This part of the story is told in segments, if you don't want to read it all jumbled up (which is the point of this portion, a mystery) then you can skip to the end (coming soon) and read it from start to finish...

3rd Person P.O.V.

11:30pm

Leo and Amanda were trapped, as the black smoke approached Leo grabbed Amanda's hand and held tight. Neither of them knew what had happened to make things turn dark so fast... all they knew was that Rory had seen this smoke before…

7:45am

Rory woke up and looked at her clock, 7:45am it said. Why did she wake up so early? she was about to go to sleep, but then she saw it. The smoke. Rory screamed. Her parents ran to her room, but by then it had left. Rory shook her head when her parents asked what had happened. after the shock wore off she emailed her friends about what she had saw, then fell right back into bed…

8:05am

Tara woke up to a email from Rory. All it said was:

"black smoke in the shape of a person was in my room. grace, do you have a clue what it was?"

tara blinked wearily, Rory tended to exaggerate, and after a certain bunny incident she had gained an imagination for things attacking her at night. she probably just had a nightmare Tara thought. Tara crawled back into bed and fell asleep…

8:07am

The figure outside of Tara's window chuckled, it was way too easy to trick tara into disregarding Rory's terror. As the figure melted back into the shadows it saw a pair of eyes looking strait at it. It inhaled sharply, but saw that they belonged to a cat. The figure faded from view...

8:17am

Tara awoke again with a cat on her chest.

"MEOW" it said.

"what!" Tara yelled, she didn't have a cat!

The cat seemed to be trying to communicate with her, but it only said MEOW and other catish things. The cat kept looking from her to the window, but Tara was to annoyed to notice.

"come on kitty" she said, taking the cat outside

how did she get inside anyway? Tara thought. As she pushed the cat outside she thought she saw a shadow out of the corner of her eye, but dismissed it as a trick of the light. wait, she thought thats what grace saw in the store! tara rushed upstairs, but as soon as she began to type she forgot what she was going to say.

7:13am

Venise (pronounced Ven-is) Woke up in her room, on the floor as always. she didn't know why this happened, maybe she sleep walks? it didn't really matter, sence she had buisness to atend to. as she went downstairs she yelled out to her mom

"im leaving for school mom! ill be out with my friends for a while, we are going to be… enjoying ourselves…"

her mom, oblivious to her daughter acting strange, especialy in contrat the earlier this morning…

6:30am

Venixe was waking up for another great day, although, why did she think that his was true? she barely even remembered yesterday, or the day before, or any day, for that matter. This alarmed Venixe (pronounced Ven-ix) to such an extent that he layed back into bed, only to be woked up by her mother.

"time for school, and making new friends!" her mom said.

ugg, why does her mom have to be so cheery? Venixe thought. she fell back asleep.

6:38am

why does mom have to nag so much? Venixe thought. and why are her teeth so bright?

"mom, sence when are your teeth so bright?" Venixe asked

"um, we went to get them whitened yesterday, you said you were 'bored till your brains explode' which i don't understand, remember?"

no, venixe didn't remember, her heart began to beat faster and faster, then she asked her mom:

"um mom?"

"yes sweety?"

"um, can i take blue cookies to school with me today?" she asked.

wait, what? thats not what she meant to say! she tried again

"uh, can i go out with my friends late tonight?"

"sure, im just so glad you have friends, ever sence this whole 'goth' thing started you seem, well, lonley"

her mom said as she left the room. Venixe was in shock, and she stood that way for a while, who knows how long...

6:51am

Venixe was not a goth! but she didn't have friends eather… Venixe looked at herself in the mirror, and almost screeched. She had black combat boots on and an asian compilation. she also had strait black hair, a dragon earring on her left ear, a black diamond necklace, a leather jacket and ripped jeans.. She looked like part of a biker gang! sence when did she dress like this? As she went to get new clothes on her head felt woozy, she went to lie down, but fell on the floor before getting to her bed.

7:15am

ill be out with my friends for a while, we are going to be… enjoying ourselves…" her mom, oblivious to her daughter acting strange, especialy in contrat the earlier this morning…

"im so glad you have friends!" her mom said. Venise grinned as she walked out of the house "yeah." she said "friends…"

if you really don't like reading it broken up then the next chapter is a chronological ordering of these segments, if you don't need to read it in order to understand what happened, skip the next chapter :)