7:40

At this time Chelsea would visit Mirabelle, but since the only one at home was Vaughn there was no reason to visit. Chelsea was always planned for the absence of a villager and in this case she knew in order to keep on schedule she would have to waste ten minutes of time when taking into account how Mirabelle would ask Chelsea how she was and Chelsea would have only a one word response and Julia would always have a story that would take six minutes and the arguments Chelsea would have with Vaughn with Julia trying to defending her would take three minutes.

After doing all that math Chelsea still had 8 minutes to spare and she knew she couldn't just stand around. In two minutes Vaughn was going to leave the house and head toward the beach and if he saw Chelsea it would prevent him from seeing Sabrina. Sabrina and Regis were the newest members of the island and as the newest members were the most likely to explore the island. Chelsea had already met the two of them and found Sabrina to be a fragile person who knew little of the outside world as a result of Regis's power over her. Chelsea could sense the curiosity inside Sabrina and used that to her advantage when persuading Sabrina to visit the beach. However convincing her was the easy part, convincing Regis had been difficult. He was extremely unwilling in allowing his daughter anywhere near "the fishing delinquent."

Chelsea had not taken into account that Regis had already had the "pleasure" of meeting Denny and this almost overwhelmed her, she hadn't been surprised by an unlikely possibility occurring in so long it brought up unwelcoming memories, but Chelsea kept her cool by thinking "entertaining" thoughts. This random pause by Chelsea baffled Regis but he made no comment. Chelsea convinced Regis with "legendary treasures" yet to be discovered at the beach and the lack of Denny's presence from 7:45 to 8:15.

Chelsea worked hard to keep things in a steady motion and if she had to take a few emotional punches so be it whatever kept her life predictable was all that mattered. She was well aware that the girls and boys on this island would eventually pair off and she couldn't control that, but she could control who paired off, with just a few pushes and accidental events she knew she could make sure everyone would pair off correctly with their most compatible partner. She had already planned the most compatible people in terms of long lasting relationships: Denny and Lanna, Julia and Elliot, Natalie and Pierre, Sabrina and Vaughn.

Before she realized it Vaughn had left the house. He was four minutes early, but even so he appeared to not be fazed by this and headed to the beach as Chelsea had predicted, but stopped at the sight of a figure standing around. Vaughn couldn't make out the appearance, but he could make a guess that judging by the random action it could only be Chelsea. "Tch, crazy woman," Vaughn muttered to himself.

The sound of Vaughn muttering brought Chelsea back to reality. She was too late, everything was off schedule now, sure, he had plenty of time to still see Sabrina, but that wasn't the point, to make such a severe mistake AGAIN was baffling. It was one thing to make mistake, that's what people did, but to make two mistakes in a row...something was clearly changing, but the question was, was the change in Chelsea or everyone else?

"This is the place where it all began…and…this is the place where it soon will all end."

It? The thought finally came to Chelsea, "he said 'it'" he never said anything about dying, but if that were true then, what's "it?"

"Crazy woman, lookin stupid in public, what do those villagers see in her?" Vaughn was tempted to let her stand there and disturb the peace, but (though Vaughn would never admit it) he didn't want to scare the children. "Crazy woman," he shouted at her, "snap out of whatever, ya look stupid."

Chelsea froze, after a second of stillness she was back in control. "Vaughnie, are you the knight in cowboy attire come to save me?"

"I'm Vaughn, not Vaughnie..." Vaughn muttered under his breath, he did not dare to repeat that louder or...the thought of those wretched orange creatures brushed through his mind and sent shivers down his spine.

"Thinking something scary, Mr. Cowboy?" She said with a look of sympathy, although it looked that way Vaughn knew better somewhere underneath that face was a cheshire grin.

Nah," Vaughn confidently replied, he wasn't going to let her win without a fight. "Nothin's scary,"

"Oh really," Chelsea couldn't help but be relieved. Thanks to Vaughn she was back on her throne predicting this course of action. "I'm so glad to hear that, although...if you're not afraid of anything then you must've already faced your fear or maybe passed through many hardships...perhaps a bad childhood, you're parents neglected you, or a course of bad actions taken that destroyed your life, neglecting your parents advice, or just a loss, a family member no longer here?"

"Shoulda just left you standin there."

"But you didn't, you never do. You always say those things, but you never mean it, do you Vaughn? The magic surrounds you just like anyone else no matter how much you want to be the exception."

"Stop talkin, you're blabberin nonsense."

"Oh Vaughnie, don't worry it doesn't matter how you act the magic won't change."

Vaughn would hear no more of her and stormed off to the beach.