Chapter 4

Back in Lilac's room, Lilac was crying on her bed, still down on herself about the party, and is pretty much a laughing stock to so many young kids. Her gown and cloak are thrown on the chair, and her shoes are on the floor. She hadn't bothered to turn her lights up, so it was rather dark in her room. Chipper climbed up to her window and listened. He could hear sniff sounds. She was crying. It broke his heart. Chipper went in and saw Lilac crying on her bed softly.

Chipper hopped towards her as he sat down next to her. She should've known this would end badly. Lilac looked at Chipper and immediately took him in her arms. She hugged him close as she cried. Chipper didn't care if his fur got wet. His best friend needed him right now and she was the only thing on his mind. She let go of him and she said, "I'm really sorry about the party."

Lilac continued crying about the party while Chipper just looked on sadly. She was hurt at the people who laughed at her. After a moment, she wiped her eyes and stared down her bed. She looked in her bag. The golden shaped item she had found glittered up at her. Lilac reached down and grabbed it, along with the plush swan, while she kept crying. Then she sat up and laid back on her pillows, holding them close to her, crying more. At that moment, Arella came in and sat next to Lilac.

"Oh sweetheart," she put her hand on Viola's chin. "I'm so sorry."

Lilac didn't look at Arella. "What's wrong with me?" Viola asked as she wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Oh, nothings wrong with you." She answered.

Lilac looked away as she looked down in displeasure. She planted her face in her pillows, crying harder. Arella huffed at her hair in a calm frustrated way and looked around for a moment, as if the right words to say would just pop up out of nowhere. Then she looked back at Viola.

As her mother was talking, she was staring at the gold necklace like thing and swan doll. She had rubbed each of them with her finger, and some of the dirt came off. And when it did, there was a large yellow letter on the necklace. As Lilac had started to brush the rest of the dirt away, she saw her name written in neat yellow hand writing. She stared at it in awe and confusion.

"Lilac?" she didn't understand why there was her name on this trinket. "What is this? My name's on here!"

Then she started fiddling with it and continued to stare at it. Lilac turned to Arella. Arella didn't answer. Then she reached over and took the locket and swan from Lilac's hands and stared at them in shockly surprise and yet confusion.

"Were did you get these?" she breathed.

Lilac looked away, fiddling with her feet. "I…I-I found them..."

Her mother realized that her daughter went in the national forest and implied, "You went in the forest, didn't you? Lilac, you know you're not allowed over there!" she reminded Lilac that she shouldn't go nearby the woods after finding out.

"But why?" Lilac stood on her bed. "And why dose that necklace have my name on it?" asked Lilac, wanting to know about the locket and swan plush she found.

"Lilac, listen to me."

"You're hiding something from me." Lilac suddenly noticed that her mother was actually hiding something from her.

It was a statement, not a question. Arella stared at her for a moment. Her mother realized that Viola knew that she was keeping a secret from her and started to chastise her, "You deliberately disobeyed me! I never want you going out there again! Do you hear me? It's dangerous in the woods!"

"How would you know!?" asked Lilac, feeling hurt as she was told not to go nearby the forest. "You've never even been in it!" They stared at each other for a moment before Lilac started crying hard again with angry tears. Then she snatched the necklace and plush from Arella's hand and ran out. John sees that she is crying and comes into the room. He had barley walked in before Viola rushed passed him.

"Lilac…" Arella called to Lilac. But it was too late. Lilac already left when her father opened the door to find his daughter running away. He stared at his wife as he realized something happened between her and their daughter.

"Oh no."

She sat on the bed, face in her hands as she couldn't believe that she hurt Lilac's feelings. Then John walked over and sat next to her and put an arm around her. "Arella darling,…we both knew this day would come." Arella sighed again. "Oh John," Arella sighed. "You're right. It's time we trusted her with the truth." She put a hand to his chest. They went out of the room and headed outside.

Meanwhile, an angry and determined Lilac, still upset with her mother, stormed off to go back to her bedroom with Chipper following behind her. He then saw Lilac packing some of her items in her bag including the plush swan.

Lilac was now outside of the house, stomping onto the yard at night, wearing the locket around her. She was so furious with her mother she didn't even realize where she was going. As Lilac walked on for a minute, she saw her bicycle sitting against the tree. Lilac went over and started pushing it up towards the street with Chipper following her. Chipper was worried about her.

Lilac clutched the necklace tightly in her hands. When she spoke her voice was barley a whisper, yet seemed to carry so they all could hear her. "If no one's gonna tell me... I'm gonna find out myself." She grabbed the handles and started pedaling quickly but Chipper was sitting behind her and it made him go flying to the ground when Lilac road off.

Chipper begged Lilac not to do this and stated that the human girl was making a big mistake. Lilac didn't listen as she rode her bike, heading to who-knows-where.

Lilac was going into the foggy regions. She seemed to have felt guilty about leaving her parents like this as she started to miss them. She glanced down at the locket and sighed.

Sinise was watching the whole thing through his spell pot then he started laughing as he said, "Oh, this is delicious. This is divine!"

He smiled then walked off with his 2 dogs following him as he said, "We must hurry. There's a little girl out there who needs my help." And Sinise sets his plan in motion, and it will work out well for whatever he decides. And his plan will come to fruition soon.

Meanwhile, Arella and John were outside, looking for their daughter again. They stood on the stairs looking around. "I don't see her." "Maybe she's over by the wall." John suggested. "LILAC! Lilac dear, where are you?" She called. Arella sounded slightly cross while John looked worried. "Where could she be going?" Arella asked starting to panic. John was surprisingly calm. Their only thought right now, they need to find Lilac.