Reyna Academy

Alena: Excitement

She was here! Reyna Academy! Alena was so excited. She started bouncing up and down eagerly. She felt people staring. Why were people staring? Oops! She left her wings out. Alena retracted them quickly. The magical fabric of her fairy robe closed up the slits where her wings had been. She knew that people were still staring at her pointed ears and lavender robe. These clearly marked her as a fairy. Fairy robes were given to a fairy, along with her wand when she reached full magical maturity. The material was made so that as a fairy put it on it would magically open to allow her wings to go through then settle so that there were slits in the back, perfectly fit for their wings. Fairies could retract their wings and were encouraged to do so in front of humans, but in their own realm leaving your wings out was much easier but everyone had to wear open backed dresses be use trying to fit your wings through slits was just a hassle. The robes covered your back and the day that a fairy got hers as the proudest of their life, up there with becoming a mother.

Alena had just received hers last month. She had been the last one in her class to earn it. She was also the tiniest in her class. Alena had always been behind in everything and everyone in the Fairy Realm. She was always the smallest, the least graceful, the least polished, and the worst in her classy she worked really hard and her teachers had often commended her positive attitude, but it was never enough. She was still behind everyone. This had always been embarrassing because her mother was one of the most well known in all the realms. She was the Good Fairy. Not just a good fairy...THE Good Fairy. The one who had saved Princess Susanna, now Queen Susanna from the death curse at her birth. The one who had made it so she only slept for one hundred years until her true love woke her up. Her mother was THAT FAIRY! People had high expectations for her. Even though her mother never put pressure on her, Alena still felt it.

Alena took a deep breath and fixed a bright smile on her face. Everything was going to change now! She was at Reyna Academy! She had been one of the five young fairies who had been selected to come and represent their realm. Fortunately three of the other four were her very good friends. Azura, Maia, and Lilybell were her best friends. They had been very excited when they found out that Alena had gotten the letter as well. The other fairy was Faye. Alena didn't know Faye very well at all. She knew that she was the best in their class. She knew that some of her friends had teased and bullied her, but Faye had never said anything to or about Alena. She had never really acknowledged Alena's existence. It was like, in Faye's world, Alena didn't exist.

There was Faye now. She had remembered to retract her wings. Her short, light brown hair was very curly and she seems to be studying her surroundings. She was wearing a simple magenta dress under her light blue fairy robe. Faye had been the first one in the class receive her robe and wand. Alena had always thought that she and Faye could be great friends if they ever tried. She remembered wishing that Faye was her friend when she was no bigger than a pixie. Faye had always been the best at magic and maybe she could help Alena. She also knew what it was like to have to live up to expectations. Her mother was THE Fairy Godmother. Cinderella's Fairy Godmother and one of the best and most famous fairy godmothers in godmother history, along with Alena's mother. Faye could understand the pressure Alena was under, because she got the same pressure. However, despite Alena's best efforts, Faye was oblivious to her.

"ALENA! HEY OVER HERE!" Alena smiled. Faye may not know she existed, but at least Alena had other friends. She looked over in the direction she was being called. There they were, waiting for her. The three girls all had on their Fairy robes. The one on the right had red hair pulled up into a ponytail (but tendrils still hung in her face) and wore a slightly translucent gold robe over a green dress. The one on the left had startling light blue, wavy hair (Alena knew it was her natural hair color) under a flower garland and wore a sky blue dress and baby blue translucent robe. The middle girl was the one that had called Alena. She had blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail and a solid pink robe over a plum dress. Maia, Azura, and Lilybell. Alena ran over to them and hugged them.