The new start
Asha stared at the screen on her computer. "See school application results" the words were lighting up the screen. She took at deep breath and pressed it.
And there right on the top was her first choice of schools. "Capitol Academy".
"Yes!" she shouted out, all those hours with no sleep, working her butt of had finally paid of. She was going to one of the best schools in the country, graduate from there and you would be set for life.
For the two past years Asha had given up on trying to build friendships, it usually ended anyway when they found out she was mixed. She was neither elf or fully human, and never felt like she had belonged anywhere. There was no in between. Elves rarely made human friends and vice versa. She did however know how all the human girls would secretly look at the elf boys. They were taller and usually more handsome than the human ones, but when her mom had ended up pregnant after a one night stand with an elf, the people around her mom destroyed her. Even her father had rejected her harshly, and it drove her mother mad.
Asha had been in and out of foster care. She lived with her mom for some months at a time, which was nice, but then her mom would suddenly get really depressed again, and she would be forced to stay with someone else for a while. It had not been to bad, she had gotten used to taking care of herself. After seeing how her mom got destroyed by not getting the man she wanted Asha had never even thought of love, and it even scared her a little bit. Instead she had indulged herself in her studies, that had been her only escape. And to see now, were it had gotten her? That was the best feeling she ever had.
She leaned back in her chair, stretched and yawned. Like all the tension just left her body. Then suddenly she felt a strong pain above her left chest, like something was burning her. She clenched her chest, screamed and fell to the floor. The burning pain soon turned into a warm buzzing feeling. Asha could hear the trees in the wind, bird singing, and the warm sun hitting her face. A laughter like an old clock bell hit her, and she felt so happy, like everything was going to be just fine.
It felt like ages before the feeling disappeared, but in reality it only lasted seconds. Asha quickly got on her feet, her hand feeling the mark over her chest. She walked up to the mirror in her bedroom. Her dark straight hair falling down just under her shoulders, dark grey eyes staring back at her. And then she moved her hand. A round burnt in mark just above her chest. Asha flinched, this could not be real. Only some very few elves got love marks, and she wasn't even fully elf!
Somewhere out there, there was someone with an identical mark over their left chest, her fated partner.