Destined to be together
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Chapter Twelve: Meiling's Flashback
The young Meiling walked in the rain, crying. She had disappointed her aunt in not passing her magic test. This was her third time in a row fail. She glanced back at the Li mansion as she walked away from it, carrying a backpack. Why can't I past those simple tests? thought Meiling, Am I born that way? Or it's just me! She looked one more time at the mansion than walked onwards. She had nowhere to go. Nowhere to stay during this stormy weather. Just then a lightening bolt came down.
"AAIIEE!" shouted Meiling in fright.
Look at yourself, she scolded at herself, you're scared of a simple thunder bolt? But while the lightening bolt was there. It lighted up a house. It was dark and eerie and looked abandoned. Meiling decided to live in that house anyway. Because she had nowhere to go and also nowhere to stay. She sighed to herself and walked up to the house. She pushed the rusty gates and stepped inside. The whole place was full of weeds and overgrown. She walked up towards the house and pushed the door open. Inside, it smelt musty and rather dim. Meiling reached into her backpack and took out a torch.
"Hello…anyone home?" she asked as she stepped cautiously.
Silence greeted her. She looked around, everything was dusty and old looking. She walked up towards the stairs and glanced down the corridor. This place would do…I'll have to buy a lot of candles, food, matches the works, she thought as she looked around. She stepped into a room that was first room in the corridor and peaked inside. There was a grand bedroom and it had a bathroom attached to it. She looked around. She'll need to replace the bed spread. But the bed doesn't look so bad. And for some weird reason there wasn't a cobweb or any nasty stuff. She sighed and pulled out the bed spread that she had packed earlier and started to clean the room. Ten hours later, the room was clean and so was the whole corridor and all the other rooms expect for the last one at the end.
She walked in and inside was like a workroom. It had weird magic stuff on one side and a wall covered in books on the other. She pulled out a book and glanced at it.
"It says here…. Book of Shadows…" she said out loud.
Wonder what it means, she opened the books and started reading to herself. One hour later, with a stiff back and a hungry tummy she putted the book away and walked back into the bedroom. While she eating the food that she sneaked from the pantry. Meiling thought about what she read. Then she thought of an idea.
"If I do what the books says. Then I'll have more magic than all of Li clan put together!" she said.
She started to unpack everything and started to tidy up the mansion….
((Back to the present!))
Sakura saw what Meiling accidentally showed visually.
"…..!"
ooc: Hehehe…. another cliffy! Hehehe… but seriously? I've got school tomorrow and I'm dead panned ' REVIEW!
