20.11.2009

Chapter One

15 days before

On the 4th November 2009, a girl named Paige sent a message to her friend on MSN. The message was:

"NEW MOOOOOOOON"

Her friend closed the conversation and walked into the bath room and began to run the bath. She leant over the sink while it was running and accidentally pushed a bottle of moisturiser into the bath. She swore and put the bottle back on the side. As she climbed into the bath she felt the warm water on her cold skin. Suddenly the warmth was gone. She looked down. The pool of water that was originally there was gone. She stood up, utterly confused. As she lifted herself she felt her feet slip on the thick layer of moisturiser coating the bottom of the bath. Her knees buckled and her shins hit the side of the bath with a deafening crack. She screamed in agony. Her whole body toppled and she hit her head on the corner of the sink. She screamed again. She breathed again. Her breathing slowed. Her breathing stopped.

***

Today. Paige's thoughts filled with this word. Her decision needed to be made. She had to chose where her loyalties lied. She carefully pulled herself out of her new moon bed covers. Her phone flashed up with 3 texts. All saying the same thing. "Are you coming?"

She couldn't. She couldn't face leaving new moon for her friend's funeral. It sounded horrible. The thought of it. How could she ever read new moon again?

"Paige!" Her mother called "Are you ready for the funeral?"

"I'm not going mum!"
"What! Paige you are going! How could you not!" Her mother's surprised voice echoed in Paige's head.

"New Moon mum. Don't you know the date?"

"Are you joking?"

"DO I SOUND LIKE I'M JOKING!" Paige felt her temper leave her.

Paige heard her mother's footsteps leave the house, slamming the door angrily.

Paige sent a group text to them all say: "No. New Moon. I can't believe you aren't coming with me."

Paige dressed in her "Obsessive Cullen Disorder" top. And grabbed her scooter.

She was 5 hours early but she didn't care. She sat there while the staff gave her weird looks. At last 7:40pm arrived.

Paige rose and ran the screen. She sat in the middle of the 6 seats she originally had, with people giving her even more weird looks.

The opening credits began to role. Paige's heart was beating more and more. Then she felt flushed. "NEW MOON" came up in big letters on the screen and Paige felt herself fall of the chair. The last thing she saw was the screen explode.