My first fic. Go easy on me please! Feel free to leave constructive criticism in the comments box. Thanks!

-Mindrider

Elaine's POV

Slightly More Interesting Then Psychic Octopus's

The last days of school are always the best.

You know, the days where all you seem to do is sit around chatting with your friends while half watching the world cup. It's such a nice feeling knowing that soon school would be over and you had the entire summer to sit back and hang out by the pool with nothing to worry about but mosquitoes and sunburns, right?

Wrong.

That's what I thought my summer was going to be like but sometime in between Germany's loss to Spain and Spain's victory over the Netherlands my life took a turn for (something that I was pretty sure was) the worst.

The month started out normal enough. When we had school we practiced for our graduation, watched more of the world cup, talked a ton, and bored ourselves to death in the classrooms. We had lunch and specials somewhere in between there but not too much else. When we didn't have school we all went crazy and played with our friends, freaking out about the fact that it was summer and that next year we would be going to middle school. I remember a conversation I had with my friend Rachel back when we were still at school.

"Don't you love the end of the year?" I had asked her.

"Sort of." She had responded.

"What do you mean sort of? It's awesome!"

"Well yeah," She sighed. "But it only reminds me that I'm not going to be able to see you guys again."

It was true, Rachel was leaving this summer and she wasn't coming back. I found it really dumb considering she had moved here only like halfway through the year, but apparently it was important that she left even though I didn't know why.

"Oh common Rachel, don't let that ruin your fun." I said.

"Yeah I know it's dumb, but you guys are some of the best friends I've ever had." She smiled at me.

"Hehe I know." I said using a nerdy voice.

"I just wish I had found her." She muttered to herself.

"So when are you going to admit that that's not your real hair color?" I asked.

She jumped at my words and stared at me in astonishment. "What?"

I sighed. My other friends and I had been waiting for Rachel to finally tell us this fact. We all knew it, (we could see the red in her roots) but she never mentioned it. "Rachel we all know that your hair isn't naturally brown. We can see the red, we know it's fake."

"No it's not." She said twirling a lock of her shoulder length curly "brown" hair protectively around her finger.

I rolled my eyes and she crossed her arms. "It's really not Elaine, common I-"

"Rachel, Rachel, Rachel." I shook my head sadly. "Tsk tsk, you should know by now that lying gets you nowhere."

Now it was her turn to roll her eyes. I laughed. I guess we weren't going to get it out of her.

That day had been fairly ordinary; compared to the ones that followed, very ordinary. The last day of school was when the weird things began. It was just before our graduation and we were all in our classrooms preparing to go out in front of the entire school in our pretty little dresses and snazzy suits. The teachers were attaching flowers to our tops and we were all moving around the halls like a bunch of excited bees. My friends and I were having a conversation abut a psychic octopus named Paul when suddenly the room fell silent. Rachel, who was next to me, was the first in our group to look up and what she saw caused her to tense up. I lifted my head and my jaw dropped as a girl who none of us had ever seen before walked into the room. She had on a sleeveless pink dress that went down to about her knees and her curly blonde hair fell in perfect ringlets around her shoulders. Her eyes were the brightest blue and her skin was beautifully tan even though it was just the beginning of summer. She had a good deal of makeup on, much more than any of the other sixth graders had, and she stuck out like a sore thumb.

The most stunning sore thumb anyone's eyes had ever seen.

The guys in sixth grade were still a little young for romance but I doubt that there was one boy in the entire room who wasn't staring at her with big goo goo eyes.

She smiled and the room got about ten times brighter.

"Hi Mrs. Keli." She said to the teacher.

"Who… Who a-a-are y-you?" She stammered.

"I'm Affie Deity your student, remember?" She stared at Mrs. Keli with her huge blue eyes and I saw the confused look on the teacher's face stutter for a moment before it disappeared altogether.

"Oh yes, Affie dear I'm so sorry. You look much different with makeup." She smiled as she attached Affie's flower but I was still confused. Apparently other kids were the same way because a girl named Charlotte tapped her on the shoulder.

"Well I've never seen you before."

Affie pouted but for some reason it actually made her look prettier. "Well of course you have. You all have, I'm in your class." She looked around the room, scanning the faces one by one.

"Oh yeah!" Said Charlotte. "Now I remember. I'm so sorry I forgot you. Like Mrs. Keli said, you look different with makeup." My other classmates nodded in agreement before turning back to what they where doing. I still stared at her confused. I looked at Rachel to see her reaction. She had an angry expression on her face.

"Rachel do you know-"

She stalked off before I could finish my sentence. I followed her over to Affie.

"What are you doing here?" She asked Affie angrily but quietly. "If it's to give me more impractical riddles then I don't want to hear it."

Affie looked up from the nail she was examining. "Rachel sweetheart that is not the correct tone of voice to use with me."

"I don't care!" Rachel huffed. "Why would you give me such an impossible thing to solve?"

"I wouldn't have given it to you if it were impossible."

"Well I can't figure it out!"

Affie shook her head and gave her the same tsk noise that I had given her a few days ago. "Did it ever occur to you that maybe you just aren't smart enough to figure it out?"

Rachel's face turned red and she fumed. "I am very smart and just because I can't figure out a freaking riddle doesn't mean I'm not." She said through gritted teeth.

Affie sighed. "Alright, alright, I'm sorry. But you have to admit, it is taking you an especially long time."

"Well yeah, back to my original point, it's impossible!"

Their arguing continued on and I just stood there watching. I had never met this girl named Affie before. Apparently everyone else had. I wished that someone else was as clueless as I so that I didn't have to go through the embarrassment of having to ask someone to tell me who she was.

Rachel and Affie continued yelling and people were beginning to watch so I tapped them on their shoulders.

"Guys… Guys… GUYS!" They looked at me. "Would you quit it?" I said in a hushed tone. "People are staring."

Affie looked at me for a moment before a look of recognition passed over her face. She smiled at me but it was a weird smile. If I hadn't been such a reasonable person I would've said that it looked as though she was smiling at my insides and not my face.

"Why are you staring at my friend like that?" Rachel asked raising an eyebrow.

"Rachel would you like a hint to figure out your riddle?" Affie asked ignoring her question.

"Well, yes. I guess so."

Affie continued smiling at me and I squirmed uncomfortably. "Hey Elaine," she said.

"Yes?"

"Have you ever seen me before in your life?"

I brought my eyes from her excited blue ones to Rachel's confused green ones. "Well, I don't mean this rudely," I began "but I really don't think so. I don't think you've been in our class at all this year." I closed my eyes, waiting for her impact when she hit me or something for not remembering who she was. None came and I opened an eye cautiously. Affie's face was lit up and she was watching Rachel who seemed to be deep in thought.

"Never seen her before…" She mumbled to herself. "Only those who can see through the mist…" Suddenly Rachel stopped dead. Her eyes widened and she looked at me. I was beginning to get a little freaked out. Rachel continued staring and I was about to ask her what was going on when a huge smile lit up her face.

When I say huge I mean huge, like, covers the entire face, huge.

"Laina?" She asked quietly.

I was about to tell her that my name was Elaine and that she had know me all year and shouldn't be acting this way when it hit me.

When she said that name it was as though a thousand thoughts went through my mind in a split second. They were all memories of things that I thought I remembered doing. It was like a dream where you think you did something before you fell asleep, like buy a bag of balloons or something stupid like that, but when you wake up you realize that you actually didn't. But this dream was over in about two seconds. I stumbled forward and Affie caught me by the arms. Her pink nails dug into my skin and I yelped. The entire room looked at me and I'm sure I blushed. Rachel was still staring at me in astonishment and her green eyes were glistening unlike I had ever seen them glisten before.

"It all makes sense now!" She said staring at me the same way that Affie had been doing a few minutes ago that creeped me out.

"What?" I groaned removing Affie's sharp nailed hands from my arms.

"The missing daughter will soon be found." Rachel exclaimed excitedly. "With abilities greater and more profound. What didn't strike you before will strike with force. And then you'll show off your find on a silver horse"

Rachel stopped and a confused expression filled her face.

"That will come soon enough." Said Affie. "Continue reciting."

"She'll bring out the lonesome in a daft old soul. And help bring to life the person burned into coal."

"Not bad considering I'm no oracle." Said Affie.

"You got both the first line and the last line from my prophecy." Said Rachel crossing her arms. "The only one you actually made up was the middle one."

"Yeah." Said Affie. "I figured it needed three parts so I kind of stole them." She smiled and Rachel smiled back. This day just kept on getting weirder and weirder.

"Will someone please explain what's going on?" I asked pleadingly.

"Oh don't worry." Said Affie. "We will. Just do your graduation and we'll talk afterwards."

"But I can't." I said. "I'm leaving afterwards."

"I didn't mean right afterwards." Affie said mischievously.

What?

"Ok?' I said, my voice rising up at the end as though it was a question.

So I'll talk to you later!" Said Affie excitedly.

"Definitely." Said Rachel.

Affie smiled at me one more time before skipping happily out the door.

"Wait!" I said.

"What?" Rachel asked

"Isn't she going to stay for graduation?"

"Of course not." Rachel said.

"How come?"

"She's not a student here."

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