When Will My Life Begin?
Thirteen Years Later…
At the tower, the window suddenly opened and closed as a pale-white chameleon with red eyes scurried out, panting. It noticed a flower pot and scurried over to it, where it suddenly changed into a spider as soon as it landed on a flower, gulping.
The window then burst open and someone yelled, "HA!"
It was a seventeen-and-a-half-year-old girl with icy blue eyes, fair skin, long silver hair with spiky bangs, one longer than the rest, wearing an azure-blue bodice with white laces, sheer blue sleeves, a dark blue skirt with light blue flower designs, with the middle panel being the same colour as the bodice with dark blue flower designs. An blue mist coiled its way out of the girl's mouth, and she noticed the spider that had been a chameleon.
The girl, who was Danielle, but liked to be called Dani, placed her hand on her shoulder and said, "Hmmmm… well, I guess Amorpho's not hiding out here."
She walked away and the spider, who was Amorpho, chuckled to himself, before a silver strand of hair wrapped around his body and pulled him up, as he came face-to-face with a smiling Dani.
"Gotcha!" Dani exclaimed.
Amorpho screamed in fear and reverted back to his chameleon self, panting.
"That's twenty-two for me," Dani counted as she lowered Amorpho down, and asked him, "How about twenty-three out of forty-five?"
Amorpho gave her a bored look.
"Okay. Well, what do you want to do?" Dani asked him as she sat on the windowsill.
Amorpho brightened and shape-shifted into a bird, pretending to fly away from the tower, indicating that he wanted to go out there.
"Yeah... I don't think so," Dani said, swinging her legs around so that they dangled over the sill and gently grabbed Amorpho's wing, setting him down on her lap as he changed back to a chameleon and continued, "I like it in here, and so do you."
Amorpho gave her a look and stuck his tongue out at her.
"Oh come on, Amorpho, it's not so bad in there," Dani said to him, gently picking him up in her hands and swung her legs over the sill and hopped off it, running into the tower as her long silver hair, which was now about 70 feet in length, trailed behind her. Dani changed into her ghost form, blue eyes turning to green, fair skin becoming tanned, silver hair becoming white and her blue dress becoming green with black laces. She flew up to a rafter and grabbed some of her hair and used it to pull a lever down, letting in light. Using her hair as a rope, she slid down it, transforming back into her human form, and landed beside a clock, where Amorpho was waiting for her and was sitting on the clock.
DANI
"Seven AM, the usual morning line-up.
Start on the chores and sweep till the floor's all clean."
Dani swept some dust underneath her hair after lifting it up, causing Amorpho, who was holding the dustpan, to get some brown dust on his face.
DANI
"Polish and wax, do laundry, mop and shine-up
Sweep again, and by then, it's like seven-fifteen."
Dani rested her head against the clock, exhausted from doing her chores.
DANI
"And so, I'll read a book,
Or maybe two or three
I'll add a few new paintings to my gallery. (Dani added another painting to one of the tower's walls, using her hair as a harness and her power of flight to keep her steady, adding a new painting to the multitude of others in her gallery, while Amorpho hovered beside her as a bird and held her palette in his beak.)
I'll play guitar and knit
And cook and basically
Just wonder when will my life begin?"
Dani, after taking a pie out of the oven, noticed a diamond-shaped board covering the chimney on the mantelpiece. Looking at it with an artist's eyes, Dani smiled, grabbed her paints, flew to the top of the mantelpiece, pulled the board away, and began her new painting…
DANI
"Then after lunch, it's puzzles and darts and baking
Paper mâché(this scared Amorpho, as Dani had made a paper mâché of her head, and it was pretty terrifying), a bit of ballet and chess."
Dani got tangled up in her hair as she was doing ballet and fell to the floor with a yelp, but she managed to beat Amorpho at chess.
DANI
"Pottery and ventriloquy, candle-making
Then I'll stretch, maybe sketch, take a climb
Sew a dress."
Dani made a chameleon-sized version of her dress for Amorpho, which he did not like at all.
DANI
"And I'll reread the books
If I have time to spare
I'll paint the walls some more
I'm sure there's room somewhere
And then I'll brush and brush
And brush and brush my hair
Stuck in the same place I've always been."
Dani, after finishing brushing her hair in both her human and ghost forms, sighed as she rested her head against the rafters, where she was now sitting, now starting to get bored out of her mind.
DANI
"And I'll keep wondering and wondering
And wondering and wondering
When will my life begin?"
Dani, after throwing up her hair in circles around her, turned to the main window and walked towards it, leaning on the sill as she gazed outside, smiling as she thought about the event that would happen tomorrow, that had happened as long as she could remember, on that special day tomorrow.
DANI
"And tomorrow night
The lights will appear
Just like they do on my birthday each year."
She turned away from the window and looked at her new painting, thinking about the outside world and seeing the lights for herself, and not from her tower.
DANI
"What is it like?
Out there where they glow
Now that I'm older
Mother might just
Let me go."
Dani looked at her finished painting, which was of her sitting on a tree looking at the lights, and sighed longingly, now thinking of asking her mother to take her to see the floating lights on her birthday tomorrow.
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