“Are you sure you are going to be fine?” asked Mayra with concern to her seventeen year old daughter who was sitting backseat with her. Aaron had already escaped this awkward situation by stepping out of the car after whispering good luck to his sister and his reward was a glare from Alyson.
Alyson sighed, trying her best not to roll her eyes. “Mum, I am in a good condition to go to school.”
Alyson’s blue eyes met with Mayra brown eyes. Seeing her confident and not going to back off attitude, Mayra sighed and gave up in asking her to stay at home.
A few months ago during the summer holiday, the whole family went to an island named ‘Flaunting Island’, an Island that deserved the word flaunting. It was supposed to be a fun and trilling trip but an accident happened during their last day there. Alyson fell from a cliff and a search was put up to find her.
By the time they found her, she was unconscious and that was three days after the accident. What astonished everyone was that there were no wounds to be found in her body, not a scratch. Anyone that fell like she did and survived will not escape the fate of heavy wounds but she miraculously survived the fall without a wound, nor a scratch. This accident had caused Mayra to be over protective and over worried about her daughter.
“Mum, I am fine.” Alyson clasped her Mayra’s hand and once again comforted her.
“But if you feel sick…”
“I will call Adam to come and pick me up. I know mum. You said this thousands times already.”
Mayra sighed, sent Alyson’s off and ordered Adam, the chauffeur, to head back home. Alyson stared at the big sign bearing the words ‘Hilly High School’ for a moment and went into the huge, white building.
“What a silly name.” she murmured to herself.
“Aly!”
A familiar calling made Alyson (aka Aly) turned her head around and searched for the source of the calling. Her gaze stopped at a familiar face who was smiling, until a few girls surrounded her. Melody was her name, Alyson’s best friend. Seems like the princess, Grace and her attendant, Amy were looking for some fun and Melody had become their target.
With a frown, she quickly moved around the crowd to help me best friend but with some difficulty until the crowd stopped moving and looked at one direction, where the princess and her attendant stood. They were waiting for the show to start. No one stood up to Melody, not even one person.
Why did they not help? Quite a few answers can be given. First answer, Grace’s father, Tom Heaton was a politician. Second answer, Grace’s mother, Rebecca Heaton is the principal of this school. Third answer, Grace is quite a hot girl. Fourth answer, she is the princess in the school because of her mother. But this did not stop Alyson from doing what she will be doing.
Alyson walked to them, annoyed with their childish act and the silent act of the crowd. She pushed the attendant aside and stood in front of the queen, calmly staring at her striking blue eyes.
“Good morning Miss Heaton, what’s with the morning entertainment you are holding right now?” Alyson said with a calm posture.
You would not know that right know she was boiling with anger, judging with her calm attitude. Grace and her blond hair attendant, Amy, snickered when they saw that the intruder was no one but Alyson.
“Oh my. Look who is coming to your rescue Melody, the damsel in distress. It’s your friend Alyson, the one who is filled with braveness and with the sense of justice.”
Grace mocking caused quite a commotion. Most laughed after hearing the queen’s comment but it can be sense that they were laughing half-heartily. They wanted to get over this and went back to their routine. Some snickered, some with the look of boredom and some with the look of sympathy. But still, no one stood up to the queen, no matter how much they wanted to see the end of this silly game.
Melody flushed and was about to burst with tears. This fueled up Alyson’s anger and her endurance finally snapped.
“Aren’t you tired of this already? How many times have you done this? Would you just stop bothering everyone and do some justice!”
Alyson’s blew up and snapped at the queen. The princess and her attendant flinched at Alyson’s remark. They noticed that the crowd has the looks of boredom, most agreeing on Alyson’s remark. The threesome sensed that the crowd wanted this show to end and they did not like the looks that were given by the crowd to them.
“Grace, let’s go.” Amy tugged Grace’s T-shirt. Grace left after glaring at Alyson. The princess retreat was booed by the crowd. In the end, the one getting embarrassed was them instead of Melody.
The crowd went back to their usual routine, talking or getting things out from their locker. Some gave Alyson and Melody a pat on their back. Some smiled and commented on Alyson’s braveness. Melody gave Alyson a tight hug and thanked her for saving her out of that mess.
“You know what Mel (aka melody), she so do not deserve the name Grace. She should be named ‘Min’ which sounds like the word ‘mean’ instead of the name ‘Grace’.”
Melody laughed after hearing Alyson’s statement. During their Geography lesson, papers of advertisement were given out by their geography teacher, Miss Thatcher. On the paper, it was about a trip to an island named ‘Flaunting’.
“I set up this trip is because I want you to see the nature of earth and ‘Flaunting Island’ is the best selection. The trip will be held a week later and those who wanted to join this trip please signed up for it and get the permission paper from me. Don’t worry; the expenditure will be on the school.”
The whole class cheered after hearing the last word that they will not be paying to go to the island. Questions concerning the trip were fired by the students during the lesson.
During lunch break, Alyson sat with Melody at their four seated table, waiting for Mei Lin to come. She had a morning appointment with the dentist and will be here during lunch time. Within moments, she was sighted by Melody and she came to their table and sat down.
“Lin, are you interested?” Melody playfully swung the paper about the trip to the island in front of Lin’s face. She grabbed the paper and read it.
“You go, I follow.” was what she said. Lin liked to act cool sometimes but actually she is a warm girl. She has short black hair and eyes of hazel colored. She is an Asian.
“Then it is settled,” said Melody with excitement.
“Objection, why didn’t you ask for my opinion?” Alyson raised her hand to let Melody to know that the discussion is not yet settled.
“Okay then. Let’s hear you out,” Melody stared at Alyson.
“I went there before so…”
Melody cut her off before Alyson finished her sentence.
“No rich girl, I know you went there before but you must go again.”
“Give me a good reason why I must go?” Alyson dared Melody to give her a reason.
“Because you must go back there,” Melody said solemnly.
Her solemn told Alyson that she was not playing about this. “You puzzled me Mel. What do you mean by I must go back there?”
Then next moment, Melody humorously said, “you must go back there because we are going and you must go with us for we are the three musketeers. Also since you went there before you must know there quite well.”
“I can never say no to her.” Alyson sighed and gave in to Melody, who happily squeezed Alyson up and will not let go until Alyson complaint that she can’t breathe.
They didn’t noticed that Melody was trying to cover her solemn by humoring. She came from a family of witches and warlock, which made her a witch. She was trained by her grandmother to use her talent ever since she was a child.
She was told that a few possessed such power in the family and Melody was one of the lucky one to possess such power but to her it was more like a curse. The experiences of meeting up ghosts, seeing a person’s future and some others terrified her.
Yesterday night, she wanted to read Alyson’s future. She was still a newbie in tarot cards and so far she could only make out that Alyson must go back there. She wanted to ask her grandma’s help but unfortunately her grandma, Maria, went to visit her friend and will not be back for a month.
Such a good timing that made Melody felt that this may not be coincidence. It was no coincidence that made her observed Alyson’s future. A strange feeling made her do that, like her inner self made her do it. What is going to happen?
