A Whole New Part of Me

Chapter 1. Dreams

This is my first real attempt at writing a book. The picture is of Cecilia btw I'm sure you knew. I hope you enjoy it!

I'm running through a forest, the wind is whipping my hair in my face and I hear shouting in the distance. An older woman leads me to this grand oak tree and the panic on her face was very visible. "Cecilia, go now, they'll be here any moment. I love you and it was an honor to teach you. This is goodbye, for now, one day we will meet again."

"Where am I going, Helena? I'm leaving my parents please come with me, I don't want to be alone!" She still looked panicked but her expression softened for a second. She looked at me with sympathy and frowned.

"You are going somewhere where you'll be safe and we'll be together again. I cannot tell you much more and you must hurry before they overtake us."

She pushed me towards the tree and instead of hitting it I fell right through it and then it was black. Then my alarm clock went off and I woke up. This dream has been recurring since I can remember. I am Cecilia Jones and I am an ordinary eighteen-year-old. I love my family and my life couldn't be more ordinary. I am a few months before graduating high school and I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life. I'm going to college a few hours away in the city like everyone does in my family. I love my family but my identity has never felt whole. My supportive, loving parents are not my biological parents. They found me in the forest nearby my house without any parents at five years old. I was in foster care for a few months before my family who heard about me being found came and adopted me.

There has never found any indication about who I was before I was found abandoned in the forest. My parents obviously cared enough to take care of me for the first five years of my life. But they didn't find anyone else in the forest but me and no indication of any accident. I wish I knew what happened even though I wouldn't trade my parents for anyone else in the world. My backstory is the reason why I can't seem to find my purpose in life. Anyway, back to the present. I woke up and got ready for school and went downstairs to the kitchen for breakfast. I make myself a nice bowl of cereal and my mom enters the kitchen to grab her coffee to go. I tell her to have a good day at school and that I love her and off she goes. My brother Jackson comes in to yell at me that we're going to be late to school. Jackson is two years younger than me and doesn't have a license yet so I'm his ride to school.

The whole ride he asks me about Prom that is coming up in a month. I wasn't very interested so I tell him the basics of my plan and leave it at that. We get to school and part ways and I'm approached by my best friend Maddie. Maddie and I discuss how much we hate our Environmental Science teacher. She is the worst and I cannot stand her. She just gives us slides and never explains anything to us. I'm currently barely passing her class because I'm so lost about what we're working on in class. Maddie has been my best friend since I was adopted and I don't know what I'm going to do without her. In a few months, we're going to be graduating and parting ways. She is moving to the other side of the country because she got into this prestigious college. I support her one hundred percent but I know we will eventually lose touch. After we go to our separate classes the day flashes by. Days seem to do this with graduation looming. At the end of the day I went to find my brother.

He informed me he's going to his friends house and he'll be home later. I tell him I love him and to be safe. Then I leave and make my way home. I greet my dog Zeus who is the best miniature schnauzer in the world. After getting my favorite snack which is sour cream and onion chips, don't judge, I decide to get some homework done. It turned out to be not that productive because Maddie calls me and I talk to her for an hour. After ditching my efforts of doing homework, I decide to give in to my Senior laziness. What better to do than homework? Walk the dog. Zeus is a rescue dog and so he never learned how to walk on a leash. We tried and he would refuse to move. So he just follows us on walks and surprisingly never strays. Until today. He decided to take me on a trip to the forest. The same forest I was found in as a child. I have not been in this forest since the day I was found. I never wanted to look for answers in this forest because I believe there is none to be found. Sure I wonder how I don't remember my life before I was adopted but I just chalk that up to being five years old.

After Zeus ran off and me chasing him for a couple blocks, I saw him enter the forest. I had no other choice. I couldn't just leave him there like I was left. I ran right into the forest after him. For a while I thought I was close to catching him until he ran into a thick patch of trees. I saw a glimpse of him and then there was the tree. This grand oak tree is like the one in my dreams. It couldn't be the same one. It looked like a carbon copy. I approached it and I felt the panic and fear that I felt in my dream. It was so surreal and I just had to touch this tree. That is when everything went black again and life got changed completely. I guess I was the one who should have stayed safe.

Thanks for sticking through it if you did. Sorry if it was boring I will try to make it longer next chapter. I should be updating soon. Thanks for reading!

-hogwartsfred