Kaleidoscope (Faylinn Series) by Hayes Mindy

Author:Hayes, Mindy [Hayes, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

The tingling woke me from my sleep that night. My spine tingled like it had fallen asleep. I sat up and rolled my shoulders around, trying to get rid of the feeling, but it wouldn’t let up. I reached my hand around my back and went to scratch when I felt them.

My wings.

I flipped on my nightstand light and got to my feet, hurrying to my mirror. I pulled the hem of my shirt up and spun my back to the mirror, peering over my shoulder. It looked like two small rolls of creamy yellow fabric, budding from in between my shoulders. I reached back and stroked the delicate buds. The wings tucked snuggly in themselves as if unready to hatch. They were soft. I watched them in my mirror, breathing in and out.

It was that moment that everything clicked in my head. Everything I had been fighting or wanting to deny was becoming a reality now that this yellow mess poked out over my spine. When it looked you dead in the eye how could you reject it any longer? It was like I was in an AA meeting and I was finally coming to terms with my life.

My name is Calliope Willow Holbrook and I have wings. I am a faery.

I couldn’t tear myself from the mirror. I knew I needed to sleep, but I had freaking faery wings! Every couple of minutes that thought triggered in my mind and I was reminded that I was looking at my back, not just watching some fantasy movie play across the mirror. Their appearance altered subtlety as I observed them, but nothing drastic happened. After about an hour the weight of my eyelids began to sag and I dragged my legs to bed, compelling myself to sleep.

When I woke up the following morning, I raced to the mirror to check the progress of my wing’s development. The rolls had grown, but they stayed curled inside like a bear hibernating in the winter. Even after watching them all night long it still hadn’t clicked that they grew out of me.

Suddenly it dawned on me. How was I going to hide the Hunchback of Notre Dame? I looked like I had a hump growing from my back. My backpack would cover it while I wasn’t in class, but what was I supposed to do when I took it off? It was only October. It wasn’t cold enough to wear a hoodie inside, but I would simply have to suffer the heat. With the bulk of the material and the hood resting against my shoulders, maybe it would distract the eye.

I threw on my thickest sweatshirt and checked my back. The bulge was still visible, but not as noticeable. It wasn’t ideal, but it would have to do. I rolled my ringlets into buns on either side of my ears, settling for Princess Leia style, going for a grunge look and praying I pulled it off.

Cameron must have seen it in my eyes as soon as our eyes met.

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