Azurina

Here is the very 1st chapter of the story. Hope you enjoy it :)….

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It was a dull Monday morning; the sun had just come up; he had kissed the sky with his luminous lips; the sky was still shy; at a corner the sky was still dark; the other parts were blue and bright; brightness that resembled the sun light sapphires. The sky was clear now; the snow that had been falling since weeks had now subsided temporarily. The birds had left their sweet little homes to take the early air into their lungs and fill them to their full capacity. The taste of the breeze filled their mind with happiness. They made happy flutters and turns. They squeaked away sweetly.

It was 7:10 a.m. The girl in the dark blue dress and navy-blue socks, who had been asleep in the center of the blue room on a light blue bed moved reluctantly and shuffled over the bed pulling the sheets. She clearly was not sleepy. She did not want to wake up from the soft bed. She rolled and twirled again and again until the alarm beeped again saying it was 7:30 a.m., the time for her to move out of the bed.

She went to the bathroom. She lazily took her blue toothbrush and added a drop of toothpaste on the end of the brush and took her blue mug and filled it with water. She started to brush her teeth in a slow manner. She was the laziest girl that you could ever come across. Even though she was lazy, she never was lazy when there was a need of her in any situation. She would always lend a helping hand out to anybody who approached her for help.

Azurina started to bath. It was a cold winter morning in the mid of January. It was especially cold in Kintgon. But Azurina liked it cold. She showered with icy cold water in that freezing weather.

She always had this great attraction towards water and ice. When she was two years old, she had crawled out of the house when her mother was busy searching for fresh clothes for Azurina to put on. The baby had nothing but the napkin on. After choosing the right clothes Azurina’s mother, Christine, was shocked to find the baby missing. The she heard the naughty girl’s happy gurgles and laughs. Looking through the window she found Azurina happily playing with the snow that was falling. She was trying to grab some flakes in her soft little hands. Some of the flakes had fallen on her black shiny hair decorating it like pearls. Azurina looked so pretty. To Christine, she looked like a princess of snow. Christine rushed to Azurina, grabbing a camera. She stood with a considerable distance video graphing the play of the child.

A small flake landed on the nose of the child. The flake was tingling the girl’s nose that she sneezed. All the tiny little decorative peals fell. Little Azurina blinked and scooped up some snow next to her threw it upwards. The snow fell and splattered around and Azurina merrily clapped her hands. At this moment, Christine came knelt next to Azurina and hugged the girl. Seeing her mother hug her Azurina cackled cheerfully. Cleaning of the snow, Christine took Azurina in her arms and went inside the house.

Poor Christine. Her love towards the baby shielded her from seeing strangeness of the baby. She did not wonder how the baby able to tolerate such low temperatures when it was barely dressed when she with her thermal on too was feeling cold? It never queried her, and she never searched for the answers. As Azurina grew up, she displayed more of such signs, but they were barely noticed by Christine and Harry. Azurina was their ‘princess’.

Azurina did not want to go to the school that day. It was the day on which school reopened after the Christmas vacations. She did not have any friends. Her classmates did not care about her as she had moved into the city recently, just two years ago. They did not like her because good at almost everything. The girls were especially jealous of her because she was as white as snow. For one or the other reason everybody disliked her which left her to herself. Those nasty kids even bullied her, but she would keep quiet as she would not want to make a big issue of it. Like this, days moved on.

She wrapped herself in a towel and went to the bathroom. She just immersed her hand into the tub to see whether the water was cold enough. Suddenly, she felt the water in the tub turn into ice. When she saw the tub, she was shocked to find the layer of ice formed on the surface.

“Oh! the water must have frozen before I came. The weather is so cold too. I just mistook it,” she said not understanding what had just happened.

She jumped into the tub and took bath. She failed to identify the cause of formation of ice. It was her. It was her very own hands. It was her very own power.

After bathing, she dried herself and dressed in a light blue knee length dress and a black scarf. Pulling out her backpack, she packed all the necessary stationery items-iPad, notebook, pens, pencils, file, etc. Then she pulled out her brown boots. She gathered her beautiful blonde hair into a ponytail and hurried to the living room.

“Morning Mom, morning dad”, she said.

“Morning dear” said her mom.

“Morning sweetheart” said her dad.

“Mom what’s in the breakfast?”

“There’re pancakes, salad, and nuts bar with a musk-melon milkshake, honey.”

“Awesome”

Azurina sat down at the dining table to have her first nutrition for the day. Then she pulled on her white overcoat and turning to her dad and mom, waving to them she said, “Bye dad, bye mom!!”, moving out of the house.

“Good day, honey” they called out to her.

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Quick questions!!

1. What do you think of Azurina's character as of now? give one word.

Do let me know what you think. :)