Author's Note: the characters of "Labyrinth" do not belong to me, but Melody and Hilary do. The songs "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", "Be My Wife", "The Wedding Song", and "Wild is the Wind" are all by David Bowie. The song "Lucky" is by Hoobastank and the song "When She Cries" is by Restless Heart.

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Chapter One

I walked down the hall to my bedroom. I heard my mom finishing telling a story to my four year-old sister. I stood in the doorway to hear the last words.

"And Hoggle said, 'Well, why didn't you say so?'" mom was saying. "And all of the girl's new friends appeared in her room and she knew she'd never be alone."

"That story again?" I asked.

Mom turned around and my sister Hilary looked at me.

"I love that story," Hilary said.

"It used to be your favorite," mom pointed out to me.

"It's just…old." I responded. "Plus, it's too far fetched. Goblins, goblin kings, I mean come on."

"It's real." Hilary said.

"Of course it is honey," mom said to Hilary.

I rolled my eyes and went to my room. I got on my computer and started chatting in a chat room.

'17/f/Va. Ur a/s/l?' I typed.

I was always careful in these rooms; you never knew what kind of weirdoes were out there. My a/s/l, age, sex, and location, was the only information I would give out. Online my name was HarmonyLee, but in real life it was Melody Lynn. Alright, so it wasn't a big difference, but I loved that name and at least it wasn't my real name. I had waist length dark-brown hair, brown eyes, and was average build. People said I looked like my mom as a teenager, but I wasn't sure. In the chat rooms I was blonde, blue-eyed, and model size. That was one of things I liked about chat rooms. You could be whoever you wanted to be. A great example was the guy I was talking to. He had a great imagination. His screen name was hteraJKG.

He answered my question with '254/m/Far away'.

I laughed. He had a sense of humor. That was a plus, although it was kind of weird, too.

'How far away?' I typed.

'Further than you can imagine,' he answered.

I thought that was cool. He was probably from overseas. I was interrupted by my mom.

"Time to go to bed honey," she said.

"Aw come on. A little longer, please" I begged.

"No, you have school tomorrow." She said sternly. "Now lights out."

"Okay," I huffed and turned back to my computer. "Let me say bye, then I'll turn it off and go to bed."

Mom left.

'I hafta go to bed. Talk to u tomorrow?' I typed.

He replied, 'Of course. Goodnight'.

I turned off the computer and got ready for bed. I climbed in and got comfortable. I might have actually found a nice guy on the internet. Maybe he'd give me his real information tomorrow. I went to sleep.