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ISLA POV

"You've got to be kidding me." Emma repeated, still staring at the spot Jake had previously been standing at.

"EMMA!" Isla yelled. "THAT IS LIKE THE FIFTH TIME YOU'VE SAID THAT! HOW ABOUT WE GO FIND HIM!?"

Emma blinked, then snapped out of her trance. "Right, right. Good idea." She looked a bit sheepish. "Millard, Olive, and I will go look for him. Isla, take Bronwyn and the twins back to the house and tell Miss Peregrine that he ran of."

Isla nodded and grabbed each of the twins hands, steering them off as Bronwyn followed.

"What's the holdup?" Miss Peregrine asked when they got to the house.

"Jake ran off," Isla explained, then ran off to find Fiona and Thalia. "Hey Fee!" Isla smiled at her friend, who was sitting in the mouth of a dinosaur topiary.

"Hi Isla!" Fiona called down.

"Have you seen Thalia?"

"She ran off with Horace somewhere," answered Fiona, smirking.

Isla rolled her eyes. The three girls loved to tease each other. Especially Thalia. She got annoyed so easily, all Isla and Fiona had to do was say "Horace" and she would scream at them to shut up. It was hilarious.

Fiona hopped down from the dinosaur and smiled. "Guess what?"

"Hugh's bees turned on him and are trying to turn him into a bee?"

"How did you know?"

"I'm psychic!"

"Really? Last time I checked your peculiarity was turning into a mermaid!"

"Ha ha what really happened?" Isla asked.

"Hugh kissed me!"

"EW WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!? YOU ARE THIRTEEN CHILD!"

"No, I'm eighty-six. And relax, it was just on the cheek. Mostly."

"WHAT THE HECK!"

"Just kidding!"

"You better be!" Isla rolled her eyes again and ran over to Claire, who was playing tag with the twins. "Hello Claire!" she said to the little girl.

Claire's eyes lit up. She loved playing with the older girls, especially Isla. "Isla! Wanna play with us?"

"I'd love too!"

"Yay!" Claire tapped Isla on the shoulder, standing on her tiptoes in order reach it. "You're it!"

Isla laughed and chased her at a jog. After a while Claire ran out of breath and sat down. She patted the ground next to her as a sign for Isla to sit down next to her, which she did.

"I wanna pick flowers for Olive!" Claire announced.

"Let's ask Fiona first," Isla said. Fiona agreed and five minutes later Claire was running along the garden, grabbing flowers as she went. When the girl decided she had enough, she ran over to the twins. Eliana followed. She saw Jake looking around in wonder. Hm, she thought. Wonder when he got here. He glanced at her and she smiled at him. He blinked in surprise.

Miss Peregrine walked over to them. "You've met Isla and the twins," she said. "This is Claire." The twins ran over to the seesaw and Claire followed, balancing them on it.

Isla followed Jake and Miss Peregrine over to Hugh and Millard, again playing football (soccer in the US, I'll say it again).

Millard saw Isla and lost focus, kicking the ball into the mouth of the dinosaur topiary.

"Millard that's a foul again!" Hugh shouted.

"It was not!" Millard shouted back.

"Yes it was, you were just too distracted by your girlfriend to notice!" Hugh argued.

"Shut up!"

"Ref?" Hugh looked at Horace.

Horace stood up. "Again, if you can't play fair I do wish you wouldn't play at all!"

"You still don't know what a referee is, do you?"

Horace ignored him and walked over to Jake and shook his hand. "I'm Horace." He glanced back at the boys. "Sorry about them. Super shirt by the way."

"Where's Thalia?" Isla asked.

"She was looking for you, actually. Said there was something you had to see and wouldn't tell me what it was."

"Thalia? Thalia Chapman?" Jake asked.

"Yes," Isla answered. "Seems Abe's told you about all of us."

Jake's face looked sad for a second, then in a heartbeat it was back to normal. "Yes. He has."

"Anyway, I'd better go find her." Isla marched off.

After Isla had found Thalia they dived into the lake, Thalia in the lead. They headed toward the Augusta and Isla knew that was what she was supposed to see.

When they were inside Thalia said, "Isn't it amazing?"

"Thalia, I've been here before."

"What? Why didn't you tell me about it?"

"I forgot." This was true. Isla had been so tired she had forgotten about the ship. By the time she had remembered, Thalia was off somewhere with Horace.

"Well, it doesn't matter now."

"I guess not."

The girls stayed there until dinnertime, and would've stayed longer if Emma hadn't come and gotten them.

Dinner went pretty normally until Enoch brought up Abe and Emma stormed out.

"Mr. O'Connor! That wasn't nice," Miss Peregrine scolded. "You know perfectly well why Abe left us."

"To join the army," said Hugh.

"And then he met a lady, and had a nice wedding, and a lovely little baby," Bronwyn finished.

"Children!" Miss Peregrine said.

Isla sensed the awkwardness and stayed silent, keeping her eyes on her meal.

Emma came back for movie time and everyone took their usual spots.

Horace's dream showed Jake meeting him. Then there was a woman in a chair, being pushed around by wights.

"An ymbryne," Fiona whispered. She raised her voice. "Who is she? Miss Peregrine, do you know her?"

"Don't be silly," Hugh said. "Horace just had a bad dream, that's all."

Isla wasn't so sure, but decided not to bring it up.

Next was an image of Emma and Jake about to kiss, but before they did Miss Peregrine shut the projection down.

"I should probably be getting home now," Jake said.

"You could stay here, if you'd like," Miss Peregrine suggested.

"But the island is quite safe, isn't it?" Emma said pointedly.

"Yes, of course," Miss Peregrine said. "But someone should go with him, should he need to avoid any bombs."

Emma nodded.

"You should at least stay to see the reset," said Olive. "It's really quite spectacular."

"Yeah!" several children agreed. Enoch threw his head back and groaned.

Isla and Thalia turned into mermaids as the children walked outside. Fiona passed them their masks and they put them on. Isla listened as the familiar song played and raindrops went backwards, up towards the sky.

The children pulled off their masks and Thalia and Isla stood up and followed them inside.

That's the end of chapter eight! Wow, that was a long chapter. Hope you enjoyed! Again, please review! Bye!