So this is my new series. It's based off the incredible book trilogy "Life as We Knew It". I'm seriously not trying (and especially don't know how) to copy the book. I'm just twisting it to WOWP style. Yeah...

This is basically just the beginning or the prologue I guess you could say. Yeah.

Sorry for any grammatical errors; I did this at 3:00 in the morning. Enjoy! ; )

Wednesday, May 18

The night my life changed drastically forever, I was stealing a cherry from a customer's shirley temple. Some people say it's so hard, when all I had to do was tap on the customer's shoulder and quickly pick that cherry out of their drink from the opposite end. I walked toward the counter and giggled to myself.

I thought, Easy as pie. Let's make it cherry pie! I snickered at my own pun. I sat down on a bar stool and picked off the fruit from the stem, enjoying the sweet taste.

I looked out of one of the windows leading out to Waverly Place. A group of friends were blowing kazoos and were shaking those loud noise makers. A girl in the group was carrying a flask which I'm guessing wasn't hot cocoa. The group skipped, arm in arm, across to the other side of the street laughing.

I sighed thinking about how I was having to stay in the whole night with my two, dorky brothers while our parents are taking a trip to the Statue of Liberty to watch the big event. According to NASA and other big science industries, there was supposed to be an asteroid crashing into the moon that night. Earlier, I had gotten bored after the first 45 seconds of watching it on T.V. and changed it to Friends. People were celebrating the memorable occasion everywhere else besides the subshop, so it shouldn't of been that big of a job to handle.

"Alex," I heard a familiar voice call out.

I turned around and noticed my parents standing across the counter from where I was. "Yeah?"

"Justin's in the kitchen and Max's cleaning up the tables," Theresa started.

I rolled my eyes at the obvious statement.

She continued, "Your father and I are only going out for a few hours, so it shouldn't be that much trouble to handle. Besides, it's a slow day today. Do you think you can handle yourself?"

I dramatically got up from the stool and said, "Yes, Mom. And I won't cause any trouble to my brothers or any other living being as long as you guys are out." I could basically recite the damn thing; I'd done it enough times.

My mother grimaced. "I'm just worried about tonight. I'm thinking there'll be a lot of drinking and chaos going on around here, and I just want you to be safe, Mija."

I was about to reply just as Justin walked out of the kitchen. He had been listening in on the conversation and stated, "I doubt anything will happen. You know, NASA's not always right. Besides, even if an asteroid does hit the moon, it'll probably just create another non-noticeable crater."

I plucked the stem into my mouth and began to try to knot it. I stated, "Well, if it's just like one of those other lame eclipses that you can never see because of the dang clouds, I'm not gonna stick around waiting for something to not happen."

My mom shook her head. "Well, you kids will be alright, right? I promise, we'll only be gone a few hours," she repeated again.

I sighed. "We'll be fine, Mom! You and Dad enjoy whatever you guys are going to do in a big green statue." I continued to work my tongue with the stem.

Dad cut in, "Justin, keep them occupied please. Don't let Alex leave the house or Max... Just keep an eye on them, alright?"

Justin crossed his arms. "Dad, we'll be fine. You and Mom have fun."

They agreed and walked out of the shop.

I turned towards Justin with a wide smile plastered on my face. "Hey, Justin. I have an early birthday present for you."

He smirked and said, "Yeah, right. You didn't buy me a new dog did you?" He contemplated for a moment and asked, "I still miss Dragon. It still haunts me how he mysteriously ran away." He looked up to a certain spot in the ceiling with a thoughtful expression.

I looked up also but noticed nothing. I looked at him again and said, "No, nothing that breathes fire." I grabbed his hands and placed them out in front of him. "Here, close your eyes for a sec."

He looked at me strangely before giving in. He closed his eyes, and I spat out my tied cherry stem.

He winked one eye open and looked down at his hands. His expression was horrifyed as he pulled his hands away quickly and stated, "Alex! That's disgusting!"

I smiled deviously and skipped into the kitchen to chug some sugar.

It's 9:30, and all that's on T.V. are special newscasts on the asteroid that may or may not hit the moon tonight. Even in my desperate time of trying to find something entertaining to watch besides old dudes talking scientifically like Justin does in his sleep, I turn it on to Disney Channel. What was playing was 'Wish Upon a Shooting Star' marathon.

Harper was at a clogging convention in New Jersey with Zeke again, so she wouldn't be home until later the next day.

I sighed and turned off the T.V. all together. If I listened close enough, I could hear shouting and laughing outside on the terrace where Max and Justin were. They gasped, and I could practically hear Justin scribbling down notes into his composition book. I decided to go see what all the excitement was and got up to head to the terrace.

I grabbed a blanket from the couch and walked outside to the terrace and looked up at the sky to see the moon in its orignial shape and form. I rolled my eyes and said, "Justin, Max, you guys are seriously wasting your time watching absolutely nothing happen."

Justin planted his eye into his telescope and scribbled some more into his book. He looked up at me and stated matter-of-factly, "Actually, Alex, based on my prediction and the weather lady from channel nine's forecast, there will be an astroid heading into the path of the moon in precisely -" He glanced at his watch. "- One minute."

I sat down in a picnic chair next to Max and wrapped myself up in the blanket I had brought and stared at my surroundings. At every other balcony or terrace surrounding Waverly Place, every single family was out htere watching the sky, waiting indefintely for a so-called asteroid to hit the moon. Some people were standing on the roof just to see this thing, where some were burning a few burgers and hotdogs while the sky stood still. I rolled my eyes at the ignorance at all these people but still watched the sky in case some type of miracle happened. It was as if there was some type of mutual silence that had spread all over.

Justin suddenly gasped and said, "Alex, Max! Look!" He points towards the right as if we couldn't already see it. He pressed his eye again to his telescope and stared intently out of it. Flying fast across the stars was one of the biggest things we've seen in the sky besides the obvious moon and sun. It looked as if there were flames blazing onto the back of it.

For a quick second, I thought of all the famous astrologists who had thought that all of the stars in the sky were the most amazing and spectacular thing there was to be discovered. But this was totally unbelieveable. The way it shot across the sky was so much more exciting than noticing the sign Cancer plastered into the stars.

It was as if every breathe had been sucked in when it hit. It was sad, because it was our moon. It's something you don't notice every night, but you know it's there. It's comforting and safe. When you see it get attacked, you begin to feel violated as if it had just smacked you.

I was brought of my state of mind when everyone around started to cheer and clap. They were all looking up at the sky to capture the moment. But all of the sudden, I heard a scream. It made all of the hairs on my arm stand up. A few more shrieks followed. Justin backed away from his telescope and looked up at the stars with a scared expression. I frowned and also looked up. My stomach sunk to the ground as I noticed the moon was gradually expanding in size. Maybe it wasn't expanding, but it was definitely coming closer. Without a telescope, you could see the rough craters sunken in deep. It was way too big and way too visible than it should've been.

All of the reporters that had been broadcasting had definitely not predicted this. Even if they had, they would have definitely not believed it would happen. My mind escaped to tomorrow's news as they would tell the story of how the moon had increased in size as if it had been a trick played in Bruce Almighty.

It wasn't as if someone had flicked a pencil to make it spin around in circles. You definitely couldn't hear the defeating and inevitable crash of the asteroid hitting the moon. It was as if someone had poked it towards Earth. A lot closer to Earth.

Justin grimaced and mumbled out loud, "I did not predict this! This is not good! This is definitely not good at all!"

Max asked hesitantly, "Is it gonna crash into Earth?"

I gasped as the realization washed over me. I grabbed my stomach and winced.

Justin ran his fingers through his hair and stated firmly, "No. It can't. Logic can't be this predictable to create such a massive inevitable, phenomenon you're inferring. It wouldn't plague upon this crucial an utter disaster we would have to contemplate with." He then began to mumble random variables and numbers while pacing back and forth.

I frowned. "What are you talking about, Justin?" I tried to be sensible. "This is totally just a joke, right? Nothing serious is going to happen." I tried to sink this theory into my brain.

Justin turned his head and glared at me. "You think this is a joke? Alex, if it was a joke, every major science industry universal would have to be sick and delusional. This is not a joke." He thought and added, "This couldn't even be played as a joke. Impossible."

I frowned again. Suddenly I thought, "Should we call mom and dad? Do you think they're alright?"

He just continued to pace and look up at the ginormous white piece of space. Totally ignoring my question.

"Justin, answer me!" I yelled. "Are we going to okay?"

He looked towards me and stated ominously, "I don't know."

I stared wide-eyes at him. "What do you mean you 'don't know'? Aren't you supposed to know this stuff?"

He glared again. "Alex, I've just graduated from high school. An eighteen-year-old can't predict everything even if they want to."

I rolled my eyes. "You have to know at least something, right?"

He suddenly looked away for a moment. Without warning, he raced back inside.

Max and I traded glances and got up to run after him.

Once we had run up the stairs after him to his room, we noticed him with his wand in his hand in a ready position.

"What are you doing?" I heaved. For a nerd, he could surely run fast.

He didn't answer but mumbled quietly under his breathe. He flicked his wand, and a dim light glowed from the tip. Instead of creating a spell, it just shrunk back down into the wand. Justin cursed and threw his wand onto the bed.

I asked quietly in confusion, "What just happened?"

Justin started to pace back and forth again across the floor. He occasionally ran his fingers through his dark hair as we waited for an answer.

I tapped my foot a few times becoming annyoed. "Justin! Answer me? What spell did you use, and why didn't it work?"

He stopped pacing, his hand in mid-air. He sighed and confessed, "I don't have my powers. I'm guessing you guys don't either."

My mouth dropped to the floor. I glared. "You're lying. Is this some type of sick joke? Of course we have our powers!"

His face became sympathetic. "Alex -" But before he could say more, I ran out of the room towards mine and grabbed my wand from the dresser.

I gripped it tightly and muttered a quick spell. Just like a few moments ago with Justin's, a dim likght glowed from the tip. My hopes began to rise until the light vansihed all together. My mind just about blanked as I tried another spell and another and another with the light dissapearing suddenly. I took a deep breathe and walked back into Justin's room where he was explaining something to Max on the bed.

I placed my hands on my hips and stated, "So why aren't our powers working?"

He looked up, and I could tell he was becoming stressed. He sighed and stated, "With the moon diversed and forced into another moving object's force -"

I held up my hand. "Justin, speak English, please."

He growled and started again, "Because the moon has been pushed farther into the Earth's magnetic field, our powers are totally reversed, meaning that... well, we don't and won't have any powers until this disruption gets resolved."

"Are you sure? It's not just temporary, or the dragon's haven't just been let out again?"

Justin sighed for the millionth time again. "They might've been let out, but it wouldn't change the fact that the moon has moved an increasingly amount of size towards Earth which is the main reason why our powers are out."

I sat on the edge of the bed and asked, "So what are we going to do?

"Wait for mom and dad to get home I guess. They'd know what do."

Little did we know, our parents would never come home.

Did it suck? Majorly?

If it did, sorry.

If you liked it, I've been wanting to make this into a story for awhile and just decided to give it a hit. I don't know how often I'll update, so don't excpect much.

Please review! ; )