If this was a movie, the camera would capture the rolling green hills in the distance scattered with trees, providing forests and homes for the little animals that scuttled across the leaf floor. It would angle up and scan the baby blue sky dotted with marshmallow clouds. The audience would sigh at the beauty of it all, wondering and wishing what it would be like to live in a place that looks like this.
Then a girl would yell, "CUT! This isn't even realistic, turn the camera back to me."
And the camera would slowly turn around until a run-down, shabby orphanage surrounded by woods came into view. In front of it a was where a girl topped with unruly red hair and a determined pair of brown eyes stood with her arms crossed over her chest.
She would give a lopsided grin at the audience's disgruntled expressions and laugh, "Not what you were expecting? Yeah, me neither. Welcome to my life."
hey!
I'm back!
thanks for reading the prologue! I'm excited to start this new book! please vote, comment, and share to get the word out about In The Shadows!
-Scarlett
YOU ARE READING
In The Shadows
Adventure"I'd spent my entire life in hiding, in the shadows. Until one day he saw me, and I wasn't so hidden anymore." Amber is good at what she knows, staying hidden. Until one day, he sees her. She's taken, forced out of everything she knows, to fight for...
