A/N: This is the first story that I have EVER written in First Person format, so go easy on me. I'm hoping it'll come out ok, but I can't be sure. *shrugs* READ!
"OMOG!" Delilah ran at me, and started to bear hug me.
" Delilah. Can't. Breathe. Suffocating!" Delilah let go, and I gulped in the air that had previously been wrung out of my lungs.
I am Kristie. I am seventeen years old. I'm nothing out of the average. Unless you count being a child-genius special. But in my friend group that isn't very extraordinary, since somehow we seem to ALL be child-genii. That saying, opposites attract? I think I just disproved it.
Anyways, I'm five foot nine, and have long dark brown hair. I'm a soprano, not mezzo, mind you, just a soprano. I have brown eyes, so dark that if you're more than two feet away from me they look black. Wait! I promise you I'm not going to describe Christine here. Just give me a minute. Yes, the difference. I'm very tan. Simple as that.
I have an older sister named Raven. She's cool, especially since she's just as obsessed with Phantom of the Opera as I am. She has black hair that she died red when she was in eighth grade. Seeing as she is now in college, it has just lightened up her hair color.
She is tall, always has been, always will be. She has a best friend named Amy. She was tall, thin and had light blond hair. She and I are very much alike.
Delilah. She's a tricky one to describe. She's my age (duh) and is a lot shorter than me. She has sort of reddish hair that she dies brown, don't ask me why. I got her addicted to Phantom of the Opera in the fifth grade at a sleepover. Speaking of sleepovers, I'm in one now. I'm your narrator, aka one of the characters. Yes, I will be talking to you, the reader, all the way through this story.
We were all getting together at my sisters dorm. I had something I wanted to show them, and I knew that they would go crazy for it when they saw it. The grin that came over my face was simply devilish.
I had asked Delilah to come because I knew she would kill me if I didn't let her. She was the type of person that was so hyper all the time that you couldn't get her to calm down. EVER. And one day she would rule the world, a world called Delilandia. I know, weird name, huh?
Right then, I was sitting on my sisters bed. She and Amy were roommates, so it didn't matter which one I chose, but I still went with my sisters. One thing you must know about me. I'm cautious. OVERLY cautious. I don't break any rules unless they are completely unreasonable, and I always aim to please everybody, even though I know it's impossible, let alone impractical.
Crap! I'm describing Christine again! Ugh! NOT GOOD!
Delilah was walking around the room, touching things she shouldn't, talking non-stop, spouting random facts. Those kinds of things.
Just then Raven walked through the door, followed closely by Amy.
" Sorry we're late! This one professor just dragged this seminar on, and on, and on…." Raven trailed off, implying that the professor was really talkative. Delilah laughed and went to sit on Amy's bed.
Amy and Raven went to their separate beds, Amy next to Delilah, Raven next to me. I took a deep breath, preparing myself.
" Alright guys, now is the time to show you what I found out." I picked up my backpack from beside me.
" You guys know that we are all absolutely obsessed with Phantom of the Opera?" I continued before anyone could interrupt. " Well, now you are going to see it actually happening!"
I could tell that they didn't believe me. I smirked. They were in for it this time.
" I have been doing some research, and found some conclusive evidence that suggests that the Phantom of the Opera is actually a true story. So how do I work with this? I create a time machine."
This time I actually saw the looks of disbelief on their faces.
"Come on Kris" Raven said, using my nickname " You expect us to believe that you, a seventeen year old student, did what no other scientist has ever done? Sorry, but I'm just a bit skep-" She was cut off by a shimmering in the air beside me.
I looked calmly to the right, and watched myself appear. And I don't mean a hologram, I mean me. Yeah, suffice it to say it was AWESOME!
The future me looked around and saw the others.
" Believe it now?" She said, and then started to fade again. The others gawked as I just calmly smiled, and disappeared.
" Dang, I guess I have to do it now. Hold on." I said, and disappeared. I was back within two seconds.
" THAT IS TOTALLY FREAKING AWESOME!" I had expected something like this from Delilah, so it didn't surprise me. Raven and Amy just sat there, completely shocked. And then Raven broke out of her reverie, and looked at me in wonder. I sighed and started to explain.
" I've been working on it for a while. You see I have these necklaces, that when you want to time travel you just think about the place and time and say wallawoosha in your head. And presto, back in time you go!"
The others looked at me like I was insane.
" Wallawoosha?" Amy said, practically laughing. I looked at her indignantly.
" I had to choose a word that you would never even think in a conversation. It's not derived from anything, it's just a nonsense word. I thought it was very clever, actually." I said, trying to hold on to my pride.
Amy was worried about no such thing.
" Yeah, but wallawoosha? Really?"
" Oh, just drop it. It's already been programmed in, so I can't change it. OK, I could, but I won't! It would just delay us. So there!"
The others shrugged, giving up. I grinned, and pulled three necklaces out of the backpack. They were all different colors. The basic design was a metal cord, that held a little plaque that was engraved with a name. The red one had Ravens name on it, the orange one had Amy's name on it, and the blue one had Delilah's name on it. I already had mine on, and it was purple.
"These are the time traveling machines. It was a quite simple process really. You simply make a machine that will scramble your atoms, and then you have it locked on to a certain parallel world that is our world, except behind this one. Or ahead of it, depending on which way you want to go."
I got the look that said we-have-no-clue-what-your-saying-so-we're-just-going-to-nod-and-smile. I sighed.
" Just put them on, OK?" They obliged. Raven fingered her red band, nervous about her atoms being scrambled. I smirked, and then put out one more thought.
" You might want to take any other metal jewelry off, simply because it would take the machine, forever to reassemble you. Think of it this way, without the jewelry it takes you ten seconds to materialize. With it, it takes you ten minutes."
The others nodded and I gave them the instructions.
"Alright, the dates and times are already set in, and the return time is set in there already. It intercepts the magnetism that is your brain waves and computes what you thinking, so all you need to do is think Wallawoosha, and away we go!"
We all thought the word very hard, and in less than two seconds flat, we were gone.