borrowed a bit from harry potter... whoops? please read and review and i will be eternally grateful.


In which maddie considers the grey stranger


Maddie sat down heavily against the old oak tree in the park by her house. She ran her hand against its knots and holes searching for answers because right now all she had was questions. Now maybe someone a tad bit more normal might disregard the strange visit she had earlier, but Maddie's mind was turning and whirling at the speed of light coming up with more and more outrageous ideas each time. She finally thought to herself, 'comon get a grip you aren't gonna find out who Mr. creepy wizard dude is if you don't process this!'

So Maddie began her typical thought process by coming up with 5 main questions: who was the creepy old guy, how did he know about her verse, why hadn't he seemed interested in the shop at all, why

did he ask for the youngest, and why did he seem so familiar?

Well it could have been playing a prank by friends, or just a lost, disoriented old man. 'Wait, friends, what friends? The more you know people the more you hate them! No one would prank you unless they didn't know you! People wouldn't dare prank a socially awkward teenager with an issue with change unless they wanted her in an asylum!'However none of these explanations fit with the revealing of her verse unless they had somehow gotten a look in her bag and read the poem, or even less likely the old guy could have just made it up. He probably didn't look around because he didn't know where he was, because Maddie couldn't have been the sole reason he came there! She did very little to attract attention in her small town and couldn't see her guardian, Rose, doing anything either. She was pretty sure she hadn't seen him around anywhere either, but somehow he seemed familiar. He sort of reminded her of a crazy wizard from a book or movie but not really, maybe she subconsciously knew him like from a dream! 'And why would you have dreams about a creepy old guy?' her common sense rang in her head. Maddie however had no explanation for why he asked for the youngest other then he was a child predator…


She noticed the red orange sun sinking below the houses and decided she should probably get home before Rose got worried. Her expression softened at the thought of the sweet old woman who had raised her from infantry after she was left on her doorstep. Maddie was accompanied by an envelope with a letter and necklace inside it. The letter said she was a one month old girl and that if she was ever asked to prove it to produce the necklace inside. The necklace was of most curious make with a seamless silver chain that flowed like silk with a milky white perfectly round stone hanging from it. The stone was only the size of a pea but it cast out its own light from colored flecks in the center. As the letter asked Maddie always kept the necklace in her pocket, she almost thought of it as a luck charm. The letter also said that on her 17th birthday another letter would be given to her and it would explain more about her life.