{dream} (thoughts) [narration]
{What-what is that? Why is there a book here? Wait, come back!} After that interesting dream, I wakes up to find myself on the floor. "I guess I must have fallen out of bed." I start getting ready for school. [Hi, I'm Hana Li. I'm 16 and I go to school at Ayaka High School. I live with my mom, my dad, and my little sister Madeline. I have brown hair and purple eyes.] I go down to the kitchen, look in the fridge, and sigh. "Same lunch as yesterday, I guess" I turn around and say, "Hey, Maddy, what do you want for lunch?" My sister just shrugs and keeps staring outside. [That's Madeline. She has brown hair and brown eyes like our dad. She doesn't talk too often. She has these 'special abilities'. Basically, she can sense ghosts and spirits.] Madeline turns and, with a serious look on her face, stares at the ceiling. "Maddy, is there something up there?"
"Strange." I get up and goes upstairs. I check in all of the rooms but don't see anything. I started to feel weird when I walked into my room but ignored it and walked out.
I come down the stairs looking confused. "I didn't find anything when I went up there. Are you sure you sensed something?"
"It's gone now." She looks over at the clock. "You are going to be late."
"Oh my gosh, I need to hurry."
"Do you have something for lunch?"
I turn and look at Madeline. I look sheepish and say, "The same one I had yesterday. Don't tell mom or dad, okay?" Maddy nods and I run out the door. (I really can't be late. This is a really bad habit) I put on my helmet, jump on my skateboard, and skate off to school. [This is Ayaka City. It's very close to Tokyo.]
"Hey, Hana! Come on, slowpoke, do we have to do this everyday?" She waves over to Hana.
"Hey, Miki!" [That's my friend Miki. She has pink hair and blue eyes. She's really energetic, but sometimes she tends to space out. She is a really good-hearted person] I skate up to Miki. "You know I try to get ready as fast as I can. Don't be so mean!"
She laughs. "If that is your fastest, I would hate to see you go slow. So, did you at least have a good dream?" She just keeps laughing at me.
"Actually, no. It was really strange. I was standing there surrounded by cherry blossoms. I couldn't see anything except flowers. All of a sudden I saw this book. First it was a dark color, then it changed to pink and had a new symbol on it. Finally, it changed to red and had another new symbol on it. There were pages coming out of the book. They went everywhere, and I heard a voice. It said, ' You must fully accept the key to unlock it's full power.' After that I started falling, and I woke up. I think it means something." I look up and see that Miki is looking at me strangely. "A-anyways, I can't wait for PE. The teacher said that we are going to have swimming all of this week."
"Yeah, I heard that we might be getting a new student soon. I wonder if it's a boy or girl. If it's a guy, I hope he's cute." She laughs while I blush.
"Shh, don't say things like that so loud in front of the school." [This is Ayaka High School. It's really big. Sometimes I think I would get lost if I had to go around all of the school. I feel bad for the janitor.] We walk into our class. "Good morning, everybody!"
"Oh, hi, Hana. Good morning!" [This is Alice. She has black hair and hazel eyes. Her best friend is Cassandra. She has long, purple hair and green eyes. They are really different. Cassandra likes to dance, while Alice likes to sing.]
"Good morning, Hana! We are going to get a new student today! How exciting!"
The teacher comes in. "All right, everyone, take your seats, please." She starts looking through her lesson plans. "Today, we will be introducing ourselves to our newest student. Oh, he doesn't seem to be here yet. Well, you will see him when he gets here." I am looking out the window the entire time. What a great student I am. I see something purple run across the field. It distracts me so when I turned back the teacher is staring at me. "Thank you for joining us again, Mrs. Hana. Please pay more attention from now on." She turns back and writes something on the board. "As you should know, we will have swimming all this week for P.E." Everybody shouts. "Enough! I can easily cancel it if the need arrises. As I was saying, please make sure that you have everything on the list that I gave you last week."
Later that day, we all went to the pool for swimming. "Wow! Hana, you are a really good swimmer! Can you teach me?" Everybody starts crowding around the pool.
"You-you really think so? I mean, I'm not all that great." (This is really kind of embarrassing.) "Thanks you guys. I'm gonna take in a few more laps then I will hang out, okay?" [Actually, I just decided to because I don't like a lot of attention. Everybody ends up staring at me, and that brings back bad memories.]
A boy walks into the room. All of the students start talking. The teacher walks up to him. "It was nice of you to finally show up. Students, gather around." The students surround the teacher and the new guy.
I finish my lap, and I'm about to get out of the pool when I see a girl sitting on the ladder. "Excuse me, but what might your name be?"
"Hana Li. Is your hair colored blue? I would be careful if I were you. You could get in a lot of trouble for that."
"Do you like the water?" I nod my head. "Do you like swimming?" Again, I nod. "Would you like to race?"
"Sorry, but I was just getting-"
"Too bad, I like racing. Do you like whirlpools?" I shake my head. "Too bad, I like whirlpools."
"You're kind of creeping me out. Just who are you?"
"My name is Water, and if you won't race me, I'll just drown you in my whirlpools."
"Miki?" I turn to see Water has disappeared. "Uh, Mik-" All of a sudden a strong current pulls me under. I escape it for a second. "MIKI!" It pulls me back under the water.
Miki turns around hearing someone call her name. "Hana?" She looks around but doesn't see me. "Hana, where are you; this isn't funny." She still doesn't see me. She hears me scream her name and runs to the pool. She finally sees what's happening to me. I pull up again. "Grab onto the ladder!" The students crowd around the ladder now. It takes me a minute, but I finally get my hands on the ladder. I get as firm a grip as I can, but the whirlpool is pulling me even harder now.
"Grab onto my hand." I look up to see someone I've never seen before. He's really cute and he's extending his hand out to me. One of my hands slips from the ladder. "Just grab on." I shake my head. "I won't let you go, I promise." I look into his eyes to see if he's lying, but I don't believe he is. I let go to grab his hand, but it just barely misses, and I am drifting into darkness.