(Makayla's POV)
I was walking down Cumberland Alley when I saw a girl with hip length red hair. We walked right past her on the way to Alston's wand shop. It was the only wand shop in east Tennessee. We walked into it. The store was filled to the brim with wands.
An older man came from around the corner and said, "Ah, you must be Ms. Makayla Rider."
"Yes," I said.
He went over to where the wands were sitting, and pulled out a box. He opened it and handed it to me. I gave it a wave and it shot green sparks.
"God, I've had that wand seance the end of the First Wizarding war in Britain," the man said.
I did the math in my head. 30 years ago this wand was made.
"It's a 10 ¾ in. cherry wood wand, with a phoenix feather core," the man said.
September 1
As I walked into the train station in Knoxville, TN. I noticed a lot more kids than I thought I would with trunks of stuff.
"Alic! Jin! Get your skinny little butts over this instant!" dad yelled.
Alic and Jin came running back over to us. We then made way to platform 8. As we reached it I could see more and more of the people with the trunks. They started to walk through the barrier at the 8th platform. I ran through it and reached the other side. There was a cobalt blue train sitting on the tracks.
"So... I'll be seeing you guys at Christmas," I said.
"See you Kayla," Alic said.
"I promise I'll write," I said.
I walked over to the train and got on. I took one last look at my family before getting on the train. I found a booth to sit down in and took out my sketchbook and pencils. I opened my sketchbook to where I had stopped this morning. A girl came over and sat down across from me. She had dark brown hair in a pixie cut, and brown eyes. She had on a pair of blue jeans and a purple tee shirt. She pulled out a book, and started to read it.
About half way through the train ride a book was thrown, and it hit me in the back of my head. I picked it up to see that it was a French volume of D. Gray- Man.
Then a girl with hip length red hair, her bangs go to her chin, blue eyes and was very pale. She had on a black strapless dress. It was tight till it reached her waist, where there's a wide light blue ribbon tied in a bow in the back and from there flares out and reaches her knees in the front and her calves in the back, and she had on black knee high boots that have 4 in. heels.
"Can you give that back to me?" she asked.
"Yeah sure," I said while handing it back to her.
She turned to leave when I said, "You like anime and manga?"
She turned back to me and said, "Yes."
"Do you want to sit with me?" I asked.
"Sure, just let me go get my stuff," she said.
She walked away, and I started to put away my stuff. She came back, but before she sat down she bent over and picked something up. She sat down and put the thing on the table. I look at it to realize that it was my family picture.
"Thank you for picking it up.." I trail off not knowing her name.
"My name is Aaralyn Abbey, but you can call me Aria. What's your name?" Aria said.
"My name is Makayla Rider," I said.
"Can I call you Kayla?" Aria asked.
"No," I answered.
"Who's in the picture?" Aria asked.
"That's my father, and he's holding my younger brother Alic. Standing next to them is my mother holding my brother Jin. I'm standing in the middle. This was taken on December 20, 2008," I answered.
"Your mom looks like she's part Japanese," Aria said.
I could feel the tears prickling at the edges of my eyes.
"She was half Japanese. She died two days after this picture was taken," I answered.
"Oh, sorry," she said.
"It's O.K. You didn't know," I said
And for the rest of the trip we talked about anime and manga.
Another chapter down.
Now the only thing I own is Makayla Rider and the plot.
The girl that sat down across from Makayla belongs to FrozenFlamingFire, and Aria belongs to Madam Cross Marian.
