Chapter 1: A Necklace
"Immie?" A voice called but I was too busy soaring over the oaks and pine trees, light as a feather, a crisp wind blowing me slightly off course, a-
"IMMIE!?"
I shot up from the daydream and everything on my desk fell off. A round of laughter erupted and my face burned.
"Yes Mrs. Green?" I said not meeting her eyes as I placed my English books back on my desk.
"Are you sick? Do you need to go to the nurse's office?"
"No, I'm fine."
"Then you shouldn't be sleeping in my class." I blinked to keep tears away. I hated it when adults were mad at me. A few boys a row away from me were still laughing when Mrs. Green slammed on their desks.
"This is no longer sixth grade people! I will not tolerate any more of this. Josh, Andrew," she pointed at the two loudest laughers. "You have detention with me Wednesday, Is that clear?"
"What about Immie? She's the one who was sleeping!"
"Imelda has a higher average in this class then you two combined."
Ouch, I thought.
"Imelda, you're on warning from now on, understand?" I nodded vigorously hoping to just get her attention far away from me.
"Now," she said moving back to the blackboard, "About those prepositions…."
English class was last period so I met my friend, Emily, in the hallway. We barely spoke with each other lately, even though we'd been friends since the first grade. I'd started hanging out with my other friend, Lana and my neighbor, an annoying kid named Thomas. Emily really hated Lana, though I didn't understand why. It was hard to hang out with them together so I'd started hanging with Lana more. It was bothering me but it was middle school, everything was changing.
"So Immie?" Emily said as she walked in step with me, "I've caught hold of a rumor that you dozed off in English class."
I groaned as I put in my combination. "It's not like I tried to d it, I'm just wicked tired today."
"Did you stay up late reading again?"
"No, I had this weird dream and I-"I stopped and thought about what I'd say. "I don't know. It was embarrassing."
"They say dreams are the windows to the soul." I gave her a look and I pulled on my jacket and backpack.
"Ok, fine, anyways if you do feel like staying up all night reading, I have this perfect book for you. It's kind of elementary but it's totally something we'd-"
"Hey Immie, ready to go?" Lana came up to me, her backpack full of textbooks. It was only a month into the school year but, the teachers gave us enough homework to fill all our time after school.
"Yea, coming." I slammed my locker shut and kicked it just for good measure. "See ya Em! Tell me about the book on email!" I walked away chatting about the math assignment with Lana. I never looked back.
Since it was Wednesday, when I got home we visited my dad's parent's house. My entire family goes there every Wednesday. Frankly I didn't really enjoy that side of my family so I never looked forward to Wednesdays. The adults treated me like I was six and always wanted me out of the room when they talked about recent news. I was "too young" according to them. So, usually I just sat in the dining room and did my homework while they talked. Tonight I was doing math.
If you took πr2 and plugged in r, the answer would be -4π. Wait….no….when you square a negative you always get a positive.
A soft scuttling sound interrupted my thoughts. My aunt Mary stood in the doorframe. She held a small box in her hand.
"Am I interrupting anything?" Yea, math homework, I thought but instead said, "Nope, what's up?"
"I just found this at a craft store awhile ago and I thought you'd like it. It may be too hard…" She put the box on the table. It was a necklace kit. I saw a fancy clasp I hadn't used before. This challenge was new…
"Thanks!" I said as she walked out of the room. I immediately put aside my math homework.
The necklace was actually very simple. I just strung the blue misshapen pearls on a wire then threaded it through the clasp. While I was threading I thought about my dream and how weird it was. I could still picture it clearly in my mind which was weird for me because usually my dreams would melt away all memory forgotten. As I was finishing and clipping the ends of the wire I realized that the other people in my dream had had wings also. I chuckled somewhat nervously and put on the necklace, pleased with the outcome. Then, I gathered my things and left the room to ask my parents if we could leave, I needed some sleep.
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