"You did WHAT?" Hoggle was staring at Sarah, slack jawed, and completely perplexed by the story she had just told him. "You KISSED Jareth?!?"

"No." Sarah sighed. She knew that telling Hoggle was going to be a mistake. "He kissed me."

"And there's a difference?"

"YES! There's a difference" Sarah glared at Hoggle and he shut his mouth. They both sat there in silence, thinking about what they had just been talking about, and what it meant.

"Sarah." Hoggle was looking down at his lap. "Do you love him in return?" He paused, collecting his thoughts and looked up to face his friend. "Do you even know if he really loves you?"

"I really don't know." She was looking out the window into the night. "I honestly don't know." They both fell completely silent again. "Uhhh. I should probably get to sleep soon Hoggle. Wanna call it a night?" She said after a few minuets of quiet.

"Sure." Hoggle got up. "Listen, Sarah. Don't kiss Jareth again, I mean, at least not until you're sure if you love him or not."

"I thought I told you, I DIDN'T-" but Hoggle had already vanished. Sarah sighed and fell backwards onto her bed wanting very much to go to sleep.

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Sarah shuffled into her homeroom class Monday morning. First period was math class, boring. She pulled a plain spiral note-book that she like to call her journal and began writing. Luckily, she sat in the back and the teacher never noticed or called on her.

"What's this?" Sarah looked up to see her friend Sami smiling and reading what Sarah had just written over her shoulder. "Hehe. You and your fantasy stories. Class is about to end y'know. May wanna start packing up."

"Oh." Sarah went to put her journal back into her book bag, but Sami had already scooped it up and read through what her friend had written throughout the period.

"The 'Goblin King' 'eh? Where do you get the ideas for this stuff?"

"Uhhh, you know, here and there." Sarah faked a smile and grabbed her journal back from Sami, stuffing it into her bag as the bell rang. "So, Sar. You doing anything today?"

"Don't think I am."

"Good." Sami smiled "There's something I have to show you. I'll meet on the stage right after school. Kay?"

Sarah started to say something, but her friend had already disappeared into the crowd. She shrugged and went off to her next class.

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"Damnit Sami" Sarah looked at her watch. She had been told to be waiting ten minuets ago. Sami was late, as usual and this didn't make Sarah happy.

"Hey" Sami jumped on Sarah's back. "Sorry I'm late. Just caught doing stuff."

"You're SO descriptive."

"I know." Sami smiled wide and grabbed Sarah's hand. "Come on, lets go."

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More from me. ^_^ So, I got two reviews I wanna respond to. 1. 'Bout the stepmother's name. I don't think she officially HAS one, unless it's an unwritten law here that I didn't know about, or I wasn't looking hard enough. 2. I'm REALLY sorry about the lack of spacing in the first 2 chapters. It's not like that on the hard copy I have on my computer and I didn't realize I had to double space the paragraph stuffs. ~MF 12.30.03

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