Chapter 21:

Heartbreak on Paper

This chapter is titled "Heartbreak on Paper" because the amazing Haley demanded that that shall be its name.

I'm sorry this update took a little longer than usual. Last weekend was my sister's birthday party and then yesterday was my school's dance, but I finally got some free time today.

So I am here for another chapter of Midnight Girl! How are you guys?

I don't own anything but Midnight and the plot! Enjoy!

Midnight skipped over to her friends/sister's house. She could feel her locket bouncing against her heart and her bags bumping against her leg. She couldn't believe she only had three days left of summer vacation. She knocked on the door and shifted her weight on her feet. Dawn opened the door and watched her younger sibling.

"What's with all the energy?" she asked.

Midnight jumped up and spun around. "I… drank… COFFEE!"

Dawn rolled her eyes. "Who let you have coffee?"

Midnight bobbed her head from side to side. "No one. I found it and made some!"

"You're going to be sooo tired later," Dawn said with a laugh.

"Don't care! I can see noises!" Midnight exclaimed as she ran inside.

"Come in then," Dawn muttered to no one.

Phineas, Ferb, and Isabella were in the living room already. They saw Dawn walking behind a very hyper Midnight. Ferb raised an eyebrow in questioning.

"She drank coffee," Dawn explained. There were a few "Ohs" of understanding before Phineas said their plan for the day.

"Today we are going to build the world's largest maze of mirrors! It's going to be huge!" he shouted.

"I already can't wait!" Midnight shouted before falling off the back of the couch. She popped up a moment later as if she never had even been on the couch ever.

"Yeah. Hey, where's Perry?" Dawn questioned.

Isabella and Ferb shrugged while Phineas talked on the phone with the parts guys and Midnight ran around pretending to be an airplane.

"I'm going to laugh so much when you crash little plane," Dawn voiced.

Everyone watched as the crane set the last mirror in place in the maze. It was huge; sizing up any other mirror maze ever built. There were so many twists, turns, forks, dead-ends, and reflections you could never count them all. Unless you were really determined and in the air that is. Midnight thought.

There were six entrances to the maze. One fore Phineas, Isabella, Ferb, Midnight, Dawn, and Candace. The last one was too busy talking on the phone, reading a magazine, trying to bust Phineas and Ferb, or obsessing over Jeremy. There was still an entrance for her in case she decided to join.

A loud count down was blaring overhead. 3…2…1…Go! Everyone ran for a moment before they reached the first mirror directly in front /of them. It was then that they realized just how hard the maze was going to be.

Midnight looked around her. All she saw was multiples of herself staring back. Her pale skin seemed almost white in the sun and her eyes reflected the light. The black of her hair and outfit clashed with the paleness of her skin and eyes. She wore the black even silver was her favorite color. Everyone just assumed it was black and if people asked-which they never did- that was how she answered. The mirrors around as she walked made her think of the past. Almost subconsciously, she reached in her bag and pulled out one of her most treasured possessions. It stick out much to others, but to her it always would.

Flashback

Six year old Midnight walked along the fence outside. Her cheeks were red from the chill, but the cold helped to think. She didn't cry when she found out her dad died the day before. Hadn't cried yet. Her mom was sad; she knew that. She just didn't know what to do. She knew her dad was in a good place. God had taken her Daddy away; now she wished he would give him back. She was smelling the roses her mother had planted when she was called inside.

"Midnight," Magenta had started as she held something in her hands. "In this, you will see one of the three beautiful people on the Earth." She handed the object to the child.

When Midnight looked into it, she had expected to see a painting of a beautiful woman. Instead, she saw herself. "It's a mirror," she had stated. Her mother nodded. "Are the other two beautiful people you and Daddy?" This time, her mother shook her head.

"No Pebbles, not us. You don't understand now, but one day you will. I promise. One day you will understand."

The next day she killed herself.

And the tears finally came.

End of Flashback

She didn't understand what her mother had meant then, but she did now. The other people her mother had been talking about were her brother and sister. She noticed she had to have been just standing still for a while. She shoved the mirror back into her bag and started to try and find her way through the mirrors.

She was glad that she had friends and family now. The day her mother died she was taken to America. Her uncle had just showed her around the house and then left her home alone. She basically raised herself from then on with some help from her friend Bella. Her life was much better now.

Just when she thought she would never get out, she found the center. Dawn was in the middle with an award of some sort. She seemed to be bragging about winning.

"Midnight! What took you so long?" Dawn asked.

"Nothing. Just thinking," Midnight answered. Just then, she got hit with a wave of tiredness. She fell over, asleep.

"And the plane finally crashes."

Midnight! She shouldn't have drunk that coffee. I was probably like that last night… lol

Reviews are hugs to make 'Night feel better!

Carpe Diem,

IzzieGS