Chapter 14

I flung my school bag on the floor.
"I'm back!" I called to Mum, who was hoovering upstairs.
The hoover faded away slowly.
"Hi darling. Can you get a snack for Mitchell? He's been whining at me for hour." Mum begged from upstairs.
"Okay." I replied. "MITCHELL!" I shouted, just as Mum turned the hoover on again.
Thump. The sound of elephants running.
"Hi Kat. I'm starving." He smiled at me as he bounded into the kitchen, a Ben 10 action figure clasped in his hand.
I reached for the biscuit jar on the top shelf.
"Jaffa Cake or HobNob?" I asked, snatching a Jaffa Cake for myself.
He reached his sticky hand into the jar and pulled out a biscuit, then he skipped away.
I put the jar away, pulled off my blazer, and went into the garden.
I padded slowly to the Pool, and stood few metres away - gazing up at the towering cliff.
A chill wind whipped my hair, sending its fresh, shampooed smell a breath of fresh air to my senses.
I slowly pulled off my shoes and crept forwards to the Pool.
I could see the rippling waves of clear water brushing the edges, lapping the hard, stone sheet.
A rustle in the nearby headge sent goosepimples up my arms, but when I looked up it was only a Magpie flying in the wind.
I slowly dipped my foot in the icey water and watched it slowly turning white, then a mottled blue - ignoring the searing coldness that froze my limbs.
"Its you."
I spun around and gasped.
The boy with the dreadlock hair, from school, sat infront of the Pool, his eyes gliding cheekily across the crystal water.
He had his glass beads threaded on the ends of his hair, inside the fushia pink glass out-layer,mysterious liquid was floating around like a cloud lost in the sky.
He turned to me then, as I darted behind the ferns, and he smiled, his eyes fiery and dark, like a dusky night.
Then a dark and misty cloud surronded him, enveloping him, a sheet of sparkling silk....His eyes turned dark like an endless tunnel and his mouth opened in a painful O.
Suddenly he jumped.
Straight into the depths of the Pool.
And the water engulfed him, like he was merely a speck of dust and for a split second it turned murky black, but almost instantly, it regained its crystal clear.
Out of the water, came the Dreadlock boy.
Except........it wasn't the Dreadlock Boy.