Alexis McLean : The Lion's Den
Hi, my name is Alexis McLean. Call me Alex though. My life was pretty much like every other teenage girl except on my 17th birthday, things just started getting weird and weirder. The bizarreness started from when I woke up on August 30th due to my little sister bouncing on my bed yelling 'Happy Birthday' in my ear. I blearily opened my eyes after my sister; Leila bounced out of the room. I rolled over to continue my sleep but unfortunately found myself tumbling to the floor my limbs tangled in my blanket. I groaned as a small bump formed on my head but lifted myself off the floor and made my way to the bathroom. I paused mid-way, feeling the hairs on the back of my neck prickling, but dismissed it.
As I brushed my teeth, I thought about my life up to this day. I lived with my mother, who was currently approaching her fifties and my little sister Leila aged 9. My father had passed away when I was 5, result of a hit-and-run. My mother had been overprotective since them but who could blame her even though I found it a little annoying sometimes. We lived in a mini-mansion in England. My father had been a successful businessman before he had died and his business provided us enough money to cover our expenses and more, so you could say we led a comfortable life. My mom was a lawyer and had been my father's right-hand woman while he was alive. I had grown up around figures and politics and laws so it made me kind of stand out from the rest of my classmates.
I was a huge bookworm though. I loved to read fiction books, the main one being the Harry Potter Series. I had read those books so many times that I practically knew it by memory. I was an avid fanfiction reader and writer too. Though many people said that Self-Inserts were the bane of Fanfiction, I found myself enthralled with them. After having showered, I changed into a pair of shorts and a white blouse and headed down to the kitchen. My mom, Leila and I ate our breakfast and celebrated my birthday and after snatching myself a piece of cake, I entered my room and shut the door.
My room was painted in blue and silver, the walls hidden by 3 big book cases filled with all my story books, non- fiction ones and my school books. I browsed through sprawled on my bed searching for a good HP fanfic to read when I began to feel very sleepy all of a sudden. I closed my lap and slowly drifted off, my HP books (1-7) piled up on the bed next to my head. Just before I closed my eyes, I could swear that my room started to shake and I was positive that my bed had moved. I would later find out that I had dozed off in the middle of an earthquake.
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"Mommy, what's happening?" yelled a very frightened Leila as she clung to her mother while the room started to shake, sending furniture and objects to the floor. Her mother tried to soothe her and the duo crouched under the upturned sofa, waiting for the danger to pass. Once it did, they stood with a little difficulty and looked around. Slight damage was done due to the earthquake which was quite strange since England had never experienced an earthquake out of the blue. They slowly climbed up the stairs, Leila hanging off her mother's arm, and paused in front of a door that was slightly ajar.
The little girl pushed open the door and winced as her head started to ache. She had the feeling that someone important to them was supposed to live here but the room was empty of anything. Her mother was massaging the bridge of her nose as she tried to remember who lived here that she deeply cared for but came up with a blank. "Come on." she said, gently tugging her daughter away from the room which held the current greatest unsolved mystery in the household of McLean. The mother and daughter shut the door, unknowingly shutting the door to their daughter/sister Alexis and her predicament.
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