- Rowan's Point of View -

"Come on, Rowan. Do you want us to be late?" The little toddler boy said, pulling me towards the little cottage.

"We won't be._________, slow down." I said.

"I don't know about you, but I'm hungry." He said.

For a four year old, he had a pretty big vocabulary.

"ROWAN,________, IT'S TIME FOR SUPPER!" Ma called across the yard.

"I told you. Right on time."

"You never told me."

"Oh whatever."

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Still no name. Oh well. It probably wasn't important anyway, I thought as I lay on my bed. It was Sunday evening and was just lying there, sort of crooked, not even bothering to pull the covers over me. I glanced out of my window and saw a bird fly by. There was a knock at the door and I sighed, going to answer it. I opened the door and there stood none other then the girl that had been in the tree next to me.

"Hello!" She said with a big, white grin.

"I'm Emmalina, but you can just call me Emma, or Lina, or Linn. Linn's a new one, but oh well. Mrs. McCartney told me to say hi and show you around a little. We don't have to do it right away but I thought I'd tell you."

I smiled and held in a laugh. She seems fine now.

"Hey Linn. I'm Rowan." I said, shaking her hand.

"Won't you come in?"

"Surlio!" She said, and hopped in.

I closed the door and gestured for her to sit down.

"This is nice. It's sort of like my old room at Castle Landly."

"You were at Castle Landly?" I asked.

"Yuppers."

"For how long? It must have been beautiful."

"Yes it was. I think I was there for...five years. Then my dad came back and I moved here."

"Five years? What did you do all those years, you know, being an orphan and all." I ventured to ask.

"Well, for a while there I didn't do anything. I wasn't a wall flower, but I wasn't really exactly outgoing, either. I think the first friend I had there was a boy called Callum."

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"Come on, Rowan. Do you want us to be late?" The little toddler boy said, pulling me towards the little cottage.

"We won't be. Callum, slow down." I said.

"I don't know about you, but I'm hungry." He said.

For a four year old, he had a pretty big vocabulary.

"ROWAN, CALLUM, IT'S TIME FOR SUPPER!" Ma called across the yard.

"I told you. Right on time."

"You never told me."

"Oh whatever."

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Could it be? After all these years?

"Is everything alright?" I heard Linn's voice cut through my sub-conscience.

"Huh...Oh, yeah. Everything's fine. Do you think I could meat your friends?"

"Uh, yeah sure. Callum's here for a week or so and Samantha and Joe are here for the weekend. I think they're all in the garden trying to catch frogs."

"And why aren't you with them?" I laughed.

"Well, I would be, but you don't want to get on the wrong side of Mrs. McCartney."

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"Oh come on." I heard a man's voice say from the garden.

"Just come a little closer, is it that hard?"

"Callum, you just gotta be patient and they'll eventually come to you." Said a girls voice.

"It's easy for you to say, you've caught about eight already."

Linn giggled and I couldn't help a smile spreading across my face. It was quite comical. An almost full grown man, a teenage girl, and a teenage boy, all wading knee deep in the pond, trying to catch the green frogs.

"Hey, um, can I have your guys' attention please." Linn said, distracting them from their hunt.

"What's up?" The girl asked.

"Um, this is Rowan. Mrs. McCartney thought it best that we get to know each other."

"Oh, well if Mrs. McCartney said so we'd better listen." The older boy said, laughing.

"Hi, I'm Callum." He said, holding his hand out. 

Over 10 years. More years then I care to remember since I'd seen him last, and he still hasn't changed.

-Okay,  sorry for the shorter chapter and for the long wait, but I was having serious writers block again :( I hope you liked the chapter and I'll try to update sooner. Thanks :D - Anna