Hey guys! Sorry for the wait but I had a ton of school stuff. I was in a big competition for band, but hey we won! Any way this chapter is dedicated to my friend the grape ape ( inside joke) for rereading all of the chapters and constantly pushing me to write. The look on her face every time she asked me if she could read my book was enough to make me smile. Love you jillybean (another inside joke).

Bold, italics and ~…~ = thoughts

Chapter 2 : school, lies, and nicknames

~*~*~*~*Andre~*~*~*~*~*

*third person p.o.v.*

Andre stifled a groan, she was burning up with a killer stomach ach that was caused by hunger.

Sighing, she leaned back in her seat, she was sitting in band class and they had just gotten a new piece of music, but the clarinets kept messing up. Her band instructor tuned to the other instruments, " Guys sit back this could take a wile." all of her fellow flutes groaned.

Andre was trying to calm herself down, she didn't want to accidentally set off her powers. She hadn't lost control in 13 years but every time someone played the wrong note the water bottle on her teacher's desk would vibrate ever so slightly, luckily no one noticed.

"Okay, stack the stands, see you tomorrow." as soon as the words left the teacher's mouth all the kids began to rip apart their instruments an stuff them in the cases. Half of the kids ignoring their stands and bolting towards their backpacks, leaving the others to put them away.

As Andre was pushed about she heard a slight clatter across the room, she groaned as she glanced back at the water bottle that was now on the floor about twenty feet away from were it was sitting. Thankfully no one notice that the bottle seemed to have knocked it's self over.

Andre quickly hoped into her seat on the bus, sighing she starred out the window trying to drown out the noise of the chattering kids.

Her eyes wandered to a nearby tree, there crouching on a branch and holding a stick shaped like a shepherds crook, was a boy.

The was staring at her intensely with icy blue eyes, his shaggy, windswept, snowy-white hair falling slightly in his eyes.

Andre stared back, he had spotted her! After all those years of ignoring his existence, her cover was blown. ~its okayshe thought to herself ~ he no longer needs to think no one can see him.~ But she couldn't help but worry. How was she going to explain this?

"Hey, can I sit here?" Andre's head shot away from the window as she glanced at the girl in the isle.

" Sure Grace, I mean Georgia is sitting over there so it's fine," she gestured to her assigned seat partner as Grace sat down.

"What were you looking at?" The brunette asked, her brown eyes wandering towards the tree. The boy was gone, not that she would have been able to see him anyway.

Andre glanced to the roof of the bus were she new the boy was now sitting, "Nothing." She pulled her IPOD and began to doodle on the small tablet.

About an hour later it was only her an two other girls were still sitting on the bus.

"Finally!" Hopping off the bus she yelled, "Bye Megan, bye Elana!" waving goodbye to her friends and the bus driver, she turned away from the big yellow vehicle.

She was greeted by a large guts of icy cold wind, but she ignored it pulling her black hood up. She didn't mind the cold but he didn't know that.

He gently tapped her on the shoulder with the end of his staff, not positive she could see him.

"Can I help you?" She didn't turn around.

"You can see me?"

"No, I'm talking to my self." Her sarcasm was obvious, but what he didn't know is that he wanted to turn around and fling herself into a hug.

~He doesn't remember you~ she screamed in her mind.

"Um, sorry, I-um." She turned to look at him, smirking as he pouted slightly, trying to find his voice, "I'm Jack."

Andre let out a cheerful laugh, "I'm Andre, nice to meet you."

Jack blinked slightly confused by the sudden change of attitude, it reminded Jack of something he would do.

"I need to talk to you about something it may sound weird but- oh gosh what did they expect me to say- I-um- please." He gave her a hopeful look, she wouldn't just stand there and talk to a stranger, but then again he didn't know that he wasn't technically stranger to her.

She nodded, "One sec," Andre headed towards the front door of her house, she dropped her stuff and yelled. "Mom! I'll be outside!" A muffled "Okay" came from somewhere inside the house.

Andre closed the door and began to walk around the house motioning for jack to follow, he did.

She led him through the massive field like yard, she continued into the forest surrounding the area.

"Were are you going?"

She glanced at him, "Judging by the tone of your voice this is serious, and my brother and his friends love to hang around me, we don't to be over heard."

Jack nodded, "How far are we going?"

Andre looked around then sat down on a random log, "this far." She smiled up at him with mock politeness.

"Okay, well-I- ugh, how do I say this?" HE grumbled, frowning as she laughed.

"Oh come on frost! You're a smart boy figure it out!"

He paled, if that is even possible, "How did you know?"

She froze, ~OOPS~, "intuition?" she shrugged.

"well, uh- my friends and I need your help." Not his best explanation, but he couldn't stop getting lost in her familiar eyes, were had he seen her before?

"With what?" Jack was surprised, she seemed calm almost like she already knew.

"To be honest, I'm not sure yet," Jack averted his eyes, he wasn't sure were this conversation was going. Know he knew why Bunny shoved him in a sack and left the explaining to North.

"so you're asking me to do something and you don't even know what it is." Jack gave her a shy smile, she laughed unknowingly brightening the mood.

"So I'll take that as a "You're-an-idiot-get-out-of-my-face"?" She laughed shaking her head.

"I'll help you."

"Really? Thanks seashell." He said then froze. Jack blinked, He had no clue why he called her that but she looked at him in amusement. "Sorry, I don't know were that came from."

"Its okay, I don't mind, actually I used to have a friend that called me that." Jack grinned slightly.

"I like it, It suits you."

"-Andre!" A voice rang through the trees.

"Were are you?" Another voice called.

"I see her!" This voice was older than the other two,

A group of children about the age of eight to Twelve ran up to them led by a boy around 16 years old.

One of the younger boys jumped into Andre's arms, "What ya doing?"

"The real question is what are you doing?" Andre replied with absolute seriousness.

The boy looked completely dumbfounded, the look on his face was so perfect that everyone burst out laughing at the boys dismay.

"I was just heading home," Andre answered the boys question with a wide grin on her face.

"Jane is going to let us help her feed her bird containers, you want to come?" The boy gestured to a girl who was holding a large bag of bird seed.

"Sorry Tyler, I am really tired, I'm probably going to go take a nap." Andre hated lying to her little brother and his friends, sure she was tired but she wasn't going to be sleeping anytime soon.

" Aw really? I was going to shoe Christian how high I can climb." another kid pouted pointing to the older boy who was obviously Christian.

"Sorry Jonny." She patted to boy on the head and waved goodbye, once again leading Jack through the forest.

"Nap? I thought you said you were going to help?"

Andre mentally slapped him, "I am, it was just an excuse."

"Oh," His face went red with embarrassment. Taking out a snow glob that he had barrowed from north, Jack said, "You ready?"

Andre nodded reaching into her pocket and taking out what looked like a pen.

Cocking his head to the side, he stared at her, ~That pen…~ Jack opened his mouth to say something, but he never got the chance because right then his world turned black.