Prologue
The Beginning of It All
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Allison's POV
"Okay, that's it." I announced, logging off the computer and plucking the flash drive up from the wooden table.
"Woo-hoo," Lily said, standing up out of her spinning chair and popping her back.
"All we have to do is turn this sucker in and we're done." I stated as I pocketed the tiny piece of machinery that held our entire semester grade on it.
"Free at last!" Lily exclaimed, picking up her checkered blue and green bag.
"Yeah, man I hate Biology." I said, opening the computer lab door for my best friend. She walked through it adjusting the black glasses on her nose. They weren't fake at all, I tried them on one time and I literally walked into a wall, yeah, Lily's that blind.
"Preaching to the choir." I let go of the door and caught up to her easily, what with me being 6'0 and having crazy long legs.
"I mean, we need it to get our degree, right?" I asked. Lily nodded as her one inch heels hit the cold tiled floors.
Lily knew I was getting into a rant, but she didn't stop me. I was the hothead in this relationship, I would cuss people out, get in trouble more often… I basically had a badass personality. Lily was the opposite, she was the sweet little girl who went to church four times a week, didn't steal anything, and didn't cuss. I'm serious. Even if Lily was mad (which is a freakin' blue moon if it occurs) and she would be ranting about something, when she came to a bad word she would stop and then half a second later I would swoop in with an F-bomb or whatever was appropriate for that particular situation.
But the weirdest thing was that we weren't like this around other people. When we were in a group of three or more people it was like we took on different personalities: Lily became the outspoken and helpful one who wanted to know everyone's thoughts on something; however I would be leaning against the wall, nodding to whatever the other people were saying, adding in little comments but not entirely participating in the conversation.
"Yeah, we need it for our degree, but why did we spend a whole month on the skeletal system? I mean, yeah, it's important but we're not even gonna use it on our job." Lily and I were both training to be Ophthalmologists at the University of Tennessee.
I was really shy when I transferred to UT two years ago, and I met Lily and her friends Marcy and Diane. Well, Lily actually stole my purse because she thought it was her friend's, so back then, when I was just radiating shyness and awkwardness, I said that that bag was my bag and took it back. I think I actually became her friend when I noticed her screensaver on her computer, it was Robbie Kay; I quickly asked if that was Peter Pan and Lily just looked at me and we started talking about the show. So, I suppose, I owe my friendship to Robbie Kay and his smoking hotness as Peter Pan in Once Upon A Time.
"Hey, what's that?" Lily asked, pulling me from my memories.
"What's what?" I questioned also, turning around to where she was pointing. It was Mr. Day's room, except light was pouring out from under the door and out the sides, like there was a tiny sun just behind the door.
We slowly edged forward toward the door, not sure what to do. I grabbed the door handle and twisted it slightly. It flung open by itself and bright white light poured out of it. With the light came an invisible force; it knocked me back a few steps and Lily fell to the floor. I looked back at her and saw her… flicker!?
Lily's form was flickering, like one moment her body would be there and the next it wouldn't. I looked down and saw that I was flickering also. We both turned towards the source of the light, it was now blinding. But through the light I could have sworn there was a figure there, just standing as if the light didn't affect them at all.
Then the light shut off, like a switch, and everything was black.