23h ago

~Scarlett~

I never really have connected with Kayla that much, to be completely honest. Something about her maybe the nerves in my back shoot up and down. I shaken it off for the most the year, but it always was there. Maybe because she was so perfect, maybe because she was dating Robert, maybe it was because she resembles me abit, I guess. But I felt there was always something else, something deeper than just that. Maybe because she reminded me of the girl I met oh so long ago.

Summer. I was maybe five then. My mom had brought me to some kind of farmers market in a small town near our home and I just was looking at some dolls. They were beatiful dolls. Made out of wood, painted beatifully, their clothes were silk, their hair soft and beatiful, and scultputed after Disney cartoon character. I stared at the Wendy doll from Peter Pan, and I couldn't help but be fascinated by it.

"It's a beatiful doll, isn't it?" A girls voice ask, she sounded my age, and she obviously British. I looked at her, her beatiful blonde hair was curled into ringlets and the top layer pulled back to the back of her head with a pink bow. She looked faintly like me, same small nose and entriging eyes and rosy lips.

"It is." I reply "I'm Scarlett! Who are you?"

"Kayrina." She smiles in return "which one do you like best?"

"Wendy." I point to the doll "you?"

"Aurora." She nods towards the Aurora doll, I look at it, it was beatiful, like the rest, she had dirty-ish blonde hair that looked soft and shiny, she was wearing her peasant dress, but still crafted with immesense care and beauty. "I've come here for the past week everyday when my mummy comes, I love to look at her."

"Kayrina!" Another lady calls as she rushes toward us, she had long, wavy blonde hair, though I couldn't see her face very well, she had on a large, floppy, but somehow elegant, sun-hat glasses, though her red lips said it all. She was a lady with power. Then she looked at me "Who are you?" She asked sweetly

"I'm Scarlett." I smile at the lady. She looks at me again and I see a different look then sweetest come over her face, she looked terrified, horrifed of me, she tried to hide it, but she couldn't.

Then I felt my mums hand my back "c'mon sweetie." My mum looked down at me then back at Kayrinas mum, I looked between the two older woman, both had the same look on their face. Deer in the headlights. "Good day to you." Mum nodded and then pulled me in the other direction to our car. As I looked back, I saw Kayrina and her mum doing the same, though heading in the opposite direction.

We never went back to that farmers market, or that small town. I asked about it a few times, when I was younger, and mum brushed it off, but never after I turned 8. By then, I could tell that mum didn't want to remember that day, something about that little girl and her rose-colored lipped mum, and for awhile, I had pushed that memory into the back of my brain. I tried to ignore it, and it worked, for years, actually. But, something happened when I came to Anubis, especially around Kayla, in the beginning, it bothered me, but now, it's less, I guess. I still remember it, a lot actually, I've just become used to the memory, like as it were a broken record in my brain.

"Scar!" Robert exclaimed, coming into my empty room, waking me up from my dazed daydream "I need you to help me."

"With what?" I question

"How do you feel about Danae?" He asks me

I shrug "he doesn't seem quite right to me," I say, honestly "but I'm overly worried about him."

"Look, were the only two in the house, and the schools probably empty. And I need to find evidence about something, evidence that I'm pretty sure is in his office, and I can't do it alone." He tells me "how do you feel about being my partner in crime, just this once?"

I wrinkle up my nose at the idea, thinking about the idea and it's pros and cons (mostly coms, anyway) and the way Robert looked desperate and was basically begging me "fine."

"Thank you, Scar!" He grins "c'mon!"