Misunderstandings

schools getting so busy, at least I got my schedule changed now I have more time for fun. I tried to make this longer than the one before, now on with the story!

~secrets between the two

"what is this place?" jacklin opened her eyes to see a forest like area, but it glowed an unnatural purple and green with rainbow orbs floating around. A splash came from behind her and instinctively she turned around.

"your inner sanctuary" she answered stepping out of the pond, pointing to one of the orbs. "do you remember that one?" she smiled; there was a bell like ring to her voice.

Curious she picked it up and read over the writing inscribed " Jacklin's song" as the words left her mouth it disappeared. A ring came from her book and she opened it. On the page there were little slots, more than half of them were filled with different colored music notes.

"what are these?" she asked eyes wide sitting on the floor thumbing through the notes confused.

"why don't you click on the one from before?" she ushered and jacklin complied, pressing it leading to a big screen to pop up.

"we now present lulu"

"do I really have to do this? Hey that's not my name"a girl with a long ponytail pouted trying to get away from the stage. Her green skirt was tugged at by another girl in her class with a curly frame hair cut. Her eyes were begging/

" class prez you got to, Shawn lost his voice and most of the other musicians got hurt or don't sing. Your the only other musician in the class that can do it; and if we don't have someone to perform for us, we'll be out of next months fair!"the curly haired girl pleaded pushing the guitar closer.

"okay, but don't laugh all the songs I write are sorta... embarrassing" she blushed making her freckles disappear. She walked onto the dimly lit stage and began to strum lightly, but you could hear more than just a guitar playing. Light drums could be heard, as well as a harp and a strange popping noise.

– –off stage

"i didn't know she could play!" Shawn called out, but embarrassed that it came out more of a hoarse squeak. He buried his blush under his long black hair as his other band mates looked at him.

He peeped one of his emerald eyes open to see his brunette friend smirking with a white board and marker. Quickly he snatched it and wrote down

"cliff I'm gonna win that bet, so don't dream on it" he had a cocky grin on his face.

"we'll see" he smirked placing his arms behind his head walking away. Shawn threw the board at his head, which cliff dodged, but hit a man with purple hair dead in the face.

on stage

"chi" she whispered to herself with a smile, her heart pendant had a rainbow color to it now. The crowd watched in aw as her surroundings changed from dark auditorium to a colorful forest with luminous lights.

" I'm -"

"i hated that song everyone followed me around for months to get me to play it again!" she pouted clicking the note to shut it off, nearly dieing from embarrassment. She looked down and immediately calmed, she wore another gown, this one a light evergreen and blue.

"grandma whats up with all these dresses? This is like the 5th one this week and whats going on?" she questioned furrowing her brow. The purple haired woman sat down next to the brunette and gave her a sly glance before wrapping her arm on her shoulder.

"your body's trying to reject genes, it cant decide between mine and Lin's" when the name Lin escaped it sounded bitter and sad like she'd be rejected.

"why, whats so special?" jacklin questioned looking up at her peach colored face, she glanced down eying the smaller girls movements.

"kiddo your parents haven't told you anything have they?" jacklin blinked wildly at the woman before responding "no"

" well I guess your in for the story of your life" the violet women rolled onto the green and purple grass and jacklin followed the suit so that they were eye to eye.

"when your parents were born, lets just say they were special" she paused biting her lip.

"and when you were born you were a double negative" she looked away from her eyes.

"why?" jacklin asked bringing her legs to her chest.

"that's partly my fault" she half whispered, looking down at the ground.

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" chi~" the 14 year old chirped as she saw the boy coming closer, her red dress bouncing as she waved enthusiastically.

"i have a name you know" he barked embarrassed, pointing his nose up with eyes closed as they sat down. 'Chi' crossed his arms over his dark green shirt, he didn't hear her speak again and decided to break the silence.

"Freckles", he paused to face her " Why do you call me that?" he asked peeping an eye open. She giggled.

" cause' your dopey and cute, that's why" she hummed smiling, then her face soured. She glared at him playfully.

"and you call me freckles all the time, why?" she teased. his messy hair was over his eyes, the same color as his blush from her first response.

"what a pretty bird!" jacklin gasped releasing 'chi' from his daze. He looked up to see what she was talking about.

A bird, several shades of blue flew above them in a circle, the colors blending in with the morning sky. The tail feathers had a familiar shine to them, like a diamond you'd find if you went deep enough in the mine.

'Chi' sat there examining the bird, not noticing what had happened until small hands clamped onto his, making him jump and pull away.

"why'd it drop that?" she asked eyes wide, blush on her face pointing to something on the ground. His eyes darted to were she was pointing at, confused. He couldn't see any thing so he got closer to her to lean in on it.

It was small and blue, it looked so delicate and she picked it up and smiled looking towards him. His eyebrows furrowed lightly as she placed it behind his ear.

"it matches your eyes, you keep it" she smiled. Embarrassed, chi rubbed his hand over his eyes to make her look away, but she pouted slightly.

"if you do that anymore you might need to wear glasses" jacklin scolded standing up.

"c'mon chi!"she paused to dust herself off

"time to find Ann!" she giggled running off.

Silly girl, you don't know what you've done.

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"so your trying to say that I'm -"

"yes" the purple woman exclaimed rubbing her temples to relieve some of the stress she could sense coming.

If they didn't tell her yet then they must have had a reason. One part of the goddess' mind stated forgetting jacklin who had gotten up and walked off.

But they couldn't keep it from her forever! The other side of her brain argued. Jacklin jumped into the pond they came through.

I'm having an argument in my head, with myself she face palmed herself old age is making me crazy!

She's 19, she deserves to know!! It's her right! With that the argument stopped and the violet woman popped out of her head. She looked around frantic.

" jacklin?"

no response

"princess, where did you go?!" she called out defeated.

"why do all my kids run out on me while I'm arguing with myself?" she whined

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" grandma, I love you and all, but sometimes you are a real ditz" jacklin mumbled shaking her head as she stepped out of the pond on her farm. She still had on the dress and she was completely dry, which she was glad for.

Her hair was at her shoulders again and she smiled. "I'm good old jacklin again"

stop lying to yourself

she leisurely walked towards the house, taking in the scent of the night, calming like how it was at the beach here in mineral town.

"i can't wait till summer" she hummed looking out on the well maintained field, while her hand was on the door knob.

"maybe he'll visit, like he promised" She turned it and heard the click signifying it opened and pushed the door.

She turned around to lock the door but a voice made her jump.

"why hello Andy ~" the man teased, lips thin on his face with his smirk. His elbows on the table with his hands holding his face.

"Cliff! How many time have I told you not to do that! You scared the shit out of me" she reacted with her hands on her heart trying to calm the beating. When it finally got to a pace her liking she scowled at him.

" I almost thought you were uncle Danny, you sound just like him" he yawned and rubbed his eye.

"did you're grandma finish 'explaining'" he taunted smiling.

"most of the things she told me I had already knew" jacklin sighed looking at the ceiling. "but the few things I didn't gave melody a reason to hate me after all." her eyes were blank and lifeless, in her own world.

"that's not your fault and you know it." he scolded wagging his finger. " if she wasn't screwing around with all those books, we'd be like we were before." he finished pointing at his hair.

Jacklin giggled and smirked; He gave her a funny look.

"what?" he demanded crossing his arms, raising a brow.

" I was just thinking about the time you were going to cut your hair" she looked at him "i was right"he blinked then turned away.

"yeah I know" he yawned, rubbing his eye again "I'm gonna go, work tomorrow" he got up from the table and stretched, then walked towards the door.

"there's a spare bedroom upstairs" she yawned pointing in the direction. "and don't say no, I know you" she scowled.

"you'll just fall asleep while your walking" she finished and he nodded in defeat.

" but what about my clothes?" he questioned, still wearing the ones from the festival.

"i''ll just wash em' now" about to come up with another excuse she cut him off.

"and if they don't dry you can wear some of mine"

"but" he squeaked embarrassed

"cliff we wear all the same sizes and are the same height. You know the only girly things I wear are dresses.... and I'm not that cruel now go to bed" she demanded and he did as told heading up the stairs, surprised to find a well furnished room.

There were two beds and three night stands one on each side of the beds with their own lamps. Their was a table and some comfortable looking chairs in a circle on top of a multi colored rug in the center. A family size TV in a corner with games and controllers on the floor with a fairly large couch. Across the room was a desk with a diary of some sort sitting their.

Don't touch it

and in between ,there was a balcony with flower pots surrounding the edges with another table and chair made of metal this time.

A knock on the door made him jump and turn around.

"cliff here's some sleep clothes, when your done changing bring the others to bathroom" jacklin replied, her hair was wet and in a low pony tail, placing the clothes on the bed before walking out. Quickly he changed into the 'sleep clothes' which consisted of shorts and a white t shirt, then walked down the steps to hopefully enter the bathroom.

When he opened the door jacklin seemed to be sorting clothes into bins, flinging the dry laundry behind her each article landing in the the bin perfectly with a slight plopping noise. She had on pajamas. Cliff wasn't paying attention and was hit in the face with something lacy and purple. Being no noise jacklin turned around and giggled.

"cliff you may not want to open your eyes" she warned walking over pulling 'it' off his face and putting 'it' in her back pocket, he still had his eyes closed.

"if your clothes aren't dry by tomorrow you can wear these" in her hands were a pair of black pants, a red shirt with a black marking on the chest and a black vest. Their were also a pair or black and red work gloves. He nodded and they exchanged clothes.

"when the wash finishes I'll hang them by the window to dry"she hummed placing them in the machine.

"why don't you hang them outside?" he asked curious

"i would, but" she paused, she knew he was gonna laugh "the last time I did that someone stole my underwear" he blinked at her

" I'm very serious, now good night" she huffed closing the lid. He was already up the stairs when she called

"When you wake up breakfast is your choice!" he sat in bed thinking for a while.

What did she hit me with?

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"Dad?" she asked still looking at the shore, from the ship, she was going home for school, it started in two days and she could only come back for vacations or the weekends now.

"hm?" a man twice her height answered, looking out towards the sky.

"what does it mean when you feel like you've seen the sun for the first time?" he crouched over her.

"what do you mean by that?" he asked interested trying to concentrate on her expression.

" I mean I get this strange feeling, I feel happy and warm, but I also feel this uncomfortably scared feeling in the pit of my stomach, like I've seen the sun for the first time" her brown eyes were clouded in thought.

He smirked and his blue eyes scanned the beach, then looked down towards her. He ruffled her hair.

" your mom said those same exact words"

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jacklin waited for the laundry to finish and hung them accordingly. She came out of the bathroom and walk toward the bed, but stopped to look under and pulled out a box and smiled. She sat Indian style on the bed and opened it. She smiled at the small blue feather and letter, then whispered:

"Chi ~"