'She looked at her feet. She was wrapped up in a white blanket, she looked around, seeing her reflection everywhere, when suddenly it split in half, and opened a corridor. The room she was in began to shatter, and fall apart, she began to run down the glass corridor, as she was running, the wall to her left became translucent; windows instead of mirrors, and she saw many glass castles falling apart. She began to run faster as the chaos started to catch up with her. There were four others with her. People…She knew… People she-'

Reya woke up. It was 6:30 am, it was a Wednesday, October 15th, 2014. It was cool, the leaves were orange and red and yellow, scattered across her yard. She got up and started to get ready for school, contemplating her odd dream she just had.

Violet finished putting her red braids into a bun, and touched up on her brown eyeshadow, just a tad darker than her own skin. She picked up the tiny pair of scissors on her desk and trimmed the dead leaves off of her plant. She looked at the tiny blades and felt a buzzing in her hand. Like that feeling when you have too much energy in your leg and bounce it up and down, but much more concentrated. In a swift moment, she threw the pointed blades right into the double bulls-eye on the dart board in her room, making a loud thump noise, filling Violet with a large amount of glee.
" Violet what was that?" She heard her mother yell down the hall, in a stern noise.
" Uh, nothing Mama! Just, dropped a book is all!" She ran and pulled the scissors from the board, looking at it one more time with a stilled sense of pride, then remembering she had to finish getting ready for school.

The chimes outside of Dominick's house were very noisy, Dominick opened his eyes and saw himself. Laying in the bed, asleep. His phone was ringing but he couldn't hear it. Every time it vibrated it got a little closer to the edge of the drawer. Dominick was floating above his own bed. It was like he was under water, when suddenly.
BZZZ Dominick caught the phone right as it fell off the bed. He stared at the ceiling, the chimes ringing outside. He could hear his heartbeat steadily fasten and slow down as he breathed and held his breath
"Weird dream…" Dominick said aloud after a few seconds.

Max stood in front of his mirror on the wall, yawning, he grabbed his comb and began fixing his short hair, eyes closed. He turned around and opened his eyes, still disoriented from sleep and suddenly getting a wave of drowsiness, he continued combing his hair and looked at his reflection, very tired.
"I gotta start going to bed earlier." He turned around to go to the other side of his room, but hit the mirror.
"Wait, huh?" He turned around again, touching something, and it shocked him. Like when you had too much static built up and touched someone else and it shocked you. Max looked around the room but it was empty.
There was only him with his half-asleep disoriented confusion.

Amanda looked at herself in the mirror. She was fully and dressed and ready to go to school, she gave herself a big smile. As she turned to face the door to exit her room, she looked at the poster above her doorway. She got it on a vacation to Europe. It said "Have a great day!" In about 20 different languages, and her eyes were directed to one in particular. The one in Arabic, she thought, and she read in her mind 'May your day be plenty with joy!' And she rubbed her eyes, and looked at it again, but alas, it was just a bunch of symbols again.
She looked at herself in the mirror.
" Oh no! My mascara!" She cried out running to fix her makeup again,

"Dad?" Reya asked, staring at her phone as she fixed her tea absentmindedly.
"Yeah, sweetie?" Her dad responded, from the couch in the tv room.
"What does it mean if you have a dream about people you know, but like, don't really know? Like, you don't talk to them?"
"Uh, well, I guess it's your mind telling you that you should probably try to talk to them." He answered.
"But what if they're not the kind of people I want to be friends with?" She asked, as the tea pot began to whistle loudly, she quickly began to pour the water into her to-go cup, already having the tea bag with honey at the bottom.
"Well, maybe the dream was telling you to stay away from those people."
Reya thought about this the all the way to the bus stop, and as she sat down in her seat, she pulled out her headphones and started to play her music on shuffle. Midnight city by M83 was the first song to play.

Violet looked at herself through the camera of her phone, making sure her hair hadn't lost its umph. She entered her school, Oakland high, as a lot of others were also entering. May it be getting off of the bus, or parking in the student parking lot, parents dropping you off or if you simply walked there, they all entered the building.

"Yeah man, she's so easy to play!" Max said loudly, laughing along with a moderately large group of people. Mostly on the basketball team. Max was the team captain, Violet hated him. He was very misogynistic, and sexist and vulgar. She clenched her jaw and continued walking down the hall, not looking up fast enough to avoid bumping right into someone, making both of them knock over.
" Oh no!" A girl ran over to them. Violet recognized her as Amanda Brown, she was a sophomore, and she was 1st in her class and made fun of a lot because of her intelligence while also being of Korean descent. In middle school she started dying her hair blonde. She then looked over to the unfortunate soul she just knocked over.
It was Dominick Jones. He was a junior, like Violet and Max. He had poor, but passing, grades in all but about psychology and lit. Violet was in a few of his classes freshman year. He was a really smart kid, but he never talked to anyone and didn't try in any of classes. She's pretty sure he started smoking last year.
"Yeah, we're okay, sorry." Dominick said, glancing at the two of them, he got up, and helped Violet up. No stuff was dropped, but it regrettably caught the attention of the basketball team.
"Hey Vicky, you haven't eaten any coconuts lately have you?" A random member said.
" It's Violet. And, uh, no?" She said, making a face at him, a mixture of confusion and scowling.
" Okay good, because that'd be cannibalism." Some of the members laughed, mostly the girls hanging out with them.
" That… Didn't even make any sense." Amanda said, turning and looking at Violet and shrugged smiling.
" Come on, aren't Chinese people supposed to be smart?"
"I'm...Korean." Amanda told them, stuffing some of her dyed hair behind her ears.
"She's a coconut because she's brown on the outside and white on the inside. I mean look at her hair! A bun? Really?" They started laughing. Violet took a step forward, but Amanda grabbed her hand.
" Come on, they're not worth it. They're just a bunch of lug heads." She said, still, Violet turned around to scowl at them instead, but saw Max had told them to settle down. He hadn't really been laughing. This kind of shocked Violet. She expected him to be the leader of the insults.
"Hey, where are you going?" Amanda asked Dominick, who was walking away from his class.
"To the bathroom?" He asked in a 'what's it to you?' kind of tone.
" But the bells about to ring!" Amanda said.
" Hey, sorry for that back there. There isn't a lot of black people here, so, they can be a little rude if they aren't on the team." Max said to Violet, after the others had left. Violet looked at him. He was white, of course, he had short brown hair, blue eyes. Your typical 'Dreamy, tall, basketball team captain!' Violet thought in a sarcastic cheerleader voice, but then felt bad because of him just apologizing.
"It's whatever. They need to come up with a lot better insults than coconut." Violet said, shrugging it off, but on the inside she knew she was going to feel insecure about her hair the rest of the day.
" I think it's cool." Max said.
"Your hair, it's like, original. It's cool." He shrugged. He tried not to sound too complimentary. Violet hoped he wasn't developing a crush on her. She really did not want to deal with that kind of drama.
" Anyways, see you later, "Max said, after she didn't respond to his compliment.
" Oh, thanks, uh, bye." She said, turning to see Amanda and Dominick.
" You can just go after 10 minutes, that's when the teachers usually let you go." She said.
" Well, I really have to go, now." He said, pulling his arm away from her hand.
" You guys we're about to be late," Max reminded them.
" Its fine, Amanda, right? Just let him go." Violet said.
" No way." Reya said, looking at all of them. They were the only ones in the hallway.
The bell rang, Amanda let out a little cry, and Max ran his fingers through his hair as he mouthed the word 'crap'.
Violet ran to her next class, as all the other four did.

But, alas, it is a rule here at Oakland high that if you arrive to class late.
You must take notes outside the door.
Without talking.
Or doing anything, but taking notes.

All five of them were only a classroom apart each. Violet was in Zoology, struggling to hear about how nocturnal creatures act. Amanda was in Advanced Chemistry, Max was in Physical Science, Dominick was in the same class as him, but he had a different teacher, and Reya was in on-level chemistry.
"All of you were in my dream." Reya said suddenly.
"Shh! I don't want to get in trouble. "Amanda said in a very quiet voice.
" What was it about?" Violet asked her.
" We were all in a glass castle. But it was falling apart, and we were all running. My dad said it meant I only had a little time to make friends with you guys, or something like that."
"A glass castle?" Dominick asked. He was on his phone, paying no attention to what his teacher was saying.
"Yeah, why?" Reya asked, looking at him.
" A glass castle is a place people say they 'go' when they're high. And when it 'falls apart' is when they're coming off the high. You partaking in the average Colorado citizen's hobby?" He asked her.
Reya started to blush.
"I don't smoke weed!" She said, throwing a pencil at him, it hit the sleeve of his jacket and his chest raised like he just laughed but he only smiled a little bit.
"Shh!" Amanda and Violet both hushed her at the same time.
" Is there a problem?" An administrator asked, walking around the corner.
Violet and Max both shook their heads no, Dominick put his knee's up quickly, so the binder in his lap hid his phone, and Reya did the same, only to make it seem like she was still writing. They both nodded their head at him as he walked away. When he had made some distance, Max chuckled a little bit.
" This isn't funny! I've never been put outside the classroom before! "Amanda said, in a whisper almost too quiet to hear.
"Really? I'm out here almost every day." Max said, shrugging.
" Hey, uh, can you give me back my pencil?" Reya asked Dominick.
He didn't say anything, but he did throw it back.
Violet glanced at the other members of the group. It was a very…Breakfast Club-y kind of group. There was Max. Varsity Jacket, basketball captain. WHITE. Amanda, smart little Asian girl. She was very nice, and all cute in her little schoolgirl outfit. Oakland didn't have a very strict dress code, but she managed to come to school very formal-like every day. Reya had a lot of drama around her. People say that she tried to kill herself the summer before this year started. She's only a sophomore and people that went to her middle school still tease her for cutting herself in 7th grade. Apparently she was bullied a lot. Like, a lot a lot. She had short dyed blue hair with a pink streak dyed in it as well. She had very light blue eyes, very pale skin, and usually wore things like black leggings and boots with jean jackets. She got called emo and a hipster a lot. Violet thought she was pretty cool, she's had a few conversations with her. She was really pretty. And then Dominick. He was that one kid everyone wanted to talk to but no one wanted to talk to. He usually wore black leather jackets and sleeveless shirts under that. Black skinny jeans and white shoes. He was mixed; black and white, resulting in very light brown skin. What most people found so capturing about him was his green eyes. Unusual for a person of color, so it made him stand out. He wore small square glasses when he had to read something, but usually let his eyes stand out. He kept his black hair buzzed usually.
It was a very diverse group of people.

It was lunch time. Amanda decided to go outside. She saw Violet and started to walk towards her. She overheard some people speaking Spanish near Reya. They were all from Mexico, she recalled, and she tuned them out until they started speaking English.
" She's so full of herself, that white girl, she's such a-"
"Hey!" Amanda called at them, they jumped, as though they didn't realize she was there.
"You speak Spanish?" One of them asked.
"No. Well, I take advanced Spanish, but no. Don't talk about my friend like that!" She said, Reya turned around and looked at her, surprised.
"But, we were just speaking Spanish!" They said.
"But…?" Amanda looked at them, confused.
"Just, don't talk bad about people! In any language!" She said, marching off.
"Can I sit with you?" She asked Violet.
"Oh, Amanda, sure." She said, patting the space beside her on the wooden picnic table's bench.
" Hey, thanks for standing up for me back there." Reya said, walking past them.
"Hey! Wanna sit with us?" Amanda asked.
"Oh, uhh…" She looked at Violet, who pushed her lips and eyebrows up and motioned her over.
" Sure, I guess. Thanks." She said, sitting down on the opposite side of the bench.
" I didn't know you could speak Spanish." Reya said to Amanda.
" Neither did I. Like I can say simple stuff but they were speaking in slang, I think. It was different then how we were taught in Spanish class. You know, something really weird happened to me this morning too! I have this poster, with all these different languages on it, and for a moment, I thought I was reading Arabic!" She said.
"You're a walking Rosetta stone." Violet said, laughing.
" I'm serious, it was really weird."
"It's okay, this morning, I had this really weird feeling holding a pair of scissors, and I threw it and it hit right in the bulls-eye."
"Shut up!" Reya said laughing.
"Now you're just teasing me!" Amanda said, laughing.
"No I'm serious! And Reya had a vision! We're all superheroes!" Violet said laughing. Reya's cheeks hurt from smiling so big. She hadn't in a while. She glanced over in one direction, and saw a guy looking at them, but quickly looked away when he caught her staring.
" Who's that?" Reya asked.
"That's London Phillips. He's a senior. Why?" Violet said.
" He was totally just looking at us." Reya giggled.
"Hey what's your guy's phone numbers? We should totally hang out sometime!" Amanda said suddenly.
"Oh, uh, here." Violet took her phone and put in her phone number.
"You know your phone number by heart?" Reya asked.
"Yes" They both said at the same time.
"Jeez." Reya said, taking out her phone number so she could get her number.
A squirrel climbed onto the table to get a nut that had fallen from the tree above them, it quickly grabbed it and ran up the tree, eating it on a branch.
"Smug little guy." Violet said throwing a pencil at it like a dart, eraser-first. It hit the squirrel square in the side, causing it to jump and run away, causing the girls to giggle. The acorn it was attempting to open landed in Reya's hand. She looked at it. It began to burn, and she threw it on the ground, a trail of flame shot over to a corner of the school, a crow flew over here, and then that corner of the school went up in violet flames with a loud crash, Reya jumped up, but when she blinked. The fire was gone.
" Reya?" Amanda asked.
"Are you alright?" She asked.
" We need to get out of here." Reya said.
" Why what's wrong?" She asked. The London guy from earlier suddenly got up, looking at her.
" Hey!" She yelled at some kids who were close to the part of the school that went up in flames just then, but only she could see it. It was almost like a memory she was about to get. Like a vision.
" Get away from there! Come here! Come on!" She yelled, they quickly started walking over to her.
When they were almost to the benches of the outside lunch area. Suddenly, a crow flew over their lunch table, the same one in her vision, and part of the school exploded. No one was near the part that exploded, at least on the outside. Everyone was screaming and panicking and calling people to make sure they were alright. Suddenly, sirens started blasting in the distance.
" You three." London said to all three of them, in the chaos.
"Come with me."