the ribbon of royalty

my name is Seda. my story, begins somewhere sad. we are at my mothers funeral. i was thirteen years old at the time. my mother was sick with cancer and we thought she would get better. but then she got the flu and it turned to pneumonia. her badu couldnt hold out with pneumonia and chemo. as I was sitting there, alone, i had looked at all the people who had come. a lot of them, I have never met. at times, I thought I had seen things like wings or shimmery tattoos on them, but I would blink, look again, and there would be nothing. I remember telling myself it was light reflecting off the tears still in my eyes. after the funeral, my dad pulled me aside and told me he wanted to be alone for a while to grieve and that I would be staying with my grandma. my moms mom. I was not really close with my dad and I loved my gramda, so I agreed. it is now my fifteenth birthday. I got a surprise I'll never forget. my dad returned, remarried to a woman with a daughter my age. he took me and his new family away to Illinois. almost 3000 miles away from my grandma and my home. thus begins my adventure of a life time.