Book One: Chapter One

Every great story has a beginning. This is Lucy White's.

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."

-Anonymous

"Lucy!"

I stopped in my tracks on the sidewalk, and turned around at the sound of my name being called. A rather short girl with wavy black hair had ran up to me, grinning widely.

"Zoey..." I sighed, shaking my head at my young foster-sister. "You're supposed to stay in the gym... you're not coming home with me today. Jordan's picking you up, remember?"

Zoey giggled, as if ignoring any idea of listening to a word I said. "You were so great today, though! You should demonstrate in my gymnastics class more often! How were you able to do it so perfectly? Teach me sometime! I wanna be as good as you! Maybe another time you can-"

Her rambling was cut off as I placed my hand over her mouth.

"Now now, we can do all of that later, but you'll have to go back to your class if you want to do any advanced gymnastics." 

"But Lucyyyyyyyy..." She whined, refusing to give in... as always.

I sighed, placing my hands on my hips. "Alright, if you want to be that way..."

Without another word, I picked up the eight year old girl with one arm, set her over my shoulder, and started taking the short walk back to the gym, despite all of Zoey's protests.

"No fair!" "Jordan does this to me!" "Put me down!" "Come onnnnnnnn!"

I rolled my eyes and smiled, ignoring every persistent whine.

Just a typical day.

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I swung the door open as I arrived in my house, tossing my jacket onto the couch and walking into the kitchen.

"I'm home!" I announced loudly, grabbing a glass of water as the sound of loud footsteps echoed through the room. And, just as expected, I was attacked from behind by two little people by the next second.

"...Emmy... Austin..." I sighed, turning to see the two twins clinging to my torso.

"Lucy!" Emmy exclaimed, trying to shove her brother away at the same time.

"I'm hungry... Can you make us food???" Austin pleaded, shoving the girl back as usual.

I laughed a little, but I couldn't help but feel awkward with two eleven year-olds pushing each other around while attached to my back...

These two were also my foster siblings... but they were probably the most insane and destructive fifth graders I have ever seen.

Emmy was a dark brunette, with pale skin, and curls that fell to her shoulders. She had a rather small frame, and her dark blue eyes were narrowed as she kept pushing her brother around. 

On the other hand, Austin's dark brown hair was short, wavy... and pretty messed up at the moment. He also had dark blue eyes, but was a bit taller than Emmy.

"Uhh... can we please not perform this behind my back?" I asked somewhat pleadingly, trying to inch away from the two as I asked. They both let go, and stood upright  and sophisticated-like in an instant.

"So.... how about that food..."

Emmy elbowed Austin's side as he said this, and yet another fight started.

I just watched with a blank stare, this was completely normal... They didn't hate each other, they were just extremely violent.

"...Well... Sorry guys... But I can't." I answered, raising my voice a little, as Emmy felt the need to throw Austin over the couch. "I've got to help set up Annie's birthday thing, I promised I would stop by at 5:00."

With that being said, I stepped into the next room, pulled the twins apart, grabbed my jacket, and made my ways towards the door. As I reached for the knob, the door swung open, and it would've smacked me right in the forehead if I hadn't jumped back. Jordan, the eldest child in the household, was the one behind the door, wearing a shocked expression.

"Oh shi... Lucy?? Oh lord, I almost hit you. Sorry." He apologized, running his hand through his short brown hair.

"It's fine, I jumped back before it could hit me." I replied, stepping around him and through the door. "I've gotta go, though. Remember to pick up Zoey from gymnastics!" 

I hurried out of the house without another word, hoping that he would actually remember this time, and made my way down the narrow sidewalk. Honestly, sometimes I think I'm more responsible than Jordan is, and he's seventeen! I'm only fourteen, and I have to treat him like the other three...

I live in a foster home, if you hadn't noticed. It's smaller than some, with only five. It's just me, Zoey, Emmy, Austin, and Jordan. My foster parents are usually busy with work this time of the year, so me and Jordan are in charge. He's the only one that's actually their son, and I'm the only one they adopted, due to the fact that there was no way to find someone who could adopt me. Apparently, I arrived when I was very young, with no trace of my parents or the rest of my family. I don't know the exact details, but that's fine with me. I love where I am right now.

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"Can you help me with this, Lucy?" Mimi asked me shortly after I arrived at the town hall. I came over at once to the small red-head, who was trying to lift a folding table. I grabbed the other side and picked it up with ease, carrying it to the wall across the room.

"So, your sister's turning sixteen already?" I started the conversation as we carried the table. Mimi didn't answer until we had it set down against the wall.

"Yeah, Annie's really excited. The party's going to be great." She replied with a smile.

Mimi was my best friend. She was a little on the short side, with a petite figure. Her short, bright red hair dropped just to her shoulders, and fell over her hazel eyes a little.

Before I could reply, a voice across the hall called both our names.

"Mimi! Lucy! A little help over here?"

We both looked at each other, recognizing the voice as James, and made our way to the blonde boy by the front door, who was trying to tape streamers to the top of the door frame, so they would drape down to the floor.

"Are you seriously trying to do this without a ladder?" I said, laughing a little, watching as James desperately tried to smack a purple streamer to the tall doorway.

The blonde stopped and looked at me funny. "W-What's it to you?" He stuttered his reply, and Mimi tried to hide her laughter.

"I'll get one... hold on." I rolled my eyes as I said this, then lightly ran to the closest ladder, and carried it over. "There." I said, setting it down besides James.

"Mimi!" Someone called from who knows where. "We need help putting out refreshments!"

"Coming!" The red head called back, waved to us, and ran to the back where we previously put the table.

I looked around, and, seeing James was going to take a while with the wide doorway, grabbed a chair to stand on, and started taping up streamers from the other side. It wasn't long before we met at the middle, almost finishing the job.

"Uh.. You know.." James began, looking away. "Mimi says there's going to be lots of dancing... Are you going to, Lucy?"

I paused, then shrugged. "I dunno, maybe?" I replied casually, continuing the job.

Then my head began to ache. A lot. James had said something else, but I couldn't understand. All of the sudden... there were these faint voices, thousands of them, echoing in my head. I couldn't hear anything else around me, and my vision had started to blur... I suddenly felt like... like I wasn't even standing where I was.

I felt a hand rest on my shoulder, and the strange feeling disappeared, although the voices and pain remained, just softer. I looked up, realizing that I had started to hold my head in my hand, and saw James staring at me, concern filling his light brown eyes.

"Lucy? You okay?"

I stepped down from the chair, as if I had moved without thinking. "I... I think I need to take a walk. To clear my head. ...I have to get my dress, anyway... Yeah, I'll just walk home..."

The next thing I knew, I was making my way through the streamers and out the door. I walked along the sidewalk slowly, feeling the ache in my head gradually grow stronger as I walked home, and the voices grow louder. When I had made it about halfway to my house, I had lost all sense of hearing again, with a disappearing vision. I couldn't even tell if I was walking anymore, my body started to go numb, with little feeling left. I felt like some sort of zombie, I couldn't think straight anymore. However, I could feel my heart pounding rapidly with fear, until I felt a crash all along the side of my body. I could tell that I must've fallen onto the ground, everything going pitch black. 

The voices stopped. My head stopped aching. But I was still surrounded by blackness, with no feeling left anywhere in my body. Only one last voice echoed in my own thoughts, dark and icy.

"It's time for you to return..."

I couldn't even process a single thought to this, as the darkness enveloped my entire being with no mercy. 

Then there was nothing.

Author's Note

I didn't feel like reading it over again... I might later. c:
And yes, the beginning is only almost completely pointless. :D

Reviews

[halflives]

Yet another gloriously beautiful chapter. Not quite so actiony pacted, but still pretty flipping awesome~

AHEM.

Dis makes me laugh 'cause I have a character named Lucy too. And she's a ghost that's a deady assassin who's dedicated her life to making her killer's a living hell. So yeah, they're not really that similar. But--

--I'm rambling.

AND SO ON.

I'm really intrigued to see what happens next. The discription at the beginning, "Every story has a beginning. This is Lucy White's" drew me in entirely. And the descroptions are awesome. Lurved it.

READING ON!

[master squiggles]

Dat was f*****g cool!! :3
S**t... I reviewed too late...
But YOU WROTE. :3
So, yeah.
They stole what I wanted to say.
Uhhh...
I love you? C:
WC didn't tell me you posted a chapter. -.- it hates me.

[Rayne~Drop.]

LOVE. XD

The ending is amazingfuly fucktastical, like Cheezit said.

Wait...Mimi...Annie...Aren't those realy people? ...I fail at life cuz i forget like that. ^^' heh...Anyway!

LOVE THE TWINS. VIOLENCE IS AMAZING! XD Emmy is awesome! XD

.......Damn you Cheezit. -.- ...Dumb a*s WC for not telling me you posted a new chapter...I'LL READ IT SOONER NEXT TIME! ...Buy yeah. I agree with everything Cheezit said. XD Well...Everythung she said that made sense. :D

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Before I even read it, i want to say I LOVE YOU [nh] BUT WHY THE F**K DID IT TAKE YOU SO LONG TO POST THIS. T^T LOL. NOW TO GO READ. :D :D :D :D

Lol, yeah the beginning was pointless but cute. I luffed it. :3 The little girl was sooooo cuuuutteeee!!!!! Therefore the beginning wasnt pointless. it was needed for the cuteness, heheheheehehe. it made me smile. :D okay immma go read the rest now. xD

The second part was adorable too. i love the twins they are violent and destructive and i love people like that so yay. :D and i love jordan, lol. hes 17 but she has to treat them like the little kids. xD f*****g epic. hehehe

OHMYGOD!!!! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGMOGM!!!! ..[lol fail at the 'omg's xD] THE ENDING WAS F*****G EPIC!!!!!! First of all, I love the name Mimi and James seems adorable and it seems like he has a crush on Lucy. or maybe im jut f*****g crazy for thinking that after like two paragraphs. the voices thing the first time was fuckign awesome how she could hear a thing he said and how she went for a walk, and then it started up again!!! i love when she falls over or whatever and her body is numb so she cant really tell, and then "It's time for you to return" hehehehe. i f*****g love it. EPIC. :DD:D:D:D:D:D:D

Sorry for the horribleness of this review and how all my sentences are run ons, and how i cant type worth s**t, and im not even capitalizing things or yadayadayada whatthefuckeveridontgiveashit. im in too much pain to care. xP but yeah ANYWAYYYY, i f*****g love this!!!!!!! it took you long enough to post it. T^T Lol, kidding, but it did, xD I cant wait to see what happens next and how the prologue [with raven *snicker*] has to do with this!!! :3 I LOVE IT.

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Oh and i love the quote at the beginning!!! i love it so much i saved it onto my computer!!! xD