Sorry for the lateness folks, don't know why I took so long to update… Oh well, no excuses, on to the chapter!

I felt my hands quiver from rage,

'Tabatha couldn't have meant it, she couldn't have meant it, she was just showing off to her friends… There is no way she would…' I stole a glance at Tabs… I still thought of her by that name, even though we hadn't really been friends since she started caring more about what people thought of her than was healthy for her. Tabs used to be different

'Then again, so did I' I felt my nose wrinkle in memory of something Tim had told me several days ago. Well his equivalent of yelling at me… But I shook my head. This was not something to dwell on now. Right now I have a competition to win…

Both girls approached the starting mark, where their quivers waited…

TABS POV

I looked over at my one time best friend. I could still read the girl like a book; she hadn't changed much, well except I never saw her smile much anymore. I bit my lip,

'Maybe she had heard the comment I had made to Shelly…. Or was it Kelly? I never get it right. '

I flipped my braid over my shoulder, avoiding Robs look. I was not about to let anything mess with my concentration, I have a competition to win…

Both girls approached the mark, moving almost in synch as they drew and knocked the arrows to the call of the announcer. But, if you were like Miss Su, you would notice something was wrong…. and not only with the two archers.

"Knock arrows!" I couldn't help but notice how easily Tabs moved together, almost in unison, like we had so many years ago when we started learning.

"Draw arrows." I focused in on my target, then heard something.

"Release!" Two arrows flew through the air, though mine was off. I frowned, that noise must have thrown me off a hair on the release. My eye's whipped over to Tabs as I heard her snicker.

"Trying to make it look better, so you can say that you only missed by a little bit." I felt my blood boil as the proctor called for us to knock arrows again. At the call to draw, I took careful aim…

"Release!" I let go and had the satisfaction of it flying deep into the dead center of the target. I couldn't help but smile when I noticed that Tabs had missed dead center… and by the same exact margin as I had missed on the last shot.

"Playing the copycat game today are we Tabs?" I ignored the glare that I knew was being shot at me. Out of all our past together, her nickname was the one thing I could still get her with.

"No, the wind blew on my shot." I could hear her teeth clenching in frustration. I gave a neutral 'Hmm' to that as the proctor was approached by someone from the stands, and they promptly started arguing.

"That idiot, what is he doing?" I glanced over at Tabs who was cradling her wrist in one hand. Then I took a closer look at the guy who was getting in the proctors face.

"Hey, isn't that Jeremy?" Before my dad had died, and Tabatha changed, we had been a group of four; Timothy, myself, Tabatha, and Jeremy. When Tabs and I had our falling out, for some reason, her brother continued to be my friend and Jeremy (my cousin on Dad's side) had remained as Tabs. I even think that they started dating this past semester.

Her gaze whipped around to me, her eye's glowing with… something. I couldn't place it really, and that scared me. For all the growing apart we had done since my dad died, Tabatha was always an open book to me, much like I was to her.

"So what if it is Aravis, it's not like that's any of your business." Venom laced her tone, and… concern? Where did that come from? I held up my hands, well one of them, the other still held my bow.

"I was just asking, I haven't seen him since…" I did some mental math, then it hit me, I saw a small change in her eyes, a softening almost.

"Since we stopped talking… Ara, I know." We held each other's gazes for a moment, and then looked away when an unusual sound filled the air. The clear sweet notes of a horn floated around us, reminding us of some things we'd rather forget.

"You know, this is why I missed." I felt my nose scrunch in disappointment. "Some idiot started playing when I was releasing.." I expected Tabatha to smirk and laugh at me, but instead she simply said;

"Same here, Oh the proctor is back." Tabatha's voice dropped back into what I was used to from her nowadays. I sighed and took my place again as the proctor. It had been nice to have my best girl friend back, even if only for a moment. Mechanically, I approached the stand again;

"Knock arrows!" The music grew as we simultaneously moved to follow the order.

"Draw!" The music swelled to an almost a fever pitch,

"Release!" And then it happened; time stood still, our arrows stilled in the air, I felt like a giant hand grabbed me 'round the waist and yanked me backwards. I tumbled down into a green bush, hearing myself moan, I looked around. I was in the middle of…. The woods? What was going on? I saw three figures stirring on the ground around me, first making out Tabs, then Jer, and finally Tim. I stood, sore from the tumble. Every one was speechless it seemed.

"We aren't in England… are we…" Said Jeremy, his voice so loud in the stillness. Tim rubbed his head saying;

"Well we aren't in Kansas anymore Jerjer…" But the silliness of the phrase was lost on Tabs and I as we stared at what was right in front of us

"Are we-" I began;

"-in Narnia?" Tabs finished for me, her whisper filled with awe. Both boys looked at each other, sharing a smirk, thinking we were nuts and that this could be explained. After all they had been joking, till they turned to see what we were looking at. We all stood in disbelief, staring at the flickering light issuing from the Lamp Post.

Ha, they are finally in Narnia! :D