Lincoln & Kat: A Year in the Life (season 1)

Episode 12: "Season of the Witch"

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AN: This, this chapter I've been waiting to do for a very long time and I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Because, this chapter is a labor of love.

"You got to pick up every stitch, the rabbits runnin in the ditch. Beatniks are out to make it rich."
- Donovan

(Date: October 21, 2016)
(Location: the Patterson residence)

"Show me the meaning of being lonely..."

As the clock radio went off, we see a little girl with long black hair with one eye seemingly covered turning it off and began to stretch her limbs. She let out a small yet adorable yawn. She then gets off of her bed to walk over to her bathroom to get ready for the day.

After taking a shower and brushing her teeth, she came back to get dressed.

She took off her pajamas and then proceeded to put on a dark purple dress and then a pair of grayish purple shoes. But the most unique part of the ensemble was when she draped a black cloak over herself and then placed a matching witch's hat on top of her head. The girl let out a quick sigh of sadness.

She then went over to her desk and collected her schoolbag; she unzipped a secret compartment and pulled out what appeared to be a long curved stick. She gave it a quick kiss and put it back in its secret compartment. She also remembered to grab her phone off its charger and then proceeded to walk downstairs.

She makes her way to the kitchen where we find an older woman with the same kind of black hair only cut shorter, making breakfast. "Good morning sweetie" the older woman greeted. "Morning mom" the little girl quietly greeted. "I made your favorite, blueberry pancakes and extra crispy bacon."

The little girl grew a ghost of a smile. This girl is Hildegard Patterson, but she prefers to be called Haiku after her favorite type of poetry. She thanked her mother and began eating her meal in complete silence. Her mother Georgia let out a sigh, she was worried for her daughter. She wanted nothing more than to see her daughter to give a genuine smile. In the meantime, she quickly put Haiku's lunch into her schoolbag.

BEEP-BEEP!

Haiku looked up as she gulped the last of her bacon. "Bus is here" she commented. The little sorceress to be grabbed her hat and gave her mom a quick kiss on the cheek and said "Love you" and then rushed out the door to catch the bus. "Have a good day sweetie" he mother said to no one in particular.

(Timeskip)
(Scene change)
(Location: Royal Woods Elementary school)

As Haiku steps off the school bus, she inserts a pair of headphones that's connected to her phone. She then pulls up Spotify for some music before class starts. She firsts checks out a 70s playlist.

"One is the loneliest number..."

She groaned at the song and then switched over to a 60s playlist in hopes of a more upbeat tune.

"Lonely, I'm Mr. Lonely..."

This made Haiku quite unamused. She sucked in a deep breath of anger and then she switched over to a podcast she regularly listens to when she's feeling this way.

"Hello, I'm Dr. Felicia Lopez. Welcome to another episode of my new podcast, "Friends, Who Needs Them? You Do." This week's challenge: put yourself out there. When the hand of friendship is offered to you, take it. You can do it. Now, go. Make some friends."

She then proceeded to walk into the school, while ignoring the occasional stare by other students. Haiku knows that she's different, but she wishes that other people would like her who she is.