CHAPTER ONE
--Soon enough, the plunking drew the attention of one of her neighbors and one that was bold enough to approach the barefooted girl at that. A blue-haired teenager only a year or two younger than Serenity herself crossed the street and stepped back up onto the curb right in front of the nearly empty lot. Green eyes roved over the scene, clearly unimpressed, but Serenity wasn’t deterred. Placing her guitar back on it’s stand, she bounded out of the fence and up to the stranger. “Hi, I’m Serenity! What’s your-” “What are you doing?” A small frown found it’s way onto Serenity’s face, but she quickly wiped it off. The other girl probably hadn’t meant anything by it, certainly not to offend her. She was just asking a question. She inhaled and let a smile brighten her face once more. “It looked like you were coming over here, so I just wanted to introduce myself! There’s only one high school for miles, so I thought we’d probably be-” “No.” The other girl said, rolling her eyes. “I mean what are you doing here? Like, in Oasis Springs. You don’t belong here.” Now, that she meant something by. “I just moved in about three days ago.” She responded, voice quiet. “I was looking for somewhere where I could live outdoors and this seemed like the place. It’s pretty and warm and the brochure said that people here were friendly...” The blue-haired girl wasn’t listening to her, fingers tapping away at her phone. Suddenly, she grinned triumphantly and shoved the small screen toward Serenity’s face. “This is you, isn’t it?” There, depicted in perfect pixelation, was a picture of Serenity in a pink tafetta dress, screaming at a waiter, her face crimson. She remembered that day. It’d been nearly four years ago; her parents had known the producer of My Super Sweet Simteen and had gotten him to give her an episode. It’d never aired, though. Something had gone wrong, something with the cake or the invitations being sent out wrong and she’d ended up screaming at one of the staff members for her party and throwing things at them. The episode had never aired. The blue-haired girl smirked in satisfaction. “It is you.” Serenity swallowed hard.
“How did you-?” “Windenburg, four years ago. Your party absolutely wrecked the ruins. I was one of the extras they hired to pretend to be a party guest because you didn’t have any friends.” The girl gave Serenity a once over. “Looks like nothing’s really changed.”
