Where Are You?
Disclaimer: I don't own Wizards of Waverly Place.
Chapter Four: Wild Side
"Honey, relax. There's nothing you need to worry about."
"We're moving! Again! How can I not worry?"
"I'm sure your father won't embarrass you that bad...right, dear?"
"Uh-huh."
"Mom, that's not the point. I don't want to move! We just got settled in here! I just made new friends! I don't want to leave to go somewhere where I'll be the freaky new girl again!"
"New York will be good for us, you'll see. We'll open our own business, or start a company or something - the possibilities will be endless for us."
"You're mother's right lovebug - maybe New York will finally bring out your wild side."
"Is that what this is about? Me being more calm and mellow than my insane and slightly over eccentric parents? Well I'd rather be this than grow up like you!"
"Teenagers."
"You're father's right - quit being such a teenager."
"I could be acting like that because oh, I don't know, I am a teenager!"
"Dramatic?"
"You think?"
Rachael woke up in her bed from another startling dream about the life she couldn't remember. This one had been about her parents. That was weird. She usually had dreams about her boyfriend. Everything in her dreams would be helpful...if not for the fact that her dreams never featured names. Never. So she usually wrote her dreams in her diary.
She looked around her room. The walls were deep purple, and the rugs were pearly white. Her bed was comfortable, and her tv was huge. And it was all inside of a closet.
Rachael started crying. She missed her old life! And she hadn't even known what it was! All she knew was that she had to disguise herself.
Her memories began three months ago. She woke up in an infirmary in the Wizard Office building. They asked if she had any recollection of her life. She did not. They told her that she was a wizard. She did not remember how to use magic. So they moved her file back to Level 1. Then, they sent her to Wiz Tech. Before they released her - after telling her that they could not locate her family - they disguised her. They used a transfiguration spell on her face, but that's all they changed. They told her someone was after her, and it was the only way to keep her safe.
She didn't know anything about herself. But after she failed out of Wiz Tech, she knew she had to go to a tutor. And she picked Justin.
And she was falling in love with him.
He was just so cute! And sweet, and funny, and romantic, and sensitive...
At first she had denied her feelings because she felt bad about betraying the boyfriend from her past life that she knew she had from her dreams. But after hearing Justin's sad story about Juliette, she couldn't help it. If she was never going to remember her old life, she might as well move on.
But the name "Juliette" rung in the back of her mind, and that brought up two new questions for Rachael to try to answer:
1. What was so wonderful about her that Justin was obviously still in love with her?
2. Why did that name sound so familiar?