Intertwined Destinies

Chapter 2 - New Friendships

After Morgan and Rose had calmed Jynx down, they finally continued on their way to Dorenzo High, where the girls would go on a regular basis from now on, with their older brother. However, once Morgan parked his bike, a group of at least seven people walked over to him. He recognised them straight away, as they were the one - not all - who had helped him get the girls enrolled into the school, along with his friends. The girls immediately recognised that two of the seven - who their brother seemed to know - were about the same age as them, whereas the other five were nearer their brother's age.

Once the three of them had gotten off of the motorbike - the girls out of the side-car - the youngest two of the group took hold of the girls hands and led them into the school. Clearly the two of them had been told to show the others around the school and take them where they needed to go.
"Where are you both taking us?" Rose asked the taller and female one of the two fraternal twins.
"Why to the front office, so you can get everything you need for school. Where else would we be taking you both, Rose?" The female twin giggled softly, as she continued to lead Rose and Jynx towards the front office.
"You'll probably end up in the same class as us, so you won't need to worry about making friends." The male twin grinned in a confident, yet silly manner.
"That's true. Lee is right." The long light blue haired twin said with a soft smile.
"When aren't I right, Leah?" Lee grinned even more confidently.

"Never." Leah giggled, as she watched the grin on her twins face fall.
"That's very reassuring..." Jynx mumbled in a slightly sarcastic voice. She never cared about making friends, as she would rather cause mischief, and neither of these two looked like they would want to cause trouble. They were too nice, just like her older sister.

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After school had finished for the day, the three siblings had arranged to meet their new friends - at least for the girls - at the ramen shop in the centre of the busy city. However on the way there, Jynx crashed her customized skateboard into a young boy who seemed to be the same age as her, along with being apart of the same school - as he still had his school tie on him. Rose believed that his name was Tristan something, and all she could tell about him, was that he was a longer and kept to himself. However, he was extremely kind, as he helped Jynx up after she had crashed into him, even though is wasn't his fault that she crashed.
"If you aren't sure on riding it yet, I could offer you some help." He smiled a lonely smile, which was reflected in his grass green eyes. His appearance was nothing special; brown short sleeved shirt, blue denim jeans, brown trainers and a casual black jacket, with his school tie still around his neck. Nothing about him was ominous , so they decided to trust him, for now at least.
"I can ride fine," Jynx huffed, "you just got in my way. Rose is the one who isn't confident on riding her skateboard." She smirked over to her older sister, receiving a cold glare in return.
"Shut up Jynx." Rose complained, as she was about to say something insulting.
"I don't mind helping either of you." Tristan quickly interrupted, before Rose had the chance to say, or do, anything to Jynx. "Would you like some help Rose?" He said, before directing his attention towards the shorter female.
"Um... sure. Thanks." Rose said, as she rubbed her neck, not really sure if she would be humiliated by him, or if he would keep quiet and just concentrate on helping her do better.

For the next half an hour, Tristan spent all of his time helping Rose to get better on her customized skateboard, which was purple and had black stripes on it. He was impressed at how quickly she had managed to improve, and noticed that her younger sister seemed to be enjoying watching how many times her sister failed and fell off of her board, until she managed to do it without failing. Once her sister stopped failing, Jynx headed straight towards the ramen shop, leaving her older sister to keep getting help from their new friend.

Once Rose felt more confident on her skateboard, she invited Tristan to the ramen shop, but he refused as he had other things he had to do that day, so Rose headed to the ramen shop to meet up with her new friends and her brother and sister, as long as they were still there that was. On her way there she checked her mobile to make sure that they hadn't gone somewhere else. However, that wasn't the case, as she had received three messages from her older brother wondering where she was, what was taking her so long and informing her that they were heading to Yannel's place for a while, and he had left an address for her so she knew where she was going.

It had taken Rose nearly fifteen minutes to locate Yannel's house, but when she did the only ones who still remained there were Morgan, Jynx and Yannel, as everyone else had to be back home before their curfews hit.
"What took you so long to get here?" Jynx complained as her sister walked into the house that belonged to Yannel, as he had lost both of his parents at the age of ten. He knew what the three siblings were going through.
"I had gotten lost. I couldn't find this place." Rose muttered, as she looked down towards her skateboard at her feet, as she reached down and picked it up. She still felt embarrassed that someone had to help her to learn to properly ride her skateboard.
"Well, we're going to have to head back home now, or Michelle will get angry that we didn't return for dinner." Morgan stated, as he walked over towards the girls after having finished his conversation with Yannel, who was now starting to prepare his own dinner for the day.

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When the three of them returned back to Michelle's, they found that nobody was home, which was strange. Morgan rushed inside to see if there was any notes left from Michelle. There wasn't. Morgan was now concerned as Michelle never left the orphanage without leaving a note, or even messaging either of them to let them know how long she would be, and where exactly she was planning on going. What was even more concerning, was that none of the other children where there, when they should have been, as some of them were supposed to be getting packed, as they had been accepted by the foster parents that they had visit them previously. Nobody was there.

The three of them frantically searched the orphanage and local places in Sanata, in hope of locating and finding them somewhere safe. No luck. Morgan hadn't noticed it before, but something strange was in the air, and it wasn't something pleasant.
"This isn't good." Morgan quietly spoke to himself, hoping that neither of his younger sisters had heard him. But he wasn't so lucky.
"What isn't big bro?" Jynx questioned, as she knew that something wasn't right from the expression in his eyes.
"Is something the matter big bro?" Rose finished, as she knew that Jynx always knew when something wasn't right with him, and she could tell from the way he was acting that he was worried about something more than Michelle and the other children being missing.
"Everyone here is gone." He whispered. "Every shop is closed. This isn't normal. This place is supposed to be very busy." He continued to look around, with the two of his sisters remaining close to his side, as he wasn't going to risk losing them either.
"You're right." Rose gasped, as she was the one who normally went to the shops for Miss Michelle, and normally all of the shops were open at this time, and Sanata was quite busy. "This is very strange. We should go let Yannel and the others know."
"Yeah." Jynx nodded, for once agreeing with her sister. "This is worrying."

With that decided, the three of them got onto their skateboards - or motorbike in Morgan's case - and headed straight back into Dorenzoland City, to inform their friends of what was happening. This had to be sorted and figured out as quickly as possible. They weren't wanting to lose Michelle like they had their birth parents. They wanted to save her and help her out, seeing as she helped them out for so many years. It was obviously getting pretty late, so they knew that the only person who would still be up and around at this time of night would be Yannel. So, as soon as they got into Dorenzoland, they headed straight to Yannel's home, where the lights were still on and they could hear him working on his motorbike. Yannel was still safe and sound, and openly welcomed them to stay at his for the night, until the next morning where they would go in search of Miss Michelle and the other children.

As the darkness of the night grew stronger, Rose couldn't get to sleep at all. She was worrying too much about Michelle and the other children, along with having not told her older brother or younger sister that she was the same as them, and that she too could see some sort of spirits. She was able to see them when she turned thirteen, but had been out shopping for Miss Michelle when she started seeing the spirits. Rose hoped that these spirits would be able to help her find Miss Michelle safe and sound, but she would have to do it by keeping it secret from her siblings for a bit longer. However, even though she was the same as them, she wasn't the same as them. They were both Guardian's of Gentalla, and all she could do was communicate with spirits.