Chapter 1

Just an Ordinary Day. Yeah Right!

She saw him standing there across the room, but she made no sudden movements to go talk to him, because 1. She was shy and she would just make a fool of herself 2. He's the most popular guy in school and 3. He doesn't even know she exists.

Backspace.

"If only life was easy" Visaa thought to herself. Every day was the same to her, no action, too much high school drama oh and no adventures. Yep, that's her life, boring.

'Visaa, have you done your homework yet? Can I see it?' her dad asked her,

'Oh, I'll show you in a few minutes dad.' She said with a fake smile while also laughing to herself on the inside "Shit, Shit, Shit, I'm gonna be so dead, I didn't do my work, oh well might as well get started" she thought to herself

*After 45 minutes of work and possible brain damage for being used to much*

'Finally, finished. Not my greatest work, but still work.' She said rubbing the back of her neck. Her dad laughed at her a little bit, he was like her best friend, they were so close, they even played war games together. Yep that's her dad.

'Alright Visaa, if you think that's good enough you can hand that in tomorrow, but does it have all the information in it?' he asked.

'Yes sir! In my own words sir!' she said pretending that she was a soldier or whatever.

'Good work soldier.' He said while ruffling her hair, 'Now off to bed, you need your rest.'

'Going' she said while jumping off her desk chair and tripping over the white couch clearly in front of her. She got back up dusted herself off turned around with a big smile and ran off.

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'Where the hell am i?' Visaa asked herself as she was in pitch black. After a few seconds of waiting for no answer or maybe a light she heard a deep growl come from behind her, she quickly turned around and found a piece of paper saying "You Lost The Game"

'What the fuck?' "What the hell is the game?.. Oh, shit" 'Yes random note, I did lose the game' she turned back around and saw a black wolf with a light brown crescent moon behind its left ear.

'Hey doggie, nice doggie, little ball of fur, warm doggie, soft doggie, grr grr grr' she finished, realising she just changed the words to a kids song "Ha look at that"

But the wolf didn't even take a step towards her, instead it wanted Visaa to follow it, reluctantly she agreed to follow the dog, taking cautious steps while following the dog, all of sudden her clumsiness came over her and she tripped on flat ground.

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With a startled jump she awoke from her dream, she turned over and looked at her clock 11:11:11 "Haha funny clock, might as well make a wish, see if it will work. I wish for." She lied in bed thinking of what her wish would be 'nothing' she said aloud to herself 'If I didn't wish for anything to get where I am, then I don't have to wish for anything at all.' She said while she fell into a deep slumber.

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Visaa's POV

'Visaa, wake-up you're going to be late for school its 7:30.' Mum said as she tried to wake me up, she turned on the light.

'ARGHH! My eyes! They burn!' I yelled which meant I was finally awake. "Getting up in the morning is so a pain in my ass."

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8:48am

'Keep. Riding. Visaa. Bitch. You. Can. Do. This!' I told myself, I didn't really care what people thought of me because there was no one around anyway.

9:00am

'Made it!' I congratulated myself whilst running for class. As I was running and half jumping up the stairs I knocked on the door out of breath, I needed to use the wall to help me to stand up. When the door opened I peered in and heard.

'You have to get a late note.' One of my classmates said, my response,

'Aww Fuck!' I said leaving a classroom laughing at my response.

*5 minutes later*

'What took you so long?' one of my closest friends Imogen asked,

'Bitch down at the office wrote down that I was fucking 5 minutes late, I was only 2 minutes late!'

'Language!' Marissa said while laughing

'Sorry mother.' I said laughing with them.

*At lunch*

Marissa, Imogen, John, Mitch and I walked to the basketball courts where we all hang-out at lunch and what-not. As we sat down we began talking about something, I wasn't even listening to what they were saying.

'I had the freakiest dream last night' Imogen started, 'I was getting chased by a guinea pig.' Awkward silence. 3, 2, 1, we all started to piss ourselves laughing.

'Imogen what did you have before you went to bed?' I asked amused of her "freaky dream"

'Umm' she started counting her fingers for some weird reason, she's a special child, 'Cake' she said with a cheeky grin.

'Haha no wonder' I said. The bell rang and we all got up and dusted ourselves off. Said our goodbyes and walked off to our electives.

While Marissa and I were in our dance class I felt the room start to shake 'What the hell?' I said aloud

'What?' Marissa said like she didn't even feel a thing before

'Didn't you feel that?' I asked her shocked, she shook her head in response "Hmm maybe it was just me" I thought to myself. A few minutes after I felt the room shake again, but instead of just me feeling it everyone else did, this was massive, I tried to stand but I couldn't, all the shaking was making me fall over and I couldn't get a proper balance. I heard Kalinda and Grace scream with all they got. I moved my eyes away from them and looked up, I could see that the lights on the metal polls were going to fall down. I had to do something I couldn't let the people in the way get hit.

'Guys! Get out of the way the lights are going to fall down!' I yelled across the room hoping that they would hear me. Thank the gods they did, they moved out just in time. It missed them by about an inch.

After all the shaking had stopped, it helped us by doing a lot of dusting. Bad news was, all of the dust was now in the air filling our nostrils with dirty oxygen, we were all coughing and trying to move the dust out of the way so we could breathe, thankfully during dance class we opened the windows.

I looked over to my right and saw the door, the entrance was clear so we could open the door and exit to find other people that were still alive, I'm not saying that there could be dead people.

'Is everyone alright?' I yelled out so they could hear me, I got noises and some yeses in response, I was happy no one was badly injured.

'Guys, the door is clear so we can get out safely' I told everyone. Then I started seeing figures from the other side of the room moving towards the door, I knew it was them. I myself headed towards the door but carefully in case something would fall down and it would start the whole shaking thing again.

When I finally reached the door I turned the knob and gasped at the sight before me. There were loose bricks on the ground, floors missing, shattered glass, flashing lights and people cowering in classrooms waiting for the "earthquake" to happen again.

'C'mon the stairs are broken so we can't go down them' I said with Marissa in tow, she followed hand over mouth gasping every 5 minutes at every new damaged object she sees. I couldn't stand to look at it all, but I had to find a way out of the building with out getting hurt, and also finding my friends.

As we passed through the double doors we saw both John and Mitch exit a class up a little flight of stairs.

'You two alright?' I asked

'Yeah we're fine, what about you?' John asked back 'Did anyone get hurt?'

'No, but there was a close call with the lights though.' I said, remembering the accident a few minutes ago. 'We have to find a way out of this building and find Imogen and others.' I said taking the role as leader. "Well if no one is going to take charge, I might as well. Marissa is too much of a softy, John makes fail battle strategies, Mitch won't be able to think of plan in time and Imogen, well she's not here, so it's up to me."

Looking over to the other side of the half wall I saw the large ramp that use to be sitting there fallen down, but only half of it though. The part that was closet to us was still in-tack and the other was down to the first floor. Walking over I placed one foot on the ramp to see if it was stable. Thank god it is. I quickly placed my other foot a bit behind me for balance so that I could slide down, as I reached the end I jumped off and landed softly on the ground. I turned around and looked up.

'Guys, it's safe to slide down, just do what I did and you'll be fine.' One by one they slide down, but Marissa was still left standing up there. 'Marissa what are you doing? Hurry up and get down, it's not that hard to do.' I told her.

Instead of sliding down with her feet like the rest of us did she sat down, place her butt on it and slid down it like a little slide. Once we were all on the first floor we started walking forward, and looking around at all the damage, turns out there was more ceiling not on the top, but on the ground. I turned left and saw the door to outside.

'Hey, looks like it won't be that hard to get out of here.' John said running up to the door, he tried pushing the door open, but it didn't work. 'I don't understand, it's meant to be pushed open, that's the only way you can open It.' he said confused.

As the rest of us approached the door we peered outside to see what was holding the door shut. The small width of roof had fallen down and it blocked both doors not just the one. "C'mon Visaa, think, there has got to be a way out of here, considering that this is the only way you can go." I looked around to see if there was anything we could do. There was, I saw another door to a little playground to a gate outside and in-tack stairs leading up to the second floor.

'OK, there are three options' I said starting my plan, '1. this door here, we can find a way to get out of it. Option number 2. The other door over there to the special children playground, that door we can open but we need a key to open the 4 metre tall steel bar gate. Option number 3. We can go back up the stairs that lead to the second floor, go through the building to the other side and find a way to get down without getting injured.' I said happy with my plans. I looked at them, each one thinking of which option to take, I mean it's their minds I'll go along with any plan that they think is good.

'I think we should try number 3. What do you think?' Marissa said, I got a nod from John, but still waiting for Mitch, 'I mean we need to find a way out of this building into the courtyard and get into the TAZ building to get others, and I think that's the plan we should take.'

'Hmm, I don't really know, how about you and John go and try that plan and Visaa and I will try the gate. Sound good?' Mitch asked reasoning with Marissa. She thought about this for a while until she came to a,

'OK, meet you in an hour.' She said while her and John ran up the stairs.

'I'm actually going to try plan 1, but you can do number two, it won't be that hard.' I said while heading for the door to the courtyard. I looked out of the window.

'OK.' He said and disappeared to the staffroom where they kept the stuff which was actually quite close to the door I was at. I looked around the room again "OK think, think. Door, roof, inside, ramp, rocks and gate… wait back-track. Put two and two together. The window of the door gets smashed open by one of the rocks hard enough, I'll be able to jump out of it and into the yard!"

I looked around to find a big enough rock, I couldn't find any the perfect size that I wanted but I did find and large rock and a small rock. "Good, I'll be able to use that"

I used all my might to life the large, did I mention heavy, rock up and spun around twice until I let it go, as it was flying through the air it smashed the second window and fell out the others side. A little bit behind me was the small rock. I picked that up and started hitting all the little pieces out of the way.

'What are you doing?' Mitch asked as he came out of the staffroom from the noise it made.

'I'm making a pizza. What does it look like I'm doing?' I said continuing to hit out shards of glass. When It finally looked like it was ready I took a few steps back and started running up to it, as I came in contact I put my hands on the window ledge and pulled the rest of my body over and landed on the other side one leg out and one beneath me to keep my balance.

Marissa's POV

"OK, I'm pretty sure that we can find a way out if we go this way" I thought to myself as I was walking along trying not to trip over anything, not like Visaa, she trips over flat ground.

When I finally came across the stairs I looked at them in shock, 'How are we going to get down?' I asked myself completely forgetting about John until now.

'Look at what you brought us to Marissa, now we have to pass this to get outside, and what if the door down there is locked as well? How are we going to get out?' John said. "Sometimes John, I wish you had a brain." I thought to myself smiling inward.

'Well we could climb down the stairs carefully to make sure that it doesn't fall or break on the way down.' I said, who knows, it could work. As I carefully placed my right foot on the first step I pushed some of my weight over and placed my other foot on the step below it. "Good, it's not breaking, or falling… KNOCK ON WOOD. KNOCK ON WOOD!" I looked around frantically but to my disappointment there was no wood. "I hope it doesn't really happen." I thought. As I got to the sixth or eighth I let out a sigh, a great-full sigh that it wasn't breaking.

'Hey, Marissa, I need to tell you something.' He started sounding serious; I didn't know where this was going.

'Yeah, what is it John.' I was pushing myself of the edge of the stairs; if I hang onto the ledge then it won't be that far, it's how far your eyes think how high you are. If that makes sense. As I lowered myself down I counted in my head. 1. Breathe in 2. Breathe out 3 DROP! When my feet touched the ground I crouched down to balance myself. "OK, part 1, now to get a way out of here.. wait." I looked up to see John looking down on me from the second floor saying.

'I'm not doing that!' he said. "this is gonna take a while"

'John, do you want to get out of here? I can just leave you here you know and find my own way out.' I said confidently.

'But what if it breaks on me when I walk down. I'm fat you know.' John replied tapping his stomach like one of the popular girls did when they started whining about the little nothing they have.

'John, stop being a pussy and hurry up.' I said, clearly irritated by his actions. John reluctantly agreed into coming down but while he was hanging on the step I heard a sound of broken glass echo through the building. It was pretty loud, it was probably Mitch or Visaa I don't know what they're doing though; but at least they're getting out of here.

When John was finally down I quickly ran through the hall a bit and skidded to a stop to turn right. "AHA! The door, the door is everything, all that once was and will- WAIT! I need to get out of here, not admire the door." I ran up to the door at light speed and looked through the glass. The drinking fountain was broken and some water was spraying out of the tap, the half wall was demolished, well some of it was. The gate at the far end was fallen. And in the middle of the court yard had a massive crack in it.

While I was looking at the scene before me I didn't realise that I took hold of the handle to the door, when I noticed I tried pushing it open. Didn't work, then I tried pulling it open. That didn't work either so I turned around to ask John to open the door.

'Seriously Marissa? You can't open the door.' He said as he casually walked up to the door and tried to push it open. 'B-but that's the way it's meant to go. Ah hold on.' He took a step back lifted his leg up and in one move kicked the door. It didn't budge. He tried again, and it still didn't work. 'Ughh, I give up! There is something wrong with this door.' He complained.

"Hmm, there must be something, it just can't be stuck like this" I thought to myself, as I was thinking how it was stuck, John, being the smartass that he is, went to go off and look somewhere else for an exit. And that's when it clicked in my head. "The classrooms!"

'Umm, Marissa I tried looking everywhere but I got nothing.' John said as he came back to his spot.

'John, we go out through the classrooms, remember all the classrooms on that side,' I said pointing to my right, 'have a door to outside.' I finished. I started running through the halls until I came upon the first classroom, it was quite a large hall so I was able to avoid fallen pieces of rubble on the ground.

I went up to the door and saw no one in it, but I did see the door to outside on the opposite end of the classroom. "OK Marissa, think, think… uhh" as I was thinking John being an idiot again went up and kicked the door, the only magical thing that happened was the glass shaking a bit then stopped.

'That's it!' I yelled. I looked around on the ground for something sharp to use to get the thin strips of wood from the door so I could move the glass out of the way and open the door from the inside!

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John's POV

When Marissa suddenly screamed out '"THAT'S IT!"' I knew she found a way to get us out. But I was kinda confused when she was looking at the ground. Maybe she finally became crazy?

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Marissa's POV

"Ha there we go." I picked up a thin stick, but it was quite strong so it was perfect. I walked over to the door with stick in hand and used it to wedge the wood out. After a few minutes all the wood was out and I was picking at the glass to get it out.

While I was picking out the glass John came up to me, but the thing was he looked so serious. He carefully took me by the hand, my hand started to tingle at his touch he slid the other hand by my waist, my cheeks started to burn. And with one swift movement he said 'Outta my way and let the professionals handle this.' And flew me across the corridor.

I stood there shocked of what just happened "did he just? No, he's not romantic. Is he?" I was confused, but when I turned around I made up my mind. He was crazy.

I caught him kicking the glass the other way, the wrong way. Idiot, I don't even know why he chose to come with me. 'John, that's not the way you do it stupid.'

'Yes. It. Is.' He replied out of breath. I sighed and walked away from the idiot and his kicking, I noticed that I walked by the staffroom. Curiosity got the better of me and I walked in. I stopped. I stood there.

Shocked.

Mortified.

Terrified. Before me, was a body of someone, a teacher. Who? I don't know, on the head was a piece of the roof, rubble. The face, unreadable. My feet were frozen on the spot, my breath caught in my throat. My eye sight was becoming blurry, was I going blind of shock? Was that even possible? I couldn't scream I couldn't shout for help, shout for John.

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John's POV

"Keep. Kicking. It's. Got. To. Break." I thought to myself. Losing breath, I remember the moment a few minutes ago, the close proximity between Marissa and I. 'I'm an idiot, I blew it! I had pushed her to the other side of the corridor, I'm so stupid, after everything she's going through she has to deal with me too.' I shut up just in time to hear Marissa scream out.

'Marissa! What is it?' I yelled out after her. No response, I stopped pulling muscles in the reflection and started to run over to her "Where are you?" I kept running until I heard her scream again, she was in the staffroom, sitting on the ground curled up in a ball. I ran over to her 'What's wrong?'

She didn't say anything, she just lifted her head up slowly while raising her arm to point at the body I hadn't noticed when I ran in. I looked and I was shocked, now I know.

'Why'd did you come In here?' I asked worried now. I have to be the bigger person now, all this time I have been causing her more stress and now this is the time where I have to step up and act my age.

'I figured, th-that the teachers would have the keys, so we could open the door.' She said, slowing down the tears that forced to fall, 'and I came in here and saw this and i-I panicked. I couldn't take it anymore, what about my sister Emily, something bad could've happened to her, we need to find her now!' she said now starting to stand and becoming slightly stronger, 'I know as well, I have to find my siblings. That's why we need to get out of here fast. While you were gone I managed to knock the glass out and I opened the door.'

I looked around and found some car keys "Maybe, we could find the car that belongs to these keys and get out of here." I took the keys and helped Marissa out of the room.

Imogen's POV

Ok here are the high points, I was in cooking with my friends and all of a sudden the room started shaking, I mean shaking! Bits and pieces, pots and pans were falling onto the floor, and everywhere you look there was a mess, or destruction of some sort.

Then I was knocked out cold…

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Mitch's POV

As I was looking around in the staff room for some keys to the door I heard glass shatter from where Visaa was then I heard some hitting of the glass again, tap tap tap. I walked out and saw Visaa was hitting out some glass, that's when I realised that the whole window was shattered. 'What are you doing?' I said, expecting to get a "I'm hitting the window out so I can get through" or a "I found a way out, wanna come?" not a,

'I'm making a pizza. What does it look like I'm doing?' she said with a cocky grin, that girl can sure act like a dude sometimes. When she finally finished she flipped out through the window using the wind-sill as support, then she disappeared.

A few seconds passed and she popped out from behind the door. I just had to grin at that, it was that funny.

'Are you coming? Or are you just gonna stand there?' she asked hands on waist.

'Yes mother, I'm coming.' I said, but instead of doing what she did I jumped up held onto a ledge and swung myself over.

'Show off.' She said with a smile. I just smiled back. 'Alright, we need to get into the TAZ building to get Imogen.' She started again; sometimes I swear this girl has no free time.

As we were running off to the other end of the TAZ building which was across the courtyard I saw Visaa turn around and slow down her running, did I mention she was fast, like not normal fast? Probably not. 'Why did you stop?' I asked, panting beside her and trying to see what she was looking at.

'Marissa and John. I see them.' She said but when I turned back to look at her she sped off in the direction of the Year 4 classrooms, but before she went off I caught a glimpse of worry in her eyes. So I decided to follow her, even though we were so close to getting Imogen I went off after her.

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Visaa's POV

As I was running up the ramp I turned to look back at Mitch to see how far behind he was, as I came across him I caught sight of John helping Marissa through one of the Year 4 classrooms.

'Why did you stop?' I heard Mitch ask me but I didn't pay attention to him until I replied,

'Marissa and John. I see them.' Then I ran off in their direction, with Mitch close behind me but falling back a little bit. When I finally reached them in record time I might add, Marissa was looking pale and panicked. 'Marissa, are you ok? John, why do you have car keys?' finally realizing what shiny object John was holding.

'Well when we need to get out of here, we can use a car.' He said proud of his quick thinking.

'That's actually not a bad idea, ok, I got another plan, Mitch you help Marissa to the front of the Middle School Office while John and I will be looking for Imogen, got it?' I asked making sure he got the plan.

'Got it.' he said while helping Marissa to the front. I turned to face John, he nodded and we both sped off in the direction of the TAZ building entrance, it was only 2 seconds and we had already arrived and gone in the building, no one can travel that fast from where we were to here in that time. OK something is definitely wrong.

We quickly paced ourselves to the kitchen room where we found Imogen lying on the ground unconscious. I knocked on the door. 'Imogen! Imogen! Can you hear me?!'I yelled from the door

'Stop yelling, someone might hear us.' John said quietly and looking around like someone could give our location away.

'Yes because birds are going to dob us in, think for a minute John.' I said irritated by his actions. I got tired of waiting for Imogen to wake up and just punch the glass, it broke into millions of pieces. John stood there dumbstruck by what I did and there were no scratches on my hand, "Weird" I thought to myself examining my fist, as I turned the handle to open the door my hand started to sting, I pulled it back and opened up my palm and saw a piece of glass stuck in my hand. "Shit, must've happened when I flipped out of the door" I told myself, It was no biggie, I closed my eyes and pulled it out. But the first thing I saw when I opened my eyes was the smallest cut turning into nothing, I looked back at the glass, it was pretty big, then I looked back and saw that there was no more cut I was all healed up.

'Ok that's freaky.' I said aloud

'Yeah, how did you heal that fast?' he asked as he opened the door.

'I really don't know.' As we walked in we looked at the wreckage, then we looked at each other and back. There were pots and pans everywhere. It was like my bedroom x10 and my room is really messy for a girl's room everywhere you look there will be something there on the floor, and that's when I spotted Imogen.

'Imogen, wake up.' I said shaking her a bit, she awoke but kind of a bit dizzy.

'What happened here?' John asked, but obviously knowing the answer.

'I don't know maybe a bird shit in here and they panicked?' I said with sarcasm seeping through my words. 'We have to help her get to the front.' I said while giving her my arms for support.

'Right.' He said also helping with the dizzy girl hanging onto my arms. He actually took Imogen from me and held her bridal style.

'She's actually not heavy at all, she's as light as a feather.' He said with some surprise shown on his face. Once we exit the door, we sped off for the MSO (Middle School Office) as John, carrying Imogen, past me I slowed down to examine a large crack in the middle of the courtyard.

'Why'd you stop?' John asked looking confused at my actions,

'Uhh, did you realise the giant crack right here?' I asked slightly shocked that he completely missed it.

'Oh, there's a crack there? Ok but when we come back we can repair it, right now can we get going it looks like it's starting to rain and I don't want to stick around to get soaked to the bone.' He said, he started to walk slowly backwards to where the others were.

'Ok well you head off, I'm just going to examine this for a minute ok.' I said still observing the deep crack.'

'Alright, as you wish, but I'm not sticking around.' And with that he ran off to the others. "there is defiantly something suspicious about this crack" as I was looking at it I felt something hit the back of my neck, I looked up and saw that it was starting to pour. Water marks making spots on every space on the ground. It didn't take long till I was soaked, I looked down again and saw two shiny objects in the crack. I lowered myself to the ground to get a better look at the objects. And saw that there were two charm bracelets, one with a green leaf emblem on it and another which represented air or wind or ventus of some sort, even though they all mean the same thing.

I lowered my arm further into the ground and found my way to taking hold of the earth charm. I quickly jumped up move myself around to the other side of the crack and grabbed the wind charm. I looked up to the sky again and say a large storm coming towards the school. I see something else also hiding in the crack, I pick it up and look at the inscription on the Colt 1911A1 ACP pistol.

'Hunter.' I read aloud, after I finished a big crash of thunder sounded out through the area. "I've got to get the others" I thought. And with my speed I ran as fast as I could, but it only took me not even a second to reach them. "weird" I thought again.

'Ok, Mitch have you got the keys?' I asked looking at him with water dropping from my fringe which was currently in front of my face.

'Umm, yeah I do, here.' He said handing the noisy trinket over to me. I took the keys and walked out in rain once more and pressed the hazard button that got all the lights going on the car that we needed, and sure enough after a few seconds I spotted the flashing car amongst them all.

'Ok, that car there,' I said pointing, 'is our goal, we need to get there in the short amount of ti-' but before I finished my sentence black took over my sight and I couldn't see anything, but I feel like I was free falling until someone caught me.

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Normal POV

'Ok that car there,' Visaa said pointing to a white Toyota 4WD which was currently flashing its lights at everything around it, 'is our goal, we need to get there in the short amount of ti-' suddenly Visaa stopped mid-sentence and started to fall to the ground without any consciousness of what she was doing. John quickly went and caught Visaa in his arms before she hit the ground. While looking at her unconscious form he noticed a small object that worked its way into her neck. It was a needle like thing that looked like it had been carrying some liquid on the outside, like poison or something.

Marissa walked over and carefully took out the needle and put it on the ground beside her. She looked over at the flashing car and looked back at Visaa.

'We have to get to the car.' She said whilst standing up

Hey everyone! Thankyou so much for taking the time to read my first chapter of a very proud story, I promise I wont disappoint.

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