The days passed by slowly, every now and then Axel would sneak in, and we'd talk, then Jena would shove him out, I needed my rest, she'd say, I'm very ill, his dad would agree. Yin and Yang though, they would continually watch me from the doorway, as if I was contagious.. After Two weeks I was able to go back to school, I hadn't missed much, but the only bad thing was, it was only two days left of school, so I couldn't turn in my late work. Axel was excited for summer, and our Trip to Twilight Town. We were one of two worlds that knew about other worlds. Travers Town and us. I remember when I got on the Gummi ship, once my parents had died. It felt so surreal. Then at the home for girls at Travers Town, I'd say nothing, I'd barely eat and I kept in my room when everyone else played. All I did was hug the teddy bear that had been slipped under my arm. I always figured it was Santa, after all my parents died on Christmas Eve, and I was in the home then, I heard the voice, I was between sleep and awake, that beautiful limbo, and I heard his voice. It reminded of Mr. Yen Sids. The man we visited often, it was powerful, yet loving, worried maybe, with a hint of all knowing. His voice always made me feel warm, and yes wanted.

James and Lucas came back from their vacation, that was very spur-of-the-moment, and they never said a word about how I was feeling, when James had unpacked and showed me all of the neat things he and Lucas gotten (for themselves, but I digress, it's not like it matters) he took me to my bedroom and he pretended it was Friday. After a while he got bored and started hitting at me, yelling abuse. I covered my ears and tried to cry but the tears would not come. He drug me downstairs hitting me over the head as we went, Lucas bit his lip, he disapproved I could tell, but he didn't say a word. When he was done I ran to the bathroom and emptied my stomach of all it'd let me, groaning I roll on my back and I flushed the toilet pale I shakily made my way down stairs and announced I was going to bed early, and without dinner. I crawled in my bed the cool sheets wrapping around me, sleep however hard I wanted it to, would not beckon, so I laid there and I cried. I wondered what Axel's family was doing. I wondered if he was thinking about me. I got my journal and I wrote. I wrote as if my life depended on it, then I put a date ten days. Ten until I go, on my own vacation with my only friend. Then I close it and cry myself into a nightmarish sleep.

I've always had nightmares, ever since I can remember I had nightmares, every night I was used to it. I looked around my heart racing, and got dressed and ran to school before my dad's got up. See we are in a hick town; we don't have a hospital for miles (It takes people six hours just to get to a hospital, tell that to Mrs. Ellen's, who has five children) so people go to my house for healing. James was always in a foul mood in the morning. I stop when I realize I have hours, its only four in the morning, I curse myself out and look around; I am at the park, so I sit on a swing. I close my eyes; the weather is amazing, cold yet not so cold that it'd send me running...It was refreshing. Far off in the distance I see a man, all in black, like the two that I'd seen right before I went to the hospital, and the one with the sharpest green eyes I have ever seen, at the hospital. He was grumbling to himself, how none of them could do anything. None of whom? I close my eyes, the doctors told me this is all a hallucination as were all the others. When I open my eyes he is right in front of me. I can smell his breath; it smells of Pain and Misery. I take a shaky breath, how I feel around him….It's….It's unexplainable. My chest feels tight and my palms start to sweet. I concentrate on breathing as him and I am locked in a staring contest. After a while he raises me up by my throat, a scream threatening to rise up, I claw at my hand.

"You" he said in a fierce, angry voice "Have no idea how hard it was to find you, that wizard must have put up a tracing block" He shook me, his hands tighter, is this how I am to die?! I want to beg, to plead for my life, or at very least, for him to make my death a quick one.

"Stop..….Please" I manage to say. Fear must have been heavy in my eyes because he laughed a cruel laugh at me, my heart pounded faster, and he put his spare hand over my heart, which was extremely creepy. He smiled a all-knowing smile.

"You think I'm going to exterminate you, how….Adorable." he said and started to walk; fear started in my stomach and threatened to come out of my mouth. "My dear, my dear, you have an important destiny to fulfill" he said.

I started to squirm and managed to get myself free. Once I was out of his grasp I started to run but a dark wall stopped me. He walked to me slowly, I want to run, scream or even crawl up and die, whatever this man has in store for me, is much, much worse. Finally I find my courage and I cry out "No! Please! "The man stopped. Then he looked at me, cold relentless eyes. I literally wanted to vomit. "Very well, I suppose he can wait a few years, it might actually be beneficial" he said pondering; I had to wonder, what was he on about, but I was too confused to ask. Then he started to walk away. "If you tell anyone about anything to do with the people with black coats, Axel will die.

***************************** A few days later************************************

I wake up on the cold morning grass. My dad's had let me have a sleepover with Axel, in the meadow, so long as I was home before my piano lesson, I wake up, rubbing my eyes tiredly look at the watch that was on Axel's wrist I was late. I jump up running to my house; I feared that the people in black would come at me again. I think as I think about them I run head strong into a chest, clocked in black. So far I ran into the one at the auction, which was the one that broke into my house that was another. There was the one that was watching me at the park and the man who talked to me at the park, I back up and look at him, and he had long black hair that looked like dread-locks he was by one with the hood over his face.

"Sorry" I say coolly keeping my head down, but the man with dread locks stopped me holding me tightly. Fear washed over me, vomit rising in my throat, I was so afraid, but I swallowed my vomit. I wondered if he could sense my fear because he smiled gently.

"Relax" he said "I wouldn't hurt you, I'm your godfather" I only look at him skeptically "would you like to see your father, he'd like to see you"

I look at the man next to him, who did nothing, or say anything.

"My father is dead" I say coldly, tears threatening.

"Come with us and we will show you the truth" he smiled gently extending a hand "he's brilliant you'll love him a lot"

I back up "you're sick, my father's dead!"

He sighed grabbing my wrist and started to pull, but the man who was silent smacked the man with dreadlocks over the head. He was kind of like a silent hero, you could say. "She said no Xaldin" then the two disappeared. I ran to the house surprised that Lucas (he taught me piano) and James was asleep, so I tip-toe to my bedroom, just when I'm up the stairs I see James, folding his arms.

"Worthless" he snarled shoving me down the stairs, when I reach the bottom, I scream in agony, by leg hurts more than anything I felt. He walks down to me, feels my leg and declares it's broken.

******************************hours later***********************************

I can hear Axel knock on the door. James answered

"Is mervil here?" I hear him ask. "Can she hang out? Can I see her?"

"No" James said icily "she went to summer camp, she won't be here until September"

"W-w-what?" Axel said I could hear the hurt in her voice. "she never said anything about that"

"It was a surprise" he said coldly.

"What about Twilight Town? I just learned how to drive a Gummi Ship!" he said I could hear he was on the verge of tears.

"go with someone else kid, I really don't care"

"B-b-b-ut"

"Go" he repeated "before I call the cops".

Then the door shut, I lean into the pillow and sob.

************One Month later*****************

Axel sat with all the camps pamphlets spread out on his bed; he only left for the bathroom and food. He'd been acting neurotically. He'd called all the possible camps she'd been to, except one.

His mum knocked on the door as he dialed the number.

"Axel sweetheart your scaring me and your father, are you ok?

"yes no go go go go go go" Axel yelled "I'm busy and I don't need you breathing over my shoulder."

Jena sighed softly closeting the door walking away.

He hit the call button and a chipper girl answered.

" I need to talk to mervil, Jones, Big blue eyes, long brown hair, please I miss her I need to talk to her".

The girl bit her lip "I'm sorry little boy there's no girl who even looks like that, or has that name, I'm sorry".

Axel hung up the phone numbly and stayed in his room for the rest of the summer.