The Academy.

chapter 1

This story is based on a true story except for all the parts that aren't true.

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As my fingers trace over the gold embroided letter in my fingers I begin to wonder if all of it would be worth it. After finding out not so subtly that Adelia was accepted into the Academy I began to wonder if going would be worth it.

Living with them has not been the best but parting with them is entirely something else. Do not mistake me , it could offer me something that I have yet to discover freedom or it could turn out to be worse than it already is.

Apon realizing that it does not matter either way , I mean what do I have left to lose?I carefully remove the bronze academy emblem and begin to unfold the letter.

Dear lady Emmeline Catright

You have been selected to join Alcline Academy on full scholarship. Please find the attachment below , explaining further details of your enrollment into our Academy.

Your Faithfully

The head administration.

Oh .. oh ...OH!??

I got in , that is lovely indeed before I could fully celebrate Adelia barges into my chambers snatching the letter that was still held loosily between my fingers. " You got a scholarship, how wretched but lucky for you , we both know mama and papa would never have paid for your tuition. " she seezed , rushing where I'd assumed would be downstairs to obviously tell her so called mum and father.

I'd lived with this family my whole life, and I have their last name and share the same blood but nothing about me ties to them .. how?

I have deep grey eyes and hair as dark as of a ravens . I am not a witch , they are dark witches , more powerful too so imagine everyone's suprise when they found out that their other daughter was more in possession of light magic . Only a peck of it though and I never even got to properly learn it as they never allowed me to yield my what is said to be an abomination to the Catright legacy.

Now that I got in, I guess I can learn how to properly learn to use it.

My sister has Blonde hair and brown eyes , she is considerably more pretty atleast that is what her minions; she calls friends and what her parents say .

When she and I were born, her mother had thought she had one child but it was later suprised the doctor came back with two little babies, one that looked exactly like her the other who looked nothing like her. Apparently she had passed out immediately when I was born so she could not tell another child had escaped her womb.

Very odd , I know. I had always known so called mum was never fond of me. It started with the keen differences between what I would get and what Adelia got. She gave her everything and I received what was said to be leftovers.

Around age 12 , it was very visible she could nor mask her distaste for me . It was not a secret that when we went about the market ,people would stare at me and even go as far as complement me and not Adelia. That agitated her to the finest and I never even wanted the attention .

At home, Adelias father had no problem with me in fact if anything he was very fond of me. Then he started look at me very differently from Adelia . I thought It was simply because maybe I was his favorite but the truth is that was not a way a child was to be looked at .

He would occasionally touch me inappropriately and call it a mistake when mum wasn't looking then he gradually stopped calling it a mistake.

She noticed, but she had never done anything about it. She only started haing me more. Oneday father pinned me against the wall , ripping my dress with this scary look on his face ... I could not scream I could not cry .

Something in me shifted , I dunno if it was out of shear disgust or fear but something corsed through my veins and it completely burst sending him flying across the room.

I fell limp on the floor and he looked at me , not only out of shock but fear. My eyes started feeling drowsy and when I was on the verge of collapse the last person I saw was Ester , Adelia s mum and she stood frozen in her place , unmoving her face filled nothing but shock and disgust and most certainly anger.