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Preface

The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister was that sometimes she got bored and stopped looking for you.

And there you were—under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree—and you didn't want to give up, because maybe she was just biding her time. But maybe she'd wandered off.… Maybe she was downstairs watching TV and eating the rest of the Pringles.

You waited. You waited until you forgot that you were waiting, until you forgot that there was anything to you beyond stillness and quiet; an ant crawled over your knee, and you didn't flinch. And it didn't matter whether she was coming for you or not—the hiding was enough. (You won when no one found you, even if they weren't looking.)

When you broke from behind the tree, it was because you wanted to. It was the first breath after a long dive. Branches snapped under your feet, and the world was hotter and brighter...

Ready or not, here I come.

But the other problem with playing hide-and-seek was that your sister was likely better at hiding than you were at seeking. So you might not have always been able to find her before she got bored of waiting for the game to end (she never played by anyone else's rules other than her own, after all).

Which was the situation Cath was still in; ten years later, she was still playing the same old game of hide-and-seek she'd been playing her whole life. And yet, it still wasn't enough time for her to find her sister before she got bored of playing by someone else's rules.

But after all this time, Cath was still seeking even if Wren wasn't hiding anymore.

Here I come, ready or not.


Greetings fellow Rainbow fans!

I am a huge fan of Rowell and love all her books to bits and pieces as much as any Rainbow fanatic out there. However, the one thing I would have always preferred was a dual-narrative of Fangirl between both Cath and Wren, so this is basically my vision of how it would go. This story is bound to include parts told from the book (sorry, but it can't be helped!) but will also feature a few chapters about Cath and Wren's childhood prior to their parents separation and what growing up through all of it was like for them.

In this story I really hope to explore the parts of Fangirl that we've never seen and perhaps even shed a little light on Wren's character along the way.

Anyway, leave reviews if you would like to see more and feel free to check out my Eleanor and Park and Fangirl crossover Crossing The Skies, my Eleanor and Park epilogue Nothing Ever Ends, and my Carry On oneshot Handkerchiefs

-birdywings