Chapter One

Chapter One

It had been almost two years since the fire. The investigators told Clair that a light bulb must of sparked and caught something on fire. This should have been a good explanation as an accident, but this drove Clair mad. She had left the light on she told her self. I killed my family. At the thought of this haunting her, she became madder and madder. She started to say things, no person should say. She would tell people that she knew their past and their future. Clair was moved from house to house, guardian to guardian. Some called her the maddest child of Kingstone or even West Yorkshire and when she was really raving, the maddest girl of England. She was soon moved to asylums and was treated like dirt. It was only when the people of Kingstone found a place for her at a boarding school that opened up in a town called Birchstone.

It was called Birchstone Boarding School for Troubled Minds. There, Clair meet her roommate, Drake. Drake was tall and had dark brown hair and blue eyes. He was kind to Clair, and understood her when she babbled. Drake told Clair that he came to Birchstone because he could see thing others could not and told the world about it. Clair and Drake had a doctor who was to look after them. His name was Doctor J. Kenneth. Doctor Kenneth was in his late 40s. He had an upturned nose, grey hair and odd eyes, the left eye was hazel and the right eye was light blue. He limped on his left leg and had a dry tone of voice. Doctor Kenneth tried and tried to make Clair forget about the fire, but even when Clair tried to, she could still hear the screaming of her family’s voices, calling out for her blood.

“Constraint Clair. Try to forget. When you forget, your pain shall leave you. You will be free. Try Clair, try…” Doctor Kenneth session had begun. “I’m trying, I’m… I’m… Annie!” Clair opened her eyes as she awoke from the nightmare she was having. Drake looked up to meet her eyes. He’s been crying. Thought Clair. He must have asked the doctor to stop again, Oh Drake… It’s all my fault. It’s all my fault.

“Well, I believe that will be enough for today. You two may go…Oh, yes Clair, Drake, would you two go and get some of the sleeping pills, we presently run out.”

“Yes sir, we will go right away sir.” Said Clair.

“Are you sure, you should come with us?” asked Drake,

“Yes, I am quite sure you are capable of going down to the drug store. Here are $20 to get the pills, and here is my prescription.” He handed the money to Drake and the piece of paper to Clair and hurried them put the door.

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The bells on the door rang loud and clear when Drake and Clair entered the drug store. Clair went straight to the pills as Drake stared off into the distance. Clair got the “Sleepless Knights” pills. “These ones please sir.” Said Clair handing her the pills and the prescription. “That would be $20,” said the shop owner. Drake gave him the money. The shop owner looked at Clair suspiciously. “Aren’t you that, that crazy girl, who told people their past and future?” he asked. Clair clenched her fists and her knuckles turned whiter than her pale skin.

“No, she’s not. She is still in West Yorkshire.” Drake said angrily walking over to the till. He looked behind him and nodded as though he was talking to some one there.

“Um, well… Have a good day.” He said as Drake and Clair walked out of the store.

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“Drake… You know about the fire that burned my house and killed my family.” Drake nodded looking into the distance,

“Well, I’m starting to think that I… I didn’t start the fire.”

 “That’s good.” He said, “I always thought that your guilt was just all in your head. That the fire was all an accident.” Drake pointed at Clair’s head and smiled.

Drake didn’t smile much. He was always so straight faced at Birchstone. He said he stopped smiling when people started to call him a mad man and a fool. Clair shook her head.

“All fires are started by some one on purpose. My third mother told me that.” Clair told him. “I feel that there is something I missing and that if I just had all the clues in front of me, I would be able to see it. The problem is, Doctor Kenneth says going back to my home would only set back my medication and he doesn’t want that.” Drake frowned

“Yes we could do that” He started. “But what about if we…”

“I’m sorry, but who are you talking to?” Clair asked.

“Sari, the… Oh, right.” Drake said, remembering that she couldn’t see whom he was talking to.

“Well we’re… I was thinking about sneaking out after dark. We can look after our selves, I mean we’re still alive right?”

“Right, but if we do, do that, we would have to do I after the night medication, or they would notice that we were gone.”

“Oh, right. That would be fine, right? We don’t take as many pill as we use to.” Stammered Drake. “What ever we are going to do, it will have to wait. We’re are Birchstone now.” Clair said, pushing the door open.

So yeah. Thats Chapter One!

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