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[Tiffany Sparxx]

It was just around midnight and the Rickety Pier seemed deserted.Good... Tiffany thought as she maneuvered toward it with her Invader Zim bag slung over one shoulder,her cat-Zim-in one hand and her owl,Gir,on her left shoulder. Lately,she hadn't been spending much time with either of her pets fury little friends,so she decided to let them tag along that night.Gir hooted.The owl was terribly small,but it got by.

Tiffany was dressed in a pair of tight blue jeans and her old vans. God,she needed new ones. She felt that if she wore them any longer,there would be a big hole in the bottom and she would soon be walking on just her feet.Tiffany was wearing a long black camisole and a Gir shirt over top of it. Invader Zim. It was Tiffany's only obsession. She sighed a bit as she stepped onto the Rickety Pier. Tiffany ran her fingers through her hair. It was still cut. Not much longer. She frowned. Why had she let her parents talk her into her cutting her hair? It was now waist-length and her bangs didn't get in her eyes the way she liked it.It was horrible.Tiffany smirked.Zim purred.She glanced down at him and looked around at the Rickety Pier.

Empty.

She should have came there more often.The Forest seemed to always be occupied by some strange teacher and prefects and students with no respet for people. Tiffany grinned.Yea.She was probably one of those people;Always scaring the hell out of students when they walked by.Tiffany was way more alive during the nighttime. Maybe someone would come along and she could scare them! But who wouldn't notice her-the only person-on the edge of the Rickety Pier. The edge!? Tiffany took a few steps back. Yea.She was on the edge of the slowly-moving Rickety Pier. Was she trying to die?! Tiffany couldn't swim whatsoever.She had never taken the time out to learn.Tiffany use to think that it was a really dumb sport.That it wasn't even a sport altogether. With how often that she was at the lake,she probably needed it. Tiffany glanced out at the water.She was a friggin third year and she hadn't been swimming in the lake once. What a loser.

Tiffany planted herself right in the middle of the moving peice of wood and leaned back on her hands. She pushed Zim off of her arm,but she was having a hard time trying to do that.The kitten was digging his claws into her Gir tank,and not wanting to let go.Tiffany blinked and waited a moment.She leaned over and stuck her hand into the water.Cold and wet.Gross! There was no telling what could have been in there. What could have taken her hand off.Tiffany flicked her hand at the kitten and Zim leapt off of her pretty quickly.She wiped the icky remained water on the back of her jeans. There was a small fluttering sound and Tiffany glanced up.Gir had moved from her shoulder to her head. Tiffany smiled.The bird was so small,it was almost as if he wasn't even there. She brought her knees up to her chest and hugged them.Zim weaved his way in between and around her legs.Tiffany closed her eyes.

She soon heard footsteps.Tiffany kept her eyes closed.It was probably just a person making there way past the Rickety Pier toward the forest or something,right? Her eyes openend once she noticed them coming closer. Tiffany blinked. There was a sudden change in the footstep tone. It went from the soft padding of the ground,to the hard wood. Tiffany looked at the wood,suddenly wondering who the person was. Maybe it was that Lucien boy,coming to push her in finally. The thought made her edgy and she slid a small bit over from the edge. Tiffany inhaled.Nope.Can't be him.Didn't smell like him. And besides,hadn't he left for some apparent reason? Tiffany shrugged and turned around...

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[telly]

[/b] in their lifetime. Right? She sure did hope so. Telly did a lot of stuff before she came to Hogwarts. Not all bad things either. Just normal teenager things. Like sleepovers, and weekly dramas between friends. Just the norm.

The soft pitter patter of her checkered vans on the ground of the lake tickled her ear drums. Taking a glance of the lake, she saw its true face. Durring the day it looked like any 'ol lake that you would see on a tacky post card. But durring the night, was a totally different story. It looked dark and mysterious. Much like the school its self.

Feet now on the first wood plank in the pier, Telly gasped slightly as it moved suddenly. Blinking a few times to help correct her horrible night vission, the now second year spotted a girl with two animals sitting near the edge of the pier. And Telly being Telly, she just had to meet this girl. She looked chill and nice. Maybe chill because it was rather chilly that night to her. Odd, since the summer season is comming to an end. Anyways. Plopping her little tooshy nect to the girl, making sure not to squish the little kitty which ran out from under her, Telly spoke to her, voice crystal clear.[/color]

"gorgeous night, 'eh?"

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[Tiffany Sparxx]

Tiffany could hear the little footsteps of Zimmy charging out from under her. At first he seemed like a protective watch dog,but then it was pretty obvious that he was just being a little chicken and running away from the stranger.Oh.Who knew that a cat could be so many creatures? Tiffany smirked at Zim. The cat turned in a circle and sat. It tilted its head to the side and kept a continuous gaze on the person.There was a small hoot and Gir flew from her head to the ground.Well,more like stumbled.The fierce and furocious bird,was so clutzy. Gir pecked at Zim's tail and Tiffany pulled him away .Zim didn't even seem to notice. Gir turned,but instead of directing hi attention toward Tiffany,he,too,was looking at the figure next to her..

Tiffany blinked and nudged the bird.She glanced over to see a girl.It was hard to tell how old the girl was,or even who she was.Tiffany had never seen her before and ages varied.First years tended to be sixteen and seventeen these days.Maybe it was because they had left Hogwarts and come back as first years. Or because they started late? Tiffany could never tell.She was short anyway. Which meant that she probably still looked like a first year. People even thought that she was. She usually laid low,so not many people knew her.If they paid attention,they could tell that she had been there all along.But nobody paid attention to little Tiffy.

The girl murmured something,pulling Tiffany slowly away from her thoughts. Tiffany glanced over at the girl again and nodded.Yes. Yes,it was a gorgeous night. Nighttime stars in the sky.The shimmering lake.Not many people up and about.Well,none seen anyway. Tiffany could hear them,smell them,feel them,a mile away. it was quite anoying actually. Listening to everyone's secrets and conversations. Like the little preppy girls. All they seemed to talk about were the hot guys and...lip gloss. Ugh. Tiffany scratched her head at the thought of it. And her mother was trying to send her to Beauxbatons! She didn't even want to imagine what the little twirl girls were like there.Tiffany shuddered.

She looked over at Zim-who was making his way over to the edge of the water.Just like the last time,when the boy was here.It made her so uneasy to see the cat that her father had given her at the egde of the water like that. Think about what would happen if he had fallen in! Oh,that wouldn't be too pretty.Tiffany was just a bit overprotective of the cat. Tiffany pulled the little kitten back. He was just trying to kill himself.Tiffany sighed.There was a really awkward silence.Awkwrad silences were....awkward.Tiffany wasn't too good at introducing herself or starting conversations,but she felt that she could try tonight.At least the girl wasn't trying to push her in while she wasn't looking.Or was she?

"Er...I'm..."Who was she,again? She never got to introduce herself often,so this was like trying a new food or something."...Tiffany Sparxx...What's your name..?"Great.Even when she was more alive at night,she still had to talk like some idiot with speech problems. Bleh. Tiffany felt like drowning herself. She pulled Zim-who was making his way over to the edge of the pier again-back into her lap.Tiffany looked over at the girl next to her.

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