Chapter 1:
Arrington came to the doorstep of the Macmillan family one stormy night. Celeste Macmillan, the now new mother of the unwanted one year old girl, wanted perfection and normality in her life and so far she had gotten it. She wanted away from the legend of her older brother James Potter, who she considered a freak because of what he could do. So when Arrington came on the doorstep that night, a reminder of what she considered an awful childhood, she was furious. Despite her extreme feelings she took Arrington in. Since Mrs. Macmillan wanted perfection and normality in her life she made the decision to never tell Arrington she was adopted, or anything about her old family. Mrs. Macmillan wanted to try and wipe that out of existence and raise her normally.
When Arrington was little, though despite her mothers extreme trying, strange things still always seemed to happen to her. Causing her mother to reject her violently, as well as the rest of the family. Once when she was only one years old, she accidentally lit her hair on fire with one of her brothers birthday candles. That wasn't the strange part of it though, the weird part was that it instantly went out and she was soaking wet, even though nobody poured water on her. After that she was always left in her crib, no matter how much she ever cried, or screamed. The only time they let her out was when people came over they would hear her, and then her family would have to pretend they cared. Whenever people asked about Arrington, they always talked about their other children. How great they were, and what they thought would become when they were older.
As she grew older the mysterious events stopped happening and her parents were able to ignore her more, though she was still treated very unfairly when they weren't ignoring her. Every time something strange happened, whether it was her fault or not, she was punished quite severely.
In result of this, Arrington was always taught to keep quiet if something was wrong, so her friends never knew exactly what was wrong, so if she ever just left, they would have no idea why or even what could have happened. And sadly that's exactly what it seem like to her classmates, and her best friends, when Arrington just disappeared forever. As we enter our story Arrington is turning eleven and it seems just like any other day. She had to wake up super early to make breakfast for her family and everybody as usual pretended it wasnt her birthday. She knew that if she mentioned it though, it would bring trouble on herself, which she would of course wish to avoid at all costs. Our story starts when she finally finishes cooking, little does she know that it is the last meal that she will ever have to make for that family.