A War Within Two Worlds

Greetings

Decided to add Charlotte 🤷🏻‍♀️
Yasmini's POV

I wore brown pants and a black shirt. I used to wear dresses, but they're not practical in the trees. Then again, I'm not in the trees anymore.  It's strange, I keep forgetting where I am, that I'm not being hunted in the ways I used to be. It feels liberating to have this new freedom, but also deeply terrifying.

I went back into my wardrobe and settled on a tea green dress. To my surprise, it was a look alike dress and was really shorts. (A/n imagine the romper above as less revealing bc of the times and tea green)
I tied the bow and re wrapped my wrist in the leather I got from a bunny hide all those years ago to hide my knife. It looked out of place, the patchy fur reminded me of the mange some of the stray dogs had in the village.

I sat down next to Emma and Miss Peregrine.
"Everyone, I'd like you to meet Yasmini Aldello."
Everyone said warm hellos as the served themselves food. I grabbed a turkey leg and ripped the meat off the bone with my finger and licked my fingers clean.
"Miss Aldello, here we use utensils." I heard a couple people snicker and I scowled. I picked up the fork and stabbed the meat on my plate. The fork scratched against the plate making a high pitched searing noise. Others groaned but Miss Peregrine seemed satisfied and smiled.
"So Yasmini, what loop did you come from?" A girl with blonde ringlets asked.
"None."
"Children, before we ask questions let's introduce ourselves."
"I'm Claire Densmore!" The girl with the blonde ringlets said, "I have a back mouth." She lifted her curls and showed me exactly what it sounds like.
"I'm Emma Bloom, and I control fire." The girl from earlier said shyly.
"Enoch O'Connor. I raise the dead." I smiled, "nice." He blushed and looked down, he seemed to have not heard that very often.
"I'm Abe Portman." The boy next to Emma said, "I see the hollows."
"Hollows are monsters that hunt us." Emma explained.
Great.
"I'm Horace Sommnuson, I see the future." Enoch snorted, "he sometimes dreams the future, it's mostly clothes."
"I'm Olive! And I float!" I nodded and did my best to smile politely.
"I'm Victor Bruntley, I have inhuman strength." I recognized him as the boy who stared at me longer than I liked.
"And I'm his sister Bronwyn, I have the same thing too!" The girl seemed exited to share about herself, "you can call me Wyn or Winnie." She looked pleased with herself and Quieted down to eat a potato.
"I'm Hugh Apiston and I'm a living beehive." Hugh beamed as a bee flew around him. He parted his lips gently and the bee flew in.
"And this," he gestured to the wild looking girl I saw earlier "is Fiona Fraunfeld, she can grow anything you can imagine." Fiona blushed and looked down, she must be shy.
"I'm Charlotte Lansing, I'm 19 and I can read emotion. And you my friend, seem to be tense."  She sneered. I narrowed my eyes at her, "I'm not your friend."
"We are all friends here." Miss Peregrine said pointedly.
The girl smiled and didn't back down. I saw her mumble something to herself and the boy next to her, Horace, snickered. 
"I'm Millard." I noticed there was a floating hat diagonal from me. I was about to brandish my knife when Miss Peregrine grabbed my arm, she knew what I was hiding.
"I'm invisible."
"No shit."
Everyone gasped.
"Miss Aldello, please refrain from using such language."
I looked down on my plate and nibbled at my food.
"So what do you do."
"Nothing."
"Like Ella?"
"Who's that?"
"Shut up, Horace." Emma hissed.
Horace glared at her and then looked to me, "Ella used to live here, but then she left."
I nodded.
"So you were un-contacted?"
"Yep."
"What about your family?" Olive asked cheerfully
"Dead."
Everyone looked around silent.
"Friends?" Olive asked again
"Dead."
"Well aren't you just cheery." Horace muttered.
"I like her." Enoch smiled. I like him, his little raccoon eyes reminded me of my brothers when they'd stay up all night for their birthday.
"So, you can't do anything?" Emma asked skeptically.
"What about now!" Charlotte got up and screamed loudly.
"Charlotte—"
"Shut up, Hugh, I wasn't talking to you." Charlotte faced me again sand screamed louder.
"Now?"
I frowned and laughed awkwardly, "No, still nothing."
"Now?" She said taking a step closer and screaming again.
"Shut up!" Some of the other kids yelled, but this seemed to make her more determined.
"Miss Lansing,"
Charlotte screamed again, now closer to my face, "what about how?"
"Back off." I bit. Charlotte smiled and clapped again now, barley missing my face, before she screamed.
"She just loves the attention." Emma said snidely. Charlotte turned and gave her a look that could kill. I stood up so close to Charlotte that our noses were practically touching. I heard Miss Peregrine yelling but I could care less.
"Back. Off." I saw Charlotte open her mouth to scream again but before she could to anything, I screamed back at her, "I SAID BACK OFF!"
I felt a surge inside me spread out and Charlotte flew across the room and hit the wall with a hard force. A smile played on Charlotte's lips.
"Damn."

I sat in my room despite Miss Peregrine's constant beckoning. Eventually, she gave up and went to go start the loop. Awhile later, I heard a knock on my door.
"Go away!"
But the knocking persisted. I was ready to go and hit Miss Peregrine myself but when I opened the door, it was one of the little girls.
"I'm Bronwyn, remember?"
"Uh huh."
Bronwyn nudged me to the side a little forcefully and sat on the other bed.
"Ok, come in." I said sarcastically.
Bronwyn smiled warmly and my heart softened.
"People used to be scared of me, too." She said gently. She is wasting no time getting to the hard stuff.
"Because you're strong, right?"
Bronwyn nodded, "Victor is too."
"Your brother?"
"Mhm."
We sat in silence for a moment before Bronwyn whispered to me.
"Can you keep a secret?"
"Sure." I whispered back
"I killed my step dad."
"How?"
"I snapped his neck. He was going to kill me."
I walked over to the bed she was sitting on and held her hand.
"Can I tell you a secret?"
Bronwyn nodded and I took a breath.
"I killed 5 people who were trying to kill me, too."
"How?"
"The same way I almost killed Charlotte."
"It's ok, accidents happen."
"Yeah.."
"Can you control it?"
"No."
"Then I'll help you.
"As will I."

I turned around and saw Victor at the door. First rule of survival; never keep your back to an entry way, always keep it to a wall. What was I thinking?
"Victorrrrr." Bronwyn whined.
"I'm sorry, I eavesdrop." Victor shot his hands up in defeat and smiled. "As you know, I'm Victor." He held out his hand but put it down when he realized I wasn't going to shake it.
"Charlotte's all bark but no bite, by the way."
"She seems like a bitch." I said bluntly.
"That's naughty." Bronwyn scolded.
"She can be a bully, but she's sweet."
"Brilliant." I said sarcastically.
"Wyn, can you leave for a moment? We need to have a big-kid talk."
"Okayyyy."
I patted Bronwyn on the head, surprising even myself at the warm gesture. Victor shut the door as she skipped down the hall.
"I heard what she told you." He said darkly.
"Pretty badass."
"Don't make light of what we did." He snapped.
"Sorry."
"She didn't kill him, I did."
"Good for you."
Victor folded his arms and scoffed.
"What's your issue? If you hate it here so bad then leave."
I shrugged, "it's nicer than the jungle."
"The jungle? You lived in the jungle?" Victor asked skeptically.
"I have for the past 2 years." I said blankly. Victor's face softened with emotion.
"I'm sorry."
"It was fine." But it wasn't, none of it was fine. My family was dead and I saw my best friend get killed.
Nothing was ok.
"Can I tell you a secret?" He asked.
"The Bruntley siblings seem to be full of them." I joked.
"I'm Jewish."
My mother told me about the war in Europe, about Hitler and his men. I've never met a Jewish person before, though.
"That must me hard."
"It is. But I got by better than Abe."
"How so?"
Victor shook his head, "they tried to corral us all after Wyn and I ran away." Victor pased anxiously.
"And?"
"And they did. They locked our people up like swine! Abe was.... he was a prisoner of the war." Victor was looking at the lamp burning brightly on the table next to me.
"Another ymbryne found him before he was sent to the chambers." Victor looked away and paced again, "the rest of Abe's family, weren't to lucky."
I swallowed hard.
"I know that pain." I said.
I heard a knock on my door and Charlotte peeked in the room,
"Hey, it's lights out."
"Ok. You can go now." I bit. Charlotte laughed and Victor looked uncomfortable.
"Oh darling, this is my room too."
I must have gawked because both of them laughed nervously.
"I'm going to go brush my teeth anyways." Charlotte shut the door again and Victor smiled at me.
"Any questions?"
"I have more questions than there are stars in the sky."
4/25/21

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