A/n: Yup here's chapter 2.

DISCLAIMER: I still own nothing except all no-laby people I made up.



Mandi stood at the front door of the school waiting for Leia who had said she needed to get something out of her locker. She sighed lightly wishing Leia would hurry up so they could watch the labyrinth sooner.

"Hello. I believe your name is Mandi. Am I right?" the pale blond haired seventeen year old male asked her in a smooth soft way.

"Yes it is and I believe you are Keith?" She asked him. He nodded to confirm what Mandi had just asked. She smiled lightly noticing how much he looked like Jareth and how he was uniquely different too.

"That is correct. Aren't you usually with another beautiful lady like yourself?" He asked in a flirtatious way.

"Leia is her name." She said nodding. "Why do you ask?"

"Well it seems she's not here and I was informed that you two are rarely seen apart at school and I was wondering where she is." He told her.

"Yes I'm almost always with her but she had to go to her locker for a second and will be right back. We've been best friends since pre-school and have always been close." She informed him.

"Well I must go but I'll give you my number so you can contact me soon alright?" He then wrote a number down on a piece of paper.

Mandi took the piece of paper from him like it was a worthless artifact that had to be handled with care. She read his number over quickly. 473- 1455 Keith (call me soon). It said and she sighed in happiness because she now had Keith's number and his permission to call him at any time. She wanted him to come over tonight and -it being Friday- her father, stepmother, aunt Dee and uncle Ron would go out somewhere for the night leaving her to care for the nightmares - her nieces Matty and Alise. Luckily she was able to have a sleepover the next night with Leia at her small, cozy house instead of the huge, lonely mansion.

Mandi straightened her white tank top and blue jeans and leaned against the wall with a beautiful smile on her peachy skinned face to wait for Leia to come back from her locker. About a minute later her wish came true and who should come running up to her but her best friend. She was breathing hard from running from one end of the school to the other and luckily no janitor or teacher had caught her run down the wide white- painted walls that were covered in mint green lockers.

Mandi looked at her friend and arched an eyebrow at her lightly. Leia stared at Mandi blankly and then took a second to catch her breath.

"Let's go now Mandi please I really want to get out of this hellhole they call school." She told her friend walking out the front doors.

"Ya and I better get home before my parents decide to make me pick up the brats without telling me. They're not my children but with all the time I spend with them I'm amazed that they even know their parents at all..." Mandi said walking a little faster.

"Why do you even bother to take care of them? You should tell them 'NO' next time the tell you to baby-sit for nightmare and trouble. They're not your children and if they were I'd be very scared and wonder why the hell you have two children who are two years old and nine months old." She said laughing

"Oh that's incredibly funny... NOT!!! Now if you want to keep being like this I will go home and I won't come over tomorrow to stay over for the weekend." Mandi told her

"Aww I'm joking Mandi. Your seventeen what need do you have for two small children who are your step nieces?" Leia asked her best friend

"I don't know but ever since Aunt Dee and uncle Roy moved in last year I've been stuck with them as much as the adults can manage. I know if I tell them that I won't baby-sit I'll get kicked out of the house and right now I'm not planning on getting kicked out because of a two young girls." Mandi sighed.

"Well I dunno what to tell you Mandi. It's your life that you control and it's up to you to decide what you do." Her friend walked faster to catch up with her. "I need to go home and put my bag in my room so I won't have to carry it to your house then mine after since we'll be passing my house to get to yours anyway."

"That's true and you could grab your labyrinth dvd while your in your house." She told her friend

"Why? I thought you have the movie?" Leia asked her giving her a weird look.

"I do but I want to check out the dvd and see what's all on it. The movie doesn't have anything other then the movie." She explained

"Oh I see now... okay I'll grab it on my way out of the house." Leia stood on the street corner and muttered "oh no not them again!"

"Who?" Mandi asked looking down darkness road.

"My cousins. They always bug me because of the way I am." She explained to her best friend.

"Oh. Well we could stand here and talk until they leave or I could make them leave." Mandi told her.

"How are you going to get them to leave?" Leia asked her

"Simple. Watch me." Mandi then walked over to the group of five boys, all of which were brunettes like Leia but they had deep brown eyes instead of blue and short hair so you couldn't see if it was curly or straight.



Mandi walked up to the teenaged boys who were all either on skateboards or on bikes. They all looked about fifteen to nineteen. She had never met any of them so she didn't know names or ages or any information about them at all.

"Hi boys what's up? So are you all new here?" she smiled in a sweet and thoughtful way.

"No we're waiting for our cousin Leia. You don't happen to know her do you?" one of the boys asked her.

"Leia who? I don't know any Leias at all!" She blinked sweetly at him and smiled in a flirty way.

"Alright well we gotta run now bye!" With that all five boys road off away from her.

She chuckled lightly then went to get Leia. "There gone Leia I chased them all away!" she then pulled her friend's arm to get her moving so they would get to the house sooner and they could watch the labyrinth.

Leia's house was a medium sized two-floored house that was painted baby blue. The door and windowpanes were white and the house looked like a very cozy place to live. Mandi's dreams had always been to live in a house like Leia's where she was loved and cared for but she knew it would never come true. It was one of her secret dreams that no one knew about. Sure living in a mansion was cool... but not a nice family house where you knew everyone cared about you.

"Well are you going to stand out here all day or are we going to go in the house?" Leia asked her walking up to the front door.

"Oh...uh... ya... one sec." Mandi looked at the house one more time and imagined living here and being that close to her family then she walked in the front door following her best friend.

"My mom isn't home yet but she will be soon. The boys will be back when she comes home to talk to her and get cookies and candy. She spoils them too much in my theory but hey I also believe they should go home and stay there forever and stop bugging me!" Leia smiled lightly at her friend and started walking down the lily colored hallway into the dining room. "Oh oops I forgot to take my shoes off. Oh well I'll only be in the house for a sec anyways so it doesn't really matter."

Mandi took her deep blue runners off before following her friend through the dining room then up the stairs into the upper hall that was painted a forest green. Leia's room was the fifth door on the right.

"Well here's my room. It's kind of a mess at the moment so you have to forgive me." She opened the door to show an almost perfectly clean room. The walls were silver and green with dragons and unicorns and other mystical creatures all over them.

"A mess? That's a mess?!!??" Mandi asked her friend looking into the room. "What's my room then? A hurricane zone?"

"Sure why not?" she burst out laughing right after saying it.

"Nice best friend! Now where's that dvd?"

"It's right there Mandi." Leia pointed to the desk in the corner and Mandi started looking on it.

"Here it is! The Labyrinth on dvd!" Mandi yelled triumphantly

"Alright now let's get going before my mom gets back." She walked to the door and waited for Mandi to follow her.

Mandi looked at her friend then followed her out the door and into the green hallway.

"Come on Leia hurry up!! We really gotta go now!!" Mandi raced down the polished wooden stairs and across the dining room into the hallway then to the door. She barely was able to slip her shoes on before she was out the door.



A/N: yep that's all for now MUAHAHA review!! :)