Jen and Brick had invited Jamie over the day after Miranda had been born. He was very proud of his younger sister being able to have a baby of her own, and name her after their mother no less! Jamie wasn't sure he could trust Brick at first after Jen realized she kind of like him back, but after their wedding when Jamie gave Jen away and saw how happy she was, he was sure they would be a good match like their parents were in the older days.
On Miranda's second birthday, Brick was called away from the family to do some actual military work like he had trained himself for, despite spending his million dollar prize to open a fashion school like he always wanted, much to everyone else's shock. Jen and Brick were also unsure if their daughter had wolf or shadow powers, since Jen, Jamie, and Mike got the powers from their mother and their father was a mortal, they had some of her powers.
Jamie could control shadows while Jen could become a wolf at will, and Mike could do both. However, that was 50% of their DNA, it would be a quarter in Miranda's blood. To make sure for her safety, Jen decided to homeschool their daughter while Brick would be away for no one knows how long. Over the years, Miranda had been homeschooled all her life, but she eventually got to make friends.
Mike's old friends, Juniper Lee and Dee Dee Tartovosky would allow their children, Layla, Devin, and Michelle to come over and play with Miranda. The MacArthur family backyard was huge, nearly in the forest, so the kids could have a lot of fun. Their summers were happily spent with each other. Miranda had grown up wearing an olive green hooded sweatshirt with a white stripe in the middle, a black belt, golden buckle, blue sweatpants, a black headband with her scarlet hair down, and black and white sneakers.
It was now seven-year-old Miranda's turn to be it. She was by one of the trees with her hands covering her eyes as she counted, then called out. "Ready or not, here I come!"
There was giggling heard as Miranda was going around to look for her friends. Miranda didn't have a very strong sense of smell like her mother's side of the family did, so she couldn't use that, besides if she did, it might be considered as cheating. Miranda continued to try and track her friends before they would have to go home for dinner and get ready for something back happening in Megaville that starts in a few short, quick days.
"Gotcha!" Miranda pounced as soon as she saw black hair with white streaks in them.
"No fair, how'd you do that so fast?" Devin, the twin son of Double D Vincent and Juniper Lee, asked.
"Yeah, we just got here!" Layla Vincent, the twin daughter of Double D Vincent and Juniper Lee, added.
"I guess I'm just too good." Miranda shrugged.
"Come on, we better find Michelle now." Layla said.
"Yeah, the losers help the hider when they've been found." Devin explained.
"Ahh..." Miranda nodded, then walked with them around the MacArthur backyard forest.
"You can get lost easily around here if you're not careful." Layla had noticed how deep the forest seemed.
"Not if you've lived around here as much as I have, I'm smarter than I look." Miranda retorted.
"On the contrary." Devin smirked, teasing her a little.
Miranda glanced at him, then heard light humming. She looked up the tree branch where it was coming from. "Michelle, olly olly oxen free!"
The leaves on the branch rustled and the golden blonde hair belonging to Michelle Hill, the daughter of Ed and Dee Dee, came out. "Aww..."
"Sorry, Michelle, but you just can't beat Miranda MacArthur in hide and go seek." Miranda retorted, though not bragging.
"Yeah, yeah," Michelle jumped down, landing with her friends.
"Miranda, time for your friends to go home!" Jen's voice called all the way across where they are.
"OKAY, MOM!" Miranda yelled back, then moaned. "Aww..."
"Well, back to home we go, and then to school." Devin remarked.
"Me too, and Michelle, and everyone else in Megaville," Layla added. "Except for you, Miranda. You don't have to go to school."
"I know, it's so unfair!" Miranda grunted. "I love Mom and all, but I wanna be like you guys and go to school too!"
"Why did you get homeschooled anyway?" Michelle asked.
"Beats me, Mom just said it would be good for me, whatever that means." Miranda made homeschooling sound like the worst thing in the world, she was jealous of her friends.
"Well, it's almost the first day back to school, maybe you could ask her or your dad during dinner tonight." Layla suggested as they walked to get back to the house.
"Yeah," Miranda smiled. "That's what I'll do!"
After Miranda's friends went home, she sat at the dinner table with her mother as they shared a nice tender steak dinner with few vegetables since Brick wasn't home.
"Mom, I have an idea that I'd really like to do with Layla, Devin, and Michelle."
"What's that, honey?" Jen asked, smiling. "Building a tree-house?"
"No," Miranda replied with a cheerful smile and stood up proudly with her hands on her hips. "I want to go to school!"
Jen blinked, her eyes very wide in worry.
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The Miranda MacArthur Story
FanficMiranda is the daughter of Brick MacArthur and Jen Masterson, she leads a normal life being home-schooled, but she then decides that she wants to go to school and learn more about her home since her parents had been trying to protect her since the d...
