Tenacious Sky

"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.

honey, but you're the biggest tomboy I've ever met. Aren't you worried at all?" My mom asked. I chuckled to myself. Being a tomboy would actually help me at my new school because I had to act like a boy. I told my parents that I was going to the all-girls Stone Lake Academy,

all-boys boarding school in Maine. It was known for its sports program, and I wouldn't have given it 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,

know I've always been able to make friends easily.

that me being at a boarding school was making her anxious by the way she continued to wring

Don't worry, mom. Hopefully I'll be there until I graduate and then I'll join the Olympic fencing team," I tried to