(Authors Note at The Bottom.)

Chapter 1

POV Lori

1939

I was sent here by my parents. They were worried that I would hurt them and my little sister, Charlotte. It wasn't my fault I was born this way, or the fact that we lived near the ocean. I sit at the port of a little island near Wales. "I want to go back to San Francisco!" I yelled in frustration. Even though the war was raging on, I was sent to the center of it, Europe. "Then what are you doing here?" I heard a voice say from behind. I don't really take kindly to people near me, never have. "Well, I've always wanted to visit the UK , mind...you?" I turned around to see no one behind me. "Must be loosing my mind." I whispered rubbing my forehead.

I looked around again to make sure no one was there. I set my pink luggage aside and knelt to the ground. I was so near to the water I could touch it. Next thing I knew the water swirled around my arm and the same voice said in awe," You're a peculiar!" I looked once again. A bright red scarf floated in mid-air. " Are you invisible?" I asked the scarf. "Yes, but I've never seen a peculiar with that kind power." I felt a heat source kneel down next to me. "I'm Millard. And you are?" He asked me. "Lori." I said looking at the still water. "You want to see something?" I asked Millard. "Sure." He replyed.

I set my hand in the cold water. I closed my eyes and I could feel it start to begin. My eyes fluttered open and the waves formed in to my favorite figure, a dolphin. The water swirled around it and I could hear Millard gasp in awe. "I can manipulate water." Is all I said to him. We sat there, looking at the waves when he said, " I don't mean to sound rude but, what are you doing here?". The smile I had given him quickly faded and with it, was replaced by a silent whimper. "My parents sent me here, my aunt was a peculiar and was sent here, so my mother thought that with luck I could go to the same place she went. They thought I was a demon, locked me up in the cellar of our mansion. Charlotte,my sister, never knew about me though, all this happened years ago. She should be about eight by now. " I retreat my hand from the freezing water, which never bothered me.

"What was your aunt's name?" Millard asked me, his red scarf slowly floating away from us in the waves of the overlapping water. "She was called Cresta, a nickname given to her by my mother. She hated my aunt and since she already called her other sister 'crusty' she thought of a way to torment her. But her real name was ,Crescent. Another way to tease her." Millard put his oddly cold hand on my shoulder. "So what are you looking for?" He said after a long akward silence. "Looking for a so called,'Miss Peregrine'. Do you know her?" I asked him as I got up. "Yes, she's really helpful. I could take you to her." He told me.

I thought about this for a while, thinking it wasn't wise to be acomponied by a stranger, even if he too was a peculiar. I nodded my head and could feel his cold hand take mine. "This way." He directed me to the other side of the island. "Can I ask you something?" I asked him. "You already have. Sorry I was just teasing, but sure." He responded. "What were you doing there?" I looked to where the boy I was speaking to should be. "I get bored of spying on everybody so I sneak out to look at the water. More pleasent than being in a house of children." I could tell he was smiling. We walked until I relized that I had forgotten something. I gasped and Millard imediatly let go of my hand. I ran back to where I had left my luggage and could see it was floating in the waves.

I snapped my fingers and a wave delivered back my suitcases. "Please please please have the waves spared it!" I told my self in a scolding manner. "What do you have in there?" Millard asked me. I sighed as I lifted a soggy peice of paper from my personal belongings. "Just my stuff from San Fran." I told him. My friends, Mike and Josie would always call San Francisco, San Fran. As a nickname I guess. "What kind of things?" He asked." Nosey Much? Oh sorry I have to focus on my manners. It's just some pictures of me and my 'mates'. Also a few useful things like money and my legal documents." I sigh.

"Come on then. We can go to Miss Peregrine and I gurentee she'll give you whatever you need." Millard said. "Do you want your scraf?" I said as I stepped on the tips of my toes to look for his scarf. "No thank you." He said like a young gentleman. I shrugged and he took my hand once again to lead me to the peculiar house.

We walked for a long time until we finally reached it. We walked in to the house, Millard still holding my hand. I saw a little girl with a tiara playing with another girl, that apeared younger, with gold curls. He released my hand and I stared at the little girls. "Hullo!" Said the one with the small crown. I nodded my head , as if saying hello back. "I'm Olive!" She beamed at me. "And this is Clarie!" She added. I could feel Millard's cold hand intwined with mine again. "This way." He whispered in my ear. I waved to the two girls and Millard led me to a diffrent room.

He knocked and I noticed he had left me to put on a suit. The sleeve without a hand knocked once again and a woman's voice beckoned us in.

"Miss Peregrine?"

"Yes?"

"I would like to introduce you to Lori."

" Ah Yes, the young lady from San Fransico."

I gulped. How could she have known I would come. How did she even know where I was from? I stepped forward and I could see her now. A woman dressed in black. Someone must have died, she wore this expression that made me click the peices together. "Ma'am? I would... would.. would like to stay here. I have no other place to go. I can't go back to California, not without my papers and they were in my luggage which somehow landed on the waves. Please Miss, I beg you." I put on my most convincing puppy dog eyes, look. There was no need for that though, she smiled at me and said, " I think Mr. Nullings would show you to your room and fetch you a new dress." She shot a look at Millard and we were dissmissed.

Before going out the door though, something that had been in the back of my head since the day my mother told me my aunt was sent here. "Miss Peregrine, did Crescent make it?" She shook her head greavily and I nodded a Thank You.

Millard did as Miss Peregrine had told him. He fetched me a new dress, and showed me to a big bedroom. A girl with wild hair and the small girl with the tiara were there. "You're back!" She smiled at me. I nodded and Millard, still holding hands with me, cleared his throat." This is Lori. She'll be staying here with us." I smiled sheepishly letting my brown hair cover my face. I went to an unoccupied bed and sat there, my knees pressed to my chest. "Where are you from?" Olive said to me. " San Francisco, California." I awnsered in a whisper. "American?" She asked. I nodded a yes and once again Millard told me, " That's Olive and Fiona." I looked at him, then at Olive, lastly the girl with the wild hair, Fiona.

"I'll be back." Millard told me, I let go of his hand which I hadn't relized I had clutched dearly as if my life depended on his cold, invisible hand. He closed the door behind him. Olive bounced on my bed .I smiled and she giggled. Fiona on the other hand ,didn't speak. Olive took my hand and led me outside. The sun was out and it badly burned me. I begged Olive to stay in the shade of some trees but she insisted that we meet everyone.

We met a boy who loved to dress in suits. Olive told me his name was Horace. "He is obsessed with his suits." She gossiped to me. We met a girl who could lift anything, she was dressed like a tomboy which my mother would have never aproved of. Olive introduced her as Browyn. Even though she looked like a brute, she had a big heart. I could tell that she cared for everybody.

"This is Lori." Olive presented me to a boy with with bees hovering around him. I backed a bit away, afraid one might sting me. "They won't sting unless I tell them to." They boy introduced as Hugh said to me, but I did'nt feel any calmer. "Homest?" I asked him and he nodded.

We left Hugh and aprouched a girl laying on the green grass. "Emma, meet Lori." Olive said looking between the both of us. "I can't see her. Wait now I can. Hello, I'm Emma Bloom." She told me, her eyes staring into my green ones. We talked a bit more and Olive led me to more people.

I stopped lostening because all I could think about was the invisible boy, who could not be seen and yet still be seen if you knew how to.

The day went by quickly, Olive did end up introducing me to everyone and when she was done my skin was now as red a Millard's lost scarf. I scratched because it hurt me so. Olive gave me some night gowns that I could put in my small dresser along with the other dresses Millard had given me.

I looked outside the window, past the two sleeping girls, and stared at the moon. I rocked my self back and forth and before drifting off, a heard a knock. I opened the door and nobody was there, then I heard something move. "Millard?" I asked and I could feel his hand grabbing mine. He led me out of the room and outside, to the garden. Everything here was so lovely it was to die for. Well not litteraly. "Fiona made this garden." Millard told me grabbing my hand so that I could see where he was pointing. I saw many flowers and a topiary here and there. The moon was still there but off of where I last saw it. I yawned and I made Millard walk me to my room.

We sat there, hand in hand. I leaned my head on his shoulder, the sleepiness taking over my body. Millard kept talking, making sure I wouldn't sleep and leave him hanging but I closed my eyes and next thing I knew, it was morning. Millard was still sitting next to me.

A/N: I didn't intend to make a note but I found out that They are in the works of turning the beloved book,"Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" into a movie and also I wanted to say that I decided to write about a love interest for Millard because I thought he was too lonley in both books[soon to be three books :)] and I wanted him to have a love interest. BTW I also saw there were almost no stories for a fanfic. of the book so please note that I may have made a few grammar mistakes. Anyways Please review so that I can know that I have all of your support in continuing this story. Also this all takes place before the first book.

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