yayyy chapter 2! :DD i worked really hard on this chapter so don't be mean okay?

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Hayner worked quietly and diligently on the iron gates while the rest of us continued our conversations. Len started one up with me, discussing what he thought was the mansion.

"You think everything's dusty in there?" I asked him, looking at the wide window to the left of the mansion. Another icy breeze made the curtains dance and swivel.

"Probably since nobody has been living there for decades, now." he messed around with the grass in his hands. I looked back at him, "You think somebody would live there, with the condition it at least looks like it's in. I would definitely live here if I had the chance too." I rocked back and forth, holding my ankles so I wouldn't fall backwards.

"Hmm." Len's smug grin crossed his face.

"What?" i asked back. He only chuckled and went back to playing the grass.

"Ah, dammit!" Hayner yelled, a clinking noise following a second after. "What?!" Aelia jumped to her feet, retrieving the fallen hammer.

"I hit my finger…" he mumbled.

"Ugh! We've been sitting here for practically 2 hours now, Hayner!" I yelled to him from the tree my back was against. Slowly, I lifted myself up and walked over to him. "You'd think that if the lock was unstable enough, we'd be in now and making a mark in the History of Twilight Town."

"Yeah, and all of you were stupid enough not to climb the damn gates." Riush joked from an unknown destination. We started to look around frantically for her. "Behind the gates, dumbasses!" She yelled.

"Riush! How'd you-?"

She pointed to the top of the iron gates, showing us the short distance between the flat top and the top of her head. About 5 ½ feet. Show-off.

Everyone else was dumbfounded about Riush making it over the fence. I knew her too well to be astonished.

Pretty much everything in the mansion was dusty and hasn't been used in probably 10 years or so. There were books everywhere on the floor, including their pages that have been ripped out. All of us kept tripping over them, and Olette had the sudden urge to clean everything up.

"Hey, we should check out the attic, too." Hayner called out to us from one of the rooms from the stairs. "Yeah, I'm with you, Hayner!" Aelia called from the same room.

"You're always with Hayner, Aelia!" I raced up the short flight of stairs, leading to 2 other hallways. Len followed quietly behind me. "Which one first?" I asked, excited.

"Uh...the left hallway." he stammered.

"Okay. I take left, you steer right." I ran around the corner before he could answer back. I could feel that his gaze was still on me. I steered around another corner, to where there was a long stretch of the floor until I could reach the door. I dashed towards it, pumped up to see what was on the other side. Before I opened the door, I had a feeling that this was deja vu. I ignored it and went in.

My first reaction to the room was appauled.

Then it changed quickly into fear.

It was the white room.

Everything was in the same exact place the last time I was here. Even the torn pages and pictures on the floor haven't moved.

All of my nerves elctrofied, and my bones were frozen. It was scary to have the fact that you can sort of see the future in your dreams. Would that make me psychic, now?

I closed the door behind me.

The atmosphere around me was still and heavy, and I still couldn't move my legs correctly.

"Don't be afraid," the angel's voice calmed me, "Do you know why you're here?"

Hesitation. A long pause was held until I found my voice. "Uh...I walked through the door?"

Namine giggled, "No. There's a real purpose to why you and your friends came here." She crossed across the space that was between us and calmly sat down in one of the chairs pushed against the long table in the middle of the room. She gestured towards the other chair, but I still couldn't move. Paralization is one hell of a symptom to shock… I hate the way I get scared so easily.

"As of introduced, my name is Namine."

I nodded. My head felt three times heavier. "So, why am I here again?"

"We both know you go back to school in 2 days, correct?"

I stayed paralyzed.

"In the first week, there'll be transfer students' both a girl and a boy. They're very enjoyable, as you'll find out.

"But, why I'm telling you this is because you can change their future." she explained calmly.

"Huh? I'm drawing a blank, here."

Namine sighed and mumbled faintly under her breath, "DiZ said she would need explaination…"

"Who's Di -"

"What I'm pracitcally saying, is that when we're in connection, I can sort of...forsee the future." she interrupted.

"How come only me?"

She shook her head robotically, "Not even DiZ knows. I can usually only repair and take apart memories, but now it seems like I can do more." Namine continued to look back at me, her soft sky-blue eyes adorable and cute. Once she started to look at my shocked face, all the numbness in my legs melted, and I slowly started to walk around the pale room. "These pictures are really nice." I complimented.

Namine giggled again, "Thanks."

While I paced the walls endlessly, I tried asking the crayon artists commore questions that pondered noiselessly in my mind. "Why do you live alone in this mansion?"

"I don't live alone. DiZ helps me live here with him." She replied slowly and mellifluously.

"That DiZ guy. Who is he, exactly?" I wondered curiously.

"He's the master of this mansion. Whatever he says, goes." Namine answered back. There was something apathetic about that reply, but I couldn't put my finger on it.

I turned around to face her completely, "One final question, please?"

She smiled, "I'm all ears, Leia."

Taking a firm, deep breath, I was waiting for the words to come bubbling up my throat.

"What are you?"

Namine continued grinning, "A witch with the ability to break apart any section of a memory of my choosing. Any more questions? We have all day."

The discussions that were brought up were...not anything you would ask a normal person. With the time that passed, everything slipped away from my mind. Especially everyone else that was searching the mansion. Our conversations were kept up until Namine warned me that Hayner and Aelia were going to search this room next.

"When will I see you again? You're pretty good person to talk to." I had my hand on the doorknob, ready to run out when needed.

"Sooner than you expect, Leia. And, you're compatible, also." She laughed her cute, quiet laugh, and I quickly opened the door just enough for me to squeeze through.

Hayner - with Aelia clinging to his side, of course - was directly in front of me after I gently closed the door. "Where've you been? We've been waiting for you to come out!" Hayner exclaimed, his arm wrapped securely around Aelia's waist. There was something red on his neck. "Uhhh...what's on your -"

"Classified business!" he yelled. Everyone on the ground floor stared at him. I shook my head, "Whatever. Let's just go get some ice cream. Hayner's treat!" I rushed across the hallways and down the closest flight of stairs. "Hey!" he chased after me, his personal love right behind him. Before reaching the point to where all hte second story doors were out of sight, I took a quick glance at Namine's door, and I swear, I saw her peeking through the crack of the wood.

ooooh, what does namine mean by that? what's on hayner's neck? hehehehe review for more! 3