A/N:Ah,it's nice to be back and type for this section again after nearly 4 months after finishing You Can Count On Me.Now,remember how I set that particular one for the future.Well,here's the twist,were taking a swing in the past!That's right,were going all the way back to see how it all started and meet some new charators,who later became old charators,etc.Anyay!Going on,I will be making this to run through the life of Madame Foster's daugther and then her Grandaugther's past as well.As well as maybe some highlights of Mac's past also.But will see how Wilt,CooCoo,Ed and others came in.And,oh,I'm giving it all away!This starts out as Madame Foster when she was a little girl and the next chapter it goes into her being a bit older.You know,just how the formation of it all came into place.Well,here we go!

65 years ago...

A small girl ran through the brush of the outside,wooded area of her home in the small town of Climington Montana,where her family lived in a partly rural area at the edge of Climington.Although her family worked hard to get by,Laurice had other ideas.She was always off playing with the small animals in the woods or some of the other kids with thier Imaginary Friends.And that was her other love,besides her family and friends and animals,were the ever creative and imaginative Imaginary Friends she knew her friends could make;but she couldn't.

The little girl in question,Laurice Hyland,happened to be on her way to see a very speical friend that day and that friend turned out to be an old gray and white rabbit named Mr. Odd Hopp.Who she had been watching since only a few months ago,after she had rescued him from a Hunter's trap and nursed him back to health.She called him that,because everytime he hopped after she had pretty much helped him enough to almost fully recover,he had still had a small little limp in his hop.But she still longed for an Imaginary Friend.

Sure,she tried a lot of the time.But somehow the constant nagging of her parents always drove the young and cheerful six-year-old to concentrate on her chores as soon as she got home and with all the playing she did outside her strict family,there was much time to think either.Only when she was tucked away in bed for the night,did her mind allow thoughts of the wonderful sensation of being able to creature you're own Imaginary Friend surface.When that happened,all sorts of different ideas and inspirations came to her so rapidly,that she hated to let them go and drift off into the endless space of forgotten and discarded thoughts.But always,she never gave up hope that one day.One day she would create her own Friend and show everyone what it really meant to have one.Which in her family,had rarely ever happened.

But she didn't want to show off,oh no,far from it.She only wanted to share the joy she always felt when surrounded by creatures and people whom she loved.However,school would be starting soon and Laurice had to fast the fact that it was all fun and games in 1st grade.She should know,her 9-year-old Brother Joesph and 11-year-old sister Candace,ruled the fourth and sixth grade.

The next day:The first Morning of School...

"Ugh,"A familiar groan was heard exaggeratingly from across the table,"Look,"her sister pointed across the table,"She's doing it again."

"Doing what,dear?"thier Mother questioned them vaguely,without turning her head over her shoulder to see what the commotion was.

"Daydreaming."Joe chimed in boredly,"Like always,"he turned to look at Candace,"Remember when you use to sit there with a vacant stare every Morning when you were four,boy,how you got in trouble for always looking like you didn't care!"

"Oh shush,it was only til I was five."Candace aruged back coolly,grabbing her paper lunch bag off the table and fluffing up some of the loose gold curls starting to fall from her perm,as she started out the door but not before saying,"I'll eat at school,Mother.Bye."

Laurice shook her head and turned to her brother with widdened green eyes.She was always quiet and reserved in the Mornings,but any other time of the day when her Father was home from wood axing and her Mother was nearly finished with household tasks,she was expected to have a clear and crisp mind on her shoulder's almost all the time.Which was hard,but when she wasn't doing what she was told of,she was off doing things she wanted and loved to do.Joe only glanced at her breifly,before shrugging and starting to grab his lunch too,

"Hey,what can I say?"he told her earnestly,jumping off his seat and running towards the door after his sister,"When she's right;she's right."

Laurice didn't think about it much,as she combed her long,straight brown hair one more time and taking her lunch,scampered after her older siblings.She admired them for a lot of things,mostly because they seemed more older and knowledgable.But sometimes somthing inside of her held her back,made her wonder if they even cared about the things she liked,but then she just remindered herself that they were just different.Actaully,she was the different one sometimes.However,she had a lot of good friends and couldn't ask for more.

She took off down the dusty road,traveling not too fast,but just fast enough to get to the Bustop before the bus arrived.But as she neared,she noticed something behind her.It was Mr. Odd Hopp,running out of a tall thicket and into the long filed that seperated him from her.She was about to go after him,when she felt a feverish pull on the arm by Candace to get on the Bus.And the next thing she knew was,she was looking out of the back window and watching a thin red Fox lunge out at Mr. Odd Hopp.Who,except for his bad limp,managed to easily dodge it.But she sat back into the plushness of the tan bus seat,she knew that he was a goner for sure.

All that day she hadn't been able to concentrate on anything else besides Mr. Odd Hopp.The thought that the unspeakable had happened,almost made her want to burst into tears.No matter who it seemed offered to play with her,mostly her regular friends,and no matter who much the Teacher,Mrs. Henderson a hefty middle-aged woman,urged her to stop daydreaming and go play.Laurice kept her mind clear and undistracted by all the whirlwind of activity throughout the 1st Grade room.

By the end of the day,she wasn't in the least bit weary of thinking about Mr. Odd Hopp.Actutally,that's all she talked about all the way home on the bus to Joe and some of his friend's,who on and off agreed with her.Only when they came to a screeching hault in front of thier Bustop,did Joe bolt from his seat and make a frantic run for the house.At first Laurice thought it was her,but upon exiting the bus and getting a good look at her home.She realized something was wrong,things that belonged inside her home,were being taken out.

"Mom!"Laurice cried out tumultuously,dashing over to her yard sale-like home,where her Mother was busy looking at a map,"Mama,"she gasped breathlessly once she reached her,bending over to catch her breath,"What's...going...on.Why are...you moving things like this?"

Louis Hyland was the example of blank and charaterless,but when she had to be,she was stricter then even her Husband.But as she looked down and into her youngest Daugther's confused and frightened eyes,she only sighed ambivalently and shook her head slowly,as she continued to observe the marks on the map.But,rolling her eyes skyward a bit,she looked back down at Laurice and explained roughly,

"Look,I know it's sort of spur-of-the-moment,"she said reluctantly and then more understandingly,"Were moving to New York,I'm sorry."

But before Laurice could inquire her why,she strided over to one of the Mover's to question him about something rather troubling on the Map.Thinking for a moment,Laurice realized that New York was some miles away and the only time her parents had ever mentioned Moving,was maybe in a few years after Candace started High School.And when Laurice had brought up the fact that she wondered if they'd move back after that,her Father only chuckled and said that if she could rent of Jet car and could drive,then he would see about it.

"Joe,"she blurted out to him as he came marching passed fuirously from where he had been talking with thier Father,"Are we really...?"

"Moving!"Joe finished for her tersely and then stomped up to the patio,"Yeah,Laur,"he told her in chocked words,"That's what it is alright."

She stepped back.frightened.Not being able to say or think anything,she couldn't for the first time in her life at the very moment.Everything she had come to know and love,would soon be left behind and never seen again as soon as she got in the car with her Family.With tears of sorrow and grief filling her emerald eyes,she fled to the woods without even looking back.Her small feet pounded the ground,as she stopped short a long log and grabbing it by it's roundness,she pulled herself up on it and sobbed hysterically.While other thoughts of never seeing any of her friends again hung tight in her mind,the image of what might haved happened to Mr. Odd Hopp remianed number One.

"Are you alright?"Came a careful and concerned voice,that somehow made Laurice feel like she had only dreamed it.

But as she sat up to rub her red and swollen eyes vigorously,she noticed someone was standing right in front of her.Thinking it was a person,she didn't think anything of it until her vision began to become unblurred by the Afternoon sun.However,as she tried to make the person inquestion more clearly,she noticed that he looked rather furry.Shaking her head,a clear image of the whoever it was before her came in perfectly and she saw with amazement growing in her eyes,that it was a giant Gray Rabbit with a monicle and black outfit.

"Yep!"She squeaked in surprise,dove behind the log and then peered up from the top,"You're...you're a Rabbit!You...you can't TALK!"

"Correction,young lady,"The tall and slightly perculiar Gray Rabbit cleared his throat and began to explain crisply,"I am an Imaginary Friend,yours in fact,"he scratched at his head in bewilderment and asked curiously,"Umm...is this some sort of game you're playing?"

"You're...you're an Imaginary 'Rabbit' Friend,"Laurice repeated catiously,as she climbed back on the log warily,"You're my Friend?"

"Without a doubt,"He continued alacritously,but then he noticed she had been crying and offering her his tissue,inquired her benovolently,"Why were you crying?It's a perfectly nice day out to be playing crowcay."

"My Family's moving."Laurice told him tearfully,more tears starting to slide down her cheeks,"And I can't do anything about it."

"Well,I'm probabley not the best at this,"He sighed wearily,but went on anyways,"But sometimes the changing of one's regular routine is a better thing then not.Change,my dear lady.Happens for reason and sometimes not even the most significant thing can hault it."

"I don't know what you just said,"Laurice giggled a little and hopped off the log,"But you sure made me feel better!What's you're name?"

"Well,um,I'm not sure."

Thinking for a moment,the sounds of a truck reviving and her name being called,made her jumpstart her mind and a name came flashing to her before she had time to think of any other.Turning to her new Friend,she took his hand and started off towards her Family,

"I think I'll call you..."she drawled on for a second and then smiled up at him at they went along,"How about,Mr. Harryman!"

He grimaced slightly,"Well,what about...Mr. Herrimen.More offical,you know?"

"Alright,"Laurice laughed gleefully and nodded in agreement,"Mr. Herrimen it is then."

Well,the next chapter will take place when she's around 10 or Eleven.While back-tracking on important details,but it should be pretty good once I get it going.Now,chapters may be long and drawn-out between the periods I update them.So be paitent!Thanks.ttylz!

LP