The Kindness Of Shadows.

Chapter Eight: I Can See Nothing But Boring.

I was woken up not by an alarm clock , no. But by a little squeaky gremlin jumping on me.(My sister.)

It had been a day since the incident in leaving me in the woods.I hadn't,been at school because I'm changing so much . I.E. My IQ has increased by 50 so that now my IQ was about 137 , and I was learning fast. and my skin had gone from yucky to wow. and literary overnight. but anyway I was missing school because I needed private lessons , so I hadn't been waking up early.

"MonicaI it's seven in the mourning, why are you even up."I say groggily

"Well I.."she starts all bubbly.

"Its a rhetorical question."

"Yeah well I'm waiting for the shopping mall to open."she replies with a pout and crossing her arms over her chest.

"One it's a shopping center, and two it opened two minutes ago."I say getting a good look a the time.

"Then what are you waiting for?"

"I'm waiting for you to leave so I can het dressed in peace."

"Oh okay, but not more than ten minutes."she says whilst exiting the room.

'I need to be unrecognizable.' I thought quoting the letter from Sean, and I need to be unrecognizable for the camp, because it might give away advantage(e.g. Who you ate, which could lead to where you live , which leads to family members getting hurt) and could alter certain things , like your future husbands. and also for example if you picked up an enemy or two she would recognize you outside of camp , which wouldn't be good.

So concluding I pulled out some pink trousers that had never been worn, and a white t-shirt with a purple and pink pattern on it that is a hand-me-down from my mum who got it off a colleague's will, and to top it off my old running trainers.

I stomped out of my room. Into the shining sunlight. man I never thought that sunlight could hurt your eyes thus much.

I don't have much to eat for breakfast because I'm practically dragged from my bowl of cereal kicking and screaming. But Monica and my mum quickly calmed me down with a promise to have brunch,and I never had brunch before.

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After ten minutes of the most boring car ride ever we arrived at the shopping center.

And from then on I was pulled to literaly ever shop in there and believe me it is a big shopping center.

by the time I was finished , Which took around three hours. I had had my haircut and styled into a sort of degraded thingy . I had b entirely new wardrobe plus accessories and I had just been on a one hour make up course , which just made no sense , but anyway and of course I have enough make up to fill up the hungry hungry hippo.

We were on our last round in boots when it happened.

Guess who it had to be. yes I go shopping for one day and the same day its Penny, not that Penny's, oh poor Penny she looks as depressed as a,sad donkey, and I can tell you thats sad. oh but Guess who's she's with ......Kieth.

I had never got over Kieth dumping me in the forest. maybe it's just his way in saying "Its over." But still pretty harsh.And now guess who's with them, who has her fingers intertwined with his , who's laughing at his jokes, yep it's Hannah .Maybe this whole thing is a set up.I have been thinking about maybe they had planned this whole thing, you know like the pranksters on the t.v. but this time there's no one jumping out to tell me I've been made a fool of.

'O shit they've seen us ,just act natural.' I remind myself. I elbow Monica to inform her of the on coming enemies.

"Hey Mon."greets Kieth, whilst walking straight passed me.