Life never goes the way we plan.

I always thought I would have a normal life. Something close to what my mom and dad have. I had it all planned out.

I would go to school, get good grades, make friends, date, go to college, have the typical young adult life, graduate, get married, and have three adorable little children with a normal husband and a house with a white picket fence. A very simple life, no? Quite typical, right?

Normal?

I've lived the first 16 years of my life as a normal girl. My friends are normal, my parents are normal, and the town I live in is normal. I am normal. All I have ever known is normal.

So, I ask myself, you, the world, the universe, how did I get here?

How did I end up laying here under the starry night sky with my not-so-normal boyfriend? Gazing up at the moon, basking in its glowing rays and receiving its energy.

And I can guess what you are thinking, 'how do you receive energy from the moon?' Or even better, 'why are you receiving energy from the moon?' Heh. Well, those are both loaded questions with a long and unbelievable story behind them. A story filled with laughter, happy times, naive teenagers, dark secrets, death, and sadness.

But before I get into that long story, I have a question for you. A question I wished someone asked me before everything changed. A question that makes no sense until you've been down the rabbit hole and back again. So, I ask,

                                                                            Who are you?

I once was a normal girl, living a normal life with my parents in an average town. My friends were normal and I had my whole future planned out. Down to the littlest detail.

And now? You wouldn't believe me if I told you. I wouldn't believe me. It's not normal. My life is no longer "normal." The furthest thing from normal.

I am Aurora Phoenix Feray-Hunter, and this is my not-so-normal story.

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