Labyrinth II: Crystal Dreams
By: Xelena

If you want the disclaimers, see Chapter 1.
Author's notes: C&C please I'm doing this really late at night, so there won't be a chapter title for this one.

Chapter 2: A normal day…
Sarah Williams woke up to the annoying buzzing of her alarm clock. "Why can't I just have a decent night of sleep," she muttered, blindly reaching to her table and hitting the alarm clock until it shut up. After about 10 minutes of futilely trying to go back to sleep, she screamed her frustration into her pillow and slowly crawled out of bed. Walking into the bathroom, she shed her nightclothes and stepped into the shower.
Grabbing a towel, she dried off. Then, wrapping the towel around her, she made her way to her closet, and pulled out a long blue dress made of a lightweight cotton. "This is perfect for a walk in the park." Hanging her towel over the mirror, she changed into the dress and ran a brush through her hair. Grabbing her purse, she shut the door and bounded down the stairs.
Seeing Karen in the kitchen, she greeted her with a simple "Good Morning." She and Karen had miraculously started getting along after her adventure in the Labyrinth. "Hey Karen, I'm going to go out to the park and then into town, okay?"
"Sure Sarah. You have the keys and your wallet."
Sarah answered in the positive, patting the purse that held her wallet and keys. The car, a BMW Beamer, had amazed Sarah on her graduation from high school, as it had been from Karen and not her dad. Remembering how she had said Sarah would need a car, she had handed her the keys to the Beamer and pointed to a midnight blue car behind them. "It's yours now," she had said.
Snapping out of flashback mode, she heard Karen say okay, and then ask her if she wanted breakfast. "Yeah, that sounds great."
"Well, how about pancakes?"
"Sounds good to me." And she sat down at the counter, while Karen made breakfast.

"I'll be back later, Karen. Probably around 3 or so. Bye." Sarah yelled back into the house as she strode out the front door, and got into her car. Stepping on reverse, she backed out of the driveway, and sped over to the park, her bag next to her. After breakfast, she had realized she would need a few more things for the park. So she had gone back to her room, grabbed a camera, her book of the Labyrinth, and a sketch book. Then, stuffing them and her purse into a little shoulder bag, she had run back down the stairs and out the door.
Pulling up in front of the park, she grabbed the bag and got out. It still looks like how I remembered it the first time, almost 3 years ago. Had it really been three years since she had seen Jareth. Yeah, but it's not as if I don't miss him. I just haven't thought about him much. You wish, her inner voice sneered. You've thought about him every free moment you've had. Shut up, Sarah growled at her conscience. It's not wrong to feel bad about destroying a person. So while she had an inner conversation, she failed to notice the white owl fly into the tree above her.
Sarah. I'm flattered that you've been thinking about me.