Kate

Hi, my name is Kate. I am 16 years old, and in two days, I will be 17. I can’t wait. I am in the 10th grade. I go to East Cumberland High. I am thin, have long thick dark brown hair, and brown eyes. I’m around 5 feet 3 inches tall, and tan. I like warring my blue jean jacket, with faded jeans, and a white T-shirt. With Gwen Stefanie on it. In addition, black cowboy boots with blue dragon detail. My favorite singer is Gwen Stefanie. I like to blend in with my group of friends. To be part of them. I never did care what I wore, that was until I came to this school. I made sure; I looked my best so that no one had a good reason to tease me. I live in California with my adopted mom Trish. I go to a catholic school. I am good friends with father Frank, the principle. He is a priest. I go to him if there is trouble with kids. If I see a fight, I try to break it up. If I see bullying, I defend the weak.

In my freshman year, I tried to ignore everyone and tried to be invisible. I did nothing to stand out. Even my look was bland and drab like my feelings. At the end of my freshman year, I learned that there were a lot of bullies picking on the weak. So I wanted to be the one to stop them. So now I stand up to the kids even though there are too many of them. Nevertheless, I always go to father F. and report to him. I am the sophomore president. We used the school money to go to the amusement park because it was the last day of school. It was my idea. Plus, the school’s football team won their last game of the year. So, we are Celebrating.

I was so excited because I had been waiting for today, for this moment. It was the only good thing that has ever happened to me in my whole year at school. I just want time to relax and have fun. I thought that today would be different. I thought that the bullies would be too busy trying to have fun, that they would not mess with anyone. How I was so wrong.

I so wish that somehow I can do something about the life I have. So with today being the Fun Day, I have hopes that it would be the same for everyone else.

It is spring and the flowers looked their best in color, and their smell filled the air as the winds blew.

I was in the back of the group at the amusement park. When I felt a small tug of my shirt, I turned around and there was a twin boy and girl about 12-years-old. They were dressed in the weirdest fashion clothes that I had ever seen. It was like looking at an old fashion magazine. I felt like I sort of recognized the kids but I did not know why. I had never seen them before. So why did I feel that I had?

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I asked what their names were. And to my surprise, the boy was quick to respond. “I am Logan, and this is my sister Caylee.”

“Don’t tell her our names.” Said Caylee. Turning to Logan angrily. “We do not even know if this is really her. I told you we should have stayed with the others. But no! You have to go looking for her yourself!”

“But she may just be the one we are looking for. Look, she has pointed ears. And she is holding an old book. She has to be the one.” Said Logan.

“And she may not be. We don’t know.” Said Caylee with her hand on her hip.

I was wondering what they were talking about. I lifted my free hand up to my headband and felt to see if my ears were sticking out. They were, so I quickly hid them with my bandanna. My ears did not normal, they were a little like an elf’s. Like the ones in books I love to read. I never knew why I had them. Being around people with normal looking ears, I’ve always wondered if maybe I was an elf and if my parents were elves. But every time I mention my real parents to my adopted mother, she would get all upset and say the same answer “We have talked about this hundreds of times, I don’t know anything about your parents.” So after a few years, I completely gave up trying to find out why I was so different and just covered them up. Now I was wondering if there was more to my ears? I looked at the book in by hand. It was old, yes. but it was a library book I found. It was in the old section of the library.

It is about a girl who can change into a panther and lived in a world of nothing but woods. She fell in love with a boy but she had to leave him. It does not say why she left him. She did not want to have her heart broken again. So she hunts alone.

Logan saw my confused look and he began to explain. “We are looking for a girl who knows about the Woodwoman. Our teacher and inventor told us that only she might lead us to the Woodwoman. The girl will have pointed ears, and be good with books. That’s what our teacher says anyway. So you see, you are the one he told us about.”

I was now totally confused. Sure I know a lot about a “Woodwoman”, it was in the book they had indicated I was holding. But I could not tell them that. They might laugh at me if I did. How was I to know this was not some prank. Lead on by Devin or Zack. So instead, I lied to them.

“I’m sorry, but I know nothing about a Woodwoman.”

“Oh.” said Logan disappointed. “I guess we got the wrong girl. Goodbye.”

They turn to leave and I hear Caylee say to Logan while punching his arm. “I told you so. I told you so. Now what are we going to do?” At this her brother replies. “Some place with lots of books.”

And with that, I turned back to my class and thought that they would just go home and look in a phone book for the closest library.