If Only...
by-shinigami-
disclaimers and warnings: in the first chapter!!

Chapter 3: Awakening

Monique drifted off to sleep later that nights. She thought about her parents. She walways thought she was "blessed" by having no siblings in her real life...now she was curious.'what is it like having siblings?' she thought. 'Maybe they're not halfs as bad as anyone would say they were...'

Her thoughts drifted off to her apparently new parents. 'Who were they? And what's up with the funky names? Treize Une?' she thought. 'And the kids, Midii and Mariemaia?' She continued to think. 'Maybe their parents were hippies or something...' She drifted off to sleep as she stared at the glow in the dark stars on her ceiling.

Monique awoke the next morning to the sound of an "oldies" station.

//i tried so hard
and got so far
but in the end
it doesnt even ma-aaterrrr

i put my trust in you
pushed as far as i can go
for all this~//

She pushed the snooze button and rolled over, promptly falling out of bed in a rumpled mess of hair and blankets.

"Rise and Shine!" said her mother's voice from somewhere.

She looked around stupidly. "Who sed dat?" she pondered. " wherezat from? huh? huh?" She stood up and gazed ou t the window. Since she came at night into this strange house, she never got a chance to look at the world outside the Kushrenada home.

The view was so beautiful to her. She saw a bright blue lake to the east, shimmering in the morning sunlight. A family of ducks were swimming in it quacking cheerfully at one another. She heard little kids too young to go to school, laughing, playing, riding their bikes, and playing hopscotch. She heard birds chirping and a great eagle swooped past her windown flying into the mountains in the west. She sighed. Monique thought it would be a happy and easy day.

She didn't know how wrong she would be.
*~*TBC*~*

short I know, but I'm setting "the mood" for chapter 4... ^___^