Chapter 3: The strange new girl

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Jess was standing the hallway, waiting for Randi to come out of her room. Something was up with that girl and Jess was determined to find out what it was. She was always off by herself. She never talked to anyone. It looked more like she was watching people than anything. What was really strange was that she is the only one that has her own room, which for some reason was always locked.

Randi slowly walked out of her room. She locked the door behind her and pocketed the key. Jess followed her as she walked down the hall to the bathroom where she turned around and looked at Jess.

"good morning" she said a little too happily

"Morning" Jess said back trying not to look suspicious

"how are you?" she said looking in the mirror

"I'm good I guess." Jess said trying to sound as normal as possible, the girls here weren't this talkative, especially in the morning.

"you guess?" she looked at Jess in the mirror.

"yeah, I mean I never really think about it, not a lot of people ask." Jess said still trying to be nice.

"oh, ok I guess, if thats the case" she paused. "tonight, since I'm new, can I hang out with you?" she asked cautiously. "I heard you were going somewhere"

"OH, um I'll get back to you on that one, I need to ask my sister, is that ok?"

"I guess." she said shrugging.

Jess went to leave, feeling bad but it was true, her and her "sister" ask each if things were ok with the other one before doing it. She went to Amanda's room and explained the situation to her sister including that she found the other girl odd.

"What's her name again?" Amanda asked.

"Her name is Randi." Jess said.

"Well, how you explain her, she sounds odd." she paused. " I want to know whats in her room, I'm going to break in to her room, but anyway, I don't care if she goes with us."

Jess went to find Randi. She found her in the living room reading.

" Hey, Randi." Jess said coming into the room. Randi looked up from her book.

"oh, hey, didn't hear you come down the stairs." she commented. Jess ignored that comment and got right down to what she wanted to say, hoping her sister would hurry up and get down here from her "exploring" as she called it. They had decided that Amanda would just simply come down stairs as the sign that she was done. Jess just had to keep Randi busy till then, which looked like that might be kind of hard.

" my sister said you can hang out with us." Jess said putting her best fake smile on.

"oh,really, thats great, I was afraid that I was going to have to spend the night alone." she said looking like she was about to die laughing."

Jess not knowing what the inside joke that Randi was having with herself, just asked "where did you come from?"

"well" Randi said as she went into the longest story ever.

Amanda came down the stairs just before Jess was about to fall asleep out of boredom.

"I have to talk to my sister for a little while, but i will talk to you later" said Jess as she ran over to Amanda. "What did you find out?"

"Nothing" said Amanda defeated "I couldn't get it open, I even tried to blow the door down"

"So, it is stuck then?"

"no, I felt the taint of dark magic on it" said Amanda a little scared "it was sealed shut"

"so we have two dark magic users to worry about now" said Jess "Her and Drain"

"you didn't tell me much about him"

"there isn't much to tell" said Jess walking up the stairs "he is evil, thats all we need to know"

A few hours later, all three of them were walking down the street. They were out cloths shopping. It went well, except that Randi kept picking out the weirdest clothes. Jess and Amanda got so frustrated with her that they picked her clothes out for her. They walked down the street looking for new shops to check out. They decided to stop at a jewelry store.

"We can't afford anything here" said Amanda protesting

"It will be fun to look around" said Jess, she turned to Randi "What do you think"

"It might be fun" said Randi

They walked into the store looking around at all the super expensive things. Jess and Amanda had made their way to the back of the store and Randi was at the front.

Jess was looking around the back, until she got board. She decided to go find Randi. She walked to the front of the store and saw Randi buying a very expensive gold necklace that had a ruby set in the middle. What seamed weird was that she pulled out a large stack of bills from her purse, and payed the whole thing off. Randi stuffed the necklace into her purse. Jess ran off to the back of the store where Amanda was at.

"I just saw the weirdest thing" Jess said said to Amanda

"what would that be?" said Randi who had just walked up

"Oh nothing really" said Jess, thinking about the rotten timing

"Well lets head back" said Amanda as they walked out of the store.

They walked in silence for a little while until Randi grabbed ahold of Jess and Amanda and ran for it, dragging them behind her.

"We are being followed" Randi said before they had a chance to ask.

Jess looked back to see more of those annoying robots following them. They ran for awhile until they were cut off by more robots. Jess and Amanda dove to the side and ran a little, until they realized Randi wasn't with them. They looked back to see the robots closing in on her. Just as they were about to grab her, she put her hand to the ground and a ring of light appeared around her. Everything within the ring started to dissolve, the plants, the ground, the robots, everything. When the light disappeared nothing was left except Randi standing in a black circle. She ran off before either of them could stop her.

Please R&R