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20.Katie Bell
"Look, isn't it beautiful?" Leanne smiled as she pointed to the stretch of colour across the sky.
Katie bit her lip. Of course rainbows were beautiful. Whenever the rain had calmed and the Sun was shining when she was younger, she would always run out into the fields and stretch her arms out towards the watery-blue sky to try to touch the rainbow.
But times had changed since then. Rainbows weren't a sign of happiness and light to Katie anymore; there were dark and empty, a reminder of death, as if someone had flown across the sky and painted all rainbows black.
The last thing that she saw before she was Imperiused and touchedthe cursed necklace was a rainbow. All she could see was a dazzling array of colour, a swirl of reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues and violets shining before her.
And then her memory went blank.
When she woke up in StMungo's a few weeks later she was sure she was dead. The rainbow must have killed her, because there was nothing else there, only a rainbow, so bright and shinning that its colours seemed to mock her.
However, her mother then walked into the room, eyes blurred with tears, and hugged her daughter. Perhaps the latter wasn't dead after all.
But the next time Katie saw a rainbow, without even thinking, she clung onto a nearby tree, shaking with fear, just waiting for her mind to go blank again. Just waiting for that rainbow to kill her.
Of course, it never did kill her, and later that day, once the rainbow had disappeared, Katie thought she must be foolish to think such a thought. She shook her head. What eighteen year old girl was afraid of rainbows? People would laugh at her, think she was crazy. She promised herself that the next time she saw a rainbow, she wouldn't be scared, she would gaze up at it likeeveryone else and marvel at its beauty.
But her love for rainbows was now fake and badly forged. Maybe one day she would tell someone about her fear.
"Look, isn't it beautiful?" Leanne smiled as she pointed to the stretch of colour across the sky.
Katie bit her lip. "Yeah, it's lovely."
Or maybe some things were best kept secret
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