Chapter One: A Cold Sweat
I suddenly woke up and jumped forward in my seat. I was sweating all over, as if I had just woken up from a nightmare, but the thing is, I don't remember dreaming.
A strange girl who looked like she just woke up grabbed my arm and asked me if I was okay, I nodded and sat back, I told her to go back to sleep. She nodded and rested her head on my shoulder and closed her eyes. I moved away, and her head fell, she sprang back up and blurted, "Percy, what's wrong with you?"
Who is this Percy guy I wondered, but then I realized that it was me. "I don't know," I responded, "I don't know where I am, what I'm doing here, who you are, or even who I am!" I exclaimed.
"Percy, what do you…" she started, just to be cut off by a young lady who obviously was in charge here.
"What's the matter Mr. Jackson? Do you realize that in our time it is four in the morning?" She asked, drilling me with ice cold eyes.
Assuming she was referring to me, I replied, "Nothing Mrs. ….."
"Nodge!" she yelled loud enough so that a scruffy haired kid next to me woke up in a start. "new comers never get my name right," she muttered as she walked to the front of the.. I looked around, I didn't even know what this thing was.
"Where are we? What's going on?"
The scruffy haired kid spoke up and said, "We're on a plane coming back from our field trip in Alaska, how'd you forget? I mean, you didn't save Mel from drowning or anything."
A knot tightened in my stomach, something didn't seem right about what the scruffy haired kid just said. All I could say in response though was "I saved who?"
"Melanie, your girlfriend, the girl clinging to your arm"
"Shut up Bruce!" snapped the girl next to me who was apparently Mel.
"Just stating the truth." The Bruce kid replied.
"Jeez, Percy, why don't you try to sleep, maybe everything will come back to you in the morning." Mel suggested.
"Ya, that's a good Idea."
Mel kissed me on the forehead, was this normal? I asked myself. She layed her head on my shoulder and we both fell asleep.