Rainbow Eyes - Book 1 - Chapter 1

== Chapter 1 - Me== I sat bolt up right. Good news – That creepy dream hadn’t been real. Bad news – I’d accidentally head-butted my friend, Olivia who’d been watching me.

“Gosh, Liv. Was me asleep that interesting?” I said.

“Probably not.” My other best friend, Emma replied. She laughed for a while. Her laugh was quite… Unusual. When she laughed it was like an evil mastermind who’d just taken over the world.

“I was just going to wake you up. It’s… The day.” Olivia said, putting emphasis on “the day”.

I knew “The day” was Valentines Day. At the orphanage I’d stayed at we had to dress up for Valentines Day, and even wear make-up. Luckily, me, Olivia and Emma had found a loophole to all this. We would dress up as Greek goddesses. You see Miss Herald, the owner of the orphanage said we had to “dress-up” but it had to be “appropriate” for school. So since we were studying Ancient Greece we could go as Ancient Greek goddesses. It wasn’t perfect but at least we weren’t wearing pink frilly dresses.

As we were getting ready, Olivia came in wearing an amazing Artemis costume. She was wearing a silver dress-top with a piece of string as a belt so it looked like a real Greek tunic. She had also spray-painted an old pair of flip-flops gold.

“Why are you spending so much time getting ready? And why are you putting on make-up?”

“Miss Herald said I had too or she would pick my costume. Why does she go so far with this anyway?” I replied.

“Not so sure.” Emma said as she came in. She was dressed as Persephone, goddess of springtime. “Because she’s a loon?”

“Awesome costume Em’.” I said.

She wore a long, dark purple dress with black, artificial flowers glued on to the bodice. Her hair had flowers in too. She wore brightly coloured eye shadow but black eyeliner and black sandals.

“Wait, wasn’t she the goddess of springtime? Why all the black?” Olivia asked.

“She’s the wife of Hades! We spent a fortnight learning the myth!” Emma retorted.

“Oh yeah… Sorry.” Olivia apologised.

“Okay, calm down you two!” I said and surprisingly, they did. “Alright, let’s go to school!”

“Yeah, and get this over with!” Olivia said.