" You know Sarah, if you wanted to talk ..." He didn't even Finnish the sentence before she had slammed her bedroom door behind her. "We'll be down here."

"Oh don't let her bother you Robert. Teenage girls, you know. Never can tell what'll set them off."

Meanwhile up in her room, Sarah just didn't know what to do with herself. She wanted to cry, scream, kick something, and just run away all at once. She wasn't even sure why she was that upset; none of the stuff she was worked up over was new, just the same old drama she always delt with. Maybe it was just that now it had all happened so close together.

It had all started about two weeks ago, first with some arguments with the few friends she had, with turned into fights, and then there were her test marks that seemed to be dropping proportionality to her social status, more homework than she'd like to think about of the winter break, Toby acting like a little monster, about half her friends basically abandoning her, and of course Karen and her Dad weren't helping.

She look over at her desk as she listed out all the things she'd been through and noticed a picture of herself and a decent looking young man, seeming quite happy together. Oh right, nearly forgot about that one.

She'd been dateing Matt for about two and a half months, but as of about four hours earlier, she could once again say she was single.

"It's not you, it's me." She moaned in a mocking tone. "We're just not comparable anymore, and I think we should see other people. Ha, didn't wait too long on that last part, did ya?"

Shortly after he'd dumped her, she found out that not only was he dating Abby Gallant, but that there families where going on vacation together to the Bahamas the next day.

"Great plan there Matt, break up with one girlfriend, and then flee the fucking country with the new one." She mumbled, so that no one would hear her curse, as she tore the picture up.

And now here she was, sitting in her room on holiday for the next few weeks, with no friends, no boyfriend (though it wasn't like Karen didn't try to set me up with a new guy the minute she hurt about the damn breakup), and overall just no one to talk to, nothing to do that wasn't homework, and feeling simply and utterly frustrated.

"Sarah! Sarah!"

Sarah sigh when she heard the high pitched voice calling to her "Yes Karen?"

"Your dad and I have some shopping to do over the next few days. We can take Toby today since we just need to get stuff for dinner, but you're going to have to take him tomorrow and the day after."

God, she sounds like nothing even happened! Thanks for the sympathy!

"Ya sure, fine." She managed to get out without sounding too resentful. So I guess there is something to do other than homework.

She watched them pulling out of the driveway a few minutes later, and then started thinking about taking care of Toby. He had been fine to watch until he started talking. After that he started to get selfish, greedy, and generally just acting like a brat. Sure he was just a toddler, but age doesn't matter to a stressed out high school senior.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got.

Finally she gave into that anger for just a second, and letting out a scream that almost shook the windows, she pulled a shoe off her foot and tossed itacross the room as hard as he could, knocking over a few book as she did so.

Well at lest I feel a little better I guess.

Picking up the book she began to flip through them. An old diary, The Catcher in the Rye, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a tiny old French-English dictionary, and a little book with a red leather cover with gold writing on it.

Man, I haven't seen this thing in almost a year.

She though back a few year to when she was almost never without it, and began to read through it again. It was still probably one of her favorite book, and it even managed to bring a smile to her face.

Still as good as I remember it, but man did it give me weird dreams ... Ya dreams

That dream still seemed so real to her, but she knew that it was still just a dream and nothing more. She flopped back onto her bed and continued to read.

"Goblin king, goblin king, take this child of mine ... Ha, forget the child, I xcould do with being whisked away by some magic fairy king right about now."

Looking around her room, a childing smile came to her face.

"In fact ... Goblin king, oh goblin king, I wish the goblins would come and take me away, right now." Giving her room a quick once over, she let out a laugh "Well, it was worth a shot I guess."

Her laugh turned to a yawn, and her eye lids began to feel a little heavy. "Who knows, maybe they'll come to me in my sleep to fix all this. Either way, a nap will probably help."

Her eyes began to close, but just as they shut and she fell asleep, she felt kinda weird. It was almost like some one had wrapped their arms around her, and should could have sworn that she saw glitter.