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Catelyn

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Chapter 1:

That Mysterious Letter

I drummed my nails impatiently against the wood of my desk, looking outside the window beside me. The sky was gray and promised rain, but not a single drop had fallen yet. It was like it was holding back, and people scurried on the street, trying to get to their destination before the promised downfall.

Rain… how fun. I thought, sighing sadly and turning to look at our math teacher, Ms. Melinda, who was trying to finish explaining the boring lesson before the bell rang and we were sent home. Well, more like she was re-explaining the lesson for those stupid people who needed to had everything explained to them more than three times before they understood. Of course I wasn't on that group of people.

I looked beside me to my best friend, Cecilia, who was drawing on the back pages of her copybook that seemed as new as it could be even though we were nearing the end of the year.

Cecilia was the complete opposite to me, she was one of those 'perfect' role model girls that everyone looked up to. She was friend to everyone, and anyone would do anything for her; she also was very pretty, with shiny green-bluish eyes, lightly wavy golden hair, nicely tanned skin, high cheek bones, a nose any rich surgeon would be proud of, and a body belonging to a magazine model. Well, a young one at least.

Instead, I barely had any friends (not that I needed them anyway), and wasn't stunningly beautiful or anything. I had light brown hair, which would have been pretty if it wasn't so wild and untamable; ever so lightly tanned skin, and hazel eyes, but not the pretty ones many people dreamed to have. Actually it was Cecilia who labeled my eyes as 'hazel' to keep me from saying that I had cat eyes since to me they seemed more golden-orange than 'hazel'. I didn't had a model body either. While I had a pretty lean and muscular body along with some pretty decent hips, my chest belonged to someone two years younger than me, that is, a twelve-year old.

The only two things Cecilia and I did had in common were our outstanding grades… and our obsession with the Legend of Zelda games.

After what seemed like ages of Ms. Melinda repeating the same thing, the bell sounded and we were free… For two days.

I was basically the first one to leave the classroom (or more like jail) and speed-walked to my locker, wanting to be out of there before the hallway got too crowded. When I opened it, I wasn't surprised to see it full of love letters.

Don't get me wrong, they aren't for me, they are Cecilia's. You see, with her being as pretty and nice as she is, she has many suitors. And with many I say at least half of the boys of our grade. MANY. Every day she receives a bunch of love letters, most of them are given directly to her, but there are always the stupid bunch of boys who leave them at my locker so I could give them to her.

Of course, that never happened.

After stuffing the letters and the book that made me go there in the first place on my bag, I headed outside. The halls were crowded already, what made my exit very difficult.

When I finally escaped, I found Cecilia sitting below a tree, surrounded by a bunch of boys. I did not failed to notice her annoyed face. Setting my mind to save my friend, I approached, making sure none of the boys saw me.

"Hey, would you get out of the way please?" I asked in an annoyed tone.

Slowly, all the boys turned to look at me, and I raised an eyebrow. They all excused themselves rather quickly and went off, probably creeped out by my eyes.

"You could just tell them to fuck off you know?" I told Cecilia.

"Catelyn… You… You don't understand…"

"Of course I do Ceci… You want them to go away, tell them to go away. Simple"

"But-I can't"

I sighed. Definitely Cecilia was too nice for her own good.

"Fine" I took out one of the letters from my bag and showed it to her. "Here. From your fans… I have another twenty if you are interested."

Cecilia scrunched up her nose and I laughed. "You can burn them if you want" She said.

"Okay~" I put the letter back. "I must get going then. See you tomorrow Ceci"

"Bye Katherine"

I turned around and hurried away, wanting to reach my house as soon as possible. I was about to cross the street when it happened.

No, I did not got run over by a car because I forgot to look at both sides of the road. I'm not stupid.

I crossed after checking both sides of the road and made a dash to the other side as the rain was starting to fall. But I happened to trip and I fell in the middle of the road, and one of the letters slipped from my bag and fell right in front of me.

The thing is, the letter wasn't for Cecilia, but for me.

For me.

With shaky hands and forgetting were I was, I opened the anonymous letter.

It's time for you to return to your rightful world, Catelyn. Wake up.

My eyes widened and a loud honk made me look to the left. A massive truck was heading right for me.

See? I did not got run over by a car, a truck hit me. Also, I did looked at both sides of the road. I tripped and a weird letter distracted me. That's all.

The next thing I knew, pain. I saw red and black behind my closed eyelids and felt all my bones shattered. I opened my eyes and saw an unfamiliar face. I closed my eyes again and my consciousness faded completely.

Darkness engulfed me, and I felt as if I was being lifted. Higher… higher…

A light appeared far away, and I moved closer and closer to it until the darkness receded. There, in the light, I saw myself, sprawled in the ground with my arms and legs in odd angles. My hair was soaked in the pool of red were I laid and the letter I had opened was a couple of feet away.

The letter disappeared and I fell back into darkness. It was… soothing…

I was dead.

Hello there! The idea for this story has been bugging me for some while, so I decided to write it down… I'm midway through chapter three already, and I can tell you it may be a couple of chapters before anyone important pops up. Well, 'til next chapter!

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-Marshi ^.^