Chapter 2
Nine year old Julia sat in a pew, in a horrible dress watching her dad get married to Maggie. She hated the idea of her dad getting remarried almost as much as she hated that woman. It took every ounce of self control Julia had not to jump up and yell 'I object'. Ever since she started dating her dad Julia had turned invisible.
As soon as she was sure no one was watching she made a break for the back door. She went to the room all the girls had changed in and got out of her awful dress and into her jeans and Nightmare Before Christmas t-shirt. She walked out of the church and started down the street. She had no idea where to go but anywhere was better than that wedding.
Thirty minutes later she came across a park, it was empty except for one boy, around her age, sitting on a swing looking bored.
"Hi." Julia said walking up to the swing set. "I'm Julia."
"Eli." He said sounding either bored or sad, Julia wasn't sure.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah, are you?" He asked noticing a touch of sadness in her eyes behind the false smile.
"My dad's getting married to an evil witch-with-a-B"
"That sucks."
"What's going to suck is when they realize I'm not at the wedding anymore."
"You can come over to my house."
"Really?"
"Yeah, come on."
