Macchi-sama rambles…

Okie dokie! Macchi-chan is pretty satisfied with this chapter! And I shall ramble more at the end of the chapter!

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Oh. Ya. Disclaimers. Did you know that when people review my stories I get money to buy V-raptors and hire more people to disclaim my stories? Howeva, not that many people have reviewed, so I hired my two favorite V-raptors. But they got sick, so I had to get my OC Edel from my other fanfic LUKE TRITON and the Scientist's Sister. (if you haven't read it, please do! I've worked very hard on my first romance story and it only has 3 reviews…)

Edel-…I messed up last time, but I will do it this time! *turns bright red with effort* MACCHI-SAMA DOES NOT OWN PROFESSOR LAYTON OR ANYTHING ELSE ASSOCIATED WITH IT! *deep breath* BUT SHE DOES OWN THE PLOT AND THE GIRL AND THE BOY AND THE CLOUD (Kami forbid) SO NO ONE COME UP AND SHOOT HER OR I DIE TOO!

Macchi-good job, Edel. (she did pretty bad last time…)

Yellow Paper ch.3

The boy stared up at the girl, confused.

"Tell…you?"

"Yes…"

"I don't even know who you are!"

The girl looked around, then back at him. "I don't remember much, but I do know that my name is Miriam. What's yours?" The boy watched Miriam's dark braids swing back and forth as they moved around frantically as he answered distractedly, "Mine's Thomas. How did you get here? All I remember is a key, a light, and falling up."

Miriam's eyes fell to the ground and began to tear up. I was chased here…by dark things. I don't know what they were bu-" Her head snapped up and her gaze darted from place to place as she spoke frantically. "They're here. We have to get away. NOW!" She leapt to her feet and grabbed Thomas's arm. "Come on!" Thomas stumbled as she dragged him across the field, the strange notion forming in his head that this had happened many, many times before.

His head swiveled back to look at the strange creatures following him. In fact, they couldn't even be classified as 'creatures,' because for all that he could tell, there was simply a large cloud of…nothing. That's simply what it was. Nothing. A giant, shifting, living cloud of nothing. Thomas turned back to look at the girl…no, she had a name. Miriam. Why is that name so familiar? As his attention was turned back to the cloud, Miriam spoke up in a hurried, shaking voice. "I think that we know each other. That's probably why we seem so familiar to each other. However, I'd love to stop and chat about it, but as you have most likely noticed that we are currently being followed by nothing, we need to keep going."

Thomas caught himself smiling at the girl's darker sense of humor. The identical duo ran along until they collapsed in the hollow of a tree. Apparently, the cloud wasn't very smart, because it passed right by them. James and Miriam looked at each other in bewilderment, then at noticing each other's faces, both broke out in to nervous, yet relieved laughter. After a few moments of laughing their hearts out, they both suddenly stopped. "So…how do we get back?" "I have no ide…wait, back to where?" Thomas looked at the girl, brows knit in confusion. "Thomas, don't you remember? Back to our home…" Miriam shook her head, confused by her own words.

"Hey, Miriam, did you get clipped by the cloud earlier?" Thomas referred to a few moments earlier, when he had pulled Miriam into the hollow tree. She had begun to screech in pain as he pulled her, but he had covered her mouth with his hand, causing her to bite it instead. Thomas grimaced in pain as his wounded hand brushed up against the girl's long, soft hair which had come undone during their mad scramble for their lives. Miriam though about it, then nodded. "Come to think of it, yes. I was nicked, but just barely. On the back of my leg." Miriam shifted to where they could see the back of her leg in the sparse light let into the hollow. The two both gasped as they saw the effect of contact with the cloud.

A section of the back of her leg, even the muscle and bone.

It was completely gone.

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