Chapter 8

I walked with my parents to the car, and they both hugged me so tight that I almost suffocated.

“See you soon, baby,” said Dad after Mom entered the car. He bent his head down to me again and said, “Be good, okay? And stay out of trouble.”

I helped to close the car door as I watched my parents leave me at the academy.

I went back to my dorm afterward and met my roommate, getting dressed in front of a huge mirror.

“I didn’t quite get your name,” I said as I walked to the mirror and made her face me through it.

She smiled. “I’m Lucia, but you can call me Lulu,” she told me, collecting the bracelet on the table in front of her.

I picked up my bags from where Mom had laid them for me, walked to the bed, and started unpacking my bags and placing them inside the wardrobe.

Lucia had all the space occupied. So with the little space left for me to fix up my clothes, I had to keep some of them inside my traveling bag.

“Elizabeth?” As I barely