Disclaimer: I own nothing of Dragon Flyz, which is owned by Gaumont Pictures. Only the plot is mine and I make no money from this.
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Apex sneezed as she moved some boxes, wondering how she'd managed to put away so much junk in her old room despite no longer living with Father. So far, her search for that picture of her and Mother was failing.
Sniffling, she checked the top of the box and frowned at the words 'Private Property, Hands Off!'. What had she put in there again?
Moving away from her over stuffed closet to sit on a clear spot on the floor, Apex put the box before her and opened the top. Right off, there were some handwritten letters, which confused her until she opened them and laughed. That's right, these were from her middle school boyfriend, who'd always thought of himself as a romantic. Unfortunately, he'd been more of a whiner so she hadn't exactly felt bad when their relationship ended, though to his credit he had tried to woo her honestly and with effort.
Moving the letters aside, she searched further in the box to see what else it held. There were a couple of gifts from some other ex-boyfriends, which also got moved aside. A book fell over as she did so, surprising her.
Picking it up, Apex could help laughing as she recognized her own handwriting on the cover, which proudly declared the book as her 'secret diary' and threatened pain to any who opened it without her permission. Opening the book, she was surprised at the real pages inside, instead of a datapad, but quickly remembered that that was one of the ways she'd tried to rebel in her younger years.
Back then, she'd tried to forgo technology as much as she could, trying to do as much as possible the old-fashioned way until it literally became impossible to do. Sitting back, Apex flipped through the book to refresh her memory of those years.
She had to smile at how childish she'd been, writing complaints in her diary about being 'forced' to babysit a bratty baby brother and how it was unfair that she was being singled out as the girl in the family. She'd also written about her headaches and how frequently they'd been coming to her, how often she'd gotten distracted because of them and about teachers that didn't believe her when she complained about the headaches.
Apex winced at that memory. What she hadn't known then was that those headaches had been the early signs of her power, the pain brought about by her abilities trying to manifest but unfortunately she wasn't around dragons then so her power had no where to go but her own head.
Shaking her head, she flipped through a few more pages before making herself put the old book down. There was always time to look at it later in more depth. Reaching back into the box, she pulled out a few more items before her hands landed on another book.
Pulling it out, she opened it to reveal it was a photo album. Mostly it was pictures of herself and her friends from back then, but there were several of her brothers and parents too. Leaving the album and her diary out, Apex packed everything else back into the box and returned it to her closet.
The diary was hidden under her pillow for later retrieval. Taking the photo album in hand, Apex left her old room to find the rest of her family, wherever they were in the house.
Surely they'd like to go through the pictures with her.