Lyra's POV
Hi. My name is Lyra Jett, an ordinary fourteen year old with ADHD and
dyslexia.
Fine, not that ordinary.
I have straight chocolate brown hair that falls a little past my
shoulders (but it's always tied up) and blue eyes that my friends said
looked like they sparked when I'm angry. I have an impish look to my
features I guess and I'm a little short for my age, but only by an
inch! I like wearing casual clothes and converse sneakers. My
personality is built on sarcasm and I am VERY random.
Anyway, enough about me. Let's go back to where it all started. My
mom. My mom was alright I guess, pretty and blonde. I look nothing
like her at all. Sometimes, I even wonder if I'm adopted. You see, my
mom's the famous T.V actress, Sabrina Jett. She acts in the T.V
series, Dark Secrets, and the movie 'When I Go To Heaven'.
Because she is so famous, we are always stalked by paparazzi. And even
though I'm not the one acting in billion dollar movies, I'm still a
hot topic for kid's magazines.
My mom's nice when she wants to be, but she's a little closed up, in
her own protective bubble. We stay out of eachother's private lives. I
don't ask why my mom's boyfriends sometimes stay overnight, and she
doesn't worry if I stay out of the house for the rest of the week.
Which is a little annoying, but I get used to it.
One day, I asked my mom about Dad.
She went all teary eyed and started shouting at me about bringing up
the subject and saying that I never should have been born, and that
her life would be so much easier if it wasn't for me. After that, she
beat me. I had to go and lock myself in the broom closet until she
coolled down. I was scared out of my mind and shivering. Hey, I was
only seven.
The only person who knew about what happened to me was Raine Hart.
She's been my best friend since… a few years ago. I never told Raine
about my mom's assaults, she sort of figured it out herself. Raine was
pretty, with long golden hair and gray eyes, like storm clouds. She's
average height and very smart. She loves designing things and drawing
blueprints of buildings or something. Weird thing is, Raine has
dyslexia too, like me, but I also have ADHD remember?
Raine and I are practically joined at the hip, and you can never
seperate us. We spent heaps of our free time together playing
different sports or just talking.
Raine's dad, Robert Hart, is cool I guess. He's an architect, you
know. Loves designing too, so I guess that's where Raine gets her
inspiration from. Raine doesn't know her mom either, so we're kind of
on the same page. The one time Raine did ask about her mom, Mr. Hart
just went all silent and dejected for days before he returned to his
normal self. It was kind of nerve racking. Raine and I though he was
having a mental breakdown.
Anyway, shall I tell you how my life turned upside down? I think so.
It started just earlier today actually. Scariest day of my life.
I woke up in the morning to the sunlight streaming in through the open
blinds. I drowsily got out of bed and got ready for school. Mom had
already left for work and I was sitting at the island, waiting for the
school bus to arrive. I couldn't keep still, so I ended up pacing
around with my black backpack outside the front yard.
Finally, the bus stopped in front of my house. I climbed in and took a
seat next to Raine and a friend we had made earlier in the year. Sean
McKenzy. He was alright I guess, with curly brown hair and brown eyes,
with tanned skin that were scarred in several places. I once asked him
where he got them and he just said, "A really big cat fight." so I let
it drop. The only bad thing about Sean was that he was always alert
and jumpy in class. I had always pressumed that he was looking around
for bullies, but now I'm not so sure