Two Halves Of a Whole (Enoch O'Connor)

Chapter 1

I woke up this morning with an odd feeling in my gut, like something bad or exciting was going to happen. I ignored the feeling and had a shower.I got dressed into skinny jeans and a black sweater and then brushed my hair. My hair was pretty long, it went down to about my butt and was wavy. I went downstairs and thank god my parents weren't awake, I decided to make myself some cereal and grabbed a cup of orange juice. Once I was finished eating I decided to pack. Let me explain, the reason I am packing is because I'm going to live with my aunt and uncle on Wales on a small island called Cairnholm. The reason I was going to live with them is because my dad is abusive, he has been for a very long time. Another reason was the bullying, I got bullied because I wasn't like every other girl. The other girls liked shopping and crap, instead I've always had an obsession with dead things. When I was fairly young around 4 or 5 I taught myself how to dissect animals. No one understood why, and that's why I got bullied.

Once I finished packing my stuff, I grabbed my clay figure that I had made and set it on my bed. Suddenly I  felt this pull and before I knew it I had a mouse in my hands and began dissecting it. But the only part I took out was the heart. I walked over to my clay figure, like I was in a trance and then I could feel the small heart start beating in my hand. I then got some clay wet and started molding it with my free hand. I put the heart on the figure and put clay over it making sure it was sticky enough to stay. Sure enough it did. I ran my hands over the clay figure and then it wiggled in my grasp. I gasped, that's impossible. The figure started walking as soon as I let it go. That is so cool! As soon as that happened I thought of a word, Homunculus and knew that's what it was. I hid the homunculus in my bag to bring with me as I saw my aunt's car pull up in the driveway. I grabbed my bag and ran outside. I greeted my aunt and said goodbye to my parents, although they wont really care but my aunt was there so... yeah. And we were off to Wales.

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~Time skip: when they get to the mainland of Wales~

We were finally at Wales and now we have to take a one hour ferry ride to Cairnholm. I sit and read until we get there. When we finally get there it is just getting dark and we walk to my aunts house. I was exhausted and said goodnight to my aunt before heading to my bedroom. As soon as my head hit the pillows I was out.

"Lucille wake up honey" I groaned. It was too early. "Whadya want aunt Allison?" I mumbled. "It's time to wake up." I groaned and rolled over. And fell back asleep. Until seconds late I felt freezing cold water on the back of my head. "AH. COLD! WHAT THE ACTUAL....?!" I looked to my aunt who was grinning sheepishly. "I told you it was time to wake up." she laughed at me as I shot daggers towards her. "I'm gonna get dressed now." I said pushing her out of my room. I went and had a shower and got dressed into jeans, an tank top and a jean jacket, then brushed my hair and teeth. "Hey auntie, can go explore today?" I asked walking into the kitchen. "Sure, just stay out of trouble. Okay?" "Yup." I said walking out the door seeing as I wasn't hungry.

I was walking through the bog and I went through a bunch of trees, until I found the best place ever! It was a rundown old mansion with plants growing all through it. As I was looking through the house I found a bunch of old pictures. There were some of kids, but abnormal-ish looking kids. There was what appeared to be twins dressed up. A boy around 16 or 17 holding a heart. A little boy with bees flying from his mouth and a few of a bunch of kids all together.

I felt as if I related to these kids in some way, I was different then everyone else. But where I had no one, they had people who understood them. I decided to leave and wander outside of the house for a bit. As I was walking I saw a little cave and decided to go in it. There wasn't really anything in it, so I got out and started walking back to the house. As I was halfway there I noticed something really different. The mansion wasn't rundown anymore. I am so confused. I decided to walk up to the door and knock. A tall slender looking woman with black hair and a pipe came to the door. She looked at me and simply said "Ms. Lucas we have been awaiting your arrival." pardon "Y-you have" I stuttered. "Yes, I'm Miss Peregrine" um okay then. "Its a pleasure to meet you Miss."  "Come in, you can meet the children." She began to walk so I followed her to the yard. As we were walking I felt something bump into my shoulder and looked around. "I'm terribly sorry Miss." Once again I looked around and no one was there. "Um... is someone there" I asked. "Mr. Nullings, please go and get some clothing on." I heard his footsteps disappear. "That was Millard Nullings and as you can tell, he's invisible." Millard comes back and starts a game of soccer err football to them with a boy from the pictures, the one with the bees. "You have met Millard, the boy he is with is Hugh." A boy with blond hair who was dressed in  a full suit (a/n is it a suit? If not please feel free to let me know) , a top hat and even a monocle. " I am Horace, it's a pleasure to meet you."  "My name is Lucille, you can call me Lucy. By the way I love your outfit, you look very classy."  "I try my best." He said before walking away. Okay then, that was that. Next I got to meet a girl with light brown braids name Fiona. And then a girl named Bronwyn had short curly brown hair.  After Bronwyn I met a girl who was wearing shoes made of lead named Olive who had blond hair. I then met a little girl with her hair in short dirty blond pigtails named Claire. After Claire I met Emma who had red hair. And of course I met the twins, who were wearing their outfits like in the picture. I got told I would meet someone named Enoch at Dinner and also learn all of their peculiarities at dinner.

Until dinner Miss P taught me about peculiars and wights and hollows and loops, which I found quite fascinating. She left me to wonder about the halls as she made dinner. I found the library and decided to read until dinner. Miss P called for dinner and I made my way to the dinning hall. I found a seat, making sure not to sit on Millard who got sent to get clothes on because as Miss P said 'polite persons do not take supper in the nude.'. Once he got back we got our food and then began fully introducing ourselves. Miss P asked me to start "My name is Lucy and my peculiarity is... um..." I got slightly nervous "Go on, it's ok." Miss P reassured. "I can bring inanimate objects to life and bring the dead back to life, but only for short periods of time." Everyone gasped and looked to a boy I haven't met yet whom I assumed was Enoch. He had black curly hair and brown eyes who kind of seems mad or something and was staring at his plate until he heard this. "Who's going next?" I asked and Millard went " I'm Millard and as you can tell I'm invisible." I smiled at him and then Hugh went "I'm Hugh and I have bees living inside of me." he smiled proudly "Oh and this is Fiona and her peculiarity is plant manipulation and growth." I smiled at them both, Horace went next "My name is Horace and I have Prophetic dreams." and then Bronwyn went "My names Bronwyn and I have the strength of ten men." and the Olive "My name is Olive and I am as light as air." and then Claire went "My name is Claire and I have a back-mouth." the twins didn't really say anything which was fine, so Emma went "My names Emma and my peculiarity is fire." (a/n Emma and Olive are based off of the books not the movies) and then to the grumpy looking guy, I assumed is Enoch "Do I have to.." he complains "Yes, you do." says Miss P "Fine. My name is Enoch and I have the same peculiarity as you." He says then leaves the room. "Okay everyone now please be nice to Miss Lucas and try to make friends okay." they all nodded. I got asked to watch the reset but to their dismay I politely declined.

Once we are done eating Miss P gets Emma to show me to my room. "Thanks Emma. By the way can I ask a question?" "Sure." "Is Enoch always like that?" "Yeah pretty much." oh well then... "Okay, thanks... goodnight." "Goodnight Lucy." I got changed into pajamas that Emma provided me with and brushed my hair then laid down trying to sleep, only to find that I couldn't.  I decided to go down to the library downstairs and read. I quietly tip-toed down there, finding a lamp already turned on. I grabbed a book and sat on the couch and began reading. I heard footsteps outside the door and started freaking out thinking it was Miss P, but in walks the person who I least expect. "Oh, sorry didn't know you'd be in here" Enoch says "No it's fine." I said getting up to leave "You don't have to leave." he says. "You want me too, so I will." I said mad that he doesn't even know me yet he hates me. "I understand why you hate me..." I mumbled under my breath so he couldn't hear it. "I don't hate you." he says. Damn I thought I was quiet about that. "Ok, well... you can join me if you'd like." I say and he does. After a while he shifts and asks me if I wanted to see something, so I said sure. He brought me down to the basement, it was so cool. It was filled with jars with hearts in them whether it mouse hearts or goats hearts or many other kinds. "Woah.." I said just looking around and he just sat there watching me and smiling. "This is so cool Enoch, thanks for showing me." He laughs a little "That's not what I'm showing you." I move towards him to see many different Homunculus in many different shapes. "Homunculus" I whisper and he looks at me "You know what they are." "Well yeah, although the word just came to me the first time I ever made one, which was before I came here...Dammit!" I exclaimed "What?!" He asked looking taken back. "I forgot mine before I came." "Woah, it's fine you can make another one." I smiled at him "Thanks." He put hearts in two if the Homunculus and whispered to them. They start fighting until one takes the others heart out and its the greatest thing in the world. We sit up almost all night talking and before I know it, I've slipped off into darkness.

a/n   This is the first book I've ever written and published so far, feel free to help me out and make comments and suggestions and if there is something wrong or a spelling mistake just tell me. I hope it was good. Also I was pretty tired because I couldn't sleep and therefor wrote this at like 4 in the morning. Stay peculiar everyone. ~A