Hello. For those of you who have just clicked on this, going over the stories in the 'just in' section, this is the sequel to my previous fan fiction, Silvers Kiss. I highly suggest you read that before reading this, because you won't have any clue what is happening otherwise. For those of you who have already read Silvers Kiss and have been waiting patiently for this first chapter, Enjoy.

SILVER STAR

CHAPTER ONE

Annie waved Keri over, a newspaper in her hand. Keri rolled her eyes, walking over to say hello to the woman. She had that look on her face… "Annie, it's a nice day today."

"Yes… I've been meaning to talk to you for quite some time now, that boy of yours, I'm worried about you. He doesn't look like good news, you should be careful around him." She waved towards the house…

Keri had to bite her lip to keep from laughing, the woman had only seen him once, yesterday while she was walking home. Annie was around seventy years old, she supposed Silver would have been that boy you didn't even consider talking to… especially since he'd had his shirt off. Keri took a deep breath, and busted into giggles anyway, Silver was walking down the street… Thank goodness, he was wearing a black shirt and blue jeans.

"Good morning." His expression was as serious as ever, but he raised an eyebrow at Keri.

Keri couldn't help continuing to giggle, the euphoria of having him back after almost six years getting to her… "You've never acted so silly dear, what's gotten into you?" Annie was a little confused at her behavior, she didn't think she'd said anything funny.

Keri felt like she owed an explanation to the woman… "Annie, Silver is Sterlings father!" She grinned and wrapped an arm around him…

"And he's just now coming to visit?" She glared at the man, ready to give him a chewing out…

"Miss Annie, I promise you that I would have been with her the entire time… every minute, if the situation had permitted… I love Keri more than anything…" He was staring at Keri, it seemed more like he was talking to her than the woman to his left.

Annie watched them, backing up a little… he reached up and brushed a piece of hair from her face… the little movement seemed to break them both out of a trance… Keri blinked and turned to her. "I'm sorry, I should introduce you two."

"Annie, this is Silver, Silver, Annie Greer."

"Well, it's nice to meet you. You take care of her, Keri is such a special girl, you know my Meowth was stuck on the roof once and she just climbed up there and got it down? That's how I met her, she'd just moved in next door, and I'm so glad or I would have had to go all the way down to the ranger station… Well, I should go inside then, I need my morning tea. Care to join me?"

"Not today Annie, me and Silver have some… catching up to do." Six years… Six years and yesterday…

"Okay dear." She waved and walked into her apartment building. Neither heard her, almost running to the apartment… Keri had gone out to get her mail… it could wait, oh god, it could wait…

Keri could barely restrain herself as they ran through the apartment building… up one floor… She'd barely gotten the door shut before she had his shirt off. "I have never," She growled, "Seen anyone look so hot in a Team Rocket uniform."

"I'm not wearing that…" He pressed his mouth against hers… It had been so hard yesterday, he'd reluctantly left at midnight, spending a restless night in the motel down the street…

"Where is that anyway…" She pressed him against the wall, they weren't going to make it to the bedroom…

"No more talking…" He growled…

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Sterling raised her hand, watching the teacher. She finally looked up from her desk. "Yes Miss Fletcher?"

"Mrs. Bradly, I finished my problems…"

"Well, move on to the next ones."

"I finished those too…"

The teacher frowned, and walked over to the little girls table, looking through the pages… "Sterling, did you do the whole problem book?"

She nodded. "I already know adding and subtracting, I can do the big numbers too. Mommy taught me how to add, and subtracting is just adding backwards, that isn't that hard."

"Well… why don't you read for a little while?"

"But I finished my book… I know, don't start your sentences with but. I finished my book though."

The teacher tapped her fingers on the table, a couple of the other students were watching, a girl with pitch black hair hooked a rubber band around a paper clip, it hit her right in the back of the head.. "Ow! Hey!"

Sterling turned around, rubbing the back of her head… "That wasn't nice Emily, why did you do that?"

The girl frowned, the teacher watching. "Do what?"

"You hit me with a rubber band… That was mean."

"You can't prove that!" Emily put her fists on her hips, a pout on her face.

"No, but you know you did it." Sterling turned around, she took her pencil and began to draw on the edge of the problem book. Emily was mean… she didn't have to play with her.

The teacher looked at Sterling, then back at Emily, who was sitting with her arms crossed. "Sterling, how old are you, again?"

She looked up to the teacher. "Five, I turn six in December."

Mrs. Bradely chewed on her bottom lip… This girl had been in kindergarten for three weeks… "Sterling, why don't you come with me. You aren't in trouble, but I want to talk to you."

The girl became a little worried, but stood up and walked behind the teacher anyway, still holding her pencil. Mrs. Bradely picked up her phone and dialed a number, "Could you send someone down to watch the class?… No, no problems. I'll explain when we get there." She set the phone in the receiver.

Sterling walked out of the room behind her, glancing back. All of the other students were watching her. She felt her face go red… was she in trouble?

Mrs. Bradely led Sterling into the office… Now she was sure she was in trouble… she walked a little slower. Mrs. Bradely led her into the counselors office. He looked up, frowning slightly. "Is there a problem Mrs. Bradely?"

"No, there's nothing wrong at all. Sterling has just finished her problem book."

He looked at the teacher, surprised… "You mean her problems for today?"

"No Mister Dale, her entire problem book."

Sterling looked at the counselor, worried. "Did I do something wrong? Mrs. Bradely said to work ahead if we were done, and I already finished my reading book… I didn't do anything wrong, right?" Her little hands were balled into fists behind her back. She hadn't done anything wrong, she knew it.

"No, it's just that most of the other kids in your grade have only finished the first few pages. You worked out everything in the book much faster than everyone else."

Mrs. Bradely looked at Sterling… "Another student shot a rubber band at her."

The counselor frowned, looking at the teacher. "What happened?"

"Sterling, why don't you tell him."

She was confused… if she wasn't in trouble, then why was she down here, and why did she have to tell him about Emily…? "She hit me with the rubber band, and I told her it wasn't nice, and she said she didn't do it, then I told her she was being mean by hitting me with it. Emily told me I couldn't prove it, but I can because she sits two tables down, and it didn't hit me hard enough to be any closer, but I told her that she knew she'd done it, because I don't want to fight with her, and she knows better than to hit people. I'm not in trouble right?"

The man shared a look with the teacher… "No, that was a very… mature thing to do. Why don't you go back… stop in the library on your way back and get a new book to read."

Sterling was relieved, and wasted no time leaving the office… Why were the grown ups worried about her finishing her work book? The problems were easy, and Emily was mean so arguing with her would just make it worse.

Mr. Dale drummed his fingers on the desk for a couple seconds… "So should we put her in first grade?"

"I'm not sure. We need to talk to her mother about it. One thing we don't want to do is move her on too fast, that could hurt her more than help. She figured out the subtraction all by herself, just from the book. She said it was just like adding but backwards."

He sighed. "I'll call her mother, and we can talk to her about it."

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Keri ignored the phone… until it started ringing for the third time… "Fine!" She growled.

Silver looked at the item, sitting just a couple feet away… Keri grabbed it and pressed the little green button…

"Hello?"

The counselor answered. "Yes, Miss Fletcher?"

"Silver hey, no wa- stop that! It's the school!" The counselor looked at the phone, slightly shocked for a second..

"I could call back at a better time…?"

"No, no it's fine, what is it?" She glared at Silver, face red. He smirked and raised his eyebrows at her… she couldn't help smiling.

"Uh… we just wanted to talk to you about some things, along with Sterling."

Keri's face fell… "Is something wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong, but I would rather talk to you in person. If you could give us a good time."

"I can come in right after school."

"That would be perfect, thank you Miss Fletcher." The counselor hung up the phone.

Keri pressed end and set the phone back on the receiver, looking at it as if it were going to bite her in a second…

"What was that about?"

She turned around and Kissed him, still worried. "It was the school… they want to talk to me about Sterling, they said that nothing was wrong though…"

Silver frowned, "Can I come with?"

Keri was shocked for a second… "Of course… I can't believe that you asked permission."

"When does school get out?"

"Around four. We could walk down, it takes about twenty minutes to get there."

"We probably should then."

She lay there for a second, worried. What on earth could they have called her about? Why did they want to see her in person? "Why don't we get up?" She said, she wasn't in the mood anymore, she was too worried.

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Emily Creed fiddled with the paperclip… perfect, an itty bitty slingshot just like mom could make. Not as strong, but it would shoot the rubber bands more accurately…

"Emily, shouldn't you be doing your problems?"

She glared at the boy. "They're boorriinngg. Look at what I made." She held up the twisted paperclip…

"That's what you shot Sterling with?"

"Yep, but I think it will work better now."

"You shouldn't be mean to her, you'll get in trouble."

"Ethan, don't be dumb. I never get in trouble… Are you stuck on number eight?"

He turned back to his paper… "No, I just haven't figured it out yet."

"You are stuck on it. Seven and three is just like five and five, they equal the same." She flipped open her book… "See, it says here, seven and three equal ten, just like five and five do."

Ethan looked at her book, then at his paper… "You're so smart, why don't you ever do your problems Emily?"

"It's boring, I already know everything. My mom taught me to add and subtract problems forever ago." She flipped to the last page of the book. "Look, see these numbers? That little sign there mean subtract, which means that you take away from the number, instead of add to it. These ones are bigger than the ones that we work on now, but I can subtract even bigger ones."

Ethan wrote the answer to number nine in his book. "You should do all of the problems and show the teacher that you're smart. Could you help me with ten, I don't remember what that number is."

"That one is one more than ten…"

Mrs. Bradely moved out of ear shot, checking another students problems. Emily was just as smart as Sterling… and she had shot that rubber band at her. Sterling was sitting only one table ahead of them now, reading her new book. The teacher was surprised to see that she hadn't turned the page already, but the girl seemed to be concentrating…

She was shocked to realize that Sterling must have been listening in on the other two. Kindergarteners don't usually eavesdrop on each other… not like that. She went to her desk and picked up her phone… "Mr. Dale? Could you call Miss Creed, and set up a meeting?… No, she's teaching another student what subtraction is……. Yes. No, she hasn't… Why don't we call in one of the professors and see what they make of it?"

She scanned the classroom… her eyes locked with Sterlings for a second… she blinked, quickly looking away. The girl went back to reading her book… several of the other students were still learning the alphabet.

Emily watched her set down the phone, finally doing her problems after some encouragement from Ethan. Students who didn't do their problems got in trouble… she glared down at the page, quickly filling out the answered for the previous three pages. She didn't want to get in trouble… She had to be just like mommy, and mommy never got caught.

XOX

Okay, that was hard. I hate to admit that I think I need a little help, I haven't been in elementary school for a few years, and I haven't ever been a parent, so any advice on writing either would really be useful right now.

Silver is going to be much more OOC during this story, but there are a few things you need to keep in mind, although I don't think I myself have fully comprehended the meaning of these yet. As silly as that sounds, me being the author and all…

1. He's a father now. Having children changes people… I've watched it happen, and it's a little scary and completely amazing at the same time. Children are such huge forces, it's really terrifying how much they change peoples lives… and in fiction, that's no exception.

2. At some point, in the last book, Silver grew up. I know that's a little weird because he's always so serious and seems… Iunno. But everyone has that point where everything focuses, and they just… know. I know that that isn't very clear, but it's the best way I can explain it.

So, welcome to the sequel of Silvers Kiss, and I have no clue what I'm doing.