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Ever since they were five they've been adressed as Carmen and Shane. The best of friends in Grand Central. Carmen was the wild child out of her family. She was lady like, but also liked to play. Shane had two big sisters and a cat. They lived in the most expensive and tallest builing in Grand Central on 86th street. His parents were both writers and hardly had time with him at all. Mostly he and Carmen played withed his sitter, Diego. Personaly, Shane thought at seven he didn't need a sitter. But Diego was cool to him.
"I talked to my mom yesterday," Shane said to Carmen as they walked on the New York side walk. "Well...what happened?" Carmen asked licking her stolen icee. Shane shrugged, "The usual. Basically big words I don't know. Some times, I think they make 'em up. Who knows? More importantly who cares." Carmen dropped her icee in the trash. "You need a vamacation," she said licking her sticky fingers. "A what?"
"A vamacation. That's when you leave your daily things, to new stuff. Like now you have Diego following you every where so he HAS to come. Bringing anyone else?" Carmen asked hopefully. Shane shrugged, "Not that I know of." Carmen sighed. Shane thaught, "Wait, do you want to come?" Carmen's face lit up, "Yeah! I can tell my mom, and we can go sleep in Central Park!" Shane stopped at a street crossing, "I can't wait!" Carmen looked at her red converse. The laces dangling to the sides.
"Uh, Shane, can you tie shoes?" Shane nodded, "Why, don't you?" Carmen blushed, "Of course I do. But can you show me...how you...tie yours? Yeah! Because I was just wondering." Shane rolled his eyes, "Sure Carmen." He knelt down and started to tie. "Shane, it's gonna rain. The sky is really grey," Carmen gasped. Shane glanced up at the sky, " What do you expect? It's been hot since Monday." A clap of thunder went threw the Earth. "Aaaaaa!" Shane and Carmen yelled in startlement.
"Wow!" Carmen sighed. Shane gave Carmen her rain jacket. "Thanks, " she said putting it on. Shane zipped up his, "No problem dude." Carmen put her brown braid outside the hoody, "Good thing you hang on to these jackets." Thhey started walking back up the hill to go home. "Hey Shane," Carmen whispered. "Why are you whispering?" he asked. Carmen shrugged and continued. " Do you think there's something out there? Not Aliens, but some sort of... magic." Shane was officially confused, "Magic? Like pixie dust?"Carmen felt a drop of rain on her head. "No, a certain type of magic. Like only magic we can make sense of...a SECRET magic!"
Just then the rain poured. "Aaaaaa!" they screammed. They started running uphill. "It's cold drops! Cold drops!" Shane yelled. Carmen's hair came out the braid and turned into wet strands of hair. " I hate thunder storms!" Carmen yelled over the rain. CRRRRRRAACKK!!!! "Aaaaaa!" They screammed. They started running again. Carmen's shoe untied and she tripped onto the wet concrete. "Shane!" she cried. Shane looked back at Carmen holding her knee. He ran back, "You okay?" Carmen shook her head, "It stings!" He thaught for a second, "Uh... Get on my back!" She climbed on slowly and they were off again.
From a roof top, a pair of yellow eyes stared at them run. " Yes Shane, run. Run all you want. But when the time is right, I will have to kill you before you realize your true power. Maybe even worse. Maybe even Carmen. But I must wait until you age a little more. The longer the time, the more your relationship will change," said the deamon staring at them in the storm. His black wings spread and he flew off into the sky. Leaving only a single...black feather.



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