A Match made in Heaven

Chapter 1

I poke at the mush on my plate. I've been awfully quite all day and my friends are starting to notice.

"You okay Foster?", Keefe squints, "You're normally much louder."

"Yeah, I just don't really feel to great."
I looksl down at my plate, effectively avoiding the different looks everyone's giving me.

I've had to suffer through faking that I'm enjoying it whenever Bianca and Linh talk about their scrolls, which will be coming any day now, while I'm still trying to figure out what to do.

I haven't told them that I don't want to get my scroll. It's only partially a lie; I never really wanted to get my scroll. But I also couldn't. Who knew having no biological parents would make such a difference?  I don't know why I'm so freaked out about it, but I am. Maybe it's to do with the fact that Fitz seemed even more excited about the scrolls than Biana? And especially about mine?

I'm shaken out of the mess that are my emotions by the blaring sound of a bell.

I hurry off to class before anyone else can talk to me. I know we're going to have to talk just...not right now.

After school we all go to Everglen. Grady and Emmeline are going on a trip to look for some unnamed creature and wanted someone to look after me.

And in true Biana fashion, it's turned into a huge deal. Not that I mind, but today also happens to be the day that everyone gets their scrolls.

It's only a matter of time before they figure out why I was so on edge the entire day.

So I'm sitting here, watching as everyone opens their scrolls and hoping they don't realize I don't have one.

"Hey Soph, didn't you get a scroll?"
I look at Dex and take a deep breath.

"I didn't want one."
A couple people (Tam and Linh) shrug their shoulders and go back to reading the scroll, and a bunch more just answer with things along the lines of "I figured".

Fitz was the only one who really said anything that concerned me.
"I was hoping to see you on my scroll."
He frowned and looked down. And when it comes to Fitz that's a bad sign.

Keefe had obviously caught on; as he did some ridiculous gesture that revolved around his head, the part that worried me is that I understood.

Do the weird thing with your head.

Okay. Let's see how this goes.