Tenacious Sky
Chapter 1
"I promise everything will be fine. I've already been accepted into the school and everything is taken care of on campus," I promised my mother. I was a junior in high school. Even for me, my plan was a little ambitious and I didn't think I would get this far, but my bags were already packed and my flight left in six hours.
"It's just... you've never been to a boarding school before and this one is so far away. You're going to be away from the house for a long time. You haven't been gone this long since we brought you home," my mom worried.
"I haven't even left yet," I joked. I was adopted. My parents brought me home from Korea when I was two years old. My parents consisted of overly peppy mother hen with blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, and a tall but strong father who always spoke his mind with short brown hair and hazel eyes. Compared to them, it was obvious that I was adopted. Even though I dyed my hair blonde, my facial features, fair skin, and brown eyes were nothing like my parents. I figured it out pretty early on. But I loved my parents. They were the ones who introduced me to my first love: fencing.
new school because I had to act like a boy.
a second thought normally, but the Olympic fencing team's own Race Imboden started coaching there this year. It was my dream to become an Olympic fencer. If I wanted to be the best, I needed to be trained by the best. That's the reason I lied to my parents, cut my hair short, decided to move to the other side of
either. You know I've always been able to make friends easily.
asked. I could tell that me being at a boarding school was making her
graduate and then I'll join the Olympic fencing team," I tried to reassure her. She sighed as she paced the