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Chapter 1:

A small, red-headed woman walked up onto a nightclub stage, smiling brightly. Men in the crowd called out loudly and

whistled, women clapped and some cheered. The woman was indeed popular, and she gave a smug smile, knowing just

that. The glittering red camisole she wore hugged her torso comfortably, pronouncing what little chest she had. A tight

black short skirt and knee-high high-heeled leather boots finished off her outfit. Her shimmering bright red hair swayed

gracefully as she turned her head and nodded at someone backstage, indicating she was ready. Instantly, up-beat music

began to play, she started to sing.

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Daddy you don't know the half of it

See I've started something

Now I've have to finish it

The curtin blows outside my bedroom window

This is my life and i've gotta go

I check to see if there is a ladder

in my stocking tight

don't forget to leave the light on

I'll be home before you know

dun be mad if u hear me on the radio

i feel good and i feel free

on the microphone...

Somebody stop me

keep my body rocking til late night

im warning you

dun try to block me

you can't stop me on my time

on my time

Come my girlies for the score? (what)

they scream out better meet em' at the back door

sky rockin to where the speakers blow

bass heavy rock steady grab the microphone

now check the clock is reading 10 pm

i bet my daddys dreaming

he sleep talking so loud again

ill be home before you know

don't be mad if you hear me on the radio

i feel good and i feel free

on the microphone...

Somebody stop me

keep my body rocking til late night

im warning you

dun try to block me

you can't stop me on my time

Somebody stop me

keep my body rocking til late night

im warning you

dun try to block me

you can't stop me on my time

i leave the light on

i won't make a sound daddy

gotta get my grove on

ill be jumping round yeah yeah

i leave the light on

i won't make a sound daddy

gotta get my grove on

ill be jumping round yeah yeah

Somebody stop me

keep my body rocking til late night

im warning you

dun try to block me

you can't stop me on my time

Somebody stop me

keep my body rocking til late night

im warning you

dun try to block me

you can't stop me on my time

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A young girl, quite small for her age of thirteen, growled angrily, "I'll be back before you even miss me!"

"Well who's gonna make my dinner?"

"Her's an idea, how bout you! I told you I have PLANS! And they're not to sit around here all day as your slave!"

"Girl, don't you take that tone with me!" The large, bearded man's red eyes glared at her as he stood up. However, the

glare was wasted on the girl, for it did not faze her.

"I'll take any tone with you I want DADDY." She lingered spitefully on the last word, acid dripping from her voice.

"You won't be goin' to that club again. I ain't gon' get humiliated 'cause my reject of a daughter dancin' 'round with that

good for nothin'-"

"Will you just shut up and go put a fricken' TV dinner in the microwave?" Tears pricked the corners of her eyes as she

grabbed her purse and made for the door.

Suddenly, it was as if the ground had been snatched from beneath her. Her father had gripped her shoulder and picked

her up with little effort. Lina I said you wasn't goin'!" His chubby face screwed up into a scowl and he slapped her hard

on the face, leaving cuts where his nails dug her skin. He proceeded to throw her against the far wall, where she

crumpled in a pitiful heap, her brilliant red hair splayed about her, shrouding her from her father's eyes.

He suddenly adopted an innocent tone, "Now why don't you keep your father company he's been lonely since your

mother left."

"She died you selfish animal!" Her head jerked up and acidic anger dripped from her eyes still obscured by her bangs,

her body glowing an ethereal red color. Hitching her purs on her arm as she stood, she kept her head down and her

voice a dead calm, "I'm going out, I'll be back before you even miss me. All you have to do for dinner is to take out a

TV dinner from the freezer and put it in the microwave for five minutes." She made a conscious effort not to limp and

show her father that he'd hurt her.

"I said you wasn't goin' nowhere Again he set his hand on her shoulder, gripping tightly

Her voice was still a dead calm, "Take your hands off me or I'll-"

Rapidly he spun her around, furiously, "I have forbidden you from ever using that witch power of your mother's!"

She grinned, it was humorous how afraid of her gift he was. She pulled, roughly, out of his grip and walked out into the

night.

She never came back.

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A/N: yup, another one, though i do like this one and where it's goin. As for myths, well, just a lil clue for all those who're

reading it, i had to take some time off from it to actually think of the direction it's going in; and i've made a discovery, it's

gonna take a wide turn in the next couple of chapters. And yes, i'm working on that so it'll be up soon, i promise!