"C'mon, sleepy-head, wake up! Last day of school!" cried a voice. I groaned and tried to push whoever was jumping on my bed away.
"LAST"
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"DAY"
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"OF"
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"SCHOOL!"
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"Okay, I get it, last day of school, get out of bed, yeah, yeah," I cried finally. I yawned and sat up to see my little sister Ashlee's angelic face beaming up at me. "Morning, Ash," I smiled, rumpling Ashlee's hair. She's the kind of kid that when she smiles at you, you just can't help but smile back.
"Alright, kiddo, out. I gotta get dressed. Tell Momma that I'll be right down, will ya?" I said, tickling her tummy. I stood and pulled the hair tie out of my dirty blonde hair.
"'Kay!" she cried, planting a typical, sticky, three-year-old kiss on my cheek. I stood and watched her skip happily out of the room. I stood and pulled two tank tops (one white, one blue,) a pair of jeans and two different colored ankle socks, to match my miss-matched eyes, one green, the other brown. I pulled off my favorite light and dark blue sleep-shirt from Old Navy and my sweats and began dressing. I pulled on my red Converse All-Star high tops and applied my favorite Burt's Bees lip balm and sighed happily to myself. Mmmm….. Strawberry. I inspected myself I the mirror and felt tears prick my eyes as the sparkle of my locket caught my eye.
*Flashback*
"C'mon, Pete, is that the best you've got?" I shouted over the clanking of our swords. We were sparring on my sixteenth birthday. I laughed as I knocked his sword out of his hand.
"I let you win, Liv!" he called as I helped him up, rolling my eyes, "but now, we've got a visitor." I turned and smiled as Edmund walked up.
"Ed!" I cried happily. I stuck my sword in its sheath and proceeded to remove my armor. He smiled bashfully as I hugged him. When I pulled out of the hug, I saw that Ed was blushing. I felt my own cheeks grow warm.
"Happy sixteenth," he said quite suddenly, "I've a present for you…" I smiled.
"What is it?" I asked. Ed took my shoulders and turned me so my back was facing him and attached something around my neck. I looked down and saw a beautiful, intricately carved locket. In its center was a beautifully carved rose (picture on my profile) I smiled as I turned and faced him, "Why, Ed, it's lovely!" I cried, throwing my arms around him. Without thinking, I kissed Ed's cheek and felt my cheeks grow hot as I heard Peter laughing behind us. I noticed that Ed had turned just as red as I.
"Sod off, Peter," he mumbled.
"C'mon, Ed," I said suddenly, taking Ed's hand and leading him away.
"Where, Liv?" he asked.
"I'd like to show my beautiful new locket to Susan and Lu."
*End flashback*
I swallowed the lump in my throat. Refusing to let myself cry, I roughly brushed the tears out of my eyes and, gently tucking beneath my tank tops, I made my way downstairs.
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"Morning, sweetie," said my mom, kissing my forehead as I dropped my gray Hollister book bag on the floor.
"Mom," I smiled. We ate breakfast in almost complete silence, the only noise was the constant clinking of cutlery on plates. It had been this way ever since my father had died fighting in Iraq. Two years since that, one year since Narnia, when I'd crawled into a library crawl-space to escape the kids calling me a 'warhead'. I missed Narnia and the Pevensies, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy.
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"I'm going," I called, opening the door. Ashlee ran up and bowled into me.
"Come home!" she cried hugging my legs tightly. I detached her and knelt to her level.
"Always," I promised, holding out my pinky. She linked it with her own tiny pinky and kissed my cheek.
"Bye, Ash!" I called back into the house. How was I supposed to know?
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