The magic of Apple blossoms

Chapter 1

Hedda walked out of the store with the twig in her hand. Her moms had given her the twig this morning so she could plant it somewhere special. The twig was from the apple tree in their garden. The tree that was older than anyone knew and was well known in the whole village for being something extra special. It's apples tasted a little more special than other apples in the village and it had given twigs for new trees for so long time that most trees in the village probably could be traced back to this one.

To plant ones first tree was a special part of the ceremony and part of getting her magic. She knew the act of planting a tree by putting just a fresh twig in the soil wasn't the way people without magic did it. But she had seen it done by Alvies all her life and to her that was the way to do it. She wanted to find a special spot. Somewhere unique. She'd probably end up planting it inside the circle of houses like most Alvies did but she wanted to explore her options first.
After all, it was her sixteenth birthday and today was the day of the ceremony that would give her her real magic. Not that she didn't have magic. But compared to an adult Alvie it was just party tricks.
She had been outside the store outside the circle many times. But she had never seen a car there before. Usually she was aware if non magic people was around but this time she didn't have that feeling at all. She did have some other feeling though. A feeling that something was about to happen.

Morgan wasn't quite sure how she had ended up here. Her mind must have been somewhere else and somehow she had ended up on a lonely road in the middle of the woods and her van had decided to break down outside a run down gas station that was the only house she had seen for like an hour. It was really weird. She had never ever been in a vehicle that had stopped for any unexplained reason. And she had never really been confused how she had ended up somewhere either. She never really planned to go places. But it kinda always ended up being where she wanted to go. Even if she hadn't exactly known that was what she wanted. But this. It felt different. She felt things she wasn't used to feel. Like something was building up to happen and she didn't know what. Something big and scary but not scary as in dangerous but more scary as in totally overwhelming because she wasn't used to not knowing because she always knew somehow and she was always in control and now she wasn't and it was like something inside her was taking her somewhere she never had been before. She went out of the car and walked towards the door to the house because it was clearly where she was meant to go. She was a bit scared and freaked out because of all the unfamiliar emotions but she was trying really hard to find her normal confident self. She probably wasn't doing a good job of it.

The door closed behind Hedda at the same time as a girl walked around the van. Her black hair was long and shiny and she was wearing a cap and plaid purple shirt with some jeans and a T-shirt. Her personality was hard to read because her emotional state was really confusing. So big. So mesmerizing. So hard to not be drawn in to.  And she didn't know if she wanted to stop it.

Morgan didn't plan to kiss the blonde girl that had walked out the door with an apple tree twig in her hand. She wasn't even sure if she was the one who kissed the girl. Or if the girl had kissed her. But there was definitely kissing. Kissing like never before. Kissing she never knew existed. She had tried it. A few times. Some were boys. Some were girls. But it never were more than some kisses. Just to try it. She never got what the big deal was. Not until now. This was it! This was why people kept talking about kissing. Though she was pretty sure this was more. This felt more than she knew it could feel. And the rain! Where did the rain come from? It was sunny a second ago and now it was raining like it had never rained before!