Board Thread:Short Stories and Fanfictions/@comment-43957690-20191101212115/@comment-43957690-20191126040006

Chapter 5: The

Now, a lot of people say I'm the girly girl. Or the spoiled princess. Or the dumb but pretty popular girl.

All I have to say about that is if being any of those things means that I've broken the law to help my friends, thrown away my reputation for the greater good, and kicked butt as a member of a bada** rebel group, than I'm PROUD to be those things.

But I didn't always think that way.

It took a while for me to get that mindset, and a lot of that came from my time in Alluveterre. Time spent training during the day, my mother teaching me the basics of defense. I owe a lot to my mother...

She's the woman every girl wants to be... strong. Kind. Confident. Deadly.

But she taught me above all other things that being invisible wasn't all bad. That humbleness is often the greatest form of power, and that sometimes, hiding was smarter than fighting. I learned that lesson when I figured out how to hide myself from Gnomish eyes, which could detect vanishers even when they became invisible.

To this day, I'm the only vanisher who's figured out how to hide from Gnomes.

Alluveterre was a time of change for all of my friends. Sophie and Fitz became Cognates, Dex matured, Keefe may have had the hardest time of all of us, and obviously, we met the Song twins.

A big chapter in my life for sure. Especially since it was around that time that I realised that the guy I thought I liked... only had eyes for my best friend.

It was hard. I cried myself to sleep at night, sometimes, wondering why I wasn't enough. What did I have to do to prove myself? I was tired of being the invisible woman, but at the same time, all I wanted to do was dissapear.

But then I realized that wanted to be more than the girl crying for attention. I could be silent. Helpful. Humble.

And if after that, no one cared, no one noticed me for me... then I. Didn't. Give. A. Frick.

It was time to let go of my insecurities, and become Biana Vacker, who is the absolute queen of being herself.