(Stealth Elf's POV)

My Mom, or my adoptive mother, I've never met my birth one, drove me through into the city. "Mom?" I asked, quiet like always. "What is it Elfy?"

"What's happening for real?" I knew better than to trust that we were just suddenly trying another school. My instincts said that something was up, and my instincts were always right.

"Honey, you know that you're... special, right?"

"Yeah." I had been told this every day during my public school life, until I finally I was expelled (which surprised no one, though everyone was surprised that I hadn't been expelled sooner). Mom homeschooled me from then on, but she was never mad.

"Not the bad special. But the good, unique one. When I first adopted you, they told me when you were ready for highschool that I was supposed to send you to where we're going now. It'll help you master special abilities. It's going to be like a boarding school, won't that be fun?"

"But why am I going? What about you? Will I ever get to see you again?" Never taking her eyes of the road mom laughed, "Of course Grace," she was using my real name. This was serious. "You get the weekends off, we'll meet up and than their are always the holidays. Also, if you really hate it there, than I'll take you home. You don't have to stay."

"What's this school going to be like?" Curiousity was getting the better of me.

"They're going to be others like you."

"Other people with my same abilities?" So I really wasn't special.

"Not with you're abilities, but kids with their own special abilites. No one will have the same abilities as another person, you're all different." Oh. All of us were not unique and unique at the same time. I wondered why I had never met any of these kids before. This place wasn't in the city, but about thirty minutes outside of it, in the almost country, forested area. I had lived in the city my entire life, barely ever going into the outside world. Maybe that's why I hadn't seen any of them.

"Grace," Mom said softly and I looked at her, "I think you're really going to like it here. Just, try and make some friends, okay?" I blinked in surprise. "Yeah, I promise." As I said that I saw the low fence for the school. Picket fence, as far as I could tell only there to mark out the school premises because it wasn't even two feet tall. Mom drove through the long drive way and I examined the building. It was a large 'U' shaped one in the middle of the vast school yard. Three, maybe four stories high from what I could tell, it had a flat roof and was made out of stone. It looked almost... relaxing. They're were people in the yard between the two arms of the building, sitting, talking and playing games. They all looked about my age, and their appearance varied from almost human to outlandish. Tugging at my blue braid, and checking to make sure the mask that cut off the bottom part of my face was secure, I twirled a tooth blade absently through my fingers. "Do you think I'll meet anyone special?" I asked suddenly, unsure why I had even voiced it outloud. "Like, have a boyfriend?" Mom asked slyly, beginning to grin.

"I guess you could say it like that," I grumbled, not liking the word 'boyfriend'.

"Grace, you are a beautiful, talented young lady with a gorgeous personalitly. Quite frankly if none of them can see you, and I'm not talking about what's on the outside, than they don't deserve you." (A/N: Is anyone catching the pun here? Or am I laughing all by myself? If I am, I'll tell you about later when it makes sense and send you back here so you see it)

I smiled, though mom couldn't see it she still would know. She always knew. Mom instints I guess. "Do you want me to come out and help?" She asked.

I hesitated, she was offering and I did want her to, but that would make this harder. Instead, I shook my head, "I think this is something I have to do alone. But I'll see you this weekend right? You'll pick me up and we'll do something?"

Mom smiled at me, brown eyes bright with tears, "Sounds good Gracy," She kissed my forhead and looked me in the eyes, "Have a good week, good luck. And I love forever."

"I'll love you for even longer," I told her, then went out the door got my suit case and waved as she drove away.

When I turned around, suitcase on it's wheels next to me, I looked at the people and something in me churned excitedly. Had the feeling that the rest of my life was starting to look up.