Chapter 1: Nicole POV

I sighed. Arin sat on a chair, Nikola sat on the grass, and I was on the white fence.

"Get in here!" Our teacher barked. "Break is over!" Boys and girls ran into the small schoolhouse, with us three behind them.

School. It was a one room schoolhouse, and it barely fit all of the kids.

"Nicole." Arin nudged my ribs, as I was starting to fall asleep. "Only one hour, don't worry." Her light brown eyes shined brightly. Why was she so pretty? She had raven black hair, always pulled back with a headband. She had fair skin, with a slight blush. I guarantee she would get all of the boys when we grew older.

"Look." Nikola pointed to a boy in the back of the room, who was deeply asleep. "Any ideas, Nicole?"

I nodded, and ripped up a few pieces of paper. I crumbled a big piece of paper. Inside of it was a small rock that I found earlier. I crumbled up the small pieces and stuck them on the big paper. A spiky ball. Not that great, but it'll work. I threw it at the boy, who's name was Arya, and woke up with a large snort.

"Arya," The teacher went all the way to the back and tapped her stick on his head. "Sleeping? Stay after school for today."

"Yes Ms. Darling." Arya muttered, glared at me.

"Oh, what do you know?" Ms. Darling chirped. "Time to go!"

Me, Arin, and Nikola jumped out of our seats. All of the kids ran out of the schoolhouse, but when I was going through the door, Ms. Darling stopped me.

"How's the foster home?"

I raised an eyebrow. "Fine, thank you. Why?"

"No reason. See anything strange lately?" She asked.

"No..."

"He told me-" When she realized I was there, she stopped. "You may go."

"What did Ms. Darling want?" Arin asked when I got out.

"She acted... Strange..." I started trailing off, because I saw something.

"Nicole?" Nikola waved her hand in front of my face. "Are you there?"

"Did you not see that?" I screeched. "There was something in the bushes! There it is again!" Arin gasped all of a sudden.

"What?!" She yelped. "What is in it?" She hid behind me.

"I may be going crazy." I rubbed my hands against my temples. "Maybe I want to go to sleep. Maybe this is a dream. Pinch me." Nikola pinched me, and I yelped. "Yep, this is real life."

"Well then, what did you see?" Nikola stood in my way.

"Something dark. Like a shadow... I'm going to go look for it." I started going around in the bushes.

"Come on." Arin whined. "Besides, we're all sleeping at my house, remember?"

"Right!" Nikola pulled me out of the bushes.

"Fine." I grumbled.

(pretend this is a line breaker) (Duh)

"Nicole," Arin cooed. "You're not thinking about what happened earlier, right?"

"Maybe." When I said that, a dark thing flew in the room and flew under the bed. I dived after it. When I caught it, I studied it. "Guys, it's the shadow." I went over to my backpack and stuffed the shadow in it.

"Can we go to sleep now?" Nikola yawned.

"Yeah." I agreed.

Yay, another story! This time, Peter Pan style!

I felt bored, so here it is!

This is probably going to be a short story. Maybe. But this won't impact on my other stories, don't worry!

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