Be Careful What You Wish For
Chapter 1: Leaving
"Be careful what you wish for," my mom would always tell me. But did I listen? NO!
I always wished that I could fly; I thought that it would provide me with an escape from real life. Flying would be so exciting and cool. What would be the problem with wishing for the gift of flight? But I found out one morning when my wish came true.
It was a week after my 13th birthday that it happened. I woke up when my alarm clock went off for school, but I felt weird, stronger even. I got out of bed to look in the mirror and just about screamed. My skin was no longer a light tan, but a dark forest green, and my long knee length, red hair was now a light green. But that wasn't all; my once brown eyes were a glowing florescent green. I now had a long skinny tail with a triangle shape on the end, my ears were pointed, my teeth were fangs, and my nails had turned into claws. The strangest part was that growing out of my back was a pair of huge bat-like wings.
I didn't know what to do. I couldn't tell my parents; they already disliked me enough as it was, because of my accelerated healing power and all. I also couldn't ask my friends for help, because they didn't know that I was mutant and if they did then they definitely wouldn't help me.
My only other option was to leave. Leaving seemed like they easiest and safest thing to do now that I could no longer blend in and pretend to be a normal human being.
So I started to pack. I dumped all of my school stuff out of my book bag and stuffed it full of clothes, some food that wouldn't spoil, and all of my $200.00 worth of babysitting money. On top of all that I gently placed a picture of my family, from before they found out that I was a mutant, when they still loved me.
I then changed out of my pajamas and into clothes that would cover all of my green skin. I put on a pair of baggy pants, my most comfortable pair of tennis shoes, and a long sleeve backless shirt. I braided my hair and put it into a low bun at the nape of my neck and over that I put on a hat. After the hat, I wrapped a light scarf around my neck, pulled on a pair of gloves, and put on a pair of dark sunglasses I had gotten as a gift for my birthday. But my wings were still visible. How the hell would you hide a pair of huge green wings? Then a thought occurred to me; my grandma's old cloak.
In a box in the back of my closet was a black cloak my grandma had given me. I loved it and thought it was cool, but had never had the opportunity to wear it. I took it out, folded up my wings against my back, and put it on. My wings were hidden! With the hood up, it shadowed my face so that you couldn't see how green my skin was.
I went across the hall to the bathroom. I grabbed my hairbrush, toothbrush, and a bar of soap. I also took some perfume, cover up makeup (to help hide my skin), and threw them in my bag.
After making sure I had every thing I might need, I walked down the hall to my parents' room to say goodbye. Since today was their day off from work and it was only 6:30 a.m. they were still sleeping.
"Good morning," I whispered loudly as I peaked around the door.
"Good morning" they both mumbles in reply as they went back to sleep.
Even though our relationship wasn't they same I felt that I at least owed them a goodbye before I left. I knew that I would miss them for they had been the only parents that I had ever known.
As I walked down the stairs I thought of those words again. Be careful what you wish for, because it might just come true. I had wished I could fly, and now I could. But it came with a price. That price was the life I knew and parents I cared for. I knew I would never see them again, but it was for the best.
As I got to the bottom of the stairs and opened the front door I decided that my life as Ariel Manners was now gone forever, but my life as Skye Green had just begun.
