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Ash sighed, her anger subsiding as the sweet sister within her ca

"A while It's not so bad though, Aria It's different - very different - but it's really nice At least there's electricity here" We both chuckled, though a slight sniffle marred my amusement "Haluali will always be home, but soon this will feel like another home"

I doubted that I felt like an irandparents It was an odd arrange here for five days, I still hadn't really bonded with Iris or George They were lovely, don't get ers I barely knew

For some bizarre reason, my mother - Jaslene - and my father - Alvin - found it necessary to send all of us off to live with Iris and George They wanted us to have a senior year in the states - a real American school

Yep At the ripe old age of seventeen, I'd been booted out of the nest

"The sun is different here The sounds, the trees, the air everything is different I wish I hadtossed into a school full of people I don't care to meet"

Haluali was a se which was kept secret from the world, or so it seeh away to keep anyone fro it by accident It was the hideaway most only ever dreamed about

I spent so h the rainforest that seemed to know me as well as I knew it My sketchbooks were loaded with all the drawings the leafy giants and sparkling waterfalls had inspired It was all I had left anys

The trees Oh, I iants back hoether, twist and turn, even grow into one another with their feral will Here The trees were ically planted in s had been domesticated

Nothing felt the same, and I simply felt lost

Ash held her tongue, cautiously planning her words out so as not toNothing infuriated me more, and until this ridiculous

As I climbed free from the shower and wrapped up in my towel, I met the softened eyes of my worried sister