro, I promise I will be quiet." She asked timidly. Giving me and mom her signature  puppy eyes.

  "Now Faith, you know I can not let you go. The Counsel has made it very clear that children who are not in the celebration are not to come. You know the rules." Mom said making sure her voice was stern and not wavering. Poor Faith looked sad as she walk back in the house with Lucy hot on her trail.

  After that, Mom got in her Cream colored Chrysler 300, I got straight into my baby. My black 1960's Mustang. It has two white stripes in the middle and i love it. As my mom rolled out of the garage, I quickly followed right behind her. We drove  for an hour until we finally got to our destination. I parked the car at the edge of the road and got out. I looked around in awe. The place was beautiful.

    A big meadow was there with lots of blues and red color flowers. What really caught my attention was the standing up stones in the middle.  As I came closer, they seemed to make some type of circle around one big stone laying flat.

   I scanned around to see the other children who were also part of the Ceremony. There were only Five of us. Two girls including me and three guys. When we all checked out each other, we looked into each others eyes. In those eyes i saw happiness and a little bit of fear hidden in them. Before i could tell them there's nothing to fear, the counsel elders came out.

  "Hello my children, it is time for to celebrate your coming of age. Today will be the start of your angel duties. Which will be assigned to you by how pure your wings are. Your wings will be determined by your inner self. Without further a do,  lets begging." Said Xavier, the head elder.

   Each elder took there places around each stone except for the middle one. That was meant for us yo stand on.Kelsi, the other girl went first. She walked over and stood on top of the stone. As she closed her eyes the counsel members started chanting. As the last chant was said, Kelsi then started to shake. In exactly 10 minutes Kelsi wings slowly came out of her back. She gently unfurled them out and was welcomed with some "ahhs" and "wows".  Her wings were magnificent. There were the whitest white i ever seen with a hint of silver. I was completely in awe. I hoped my wings were like that.

   As soon as people got quiet she launched up in the sky, giving her wings a try. A few minutes later she came back down to tell the group how it was.

After our little chat, the counsel elders picked another candidate and performed the same ritual. Candidate after Candidate went, leaving me more alone. Finally it was my turn.

   As I stepped on the stone timidly and closed my eyes, I could hear the elders start to chant. After the last word flew out, I became completely and otherly in pain. I start to shake violently but thank god its only for a couple of minutes. When I stop shaking, i couldn't stop the smile that came upon my face. I could finally feel my wings on my back. As I unconsciously unfurled them, all i could here in the back ground were "ahhhhhh!!" and , "What the hell".

My face turned to happiness to otherly confusion. I turned around to find that instead of the white, silvery wings Kelsi got, were wings as black as a raven feather.

     I scanned over the counsel  faces to see confusion, horror and disgust  in their eyes. I quickly turned to my mom in the crowd of people and saw many emotions in her eyes, but the two that stood out were hatred and fear.

Before I knew it, I was flying away in the air with tears running down my face. I didn't know where I was going, but I know one thing was for sure. 

   Those boys were absolutely right.