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By: Jennifer Shi

Chapter 1: Life After Part 1

Sarah… called a sweet and enchanting voice softly. Her name came off as a light crease that caused sensations of warmth and security to rush through her. The voice was velvety and soft, It made Sarah feel as though she was creased by delicate moon beams and floating on a cloud. The disembodied voice also sounded vaguely familiar but the floaty feeling prevented her mind from going down a certain memory lane.

"Who are you?" Sarah felt her breathy voice ask. As she turned around trying to locate the source of the voice, but there was no one there in this hazy white void that stretched seemingly for eternity.

"I'm hurt; love…" teased the voice lightly. "Why I am your…."

But, before the airy voice could finish, the once tranquil space became eerily dark and loud clashes of thunder sounded in the distance. The sense warmth left Sarah completely as another loud clash rang through the void. The darkness around her was strangely over powering and a suffocating feeling was bubbling up from her chest.

"NO!! She's mine…,"snared a dark voice that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand on their ends.

"Temper, Temper…" teased the lighter voice, which only made the space darken even more. As if responding to the moods of the darker entity, a bright flash of lightning illuminated the space. The booming clash of thunder that fallowed next caused Sarah to jump back in fright.

"Tsk, Tsk…now look at what you did," teased the lighter voice. All of was still for a moment, before slowly the darkness that filled the room resided. The drowning sensation that she felt had slowly began to reside as well.

"My sincerest apologies, pet" purred the darker voice of the two. The husky voice sent shivers down her spin as Sarah let out a breath that she did not know she was holding.

"Now, you stay away from what is mine," growled the darker of the two.

"She is yours as much as she is mine…," said the lighter voice calmly, "but perhaps we should let our lovely guest choose. Non…?"

"Sarah…"purred both of the voice in union.

She suddenly felt extremely self conscious and an odd sense of excitement as the voices seemed to turn to her, seeking for an answer that she did not have…

"Who do you choose…." demanded the voices. They sounded like a stereo, so in tuned with each other. They're voices echoed through the empty space, bouncing back from nonexistent walls. It made her head spin and she felt her self stumbling before everything seemed to fade before her eyes.

The bright morning sun peaked through the curtains hanging over the windows, leaking into the room. On the nightstand beside a twin bed sat a beeping alarm clock trying to wake up the occupant of the bed. After a few beeps a pale arm reached out from underneath the covers, feeling blindly for the button that would turn off the annoying alarm clock. Groaning a dark haired beauty sat up on the bed, yawning as she rubbed her eyes, trying hard to step away from the land of dreams. Turning back the covers, the girl stood up and stretched, before sighing and getting out of bed. Leisurely, Sarah trekked towards the door that led to her bathroom.

Looking at her pale reflection in the mirror she sighed before turning on the tap and splashing her face with the cold water, trying to drive away the sleepiness that she still felt. Her mind muddled over the bizarre dream was having, but like most dreams, the going on of the dreams was beginning to disappear from her mind. All she remembered now was the voices was how different they were like day and night, but they also seem to fit together like they belonged together. Shivering at the thought Sarah quickly pushed the thoughts to the back of mind and walked out of the bathroom to get dressed for the day. Grabbing a brush from her dresser she quickly ran it through her dark locks. Walking over to her closet, Sarah grabbed a pair of faded blue jeans and white t-shirt with ribbons and lace.

After getting dressed she walked over to her desk to gather up her books and folders, quickly stuffing them in her backpack. In her hurry her hands knocked over a beautiful music box that at the edge of the desk. The music box fell open on the floor and an enchanting song spilled forth from it. Sarah stiffened as she stared at the music box on the floor, unable to move. She was trap, frozen like a crystalline statue, her eyes fixed on the spinning dancer as the music ranged loud in her head. Her heart pounded as if ready to bust out of her as she continue to stand there unmoving, spellbound by the soft music that it played.

"Sarah," called a voice from downstairs. "You're going to be late if you don't hurry!" The voice snapped Sarah out of her trance like state, as she blinked shaking her head. Instantly, Sarah picked up the fallen music box and closed it shut with a loud click. Thoughts and memories filled her head as she remembered the song that played only moments ago. It never used to play that song, but ever since…, thought Sarah sadly. NO, that was in the past. Sarah shook her head as if it would have shaken away the thoughts in her head. She had never been able to put away that music box, unlike some of the other things from that chapter of her life. She had always liked the music box; it had been a gift from someone when she was just a little girl and it had played one of her favorite songs-Greensleeves. Now it played a very different tone, one that was just as sweet, but had so much more meaning to her.

"Sarah…" called the voice that snapped Sarah out of her thoughts again. Gently with great care she placed that music box back on her desk.

"Coming," yelled Sarah as she turned away from the music box that sat innocently on her desk. With once last look Sarah turned away and closed the door.

"Breakfast is on the table, honey," whispered Karen as Sarah descended down the stairs, before turning back to the conversation she was having on the phone.

"Morning Sarah," greeted Toby with his mouth full as Sarah sat down at the kitchen table.

"Eww squirt, don't talk with your mouth full, but other wise good morning to you too," laughed Sarah as she ruffed Toby's hair.

"Sarah's right young man, I thought I taught you better manners than that," scowled Karen lightly as she walked into the room.

"Sorry," pouted Toby before he returned to his soggy cereal, taking tinny mouth fulls.

"Come on Toby, you can do better than that. You'll be late if you don't hurry," scowled Karen again, before sighing seeing as she wasn't going to get him to eat any faster. Turning to Sarah, Karen ask, "So, do you need a ride to school Sarah? Or are Tiffany and Jake picking you up?

"No, but thank you; Tiffany and Jake are picking me and Will up," replied Sarah after swallowing the piece of bacon and eggs. "Do you need me home early today?" asked Sarah hoping that her stepmother would say yes, which would give her an excuse of not going to where ever her crazy friends were dragging her.

"Nope," laughed Karen seeing the disappointing look on her stepdaughter's face. "Sorry, honey Tiffany made me promise and swear that I'd let you go and it's okay me and your dad were planning to take Toby out for the night as well to see that Batman movie that your dad and Toby was always talking about anyways. So go and have fun with your friends, it's a Friday so don't bother coming back until Sunday."

"Karen, are you kicking me out?" joked Sarah as she faked the horror on her face.

"Yep! Isn't that what an evil stepmother suppose to do?" teased Karen. "Besides, this is your last year in high school, it suppose to be the best years of your life. So go out have fun, enjoy life with your friends, and don't always be worried about us and your studies. Plus I'm the mother here, but sometimes I think you worry so much more than I do."

"Oh, Karen. Thank you!" smiled Sarah at the woman who had always been so kind and reasonable with her even when she, herself wasn't exactly sensible.

"Why, I thought you did want to go?" laughed Karen.

"I don't, but what you said was so nice," smiled Sarah.

BEEP……

BEEP……

BEEP…..

"Oh, that's them, I got to go. Bye Karen. Bye Toby, have a nice day at school," said Sarah as she kissed both Karen and Toby on the cheek and rushed out the front door with her bag in hand.

"You have a nice day too," Karen yelled after her. Standing in the door way she watched Sarah and Will get into Silver Volvo parked in their drive way. A soft smile found its way on to the blond woman's face as she watched her step daughter and her friends drive away. Thinking about how much Sarah has changed in such a short time. From a spoiled teenager angry at her parents to a beautiful young woman who had learned to put her self before others. It wasn't over night, but Sarah had gradually learned that her so called evil step-mother wasn't so evil after all and she remember how overjoyed she was when Sarah finally opened up to her. Slowly they had begun to bond. She knew that she would never be able to replace the place that Linda had in Sarah heart, but she loved Sarah just as much as Linda. To Karen, Sarah was her daughter and Toby's beloved big sister, because it doesn't matter if she didn't give birth to her. Sarah was her child just as much as Toby was. Karen turned back as the silver Volvo turned at the end of the street and disappeared from sight.

"Come on Toby, you'll be late if you don't hurry," called Karen as she entered the foyer of the house.

"I'm coming, I'm coming," grumbled Toby as he ran into the foyer with his bag in tow.

"You got everything?"

"Yeah, I think so…Oh wait I forgot my book in Sarah's room, she was reading it to me."

"You go outside, I'll go get the book," sighed Karen as started to walk up the stairs. As she reached the top of the stairs, a bone chilling shiver ran through her as her eyes widened at what she saw. The whole upper floor was covered in a thick layer of black ice, shinning like dark crystals. On the ceiling, dark jagged icicles loomed down. Dark icicles that rose from the ground covered the door that led to Sarah's room intertwined with icicles from the ceiling. The feeling of despaired and fear suddenly over whelmed her, but as she blinked her eyes everything was back to normal. The hallway had returned to its warm and cozy interior. Shaking her head, Karen brushed it off as stress as she quickly walked down the hall to Sarah's room grabbing Toby's book, not wanting to linger any longer than necessary.

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Sarah rushed outside to the car, opening the back door of the silver Volvo that belonged to Jake; she hopped in while greeting everyone. Will, her next door neighbor and best friend was already in the car. Will had moved here two years ago from Europe, and both he and Sarah hit off instantaneously after finding out they had so much things in common. From then on they were inseparable and had been best friends ever since, but it never went beyond the feeling of friendship no matter what other people said. They both knew that and they were happy just to keep it that way. Not that she didn't find Will attractive, in fact Will was very good looking, tall, beautiful porcine like ivory skin, dark raven black hair and sparkling gray eyes, definitely a ten out of ten on most girls' scale.

"Hey, guys! Sorry, I was just talking to Karen about how a certain someone, not mentioning names, elaborately got Karen to promise them that I was theirs for the weekend," greeted Sarah as she bucked in her seat belt. Her eyes narrowed on a certain blond occupying the passenger seat of the car.

"Oh, lighten up Sarah!" laughed Tiffany as she turned her head back to look at Sarah. "I promise you'll have fun tonight and the day after that! Please it would mean the world to me, and think about how sad I'd be if my best friend and a sister to me weren't there with me, while I'm having the time of my life," begged Tiffany with her large blue eyes looking sadly into Sarah's deep green ones. They shimmered in the passing sunlight making them look watery as if tears were going to spill out any second now. What she said was no lie. Sarah was more than a best friend to her, she was like a sister that she never had. Tiffany had meet Sarah in the second semester of grade 9 they were in a math class together. Her family had just moved here from L.A. so she was new to this town and didn't know anyone and nobody even tried to get to know her. By then everyone had their own group of friends and was too engrossed in talking about summer break to even try to make friends with her, no one except Sarah, who kindly introduced her first to her friends then everyone body else. From there she and Sarah had been the best of friends ever since. Amazingly, before the end of the year was over she was one of the most popular girls in school, but she always stayed close to Sarah because she unlike everyone else had been there for her.

"Fine, I'll come, but I won't guarantee that I'll like it," Sarah rolled her eyes at her once teary eyed friend who instantly flash her a big smile.

"I love you, Sarah. You won't regret it," chirped Tiffany excitedly.

"Ah, the teary eyes get you every time," sighed Tiffany's boyfriend Jake who was at the wheel.

"Sounds like someone's been on the receiving end for quite sometime now," smirked Will.

"More that you know," grumbled Jake causing everyone to laugh, "Haha…so glad that you are able to find joy at my expense."

"Awww…do you wanna kiss to make you feel all better?" tease Tiffany.

"Why am I friends with you people. Well at least Sarah still nice." Pouted Jake, "How about you and me kick those two out of the car and leave them in the dust." His blue eyes twinkled with mischief and winked at her making her laugh at the silliness of her friends.

"This means war Jacob van Vladimir! I can't believe you were thinking about kicking me out this car," gasped Tiffany with false anger. "Me! Your girlfriend! When all I did was try to make you feel better. And you Sarah Williams, how could you side with him over me, your best friend, picking a guy over family."

As Sarah burst into a fit of giggles everyone soon fallowed laughing at their silliness.

"Okay, no more I got to keep my eyes on the road," said Jake while gasping for breath. The remainder of the ride was filled with a comfortable silence as everyone was left to own thoughts. Well it was quite until the old Winston Manor loomed into view.

"Hey, look," pointed Tiffany to the large mansion down the road. "I think someone's finally moving in"

Sarah looked out the tinted windows of the silver Volvo at the large mansion as they passed and sure enough there were several cars parked in front of the mansion and people directing loading crew into the house.

"I wonder who bought it," whispered Sarah as she continues to stare at the fading mansion in the distance. For a second there as they had passed she had felt a tug on her soul, one that she hasn't felt in a long time, but merely brushed it off as her over active imagination.

"Don't know, but probably someone with lots of money," replied Will as he fallowed Sarah's glaze.

"I bet you its some rich old guy," said Tiffany as she rummaged through her bag.

"Probably…" said Will, but trailed off as the car went over the hill, the tall building of Folks High came into view. The silver Volvo quickly pulled into the student parking lot, and the occupants filed out.

Ring…Ring…Ring…

"Well, looks like we're right on time ladies and gentlemen," said Jake cheerfully as the bell rang though the school grounds.

"For once," whispered Tiffany to Sarah as they walked side by side towards the double doors closest to their location. Sarah giggled quietly, hoping that the two boys walked in front talking about the latest internet RPG would not notice.

"We've got vocal this morning right?" asked Tiffany as they tried to fallow after the boys, while avoiding being knocked over.

"Yup," replied Sarah. "You'd think they'd notice that's we're not behind them anymore." Sighed Sarah as the boys disappeared from her sight lost in the crowd.

"Well, boys will be boys," state Tiffany as she rolled her eyes. Hooking her arms with Sarah's she dragged Sarah through the throng of students and into their vocal class. Letting go of each other, both Sarah and Tiffany sat down at their usual seats next to each other.

"Do we have to go to the club tonight?" asked Sarah hoping Tiffany would say no, but no such luck.

"Yup, and don't even try to weasel your way out of this, because I've got all your exits blocked," countered Tiffany smugly.

"You're lucky that we're friends, otherwise…," trailed off Sarah as she huffed.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah… Oh, lighten up Sarah. One night won't kill you," laughed Tiffany.

"Hey Sarah," greeted a sugar sweet voice that belonged to a tall brunette dressed in a black mini skirt and a bright red halter top. "Tiffany," acknowledged Brie in a bored tone as she inspected her manicured nails in the sunlight uninterestingly.

"Oh, hey Brie, how's it going?" Sarah acknowledged the pretty brunette politely.

"Pretty good, but I was just wondering if you're coming to my Halloween bash, next weekend. You know the one that everyone's been talking about."

"Umm…I still have to see, because I might need to watch Toby,"

"Then I'll keep a spot open for you, kisses," waved Brie as she and her crew took seats at the very back of the class room.

"Arg, I can't stand her! How do you do it? What's your secret!! You know she's only being nice because if she starts a fight with you she definitely won't be voted for Homecoming" plead Tiffany as she laid her head on the cool surface of her desk.

"I know, but she's not that bad, plus she's trying to be civil, so I'm not going to break the peace. I have no interest in Homecoming anyways so let her have her crown," stated Sarah calmly.

"Sometimes you're so wise, so righteous, all ways looking at the bigger picture. You know if this was like the 18th century and we still had Queens, you'd make a good one, and speaking of Queens, you should so run for Homecoming," said Tiffany before turning to the front of the class where their vocal instructor demanded their attention.

Sarah made no reply to that. They spend the time practicing their songs after completing the assignment from their vocal instructor Mr. Lu. The rest of the day for Sarah went by like any other Friday.

By the end of the day she had an English essay on Shakespeare's Mid-Summer Night's Dream due Thursday and a calculus test to study for. It wasn't too bad as she reviewed her planner, she was glad that there was so little homework this weekend. That way she wouldn't be stressed about her homework while she was out. Closing her planner, Sarah placed into the backpack with in her hand and placed her calculus text book and English note book in her bag as well.

"Hey girl how's your day?" asked Tiffany as she placed her large law text book in the locker that they shared.

"Good I guess…Do we need to go back to my house to get my stuff?" asked Sarah as she looked into the locker one last time to check if she had forgotten something.

"Nope, Karen dropped off all the things you need for it so no going back," smiled Tiffany triumphantly.

"Hey baby," greeted Jake as he kissed Tiffany on the cheek. "What happened to you guys this morning? Pulling the disappearing act."

"Don't push the blame onto us, you guys walk too fast so we lost you in the crowd' countered Tiffany as she locked the locker. Locking arms with Sarah once again she exclaimed, "Okay, let's go guys we're going to party tonight,"

The two boys feel in step beside the two giggling girls as they walked out of the school. The ride to Tiffany's house was quite; Sarah was lost in her thoughts and Will was busy working on his latest assignment from computer science, while Jake and Tiffany talk in the front seats. Like most trips the journey back was always faster than the journey there, so they had arrived at Tiffany's house in no time at all. Both Tiffany and Sarah got out bidding the boys goodbye and telling them that they'll be ready around seven. Waving goodbye until Jake's silver Volvo was out of sight, the two girls went into the large Victorian styled house too rapped up in there conversation and was oblivious to the world around them.

Outside, in the shade of a large oak tree, a pair of dark ocean blue eyes watched the exchange, unseen by the four teens. Then the eyes focused on the emerald eyed beauty with dark auburn locks that cascaded down her back. Her pale porcelain like ivory colored skin made those soft pedal like lips of her stand out even more as if begging to be kissed. Soon…Mon Cherie…soon…he promised as a haughty smirk spread across his face thinking of how the other fools was still blissfully unaware of his presence that was getting stronger each an everyday.

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"It's starting you know…I can feel it…" said a soft knowing voice that belonged to a blue eyed beauty. "The wheels of fate have begun to spin…" Her eyes never leaving the star shaped crystal in her hands.

"You sound worried love, for someone who knows the outcome," replied a deeper voice that was equally enchanting as he leaned over the woman's shoulders to look into the crystal as well.

"You of all people should know that nothing is set in stone…therefore no one can be certain of the outcome, not even the gods, not even me… I only know the outcomes, the possibilities, but never the complete outcome…" sighed, the woman as she looked to her companion.

"This is a dangerous game, my love" sighed, the man as he nuzzled her cheek. "Even for us…"

"I know. Which is I am so worried. The stakes are too high…one move can change it all…………"

"Then lets hope for the best and do what we can…"

"I hope it never comes to that…"

"Neither do I, Neither do I……"

Author's Note

Sorry, for taking so long people. . I was planning to post this yesterday actually, but for some weird reason i couldn't log in so yeah... I'm pretty glad that it worked today though so here Chapter 1 of Ѕђαŧŧəŗзđ Ðŗəαmş!! In my opinion this chapter was pretty boring for me, but I had to introduce some characters and talk about Sarah's life well sort of anyways. Haha... Umm... the second chapter is of course will be part 2 of Life after and that'll focus on our favorite fae King's life. So, I'm kind of looking forward to writing that, but i'm sort of having trouble on how to start it off, so it might take a while.

Anyways i hoped that you all like it!!
Please Read and Review!!

Love.
Jen

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