HKYWA 2015 Fiction 3 to 6 - page 582

Fiction: Group 4
Tale of a Girl
Maryknoll Convent School (Secondary Section), Wong, Zenith - 16, Fiction: Group 4
he room was dark and the little girl could hear the swoosh noises of the traffic outside her
home.
She thought they sounded like spaceships, or some intergalactic war going on outside.
Or
maybe they were fairies.
Peter Pan could be waiting for her.
They could go on an adventure.
"Stop wriggling, Sophie," her mother muttered, holding her tighter.
Oh.
Mum might not let her go though.
She was always so scared that Sophie would get lost or hurt
herself.
But Wendy went by herself, right?
Though she almost got shot down by the Lost Boys.
It'd be so
worth it though.
Sophie heard her mother's soft snores, slow and repetitive.
Along with the sounds of passing cars outside,
she imagined herself going on a great adventure to some place far away, some place magical because that
would be a fantastic opportunity to see more.
"Sophie, wake up."
The young girl opened her eyes blearily and saw light peeking in from the single window of where she
lived.
Most of it was covered by hangers with clothes on them and Sophie thought this was clever because
there wasn't a need for curtains.
"Sophie, c'mon.
It's your first day of school.
Sophie!"
Finally giving in to her mum, Sophie sat up and blinked.
Her eyes felt like they were glued together and
she rubbed at them, trying to get rid of the scratchy gunk on her face.
Her mum pushed her hand away and used a towel to rub her face for her.
Sophie sat on the edge of the bed
she and her mother shared, letting her mum do everything whilst her mind drifted off back to the dream she
had had last night - she hadn't gone to Neverland but Wonderland.
Peter was there too, so it was her,
Alice and Peter, talking to the flowers and- she lifted her arms so her mum could put her uniform on - and
there were the mermaids from Neverland, too.
"Button your shirt by yourself, okay?"
Sophie's mum kissed the side of her face.
Sophie grinned and did as
she was told.
Sophie was excited for school.
A new adventure, that's what it was.
A new school, new friends, new
teachers and new things to learn.
"Done?"
"Mhm."
Sophie looked up at her mum and nodded vigorously.
"Okay, come on, quick trip to the bathroom, okay?"
Her mum's hand reached down for hers and they walked out of their small flat.
A long corridor was behind
the door, a long winding maze that Sophie skipped through.
She'd grown up here her whole life so the
shadows didn't scare her.
Why be scared of shadows when Peter had so desperately wanted to get his back?
Sophie's mum smiled at her vivacious daughter.
There was something about Sophie that would always
make her mother happy and upset at the same time; a magical trait that only her daughter possessed.
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