The Diamond Necklace

By: Leah Fleischhacker (idea from writing magic by: Gail Carson Levine)
Everything was going normally until I found it. I guess your probably wondering what I'm talking about. well I found this necklace on the bus on the way to school and it had my name on it. it said Emerald Alexandra in very pretty letters. Anyway I asked the driver if he knew who it belonged to and he said no and there was no other Emerald Alexandras he knew. I looked at the necklace again and noticed that it said my last name on the back, Jewls. The necklace looked pretty valuable, it was all pearls and the place where it said my name it was a big diamond. So of course like any other girl it tried it on. Suddenly my body was glowing and i began to transform. My black hair grew green streaks, my pale skin suddenly had a tint of green in it. after the glowing stopped I ran to the bathroom to look in the mirror. I looked and could not believe what I saw. My hair must have grown several inches, my light green eyes were now such a piercing green that it hurt to look at, and my skin looked a little green I mean it looked normal but something about it seemed green. I reached for the necklace to take it off but it would not come off. I tried with all my might. “its not going to come off princess.” said a voice. I spun around and saw no one except for a mouse on the floor. Right now I was too shocked to care. “who said that, and what are you talking about its just a necklace.” I answered. “down here.” Said the mouse. I screamed. “hey chill, I'm not really a mouse I'm just under a spell, and anyway that’s a very special necklace. It holds power beyond your imagination.” “ya OK this whole “power beyond your imagination” thing is a little cliché don’t you think, so please just explain it normally.” I said very confused. I mean here I was a 16 year old girl turning green, and I don’t mean with envy, growing hair, and talking to a mouse. “you are the crowned princess of the fairy world. I was sent to come get you but since I am full fairy they transformed me into a mouse. “wait princess, fairy, full fairy, whats this about?” I asked. The mouse spoke again, “first things first I did not get to properly introduce myself, the name’s Harry.” He said. “of course Harry like Harry Potter.” I said sarcastically. The mouse looked at me confused “no, Harry as in Harry Bodlander, that’s who the Author of the book named me after. I think it was her Great Grandfathers name or something……, anyway when you were 6 and your mother died your father left the fairies in grief. You see he was human but your mother was a fairy and not just any fairy but the Queen of all fairies. Anyway he took you with him and promised that you will never know about your true identity. He took your necklace, which can only be removed by ones parents, and through it away. Luckily it cant be destroyed so your mothers sister, who is our queen until you are old enough, held onto the necklace until the age when the necklace is never removed, which happens to be 16.” That’s when I had this strange flashback; I was 6, I looked like I did now, green skin, green hair streaks, and the most piercing green eyes. I was spread over my mother crying saying “mommy please wake up.” My father was at the door, his arms crossed, he looked so sad. He came over to me and said “Emerald darling, we need to remove your power, we are going to live with grandma and grandpa in the human world, where I am from. Then he took the necklace off my neck. The green in my face disappeared. So did the green tint in my skin. My eyes got lighter like a flashlight turned off. Then I fainted.
A few minutes later I woke up on the cold bathroom floor I saw the mouse and the necklace on my neck. It was then I knew my life would no longer be the same.