Ok, so this is the re-written first chapter of 'The Promise' I'm sorry it took me longer than expected to upload it because I totally forgot about that three day rule for new accounts posting stories.

Just tell me what you think about it.

Lumines

It had been a long day, Catlin knew that today she was finally going to start her new life, not that she was going to move to a new town or even start in a new school, but this day would still change her life.

At school she hadn't been able to concentrate, not even in Math, one of her favourite subjects. The teacher, Miss Martin, had even brought that to her attention.

After school, Ann gave her a lift, since they were going to the mall together. They spent a few hours trying cute little outfits just for the fun of it. And when Ann had wanted to go away Catlin told her to go without her since she still had to buy some groceries and Gina could pick her later anyway.

Not completely a lie but not the whole truth either, Catlin really didn't like to lie to one of her friends, especially Ann, but this was something she wanted to do alone.

That's why that after Ann had, almost unwilling, left Catlin alone next to a grocery shop right next to the mall, Catlin quickly ran into the opposite street and into one of the many Piffle Princess shops that now could be found all around the world.

Without even asking for directions she walked slowly trough various corridors till she finally found what she was looking for.

Catlin looked up, in front of her on the shelves were hundreds of eggs, not normal ones, angel eggs and one of them contained her future.

Then, almost like she was burning time, she looked around her. Next to her was this little girl, with five maybe six years, which had already chosen an egg and was holding it tightly. Her mom was still looking trough a tiny book that said 'Buy an Angel for your kid today, thinking about what they can learn tomorrow.' That the shop had disposed in some of the shelves, right next to the eggs.

"Mom, can we go now? I still have to choose the cloths! Do you think they have princess dresses?" The little girl was saying while she grabbed her mother's arm and pulled her away.

Now that Catlin was completely alone with the eggs, she was bound to look at them again and make a decision.

She closed her eyes and stretched her right arm touching the eggs slightly with her hand, first to the right then to the left, she stopped and then grabbed a random egg.

In her hands was a blue angel egg with two little wings in the front, she hold it tightly, just like the little girl and moved on.

The clothes section was very different from the eggs part, it was a room of colour and opportunity. The shelves were divided between pre-made and make-your-own clothes and on the left, shoes, earrings, scarves and all the types of random accessorises could be found.

The little girl, that she had seen earlier, was there too and while still holding the egg there was also a little pink princess dress in her hand, that she was showing to her mom.

Turning back to what mattered she concentrated on the shelves around her.

Catlin had decided to do the clothes herself and already with a sketch in mind, she choose a vibrant black fabric, a shiny yellow fabric, two black cords with a yellow ending and a pair of black sabrinas (A/N: That the name we give in Portugal to this kind of ballet shoes look alike, I'm not sure what you call it, but if anyone knows just tell me something about it.).

Catlin couldn't help to think how perfect her Angel would look like as she made her way to the cash register a little later, already with her were the egg, the clothes a little laptop and all the other accessories she couldn't resist to buy.

After paying, Catlin left the shop with the bags and a big smile on her face. She was really looking forward to get home.

Sighing deeply when she remember that she had lied to Ann about this too she started to walk towards home calmly. The house wasn't that far away.

She arrived home half an hour later. "I'm home!" She shouted when she opened the door.

No one was home, but since Catlin was now used to it she just closed the door behind her and taking off the shoes she passed quickly trough the kitchen for a glass of water, after that she just she ran upstairs to the third room on the left, to her room.

Moving some of the books from the desk to the floor, she placed everything she bought there. Catlin knew what she was supposed to do by heart, but that didn't stop her from reading the little book of instructions that also came with the egg.

There were tons of different advices and rules, some absurd other important, like 'Don't eat the filling liquid' which really made her laugh, since who in the world would ever eat it? Then there was another that she couldn't fully understand either, since it was also obvious, 'Even if they look alike, Angels are much more than a doll'. Of course there were many that were not only important as also sweet, 'Open the egg under water, wash your angel carefully and you're ready to start. Go ahead and remember to be a good Deus'.

Pausing, she remembered that there were still many things to do, so putting aside the instructions book she headed to the bathroom. After placing the egg next to the sink and, taking of her clothes, Catlin entered the shower, where she quickly washed her hair. Smiling as she looked at her shiny blue angel egg and letting her thoughts wonder off, she closed her eyes, making sure to wash herself entirely.

It didn't take much longer to the water to be switched off and, after drying herself, for Catlin to grab her egg. Filling the sink, she patiently waited for it to be fully filled so that she could, finally, open her egg. Exactly as she was told in the instructions after under water the egg, with a soft 'click', opened and a blue liquid was released. The Angel now in Catlin hands brought her smile back again, it was so little that she couldn't believe it to be nothing more than a simple doll, exactly like the ones she had when she was a kid. So maybe the rules weren't that stupid after all.

About fifteen minutes later, fully dressed and with the Angel in hand, she wandered into her room again, and started to hungrily open all accessorizes she was going to need. First the hair, it was completely black but very long, so after putting it in the angel's head she grabbed a scissor. There were thousands of ways that she could cut her Angel's hair, she wasn't sure what she wanted, but she knew that it couldn't be to short or to long, since the idea that she had in head for the outfit wouldn't work with neither of those cuts. A matching Angel would be cute but as she looked at herself in the mirror she understood how that was difficult. Her blondish hair was cut short, almost reaching her shoulders and her green eyes wouldn't for sure match her Angel's. Maybe a little after the shoulders would fit the outfit and her Angel.

She liked the idea so she started to cut it, first a little bit, then another soon it was just like she imagined it.

Now that the hair issue was settled she had to take care of the cords, normally every Angel had, by rule, at least one cord so Catlin decided to put both cords, that she had bought earlier, hanging on the right side of the angel's hair, making some kind of ribbon effect.

While she was thinking about what she should do next there was a knock on the door.

"Yes?"

"Honey it's me I just passed by to change clothes, I'm going to head back to the office, you can eat anything that is on the refrigerator, ok?" By now Catlin's mother had already popped her head trough the door and was looking at what Catlin had in her hand with, what it seemed, a strange interest.

From what Catlin could see of her mother, she looked even more tired than her, the black suit, that had started to be her trade mark not very long ago, made her look even more pale and her blondish hair was pulled up in a tight ponytail. Catlin looked down at her angel and then at her mother's face and again tried to smile, her mother's face was looking even more miserable than the last time she had saw her, she wonderer if her father was looking the same. If only they didn't work to hard, theyu could spend more time together.

"Ok mom, don't worry, do you know if dad is going to be home in time for dinner?" Catlin asked, she hadn't see her father for three days, she was hoping, that because today was Friday, she was able to, at least, have dinner with him.

"No, honey, I don't think so, I talked to him a while ago he seemed pretty busy, look why don't you call him I'm sure he would love to talk with you!"

Catlin just nodded. She knew that it was almost impossible to catch her father on the phone nowadays. She truly didn't know how her mother did it.

"Look, honey I have to go, kisses, have a good night." Catlin's mother said.

Even if she saw a little more of her mother, they were almost the same, she could spend days without seeing them. They didn't have a family dinner in years.

Tired of depressing thoughts Catlin started the laptop and, just like the instructions told her to do she let her angel inside a little ring. As soon as the ring was connected to the laptop by a cable and started eradiating light, the Angel stood up almost like flying and Catlin let out a soundless 'wow'.

The Angel opened her yellow eyes and Catlin was immediately stroked by the beauty of her angel. She just had the best of lucks with her choice of colours since now everything would perfectly match.

Looking back at the monitor she started to think in what kind of angel she wanted, by now, with all the advances they had done, she could choose three types of height between 3,2 and 1, being 3 the biggest and 1 the smallest, she chose 2. The characteristics were harder to choose, she had heard all about Hikaru, Japan's champion Angel that had an emphasis on speed, but for Catlin balance was also important, she knew that from her ballet lessons, so she decided to put a equal emphasis in speed and in balance, strength was probably her loose end, but Hikaru also didn't depended on strength, they would do all right.

After pressing a few buttons the screen started to flash 'Please choose a name' and Catlin just looked at the flashing screen for a while, thinking. She wanted something that only they could understand, almost like a personal secret between the two.

So she decided to make her angel's name almost like a personal joke, looking at her angel's eyes again she made her choice. She was going to call her Mayu, because her first thought when looking into her yellow eyes was exactly that, they looked like Mayonnaise. After pressing the letters M-A-Y-U, hoping that no one else was able to find a meaning in it, she hit enter and the laptop made a little 'bip', signalling that she could take her angel from inside the little ring. She did exactly that and after seating Mayu in front of her, in the desk, Catlin started to think about her outfit again.

When Catlin bought the fabrics she already had something in mind, but after choosing her angel's name she decided to turn things around a little. Some things wouldn't change, she wanted something girlish but at the same time that would give Mayu full mobility, but she could work her angel's name in favour for the theme of her clothing. Making her personal joke, even, more obscure.

She started to sketch a black Chinese kimono that would go only a little before the knees, it had a 1, 18 inches crack on both sides, that way she would be able to move her legs, the right corner had three yellow flowers, the big one right on the corner the second was on the top of the big one and the third on the side.

She looked at her sketch, she loved the long sleeves, but she wasn't entering a beauty contest. Picking her rubber she erased the right sleeve. That way the girlish side was still there but there was also the fighter side. She smiled and looked at her angel. The yellow flowers would go beautifully with her eyes.

Looking back at the draw she started to sketch black leggings that would end right before the ankles. She didn't have to sketch the black sabrinas, so it was ready.

"Mayu your outfit is going to be perfect, tomorrow we will talk to Gina and ask her to make your clothes. Maybe we can even convince her to make us those amazing pancakes of hers. Gina is the maid you see, I consider her much more than that, but I'll tell all about her and my family some other day now we both need some sleep."

Only then did she think about dinner, but since she wasn't hungry anyway she just dressed her pyjamas and jumped into the bed.

"Tomorrow is going to be a great day Mayu." Catlin said with a little sigh just before she fell asleep.

For anyone that still hasn't read my profile and thinks this story is awfully familiar that's because it is, but because of some problems I had with my e-mail and all I decided it was just better to make a new account. And since I was going to start writing this again there was no better place to do it than here.

I'm going on vacation in a couple of days, so for about two weeks you won't hear from me. I just wanted to start posting this before going, please don't forget to tell me what you think about it.