Chapter 3
POV Millard
I sat at the shade of the trees waiting upon for her arival from town. She had gone to thank the boy who had pulled her out of the waves yesterday. I sat and closed my eyes. I wanted to think what it was like before I had started to become invisible. I quickly cleared it because I knew there was no use in wishing or remembering my old life. I looked around the playing children. Olive walking with her heavy shoes she had gotten to avoid from her floating out reach. Emma just lay there under the shade of other trees.
I was about to sleep and close my eyes when I saw Lori running. She looked scared, confised, and frustrated. I ran up to her and asked," What's wrong?" She looked for me and I forgot that she couldn't see me due to being invisble. "They...They're here." And with that last sentance she collapsed into my arms. What had she meant by that. Maybe some one she had known was on the island right now.
I would have given anything to see my parents or my other friends, I didn't understand why this was bad for her. I actually envied her a bit but then relized the great pain this had caused her. I brought her inside and had asked Fiona to help me. She agreed with the nod of her head and helped me carry her to her bed. I got Miss Peregrine to come what had happened to Lori and after I had told her she had fainted she had responded with a great urge of urgency. She had also told me to put on some clothes, scolding me for everytime she caught me clear from view.
I entered the bedroom and could see Lori's hair bleaching from it's choclate brown color. She was being fed from a bowl of homemade medicine. She was still unconcious but she looked better than when she had recently fainted. Her breathing was coming up to speed or so I was told. Miss P. was speaking to Fiona but I was concentrating on solving what had caused her to come to this way. "Miss Peregrine, Lori mentioned that someone was here. I think that she might have meant that someone she knew who had caused her pain in the past has come to look for her. Shall I inspect who it might be?'' I asked her poiletly. She ignored me, concentrating on curing the girl who's hair was slowly turning shades lighter.
I still hadn't figured out what that meant, why was her hair slowly turning light. Was it meaning that her life was slowly slipping away from us? What would happen when it turned white? Would she die? I decided to go to the ferry dock to see what she had run away from. I shed the suit off of me and slipped away from the house. I ran to the dock and could see four kids walking away. They were far away but what caught my attention was a litrle girl around seven or eight, same hair as Lori's and her same eyes. I knew that that could only be her sister. I ran after them to see if the little girl the least bit like the unconscious girl back at the Peculiar house. I walked backwards,infront of them and I could see the girl did look a bit like Lori. She did mention once she had a sister around eight but when Lori's parents found out that she was peculiar, they locked her in the cellar and her little sister could only maybe remember her as a phantom.
"Josie where are we going to look for her?" A blonde boy addressed the girl with the black hair. She looked irrated and awnsered, "Robert we talked about this, I don't know anything. Charlotte barley remembers what country they sent her to, much less what house she's staying at." A boy with brown hair looked at the other bickering kids."We need to focus on where she is. Lori could not even be in the island. She could be on the mainland, or maybe she didn't even make it. This place does look like it could have sunk the ferry she used to get here. You saw all those shipwrecks, that could be her boat down there." The little girl looked at him and said," No. She can still be alive, I can feel it. Those shipwrecks are old. " How could this little girl be that smart, and how did she know that Lori was still alive. She mentioned she could feel it.
I decided to follow them to make sure that they actually knew her and were not just playing me. They knew she was peculiar ao what was the chance they were wights in disguise. I looked at them the whole time, until I tripped on a rock and said," Ow!" "What was that?" I suppose her name was Josie, said. "I don't know." The blonde boy said. They kept walking and I sighed in relief. "There it is again!" Charlotte said to them. I could feel myself sweating right there on the spot. I ran away from them and back to the home.
I knocked on the bedroom door and an unfamiliar voice said," Come in." It had an accent that wasn't british, it also sounded like a girl's. It was Fiona. I opened the door and stepped in. Lori looked a bit better, good. I had to ask her a few questions. "Lori, do you know a girl with black hair named Josie and a blonde fellow who's name might be Robert, I guess and a boy with brown hair?" She nodded but didn't smile. She only stared at where the voice came from. I didn't want to add the little girl because it would sound terrible like, Oh and this little girl that almost looks like you but isn't because she looks like a younger version of you but except her hair is now darker than your's because while you were unconcious it started to lighten up and now it looks like you bleached it!
It sounded rude which I'm not. I sat in the chair waiting for her to come back to me, she had atared at the wall for five minutes now until there was a knock at the front door. I knew it was those kids because everyone tries to avoid us. They knocked again but no one awnsered, thank the birds. I moved through the house and when I looked out the window sure enough those kids were just leaving. I was relieved to see so that I yelled,"They're gone!" That got their atention right away. The little girl knocked again and I was forced to open the door. I walked up to it and slwly turned the knob. The rays of sunlight blinded me but I was more careful to shut my mouth.
"Hey Millard where are you?" She said comeing into view of them. Her eyes widened and she once again fainted in my arms. "How is she-" One of them began but I interupted them by saying," I would welcome you in but I'm not sure I'm allowed to." They looked around and the Josie asked me," Where and who are you?" I rolled my eyes. "I'm Millard Nullings and I'm invisible so you can't see me so that answers your questions and please help me get her to her room while I get the headmisstress. " I directed them and after they put her in the bed I got Miss Peregrine saying," She's fainted again only now there are a bunch of normals in there with her." We rushed in there and Miss P. brought a fan, a common trick that worked. "Give her space!" She told us. Olive was in the room asking what had happened. We ignored her and stood around Lori because her hair was bleaching by the minute. "What's happening to my sister?" Charlotte asked me. "I'm not sure but in theory the shock of you being her has triggered a memory from her mind that presents all of you in a matter of something threating to her. In other words, she seems scared or angry at you." I explained to all of them. "Why is she mad at them?" Olive asked me as she sat on my lap tired of standing around the bed. "Well Olive, it's something between them so why don't we let them explain, I'm sure that will be interesting." I said as they looked uneasy.
"Well it all started when Lori was probably twelve around there." Josie told us. "She , Robert, Mike, and I were going to meet at the beach but I had become uneasy because my brother was out fishing in the early morning when the waves were being forceful. I woke up and found the shipwreck of his boat but no body, although there was a tind of blood to the sea. I stared there for hours, until she came and the water started to calm as she arrived next to me. She saw what I was looking at and her eyes widened. She moved her hands to my shoulder and the waves mirrored her movement of hand. I became uneasy and saw her move her hands around as the waves did the same. Then she snapped her fingers and the waves tensed up. They became stronger strokes and until she made that fifteen foot wave did I belive that she might have been the cause of my brother's shipwreck. I started screaming at her and telling her she was a demon. She ran away crying and that was the end of it. It was like she disappeared and it turns out that her parents locked her in the cellar for a year and a half until finding out where to send her.
"So we gathered together and Charlotte told us she had been sent to an island for children like her. So we came to get her back." Lori was stirring up and her eyes were blinking rather slowly. "Idon't think her parents want her back after all that." Olive told me. "Yes." I agreed with her. "I had the craziest dream ever! My friends and sister were here and-" she looked up to see them there. She literally jumped out of bed and cowered in the corner. "What are you doing here?" She snapped at them. "Get out of here. I don't want you here!" She yelled at them.
"Lori?" Came a small whisper from behind all the chaos. "Charlotte?" She awnsered back. "I don't want to go! I kept telling mom and dad that you were alive but they didn't listen. I overheard them say they paid for you to die!" She ran up to her tears in her eyes. Lori accepted the hug from her sister. "They were planning on doing the same thing to me Lori, they said I could be like you. But different. I want to stay with you." They both cried and I could see the last of Lori's brown hair turn white. She still looked young though. Charlotte twirled her sister's hair in her hand. Charlotte touched the snow white hair and from Lori's roots, blue started to spread through the long perfectly combed hair. Olive, who was still on my lap, gasped.
Lori stood up and carried her sister. "How did you do that?" She asked her. Charlotte looked puzzled and awnsered,"When I said I knew you were alive, I felt it. Like I knew where you were. Mom and dad were going to send me here because they knew." She herself couldn't belive it though. It was clear that everyone knew she was peculiar. Though it was also clear that she could tell if someone was alive or not. She had a telent to restore things as well so she may as well be a healer, but why did Lori's hair turn blue? Was it because she could control the ocean?
We let the two peculiar sisters have time to themselves but I wanted to barge in and ask questions. They probably knew less than I did though, considering I do have a knack of knowing all things peculiar. I thought about this more until the night had finally risen.