A/N: I want to start off by apologizing for the gap between updates, I am really sorry. But I have an excuse this time and it isn't "I wasn't feeling inspired". Long story short, my laptop died for good so I got a new one, but the new one needed a certain part that took three weeks to come in, and then it didn't have Microsoft Word on it.
Also, this chapter is breaking the timeline and going back to the day they first met. So yes, that means little Laurie & Annie.
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September 6th 1996. The day Laurie met Annie. When Harry met Sally? Please. Even they had nothing on the two five year olds who met that day and would end up falling in love years down the road. Why else would Laurie have gotten the numbers "09.06.96" etched into the ring she bought for Annie's seventeenth Christmas?
On that day, which was bursting with that end-of-summer feeling, two fathers took their daughters to their first day of school at Haddonfield Elementry. Those two fathers made eye contact over the heads of twenty-something five year olds. Eye contact that, from one end to the other, said thank you. Mason Strode knew that if it wasn't for the man he made eye contact with he wouldn't have the little blonde girl gripping his hand. He owed his happiness to the Sheriff who answered the right call four years prior.
After the two fathers (and one mother) said goodbye to their two little girls they all went out for coffee while said little girls started class.
It wasn't until lunch that the two girls first interacted. Annie Brackett was sitting at a table near the front, picking at a sandwich and barely tolerating the boy named Paul who was seated next to her when she noticed a little blonde girl sitting in the back of class all by herself. It only took a matter of seconds for the tiny brunette to wiggle off of her chair and head towards the blonde, her sandwich and Paul forgotten as soon as her feet touched the ground.
The greeting of "hi, I'm Annie" came bursting out of the smaller girl as soon as she was near the table.
After a quick breath she continued, "can I sit with you?" the question was only halfway out of her mouth when she climbed onto the chair. This action that, to some people, would be considered rude just made the shy blonde grin uncontrollably as she formed a short but sweet greeting of her own.
"Hi, I'm Laurie" came out in a shy, breathy whisper but her grin continued to grow.
But that one breathy greeting with that growing grin was all it took for Annie to want to spend every waking moment with the newly-introduced Laurie.
So, to kickstart their lives together, Annie grabs Laurie's hand firmly and drags her off to show off the new purple jacket her daddy bought her for today.
As Annie twirls around in the coat room to emphasize the way her jacket "shines" Laurie giggles and makes a comment about wanting to meet Annie's dad sometime because he must be "really cool" to get her such a jacket. So while Annie's movements emphasize her jacket, Laurie's comments emphasize her innocence. It emphasizes the fact that she has no clue that Sheriff Brackett saved her from living as Angel Myers: Sister of a Serial Killer.
Both girls don't know it yet, but their meeting today is going to lead to the demise of that innocence, of both of their innocences, in eleven years time when said serial killer comes after his little sister and the girl who means everything to her.