7. Two Years Later

{Alessia}

After I found out about my grandmother's death, my life really changed and I became more serious, the bead around my wrist was tightening and I noticed that it was no longer expanding to fit my wrist as it usually does, the queen told me that it would soon fall off of its own accord and then I would have my powers.

For the past two years, I took part in training and I learned whatever magic I could learn, it was all weird, practicing magic and spells without real powers, but I comforted myself on the fact that it would all be worthwhile once I turned eighteen.

For the past two years, I had been living for the time when I would turn eighteen, everyday I looked at my parent's at the reflective spring and I hoped that one day they would call me to go back home, but for the past two years, that had not happened.

Phee was getting ready to be mated to her fairy and she was getting sadder as the day of the ceremony approached, she did not like the