| Outside her room, the phone rang; the squeal of the bell shattered the silence much in the same way as when a glass vase hits the floor. Mackenzie stretched and rolled over, intent on going back to sleep. Instead, the door creaked open, and her mother poked her head in. Apparently Mackenzie had been accepted to Monclair, one of the larger private schools in the area. She forced a smile and asked her mother when she would be fitted for her uniform. Suddenly the end of the month didn�t seem that far away. Mackenzie knew that she should be happy to be attending such an exclusive school, and in a way she supposed she was. Perhaps she was more nervous about attending a new school and trying to make friends with a caliber people who, less than a year ago, were completely out of her reach. It was unnerving, to say the least. And yet to have the chance to excel in such a school-if she did well there, then all the doors would be opened to her. Colleges sought out students from such schools, and if her grades were high, that was all the better. With renewed vitality, Mackenzie leapt out of the bed in a flash of red a green and run down the hallway. She wasn�t going to look at being accepted in a negative light, not when such good could come from it. It was a new beginning, a new chapter in her life; from that moment on, she was to never again dwell on past mistakes. This was the excitement that she needed in her life. �Daddy,� she called, �I�ve been accepted!� Her father glanced up from his typewriter; a broad smile slowly spread across his face, replacing the lines of burdened age with something more care free. �So you have- congratulations.� He rose from his overstuffed leather chair and embraced his daughter. �So what did the admissions office have to say?� Mackenzie shrugged. �Mum had the phone. I never actually spoke with anyone. She did tell me was that my uniform fitting is at the end of the month.� Her father nodded, congratulated her once again, before disappearing down the hallway to get the details from his wife. End of Act 1 |