Chapter 1
11:45
Jessica
Jessica Day slowly pulls off her cotton covers and glances over at her alarm clock "11:45.. Crap" Jonathan was going to arrive any second now. Jessica had started getting used to waking up right before the blue time it took 3 months training and now she was going to see her boyfriend half naked and hair like a birds nest. "knock knock knock" three knocks it was Jonathan, they had decided to make a secret code knock ever since the night Jessica opened her shades and found a darkling groupie waiting on her.
She threw on some clothes and opened her shades and window. She silently slipped out waiting to feel the lovely weightlessness. In the night sky she couldn't make out jonathans face but sure enough she heard his reassuring voice enter her heart. "Jessica is this you?" Jonathan unsurely asks "yes it is who else could it be?" Jessica says boringly, considering she had woken up about the minutes ago and was feeling a bit crabby." I don't know you just usually talk more." Jonathan adds "well its not my fault I'm not getting much sleep" Jessica says sharply. " ok you know what lets just start over" Jonathan says as he grasps her hand and they count "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9," and she feels the weightlessness fill her up. Then as if it was a movie they take their first spiraling leap in perfect harmony flying into the sky of blue.
They had to meet Rex and Dess at Madelines house where Mellissa would meet them. They were on there way to finding out what had caused the blue time to come at noon or the noon blue as they started calling it. It had happened to more times and the time had started increasing. The first noon blue lasted 12 minutes and 45 seconds, the second 17 minutes and 30 seconds, and the third lasted 30 minutes and 15 seconds. They obviously needed to find out what was causing it and put a stop to it, everyone was worried that soon there would be no more normal time.
It took them about 7 large leaps to reach Madelines house. Jessica had brought her flashlight also just incase even though Dess had totally darkling secured the place. It seemed that Jessica had been changing becoming a bit more on the safe side. And it made it worse that jonathans and hers fights had been increasing. Maybe it was because that new guy in school, his name was Derek and just because Jessica went over and welcomed him to his new school Jonathan had gotten all protective. Mellissa said that she felt strong vibes from this guy but he had no Idea about weird dreams or anything such as Jessica and the rest of the crew had.
They entered Madelines rickety old shack it was cover with clean steel that Dess changes out every 4 weeks to insure one of their very last safe meeting places. They slowly took small low fast leaps up the winding staircase to find all 4 sitting on the floor and sternly talking. When they walked in it was like being a monkey walking into a important work meeting. The room went quite and they all looked up with a irritated and what do you want? Type of faces. Then Madeline was the first to speak and the first to spill the startling news.
