~Millard's POV~

"Millard?" Bronwyn asked. All six of us had stayed up until one a.m. to prepare for departure to the southern Florida loop. 

"What?" I asked.

"Why are there still hollow attacks?" I thought we murdered all of the wights?"

I breathed in deeply. "We didn't Wyn. That would be impossible. There are still hundreds of wights and hollows out there. We haven't found them all yet. You can kill off the leader, but you can never kill off his supporters. They will always be out there, Wyn, but don't worry. If we can take down there leader, we can easily kick there arse."

Hugh then started giggling like a madman.

"He never curses!" He laughed out, causing my entire face to go red.

Emma laughed a bit and said,"Okay, as funny as Millard cursing is, we need to get back on topic. When are we leaving?"

"Um how about Halloween night? Tons of people will be out, and nobody will notice a couple of teenagers gone. It's also a Friday night, so we could get there, test out the hairs, and be back by Monday morning. I could tell my parents that we want to see some friends of mine and we'll take the car." Jake said.

"That's a great plan,  Jake, but you have seemed to forgotten two people: Horace and Enoch." I said.

"Horace..." Emma said. I then remembered. Horace would have predicted all of this. Immediately Emma and I sprained up, and ran to Horace and Enoch's room.

"Horace!" Emma screamed once we entered his room. He and Enoch woke up, confused.

"What Emma? I was having a fabulous dream until you interrupted." Horace said groggy.

"About what?" Emma demanded.

"Um...Ralph Lauren's new releases." He said glancing at Enoch who had rolled his eyes and went back to sleep. 

"Have you had any unusual dreams lately Horace?" I asked.

"No. The most unusual this month had been about Fiona with a baby. I guessed it was about 10 years in the future." He said.

"Fiona...with a baby?" I asked.

"I'm sure it's nothing. Horace you're probably right. Millard lets let him sleep." Emma then pulled me out of the room as Horace went back to sleep. We then walked back downstairs.

"Well?" Hugh asked.

"Nothing. He only dreams about clothes and Fiona's baby." I said.  

"What?!?!" Hugh asked.

"Why would he dream about something like that?" Fiona asked.

"He said it was like ten years into the future, Hugh, nothing to worry about." I said.

"Oh thank god! I couldn't imagine having a kid now! It would be hell!" He said. This must have annoyed Fiona, because she immediately got up and almost ran to her room.

"I did something wrong, didn't I?" Hugh asked.

"Oh yeah" Emma said.

"What the hell did I do wrong though? I only said I didn't want a kid!"

"Just go talk to her. Our plants are probably all dead now." Hugh then ran up to his girlfriend's room.

"So what do we do about Horace and Enoch?" Jake re asked.

"We could lie, but Enoch can tell. Should we tell them?" Emma asked.

"Of course not! They'd blab it so loud that Claire and Olive would hear. And They have never been able to keep their gobs closed." I said.

Bronwyn rolled her eyes.

"Let's just leave. Tell them nothing. They wouldn't care Enoch hates everyone and Horace is too worried about how he's going to be able to afford Ralph Lauren's New Catalog. I'll tell Olive and Claire something and we'll be off." She said. Everyone looked at her with eyes large and mouths dropped.

"Wyn that's incredible! You, lie, to Claire and Olive?!" I said. I've known Bronwyn Sara Bruntley for over 75 years and she's never had the capability to lie to Claire and Olive. It's just not...her.

"This is more important than telling the girls a little lie. They are too excited about Halloween, anyways. They won't suspect a thing. The only problem we may have is Enoch and the others." She said.

"What do you mean ' The others'?" Jake asked.

"The other peculiars. We would have to leave Friday morning. Don't you think they would be suspicious of why all six of us weren't in school? What would we tell them?"

"We could just tell them that our foster mother had a medical emergency. That's what I did to get out of chemistry once." Emma said.

"What if they want to send her flowers? I'm sure Emily would considering her it's her boyfriend's mum." Hugh said coming back downstairs, smirking. Millard rolled his eyes and shoved Hugh.

"How's Fiona?" Emma asked.

"She's pissed at me for some weird reason. All I said was that I didn't want a kid! And now she won't talk to me. Women are so damn hormonal..." he said. Emma and Bronwyn glared at him.

"I mean...some women....others....um I'm sorry, don't kill me!" He said. Emma then ran upstairs, presumably to check on Fiona. 

"Well you're in trouble, but I think we have a plan. We leave Friday afternoon, tell them are foster mother is ill in um...Kentucky (A/N: Where I live lol), make up an excuse for Enoch, Horace, Claire, and Olive, but I honestly think they will not care, and leave. Does that sound okay?" I said. Everyone nodded and smiled. 

"Peculiar World here we come!" Hugh said. We were finally going back home.

Meanwhile...Ten miles away....

~Charlie's POV~

We are currently waiting in Northern Florida Hospital (A/N: I made it up), because an idiot drained my sister of her healing power to try and save my cousin, or his crush, from a broken leg, that could be healed by doctors and nurses quickly.

"You are such an idiot, TJ! Now, because of you, Emily is practically a ghost, and Natalie's leg is even worse off! What in the name of living hell were you thinking?" Victoria was overly mad at TJ.

"Listen I'm sorry I care about Tallie. She's like my little sister, Okay! And don't think I don't feel like shit over this! I was just trying to save Tallie, I didn't mean to hurt her or Emily!" He shouted back.

"How long do you think they'll fight?" Percy whispered.

"Not as long as him and Natalie do, but pretty long. Want to go see what they've got in the cafeteria? Max, Luke, you guys wanna come?"

They all nodded and we crept away to the cafeteria.

"So what did you think about little Emmy's boyfriend?" Max asked with his normal smirk.

"Bit weird, don't you think? He talks and acts like Gramps. You'd think he was from the '40s. And his name... I know it's wrong to judge a person by his name, but what was his parents thinking? Was he born in the 19th century?" I said.

"Yeah I noticed that too. Have you noticed who he's friends with?" Luke said.

"No, who?"

Luke and Max smiled. "Jake Portman."

"No way!" Percy and I said.

Jake Portman was the psychopathic boy who disappeared for three months last year. He was said to disappear in Wales during a trip with his father. It was rumored that he had a meltdown at his grandfather's orphanage, ran away with some teenagers, and had been under the influence when his parents found him in London. He was almost sent to an asylum, but, for some reason, his parents decided against it. To be honest, he was weird from a young age. I remember in grade school, he use to tell fairy tale stories that he thought were true. About odd people with strange abilities. At first, we had thought he had figured us out, but he never came up to us about it. We managed to keep our distance and our secret hidden, with some difficulty. My erasing minds had helped tremendously. All the beast attacks were never remembered, thanks to me. 

"Do you also happen to remember his family?" Max asked. I shook my head. I hadn't talked to him since grade school.

"The Smart-Aide family." Luke said. That's when I remembered.

In 1997, my parents, TJ's, Percy's mother, and my aunts, Alicia and Lucia, had moved over to Florida, with me,Percy, Emily, and TJ, from a little island off of Wales. My uncle (Natalie and Luke's father), Max's father, and Victoria's father were all working at a Smart-Aide factory, and were quick to employ the rest of our parents. They all worked several hours a day, while Aunt Alicia stayed with us in an apartment where we all lived, her being the youngest. Eventually, each one of our families had earned enough money to support each other and we moved into separate apartments. During all this, Natalie was born, along with my younger cousin, Victor, who was Aunt Alicia's son.

When I was four, the company had lost money, causing downsizing in some factories, one of them being the Orlando plant, which our families were employed at. 

Every single one of our parents lost his or her job, causing us to all move back into one apartment, only this time, with a new addition. I had shared the couch with Emily, Luke, Max, TJ, Victoria, Percy, and Natalie, while our parents slept on the floor or a few lumpy matresses. Aunt Alicia had started community college, and worked in a clinic, so she was able to support herself and her son, but did help us some.

Our parents were able to find meager jobs, my mother and Aunt Lucia working as waitresses, TJ's mother and my uncle's wife as house cleaners, and the rest working odd jobs. 

One afternoon, Victoria's father, Uncle Julio, and Max's father were watching us when tragedy struck. Three men with no eye color had bardged into the apartment, causing the other three men to panic. Max's father protected us as we cried, the men being frightening. Uncle Julio and Victoria's father began to fight the men, but they were no match. I can still remember Natalie's screaming as she watched a man plunge a knife in her father, murdering him, then taking it right out and handing it to another man, while Luke held her and sobbed himself. I remember Victoria weeping as the other man then went after her father, the knife that murdered Uncle Julio going deep into Brian Million. The second man did the same as the first, handing it to the third man, who killed Jason Ericson.

The men then faced us, ready to kill, before my mother, father, Henry and Alexandra Carter, and Cassandra Markley ran in, and began to fight the men. My Aunt Elizabeth (Natalie and Luke's mother), Mia Ericson, Aunt Lucia, and Myra Million had followed after, being horrified by the dead bodies.

Our parents were no match for the men, the men being able to knock them down and jump out the window, never being seen again. 

After the fight, they had all turned to the unmoving forms of Julio Maresco, Brian Million, and Jason Ericson. Everyone proceeded to cry and comfort us, even though we were hurt for life. The funeral proceeded a week later, where Luke, Victoria, Max, and Natalie said good-bye to their fathers, whom they had hardly gotten to know. I had said good-bye to my only Uncle, and the two men who had sacrificed their lives for me and my friends.

They had tried searching for the men, but had no luck. We had asked why they had gone after Uncle Julio, Jason, and Brian, but no one knew. It is still a mystery today.

A few years later, Mia Ericson died from a cocaine overdose, causing Max to go into the foster system (until Elizabeth took him in), and Elizabeth and Myra re-married, much to their children's dismay. 

The rest of our parents found jobs, some better than others, and our lives slowly improved, but we will never forget what was caused by Smart-Aide. If they still worked there, the men wouldn't have been able to murder the our family. Their was a small daycare service their, so we wouldn't have been hurt. This was all caused by Jacob Portman's rich, stupid, ignorant, dumb-ass...

"Jacob Portman?" Victoria said as she and TJ enter the cafeteria and sat down at our table.

"Yeah, you know him?" Luke asked. It was better to not tell Victoria or TJ about the family. They have the most anger issues

"Crazy kid who's on drugs." Victoria said. Luke nodded.

"Well, enough about him. We have bigger problems. Emily problems. Do you guys trust Millard? He seems alright, but sort of weird. I swear he stole a piece of my hair!" She said.

"Sure, Vicky." Luke said. She pinched him, causing him to wince.

"I don't know Vic, he seems nice enough, but so...old fashioned. What if he's playing her?" I said.

"Don't worry about it, Charlie, I'm sure he's okay. He's just acts like an old man. When you think about it, it's better than her dating a dude like Max..." Percy said.

"Hey!" Max said.

"It's true dude. If I had a kid, you'd be the last person I'd want her to date. Well after TJ." Luke said.

"What? Why?!" TJ asked.

"Because all you do is look at my baby sister's ass, fight with her, and make her mad or upset!" He said.

"He's got a point Teej..."

"You two fight a lot..."

"It's like her ass is pornography..."

"She almost cried over your yelling"

"Shut up!" TJ said. We backed away.

"Listen, I have no feeling whatsoever for Natalie. All we do is fight and make each other miserable! She's annoying as hell and did this to my hair for bleeding Halloween!" 

"Geez love you too Teej..." Natalie said as she walked over to us in a therapeutic boot.

"Tallie!!! You're okay!!!!" TJ said as he lifted her up and hugged her.

"Yeah my leg's just got a fracture. I'm fine and annoying as ever, I'll be sure to make you miserable, Teej." She said, pushing off him.

"Let's go home and check on Emily!" Victoria said, pushing herself to be in the middle of TJ and Natalie. We then left the hospital.

~Next Day~

-Lunch-

~Emma's POV~

"Fi, come in talk to me baby!" 

Hugh would not stop trying to get Fiona to forgive him, but he screwed up. Badddddd. Last night all she did was dry about how Hugh would break up with her over the baby, and I had gotten NO sleep. Well, a little in English.

"Hey where is Millard and Bronwyn?" Jake asked.

I looked around for our friends only to see them with the others.

"Shall we go and see them?" I asked Jake.

"That's a fabulous idea Miss Bloom." He said. 

Grabbing Hugh and Fiona, we made our way to the table of peculiars. If Millard got to know them then shouldn't we?

"Hi!" I said once we reached the table. "I'm Emma Bloom, Millard and Bronwyn's friend. This is Hugh Apiston," Hugh waved. "Fiona Frauenfeld," Fiona smiled "And I'm sure you already know my boyfriend Jake."

A few of them smiled and waved. Some of the boys gave Jake a weird look and returned to their food.

"Hi!" A girl with bright pink hair said. "I'm Natalie Maresco, this Luke, Max, Charlie, Vicky, Teej, Percy, and Emily, your friend's girlfriend." She said with a giggle.

"Shut up Natalie." Emily said.

"Can we sit down?" I asked.

"Emma!" Millard hissed.

"What?" I asked.

"What are you doing here?"

"Just trying to get to know your little friends. Now will you please let us sit down?"

Millard growled and moved over. The rest quickly followed until Natalie was practically sitting on 'Teej'. What an odd name...

"So..." I said. "How do you do?" 

The boy named Luke gave us a shrug and mumbled something under his breath. Max did the same.

"You two, don't be rude! And to answer that question we are doing well, what about you?" Said the girl named Emily. I already like her the most.

"Fine, thank you. How long have you known Millard?" I  said. 

"Um...since the first day of school." She said.

"Are you really from England?" Natalie Maresco asked. I nodded.

"Oh my god, I would LOVE to live there. It's just so....beautiful. To live in a place like...London! Oh, how could you ever leave?" She said. 

Oh yes, London. Fabulous London. Where everything is elegant and sophisticated! According to Enoch O'Connor.

"Yes London is Glorious." Hugh said.

"Everything is Perfect!" Millard exclaimed.

"The place where rats wear top-hats!" Horace said coming over to the table.

"Why are you guys sitting with these people?" Enoch asked.

"Oh we wanted to meet the Emily that Hugh, Jacob, and Millard talk sooo much about." Emily blushed as I said this. I could tell we were making them all uncomfortable by our unwanted and unneeded presence.

"Hello, I'm Horace Somnusson...you must be the one Millard talks so much about." Horace said.

"You talk about me?" Emily asked Millard, who blushed at the question.

"Oh all the time!" Hugh said. This was going to turn bad. Fast.

"About how beautiful your hair is, how pretty your smile is, how kind and smart you are....You'd think Mill was obsessed with you!" Millard then smacked Hugh, who smacked him back, and started a full-fledged fist war between the boys.

"Fight, fight,fight!" Natalie and  Teej screamed.

I leaned by Jake and Fiona and whispered,

"Do you two think I should break this up?"

"No, I think that Hugh deserves to get his arse kicked. Even if it is by Millard." Fiona said. 

"Break it up, Em." Jake said. I sighed and got up, walked in between them, and pinched their ears until they were crying.

"We won't fight, we won't fight!" Hugh squealed.

"Please, stop Emma!" Millard whined.

I let go and they immediately ran away. Oh, boys. 

"What the fuck did she do to you guys?" Max asked. The other teenagers had been in awe on how I stopped the situation. It was then that I realized that I might've blown our cover. Oops. I looked to Millard and he said,

"She has really sharp finger nails. They're like razors."

"Hmmm" Natalie said, "I've got sharp finger nails. Let's see if it works for me..." Before anyone could stop her, she grabbed a hold of Teej's ear tips and pinched.

"Natalie let go!" He whined.

"This is for calling me a bad driver!"

"Fuck, Nat I didn't mean it!"

"And for calling my dream of being a designer stupid!"

"That was Charlie and Percy, not me!"

"And also being a dick all week!"

"I'm fucking sorry, Nat, please let go!"

Natalie finally let go as TJ clutched his ear.

"Did you say that you wanted to be a designer?" Horace asked Natalie.

"Yeah!" Natalie said happily. "It's been my dream since I was little. Even though it's been less and less supported as of lately." She narrowed her eyes at her friends.

"Natalie, we think you'd be a great designer." Luke tried to argue. "But as your brother, I think you should think of something more financially stable."

Natalie just rolled her eyes and turned back to Horace.

"I have some designs I've been working on." Horace said. "I can show you sometime if you want."

"That'd be awesome!" Natalie said happily.     

Suddenly the bell for class rang, and we all exited, with Max helping Natalie out with some cast thing she had on, going our separate ways to class.

"Hey Jake," I said to him as we left for Chemistry.

"What is it, babe?"

"I couldn't help, but noticing how we were going to have to leave for the loop on your birthday." I said.

"Yeah. Why?"

"Well I suppose I will have to give you the rest of your birthday present tonight...if you want..." He then smiled like a maniac and kissed my cheek.

"I love you, Emma Bloom!"

"And I love you, Jacob Portman."