Disclaimer: I do not own the book Everlost in any way, shape, or form. I do not have any contract with author of the book, Neal Shusterman. I do, however, own the character Twilight Johnson.

On an ordinary day, anything can happen.

The Tunnel Of Light

Twilight Johnson sat in the backseat of her father's Toyota where as her sister, Alexandra, or Allie, sat in the front passenger seat. Allie began to feel annoyed about how high the radio was being played. She began arguing with her father about it. Twilight, on the other hand, paid no attention to them, rather she stared open the window, silently thinking to herself.

Allie had just taken off her seat belt to adjust her blouse. Twilight did not have a seat belt, the seat belts in the back had been broken by her brothers a few weeks ago and their father did not have enough time to have it fixed. Although she did feel a bit naked without it, she knew there was nothing she could do about it.

In a Mercedes, not to far away from the Toyota, sat Nick in between his brother and sister. He was trying to eat his chocolate bar that had been sitting in his pocket for most of the day. His brother and sister kept intentionally jostling his elbows, which caused the molten chocolate to smear all over his face. As it was a car for four, there were five passengers, there was no seat belt for Nick.

On the road, a sharp piece of steel laid, dropped by a scrap metal truck that had been loaded to the brim. Many cars had avoided it, but the Mercedes wasn't so lucky. It ran straight over the metal, the front tire blew, and Nick's father lost control of the car.

The Mercedes careened over the double yellow line, into oncoming traffic.

Twilight looked up in time to see it moving closer and closer to her Toyota. Before she could even blink, the two cars crashed into one another head on. Twilight's life didn't quite flash before her eyes, seeing as there was no time. It all happened so fast that Twilight couldn't even think. The impact launched the three teenagers forward, they felt the punch of inflating air bags, but did little to slow them down at the speed they were going. They felt the windshields against their foreheads, then in an instant, they had each passed through.

The crash of splintering glass became the sound of a rushing wind, and the world went very dark.

Twilight closed her eyes the moment she felt the wind against her body. She felt herself moving through a tunnel, picking up speed, accelerating as the wind grew stronger. Twilight felt herself heating up and dared to open her eyes. At the end of the tunnel, she saw a bright light, growing larger and much brighter as she picked even more speed. At that moment, she felt her body relax and her heart slow it's beating to a beat per minute.

But before she could reach the light that called her, she hit something, or someone, that sent her off course. She threw out her arms at the objects, and heard it grunt. Immediately, she realized that she wasn't alone in the tunnel. With her; there were two people, one who she thought looked extremely familiar, it was a girl she was sure of that. The other person smelled just like chocolate, that person was a boy.

Twilight, Allie, and Nick went spinning wildly, crashing out of the blacker-than-black walls of the tunnel. Twilight grabbed onto Allie for support which proved to assist in nothing but increase the spinning. As they flew off course, the light disappeared before Twilight's eyes. They hit the ground hard, and exhaustion of their flight overcame them.

Just before sleep claimed Twilight, she swore she heard someone whisper, "Twilight… of Everlost."