Author's note:

Hi! Alright, as you know from the summary, this story is when Sarah visited the Labyrinth a few years before she had to rescue Toby. And I decided to have some fun with it and made each chapter, except for this chapter, have a reason why thing in the originally Labyrinth are like that. Like, for example, why the land of the Labyrinth is called the Underground (I know it's from the song, but like I said, I wanted to have fun with it). So, that's all I wanted to say, sorry for the annoying notice.

Oh, and I don't own Labyrinth nor any of the characters which came from it. The one you don't know are mine.

~mpenguin

Chapter One: Wishes Never Come True

Sitting on the floor of her room with her back leaning against her bed, Sarah tried to read her book but her attention kept focusing on her mother's and father's voices from the floor below. How she wished that the heavy rain that rapped itself against her bedroom window would slam even harder against it to drown out their fight. It's been too long, too long since they started this fight. Normally they would have stopped by now, or at least her mother would have barged out of the house in an angry fit.

Closing her eyes and leaning her head back, Sarah's mind wander back to the conversations she had stumbled upon. Could her mother really be cheating on dad? Though, not complete understanding what this "cheating" meant, Sarah assumed it wasn't good since all the adults were talking about it in hushed voices and every time someone looked at her, there was always a trace of pity in their eyes.

If her parents fighting and all the adults talking about it wasn't bad enough, there was also the fact that kids in her own grade were talking about it. So, along with the constant snickers and teasing that Sarah had grown so use to over the past five years of her schooling life, she now had to deal with the constant chatter of her mom behind her back as well.

Where was my best friend when I needed him the most? Sarah could help but think miserably about Noah, her best friend who moved away right after the end of the last school year. They did everything together; were always in the same classes, loved and read the same types of books, liked the same games, loved to play pretend that they were adventurers, and no matter what, they always had each other's back. If it wasn't bad enough having the first summer without Noah to play wizard and witch with outside in the woods, it was a totally nightmare to not have him around to protect her from all the punches and to reassure her that everything will be alright.

A sudden bang went off below her, causing Sarah to flinch out of her thoughts. She listened and without much surprise, heard a car engine roar to life a few moments later. Sarah sat frozen, listening as it drove away, leaving a suddenly chilling hair-raising silence after an hour of constant yelling.

After a moment of just sitting in the silence, getting her mind back together, Sarah looked down at the finally few sentences of her book and read:

And so Claire looked back at her family and friends smiling faces and knew the answer. Looking at the face of the genie she said, "I thank you for everything you've done for me, I do appreciated it will all my heart, but I belong back at home where my family and friends are."

"You would give up a life of royalty for them?" The genie asked astounded.

Claire smiled and just nodded her head.

With a shrugged the genie just said, "Alright, make your wish"

"I wish." Claire said with a grin, "To be home."

The book smacked itself against the wall and fell back on the floor with a sickening crash. Sarah stared at the book, angry at it, at herself, at her parents, at the adults, at her classmates, even at Noah.

It's not fair! Sarah screamed in her head, why is everything going so wrong? What did I do to deserve this? I wish Noah would come back, I wish my parents would just make up, I wish no one would fight anymore, I wish the kids wouldn't pick on me anymore, I wish….

Oh grow up Sarah. A voice snapped in her head, Wishes never come true, only in books and fairytales. You should know that. There is never going to be a fairy godmother, never a star that is going to grant your wish, never a genie nor a crystal ball. Wishes just don't come true. So just grow up and face the truth.

And just then the rain started to beat harder against her bedroom window to hide the sound of her sobs and tears as they fell to the ground.