Moonrose

My name is Aeli Moonrose, I am 19 and I live in the small town of Cherry Grove in a small one-bedroom apartment. With plain, white walls and medium brown wood laminate, the kitchen had stainless steel appliances and granite countertops. It’s not the most fabulous life in the world, but it suits my needs perfectly. I have lived here for the last year, finally having a place to settle and call my own after moving around so often has been a dream. Since I was 6, I’ve been in foster care, passed from family to family, never fitting and never feeling like this was the world I belong in. Even now, I feel like this isn’t quite where I belong but something in my gut tells me that this town is where I need to be. When I turned 17, something changed. I thought I was going crazy for a while. I woke up at 2 am out of nowhere and I heard this voice saying “Hello Aeli, my name is Astraea, its nice to meet you.” I woke up my foster sibling who shared a room with me and asked her if she heard anything, but she hadn’t, so I kept the information to myself, I would hear the voice off and on, I would just ignore it until it eventually stopped. The last thing I heard it say was “Aeli, I know it upsets you when I talk to you because you don’t understand, but someday you will, when we find our mate. So, I will go to sleep until then, but don’t worry, I will always be here for you. I'll see you soon”. That was six months ago, I can’t help but wonder what the voice—Astraea- meant by finding our mate As if this is some strange werewolf movie. I must be losing my mind