Discovering the Future

Chapter 1- Prologue

This was inspired by "A Peculiar Reading" by janember. I had read Chapter 1 back in December and it got me really interested, but it hasn't been updated yet, so I'm making my own!

I hope you all enjoy it.

Disclaimer: If you're reading this on Wattpad by Anahita-Acada(I'm assuming you are anyway, because if you aren't then someone copied me) then I most likely don't own it.

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Millard was searching through the books in the library, trying to find something to read. He had read a lot of the books already, and was trying to find something that he found interesting.

He sighed as he went through one stack of books. Nothing. He put them all pack and went to another pile. Top one, read the back, nothing interesting. This same thing happened with the next two in this pile before he was faced with a book that caught his interest. As he looked more closely, he realised that the person on the cover was Olive! He looked at the title and it read,

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Millard frowned. 'Whoever wrote this couldn't possibly mean us, could they?' he thought. He flipped the book over and started to read the back,

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes for clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-----impossible though it seems-----they may still be alive.

Millard looked at the book in shock. 'This sounds like us!' he thought. Millard wanted to read the book so badly, but thought it was best to ask Miss Peregrine first. Maybe the other kids would want to read it too.

Millard left the library and started searching the house and yard for Miss Peregrine. He went outside and saw Enoch and Victor sitting under a tree, Claire, Olive, and Bronwyn playing together, and Fiona growing plants.

He walked up to Fiona and asked her, "Have you seen Miss Peregrine?"

Fiona shook her head and went back to growing plants. Millard shrugged and went to ask the girls. They said they hadn't seen her. Millard went up to Enoch and Victor.

"Have either of you seen Miss Peregrine?" He asked. Enoch jumped and scowled. He stared to speak, but Victor elbowed him and glared. He looked up to where he thought Millard was standing and said,

"No, sorry Millard. We haven't seen her."

Millard nodded. "Thanks anyway." And walked back inside.

After searching the house and asking all the others inside if they had seen her, he finally found her in the living room (I don't know what a living room was called in the 40s, so...).

"Miss Peregrine, may I read this?" he asked.

Miss Peregrine looked at him oddly. "Why should you not, Millard?"

"Read the summary."

Miss Peregrine did and when she was finished she looked at the book in shock.

"So...may I?" Millard asked, snapping her out of her thoughts.

She thought. Did she want Millard to read this? It could reveal things about the future she didn't want any of her children to know.