I have no excuse (that I can explain easily) for not updating most of my stories in… how long? The story I have updated the least, was about a year ago. So be lucky that wasn't you.
I'm sorry, again. Please bear with me. Any suggestions, feel free to review them.
Lily had jumped off of me once we saw her sister. Haley bent down and picked her up. She started to fuss over the little girl, and she giggled. I smiled and joined them.
"Hey, Haley," I gave her a quick hug of recognition and she hugged back.
"Kim!" She smiled, but still looked a little frazzled. "How are you? What's going on? I can't find my parents anywhere! And Katie! I think she ditched me…"
Lily turned her head to look at me as we began to talk. She started to try and grab my hair as I talked, but I kept going. "How old is Katie? Isn't she 18..?"
Haley nodded, and kept looking around. Lily started to rub my hair against her face and giggled. I smiled and laughed along. "Hey, Kim?"
"Yeah..?" I looked up to Haley and made Lily let go.
"Can you watch Lily while I go try and talk to people? Maybe get them to calm down..?"
"Because you're a peacemaker, and you think everyone will listen to you?"
"Don't they always..?" She raised an eyebrow and I rolled my eyes.
"Yes…" I grabbed Lily from Haley and she began to snuggle into my hair.
"Thanks, Kim! I owe you one!" She started to head toward a small group.
"You owe me way more than one!" I called back. I looked back down to Lily and saw her sucking her thumb. I started to brush her straight black hair with my hand.
I turned around and started to look at all the people I knew. Everyone was in their small group, talking to each other. Some were frantic, and some didn't even seem to care. Or didn't even notice enough to care.
I started to walk to each group, and began talking with them. Everyone knew me. None of them really hated me. A couple even gave me a hug and started to fuss over how "cute" Lily was.
I asked each group the standard question: "Do you know what's going on?"
The girl, who looked like the leader of their small group because she stood in the middle of the three shook her head. They were somewhat short. Probably freshman.
I studied the middle girl. She was rubbing her head in a frantic way, trying to get it to stop being stringy. It was wet, probably from the shower.
The girl to her right, had the same hair color, but it was straighter. It looked a lot neater, because it wasn't sticking up. Through her glasses, her greenish eyes looked around, frantically. She wasn't focusing on me.
The girl on the left has very curly orange-ish hair. Looked like it had moose. She looked like the only one of their group who wasn't frantic. She looked a bit worried, but she smiled at me cautiously.
"Well, I'm not EXACTLY sure what happened. But, have you noticed how the adults have kind of, ya know… gone missing..?"
The two girls on the outside nodded, but the girl in the middle scrunched her eyebrows. I decided to explain it. "Well, my friend has a theory. Not a very logical one, I know that. But I guess it's a good explanation, even if it's probably not true."
The girl in the middle started to study me as I started to explain about Jack's theory. She didn't look at me like she wanted to kill me. Or harm me in any way. Just more of a look that seemed like she didn't want to talk to me.
"… and so that's why my friend thinks that everyone over 18 has disappeared." The girl of the right smiled and laugh like it was a pretty funny thing. The girl on the left laughed a little. I joined in so it wouldn't get awkward, but the girl in the middle just stood there.
I carefully studied the girl closer without making it look like I was. I saw her arm slowly move the girl of the left, where she elbowed her slightly. The girl with glasses kept laughing to make it seem unnoticeable, but I saw a bit of worry in her eyes. I saw her get closer to the middle girl, and proceeded to slowly touch her hand to the middle of her back.
The girl in the middle breathed deeply and seemed to slightly calm at the touch. She nodded as the girl looked to her.
To make it look like I wasn't watching, I turned to the girl on the right and asked her, her name. "Hey, I'm Fran. And you can call me Fran."
She smiled and held a hand. I smiled and took it. "Kim."
I started a small conversation with her, but noticed how the girl with glasses tried to keep the middle girl calm. She leaned in and whispered something in her ear. The middle girl seemed to consider it, and then nodded. They both sat down on the curb and glasses girl took middle's girl's backpack.
She pulled out a brush, and took the hair tie off of her wrist. The middle girl turned towards me and glasses girl started to brush her hair. The middle girl locked eyes with me, and I didn't even notice that the orange-haired girl left until the brushed past to my arm to walk over to another group.
I stared into the deep blue eyes of the girl, and she stared at me back. The girl with glasses started to braid her hair into a fishtail. I sat down behind her and started to talk to her as she started to braid.
"So, what's your name?"
"Marina." She tapped the girl's left shoulder and she reached up to grab the bit of hair from Marina.
"That's pretty. I'm Kim," I smiled, but realized she wasn't looking at me. I raised my voice a bit before asking the other girl the same question.
She tensed a bit, and didn't answer.
Marina glanced over her shoulder to give me a look that clearly said, please don't mention it. She smiled a fake smile and gave a small chuckle. "Kai doesn't like to talk much."
I nodded and tried to keep up a conversation, but I realized that everything I brought up got shot down immediately. "When did you guys meet?"
Marina paused for second before starting again. "When we born."
"You guys were born on the same day..?" I raised an eyebrow.
"I would hope so. We are twins…" My eyes widened. I got up and moved to look at them both. Marina stopped braiding and looked at me with a friendly smirk. But her sister, Kai, was looking down. Marina seemed to notice, as she reached across the shoulder in front of her and tapped the bottom of Kai's chin.
Kai slowly looked up and looked at me unfocused. After a few moments, her eyes finally seemed to lock onto mine, but it looked like she was struggling to hold her gaze.
I focused on that for a second, but decided to move on. I couldn't tell many similarities between the two, mainly because they have different color eyes. Marina had a deep green, but Kai had a deep blue. The color was similar, but seemed as though they were different shades.
They had the same cheekbones and same face structure. Even though Marina had glasses, they looked alike. They had the same hair color, but Kai's seemed a little bit more straggled. The only difference I could really see between their faces was a pretty large scar going from the top of Kai forehead, across her left eyelid, and down to just below her ear. It didn't look new, but it didn't look like it was years old.
I nodded. "I see it." I smiled and Marina smiled back. She continued to braid Kai's hair and I said goodbye. I walked to another group slowly, thinking the two girls. I wondered if Kai had some kind of mental disability. She was afraid, she wouldn't talk to me, she seemed to only be calmed down by her sister's touch.
Then I realized that she might have a physical disability too. Her eyes were much unfocused, and she had the large scar across her face. I kept thinking about this until I realized that Lily was no longer with me. I almost screamed when I heard a voice from behind me.
"I believe this belongs to you." I turned to see Jack with Lily on his shoulders. I smiled and sighed, relieved. I walked over to them and reached my arms up to Lily. She lifted her arms up and I picked her off of Jack's shoulders. She giggled and began to play with my hair and I sat her on my hip.
"Thank. You." Jack raised her hands in a hold-your-applause way. "So, what's new?"
He shrugged and looked behind him. He pointed to the group of guys sitting down at the tables. "I talked to them. One said that his parents went to a party last night. Left him alone and never came home."
He pointed to the tall guy. "He said that his mom wasn't home when he woke up this morning. He called his dad's home, but he wouldn't answer."
He gestured to the whole group. "They all have similar stories."
I nodded. "What's new, with you?"
I thought for second before shrugging. "Same…"
"You seem hesitant."
"You seem to know me better than I'm comfortable with." I smirked.
He shrugged and smiled. "So, about my theory…"
"I will believe you, if…"
He looked taken aback. "If..?"
"If we go to a place that normally adults would be, and they're not there, I MIGHT believe you."
He thought about it for a second and looked around at the kids. Then the school.
"I guess we're not having school today… let's go."
I grabbed his arm. "I decide where we go."
"Fine." He rolled his eyes. "Where will we go, your highness?"
I rolled my eyes back. "Back when we did the Teenage World thing, we all had to make leaders and decide on laws." I looked down at Lily. "I have an idea of what we have to do."
Was this better than my others? Was it worse..? I'm not sure. This is my first romance fic. It doesn't see, like a romance fic does it? No. No it doesn't
It will turn into one. Trust me. These first few chapters are like a prologue to the whole romance part of this. It's kinda going to start being romancey in the next chapter. Some stuff will start to get exciting in the next few.
Oh! I almost forgot. I'm gonna need some OCs. Not anything specific. I just need a name and a description of what they look like. And maybe a short bio. Really short bio. Maybe a few words. You can use your name or make up a name. And for what they look like, you can describe what they look like, or you can put a link of a picture of your character. And don't say something like, "Always gets caught cheating on his girlfriends", or "got caught once in bed with a guy" or something old like that. Make them somewhere between the age of 11- like, infant.
Kay, thanks!
And if you haven't seen the movie, "Rise of the Guardians", go see it. Now. Like, right now. Get your butt up and get to the nearest movie theatre. Go. Watch it. Enjoy… it.