Addergoole: Ursula: Waking Up At Addergoole

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It had taken hours, and the alarm had gone off too early, but Ursula had finally drifted off to sleep. She didn’t feel like she had slept, so it was tempting to stay in the bed and try to pretend that she wasn’t at Addergoole. Finally she managed to force herself out from under the covers, doing her best not to think about what was going to happen next as she got ready for the day ahead. There was no real way to prepare because she had no idea what to expect from her new school, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t going to try. Breathing deeply she pulled her hairbrush through her hair one last time before making her way to Livi’s room.

Knocking, Ursula waited until Livi called, “Come in.”

Opening the door Ursula stepped into a room that was identical to hers and looked at her twin sister. “Morning, Livi. How did you sleep?”

“Fine,” Livi replied, sympathy welling up in her eyes. “You didn’t have a good night, did you?”

“It was hard to sleep, but…” Ursula shrugged. “Hopefully things will get easier as we get used to Addergoole.”

“What do you think of our new school?”

“I think there’s something more going on here than we’ve been told and we’re going to need to be very careful.”

Livi nodded. “Ursula…” She sighed, shaking her head. “Don’t worry.”

“What were you going to say?”

“This isn’t going to be something you’ll even think of agreeing with, but I think we need to split up.”

“Why?” Ursula found herself thinking that Livi might be right and tried to push that thought to the back of her mind. “Are you getting something different to me?”

“I always get something different to you.” Livi smiled. “There is good here. I saw it in Luke last night. The problem is I think there’s more dark here than there is light and if we split while we’re here then we might get some more of an idea who we can trust and who we can’t.”

“That’s unusual for you.”

“I guess it is.”

Biting hard on her lip, Ursula took the time to think about what Livi had just said instead of making the decision based on her feelings. If she listened to her feelings she would say no and saying no felt like a mistake. For the first time they could use their abilities together, finding people they could trust, but she couldn’t help worrying about her younger sister. There was only three minutes between the two of them, so it shouldn’t make that much of a difference, and yet it did. Addergoole was something she wanted to protect Livi from, even though she doubted that she could.

“Okay, Livi, we’ll split up, but after this morning.” Ursula smiled at Livi. “I just want to have a chance to spend some time with you here and see what happens, because I think that will gives us an idea what we can expect in the future.”

Livi nodded. “That works. Breakfast then?”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.