It was Monday morning in the second week of July, London had been experiencing unusually hot weather for the past few weeks and today was the same. Mia asked Felicity if she wanted to go to the local park. After getting permission from her parents, Felicity met Mia, Eliza and Lena at the park entrance.
The park was busy, people sat on benches or the grass, enjoying the sunshine. The four girls found a spot on the grass and sat down.
"Who's going to Robbie's house for pre-prom on Thursday?" Eliza asked. Mia and Lena said they are going.
"I'm going as well," Felicity said. "Robbie invited me"
"Does that mean he's your his date to the prom?" Lena asked.
"No, I'm not going with anyone," Felicity said. "I just want to enjoy myself without having to worry about boys"
"I understand, but you still have a crush on Ben," Eliza said. Felicity smiled at the mention of the boy she liked, but then she remembered Tawny Owl and the conversation they had a few weeks ago. Could it be possible to love two people at the same time?
"I do but I've accepted the fact that's he's not going to return it, even if he did ask me to prom," Felicity told them.
"Wait, when did this happen?" Mia asked.
"The day of the last exam. I never got the chance to reply to his question. Exam Master showed up and it never got mentioned again" Felicity said.
"But he was standing with you. Surely he wouldn't leave you" Lena said.
"He was and then when I looked up again Ben was gone" Felicity replied. "Anway, I don't want to talk about boys anymore. Mia said she had something to show us"
Mia got her phone out of her bag and once she found what she was looking for, she passed it to Eliza.
"What does it say?" Eliza asked. "It's a bunch of symbols."
"Can I see it please?" Felicity asked. Eliza passed the phone to Felicity.
Felicity looked at the picture. It showed a man dressed in a light brown tunic with a yellow sash across the middle. He had a pair of brown sandals on as well. In his hand, he had a long stick with a pointed top that was shaped like a lions head. On his neck, he wore a chocker. The chocker had a lions head in the middle with the eyes, and two little fangs coloured yellow.
The blonde-haired girl knew from her time spent with Mr Lu the other day that it was the lion miraculous, she couldn't tell her friends that tho. Mr Lu had the lion chocker in his box.
"Is something wrong, Felicity? You've been staring at my phone for ages" Mia asked.
"No, No, everything's fine. Where did you find the picture? if you don't mind me asking" Felicity said.
"I only find this out yesterday but before my parents got married and opened the sweet shop, my dad was had an interest in history. He was working on a project, he didn't say what the project was but he's had this since the late 1980's It was supposed to be given to the London Museum but I guess it never got there. "
"That's interesting," Felicity said, "Does you dad know anything about it?"
"No, he didn't tell me anything," Mia said. "Why? Do you know?"
"Nope," Felicity said as she got up. "Anyway, I have to go now. Mum wants me home"
"I'll come as well. We can walk home together" Mia said.
"It's ok. You don't have to" Felicity said.
Eventually, Mia ended up walking home with Felicity.
"Felicity, you know you can tell me anything. I'm your friend, you've been acting strange ever since you came back from Paris. Did something happen?" Mia asked.
"I can't tell you, it's not because I don't want to, it's because I can't", Felicity replied.
"I'm not sure I can be friends with you anymore," Mia said. "When you feel like telling the truth, maybe I will reconsider"
"Mia, wait" Felicity called but Mia didn't listen.
Mia continued walking, maybe she had been a bit unfair to Felicity but Mia knew that she's hiding something. All the excuses she's made up since school started and then Felicity shows up at school with dark circles under her eyes, surely it was better to talk to someone if she was having trouble at home.
Mia arrived home and found her parents working in their sweet shop.
"Mia, you're home early," Her Mum said. Mrs Smith noticed that her daughter wasn't acting like her usual self. "Did something happen?"
"I don't want to talk about it?" Mia said as she ran upstairs, slamming the door shut behind her. In her room, she uploaded the picture of the scroll to her computer. She wanted to know why Felicity acted strange when she saw it but to answer that Mia would have to speak to her and that wasn't something she could do right now.