Alyssa Ruan woke up to the strange dream she had. This dream has been coming frequently. She tries to look at the faces of the people in her dream, but she can't see them. She sighed and got out of bed to prepare another day of school.
Her 21st birthday is tomorrow, do her real parents care that she is now all grown up? She has been wondering all her life who are her real parents and why did they give her away? Sure, her foster parents are nice and loving, but the curiosity of wanting answers is giving her all these thoughts.
Not wanting to ponder on it anymore, she walks down to the living-dining room to see her foster mom, Mylene Lee preparing breakfast, while her foster dad, Shawn Choo watching the news.
"Good morning, Mylene and Shawn." Alyssa Ruan said. Since she was young, they always ask her to call them by their name. When she was five years old, they told her they were not her real parents and they are only stand in until her real parents can come back to get her. She believes them but as years go by, she starting to lose hope.
"Morning Ally." Both greet her formally. Another thing happened when she was 18th, they start to address her formally once her birthday passed. She thought they were going to abandon her as they suddenly becoming distant. She questions them about it, and they told her they are not abandoning her, and they are just reverting to the way they were before she came into their life. They tried to be loving parents to her so that she can have a good childhood when growing up.
"Ally, may we know what you want for your 21st birthday tomorrow?" Shawn Choo asked.
Alyssa Ruan looks at them and hesitates to answer.
"I want to find out more of my parents."
Mylene Lee and Shawn Choo look at each other and nod. Mylene Lee replies to Alyssa Ruan, "You will find out about them tomorrow."
"Thank you."
The doorbell rang, Mylene Lee gets up to open the door. Outside stood Rosangela Wang with her bag. She greeted Mylene Lee and Shawn Choo. "Ally, you ready to go to school?"
"Coming Rose. I still don't get why you want to go to school at the same timing when you start class later." Alyssa Ruan picks up her bag and walks toward Rosangela Wang. "I'm off. I won't be back tonight. I will be staying over at Rose's place."
"Understood," Shawn Choo nods.
"Let's go." Rosangela Wang pulls her best friend away from her home.
"Her Majesty is waking up soon."
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Alyssa Ruan and Rosangela Wang walk into University M talking about their life. "Can you believe it's almost been fifteen years since I know you?"
"I know. So much have happened, and we have change but we always are best friends."
"Ally, can I ask you a small favor?" Rosangela Wang nervously looks at Alyssa.
"Which is?"
"Don't leave me behind. I know once you found out about your parents, you will go and see them. I want to go with you as support, but I can't leave until you convince my parents to let me go."
Alyssa Ruan looks stunned, it may be true that Uncle Marvin Wang and Aunt Leanna Ng listen to her requests no matter how weird it goes, but for letting their daughter go…
"Rose, I will try but that is not a grantee." Rosangela Wang turns and hugs her. "And also, do you know anything about my parents?"
Rosangela Wang lets go and looks away from Alyssa Ruan, "Well… Not saying I have met them before… But…"
"But what?"
Rosangela Wang saw the time and realizes Alyssa Ruan will be late. "Come on you will be late for class and I heard you told me that lecturer of this module will mark you absent if you enter 10 minutes late."
Alyssa Ruan quickly rushes to class with Rosangela behind her. Rosangela Wang thought, 'Crisis escape.'
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In the middle of the night, a girl lay on the blow-up mattress dreaming the same dream. But something is different from the dream. She saw Marvin Wang and Leanne Ng carrying a baby girl that looks like Rosangela Wang, and she also can see the Majesties' faces. The Queen who have brown hair and caramel eyes like herself and the King's black hair and eyes. They both resemble her.
Then she can clearly hear them calling the baby girl in the Queen's arm, Princess Alyssa Ruan. Her own birth name. The Princess is wearing a charm necklace like her own. She does not know how she got her charm necklace, but she knows it's hers as her name is engraved on one side.
Was this a memory or was her mind making all this up? She can't be royal. A few countries' rules by monarchies did not report on a missing baby and moreover, the two faces of the King and Queen are not on any of the royals shown in the world.
And that masked man, saying his master wanted the princess because of her powers? And the Princess is just a baby. But what powers does he want? Why only the Princess have these powers?
Rosangela Wang woke up when a bright light shone in her room, she looks over to Alyssa Ruan who is still sleeping but there is a small light covering her whole body.
"The Princess is awakened." Rosangela Wang looks sadly at Alyssa Ruan, "Oh Ally, please forgive me for not telling you and don't leave me."
When the lights dim and bring back the room to darkness, Rosangela Wang got up and quietly left the room. She saw her family in the living room, "She has awakened."
Marvin Wang stood up and left the room, a few minutes later, he returns with a book. The book title 'The History of Melesent'.
"Leave the book beside her, if she asked about it, say it her birthday present from us." Marvin Wang passes the book to his only daughter.
"Dad, Sister Ally won't hate us, right?" The youngest of the 3 siblings, Randall Wang nervously asks.
"I don't believe she will, after all, she took after both her parents' personalities. And once she finishes the book, she will understand."
When the sun has shone into the room, but only Alyssa Ruan is alone. She has been awake for a while. She keeps thinking back on the dream and what it stands for. "Why now can I see the people's faces? Why is Rosangela's parents in it? Are they connected to why I was given away by my parents?"
Thinking all this is useless, today is her birthday. She is finally twenty-one, the legal age in this country.
She sat up and look around, "Where is Rosangela? Every Birthday she is the first one I saw." Then she notices a black book with a sticky note on her bed and a tray of foods on Rosangela's desk.
The sticky note says "Happy Birthday Ally! Read this before coming down for lunch. Love Wang Family."
She got out of bed and went to the toilet to freshen herself up. Turning on the tap, she rinses her hand under the water. Touching the water calm her, it's like returning to her roots. People often told that her personality is like both water and air. She can be calm and soothing but at the same time violent if anger. Her mind flows with the water like wind, blowing it gently but can be a tornado if stress.
Sometimes she just wishes she was just one of these elements. They neither have feelings or need to think of what they do just follow Mother Nature and she will guide them.
She put her hand out from the water but was surprised, the water flow from the tap is not going straight down the drain but it is going around the sink in a swirling direction. Thinking that the Wang's may change the tap design, she ignores it for now and asks them about it later.
Returning to the room, she started reading the book and eating her breakfast at the same time.