Prologue

"Jenn? How the hell, do you do that?"

"What?" I ask.

"Do better… than… everyone else in the class? All you do is, well, nothing!" questioned Lily someone who claims to be my best friend. To this I replied a mere;

"I don't know."

And the conversation was left at that, as she shook her head and we returned to go through our tests. This question bugged me, although, being me, I made sure not to show it. The thing was that, she claimed to know me so well and yet she really didn't; she just saw what everybody else did; a 'trouble maker' or 'a bit of fun' never a person who actually would love to have a proper conversation about something meaningful. I let out a small sigh and distracted myself with comparing results.

Me and Lily, along with my other friend Amy, whose bright, blonde frizzy hair that everyone seemed to love, shined in the sun. We headed out from Maths to the playfield where all the other year 11s hung out. It was near the ending of the school year and so it was summer and the blazing hot sun was almost boiling us alive in our black uniforms. We sat under a tree, away from all the pestering idiots around and I turned to Lily.

"Have you ever… like, just wanted to go on an adventure? To just pack up one day and leave without even saying anything?" I asked.

"Well to be honest I think everybody must feel like that at one point in their lives." replied Lily.

Amy nodded in agreement. "I know I have." Amy admitted. "Isn't that a bit random? The question, that is." she teased but actually seemed curious as to why I asked that.

"Meh, I'm just a bit bored and it normally starts quite an interesting conversation, like whenever people discuss their dreams."

"Speaking of dreams, I had the most random one last night…" Lily started. As much as this did start an interesting conversation for the rest of lunch, I was a bit annoyed that my original question was almost completely ignored, well no matter. Lunch had now ended and it was time to go back into the prison (which is also known as the classroom).

xXx

Returning home I met up with my younger sister Emily who informed me that Mum had gone to my nans house (which was about an hour and a half away, so even if I wanted to I couldn't go and see her) to help to sort out her aunts funeral. Being alone just me and Emily in the house; naturally she started annoying me, but soon she got bored and tried to start a conversation with me.

"You know the other day, I was thinking that dad could have just left us since he's not even married to mum. He's good for not doing that isn't he?"

"Yeah" I replied with my nose in my book, I did take in what she said though and when she left my room; giving up trying to entertain herself, I pondered on what she said. Geesh! If dad had left us I would be a completely different person, maybe even dead by now (since he did save me from getting run over by a car when I was little). You never know! Anyways I should take my mind off all this, I should really be concentrating on school work. God that that sounds nerdy!

It was nearing eleven at night and knowing mum wouldn't be back until tomorrow at the earliest, I decided to go out for a stroll. I lived in the country side and I truly preferred it from the busy and noisy streets of London or any town or city for that matter. And to me the countryside was even more beautiful outside at night, with the stars shining, the moonlight lighting the way, and the silence. It all gave me a kind of inner peace. I walked through a cornfield, towards the cricket pitch and I pulled out my phone and checked the time: 11:15pm. Huh I've already been walking quite a while! I put my headphones in and listened to one of my favourite music bands of all time: Imagine Dragons. As their music filled my ears I heard a loud snap! My head immediately darted round behind me as I took my headphones out to listen carefully. Nothing. I looked down and discovered it was just myself that caused the noise, seeing a snapped twig under my feet. Placing my headphones back in I neared the edge of the cornfield which lead to the cricket pitch. Climbing over a crumbling wall I crept over to a nearby football goal and laid down on the back of the net so I could look up at the stars.

As I laid back I felt something in the back pocket of my skinny jeans, I pulled it out and it revealed to be a penknife. Its blade is bigger than most and could do some real damage to flesh. I remembered I had put it in there the other day when out helping my friend with one of their 'projects'. I placed it back and continued looking up at the ebony sky. I paused my music and took in the atmosphere of the night. Weird… Although today hasn't actually been an eventful one, my mind for some reason has been triggered to think about a great many things today; my father, myself, my 'friends' all sorts of possibilities and to be honest how extremely boring life is in this current era. I mean sure we have mind blowing technology compared to fifty years ago but because of our advanced technology it's made it harder to discover anything new, because we already have discovered so much. At least one hundred years ago or so there was still so much wonder and things to learn about our world. I sighed. Oh well, it doesn't matter that much I guess. I do babble on to myself in my thoughts don't I?

I checked the time again on my phone 11:58pm. Wow. Time half does fly by! 11:59pm. Maybe I should head back. I looked up at the full moon one more time and noticed a shooting star fly across the sky. Hmm a shooting star, suppose I better make a wish. Fuck It. I wish to go on an adventure! I looked down at my phone it had just turned Midnight. In that moment it was so quiet I could swear I could hear the blood running through my veins. I stood up. Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew me back down to the ground and a light shot out from one small point in front of me. It turned into a floating spiral of light in the air and I sat there gobsmacked…

I rose up off the ground and took a step towards it. NO! FREAKING! WAY! Can this be a portal or some shit like that!? I picked up a little stone on the floor and chucked it towards the light. Silence. Well that sure didn't come out the other side. I spun on my heels and looked around for a stick, soon I found one, picked it up and put it half way into the never ending spiral of light. I pulled it back. Nothing had happened to it. It doesn't seem to cause harm to anything, well at least inanimate objects that is… I slowly reached my hand out and my fingertips came mere millimetres away from it, the light seemed to attach itself to my hand a bit like when water does when you slowly take your hand out from underneath water. Cool! The next thing I knew; I was yanked forward by an over powering force! I felt as if I was falling a million miles downwards… and there I was, flat on my face on a solid, cold, marble floor. Oh Fuck! Where am I?