The Between Girl

The Beginning

Hello there, this is my first story so be nice.

Have you ever had the feeling like there is something more out there?

Do you ever look into the shadows and say 'Come out'?

Well, I can see those things. Don't worry I don't think that I'm crazy. I may be but that's for you to decide. This is my story.

There is no clear start to this story. There is only the parts that I remember but I guess the start comes with me being born.

As a child I was always looking off into the distance, looking at things that weren't there or so my poor mother thought. She got me to a doctor and he said that it's normal for toddlers to have 'imaginary friends', that I'll grow out of it. Mind that I was only about 2 years old.

As I grew so did my so called 'obsession' with the shadows. I used to keep my room dark and talk to nothing. At least that is what it looked like. My mother, Elizabeth, was getting more and more worried about me and I was only a little kid but I was having the time of my life because I didn't understand that was I was doing was not normal.

The shadows helped, they were my friends but deep inside I knew that I was a weirdo, with the pitying looks my mother got when ever we went outside. Which wasn't often I must admit.

It got worse and worse when I started school. I saw no point in making 'real' friends which everyone found peculiar.

Anyway as you can imagine, I was taken to many doctors but I always said the same thing, which was, "They live in the shadows and they're my friends." I loved to play pranks on those stupid doctors (I still didn't understand why they couldn't open their eyes and see what was in front of them, literally.) which didn't really help but at least made me feel better, keep in mind was only like 5 years old.

I was able to play the pranks because of the shadows. They know everything. Everyone's secrets were their own.

So when the doctors were asking their questions, I decided to ask some of my own, imagine a little kid asking, "I wonder what your wife says about you fucking the nurse?" Hilarious, for me, not for them.

Of course they were shocked to hear all their dirty little secrets said out loud, making me look crazy because they were too chicken shit to own up to what they did. Everyone thought I was 'mentally unstable' but I really wasn't.

Needless to say, I was an outcast but as I grew up I learned to hide 'my gift'. Mother thought it ended and she was happy to have a normal daughter, she couldn't be more wrong. She still wouldn't trust me, not that I blame her, I did know some freaky things that no sane person should know.

And that about sums up my childhood. Mum didn't have anyone so it was always the two of us, not that we did anything together but still. You would see me as a normal teenager, until you heard the gossip. Oh the gossip never shut up about me. I couldn't help that they saw me as a loner, that's what it looked like...to them.

Before you judge me too badly, I do look like a normal bored teenager. I'm seventeen with long wavy blonde hair, green 'cat' eyes, terribly short, and the signature colour is black. I'm a proud owner of a kitty, I found her a year ago and we kind of stuck together. She is pure white with a black patch on her tail and eye, she's adorable and her eyes look like mine, no kidding. She follows me to school and I let her sleep with me. I named her Lu. 

My name is Blue, I forgot to mention. Funnily enough blue is my favorite colour, like the sky its forever going on and always changing but it always returns to blue.

I love books, especially fantasy. The library is more of a home to me than my house is. And thankfully they let Lu stay with me as she is really quiet and can charm the pants out of everyone, even the scary librarian that must be like hundred years old.

I suppose you're curious about the shadows. There's much to tell yet nothing at all but I'll try my best.

So here it is, the first chapter... I hope you like it...