Awakening

The girl in the photo on her wall blinked. Again. But Lucy Benedict didn’t notice. She never noticed.

The faded image of the melancholy girl hung on her bedroom wall. The photo was an inside joke amongst Lucy and her friends, each of them having a similar picture from a collection they discovered together at a garage sale and found "soo cute". They facetiously referred to them as their spirit sisters and gave each of them a name, Lucy calling hers Samantha.