The Between Girl

The Hang-Out Place

So yeah I feel like writing.

As I was sitting in my corner, they crowded me, creating shadows over me and Lu.

"Hi." Cain said with the grin on his face, I wasn't fooled. The other two muttered "Hi" after him.

Lets cut to the chase, "What do you want?" I asked in my politest voice. They seemed taken back by my attitude but seriously I don't like talking to strange people and they seem to be at the top of the 'you're-weird-scale'.

"We came to warn you. It's not safe in the shadows. Can we ask you to not go there anymore?" Cain more stated than asked. But I answered anyway, "No." They looked in disbelieve from me to one other but they won't tell me what to do. Oh how I wish the shadows were back so I could say something clever.

I added before he could add some more bull shit, "Look I know you're new and everything but there isn't anything there that's bad, the scariest thing there is me. It's not haunted, even though the gossip indicates otherwise. So mind your own business and leave mine alone."

The cute looking one, Charlie, spoke next, "What's your name?"

"Blue. You delivered your warning, can you go..." I trailed off as they looked at me in horror as soon as they heard my name, what the hell is going on?

Suddenly I felt the shadows and all I could think for a second is that they're back, they didn't abandon me. But oops, the trio are still here and they seem frozen in place. I knew there was something fishy about them, they want the shadows. I don't know how I know but I do.

So I do what came to my mind first,"They're mine, go away. You can't have them."

I heard snorts of laughter from behind me and saw that everyone is here: Joker and his gang; Red and his group of bullies; Gramps; Minnie and Mickey; Mr. Sad and Mrs. Happy; the Girlies; and even the kiddies.

They slowly move in front of me, blocking the trios way to get me. When they're mad they can really be deadly, no matter of their colour. The boys looked shell-shocked. But they slowly regained their 'cool' shields, gramps started to talk in his know-it-all voice, for once I was glad he had it, "I know your mission is to get the ghost Blue but as you can see she is not a ghost. And you can't have us as there are too little of you and a lot more of us. I would suggest you leave."

"Well now, you see we can't do that," stated Cain,"Our mission is to get rid of Blue, but we see we were mislead so we'll leave her. You are just extra fun and we will get you, sooner or later."

"No!" I glared at them. "They are my family. They are my friends. They are my everything, I'll kill before I let you take them." They looked shocked that I would protect them and something occurred to me, "Who are you? Why...How do you see them?"

My eyes were pin-ponging to my family to the boys, waiting for someone to talk, no-one did.

Finally Mrs  Happy answered,"That's the 'them' we were warning you about. They're here to take you and kill us. That's why we were hiding yesterday, we don't want to leave you, we love you."

The trio look at us in horror but I ignore them and say, "I love all of you, you're my family." A short pause until I state in the most firm voice I can manage, "But you have a lot of explaining to do, let's get out of here." 

Skipping school two days in a row, lets hope no-one will notice. The trio look like they don't know what to do with themselves but we ignore them and take the back exit and go into the forest and to our place. We walk in awkward silence until we get there and as everyone sits in their places, the kids go and play in the corner.

The hang out is nothing special, just a clearing in the forest, where we put logs to sit on and the trees curve inward, so when the rain falls, things don't get wet like the carpet we put or the sofa in the middle wit the little table. No-one else ever goes so far in the forest so no-one ever steals anything from here. I've been able to fall asleep and stay the night.

I get comfortable and stare them down until they tell me what I want to know, it doesn't take long.