This is an OC based story, meaning none of the characters from the original manga/anime appear in it. Technically this story does take place in the same world as the manga/anime, but it's at the North American branch of Alice Academy, far away from whatever is going on in the Japanese school.
I never used to think that my Alice made me different. Or, to be exact, I never used to know that I had an Alice in the first place.
Think of it like someone who's born colour blind. They were born that way and grew up their entire lives seeing the world the way that they do. To someone else everything may look weird, but to the colour blind person the world would look perfectly normal.
That's just how things work. If you're born a certain way and grow up like that, then you don't know what life would be like any other way. And that's exactly what my Alice was like.
I had good hearing. Really good hearing. In fact, unbeknownst to me at the time, my hearing wasn't even humanly possible. But to me, just like a colour blind person, it was normal.
Sure, if someone else were to suddenly adopt hearing like mine they would probably find everything to be loud and unbearable, sounds from all over the place cluttered into one heaping mess, but I didn't find anything wrong with it.
Like I said, I had never thought of myself as being different, and my hearing had never been a taboo subject either. My parents knew about it, my friends knew about it, pretty much everyone I knew had at least some knowledge of it.
But that's all it was. Good hearing. Nobody ever thought of it as anything more than just that. Not once had anyone ever considered what it truly was.
So my life was normal, it couldn't have been better actually. I was just like every other kid. I had friends, I goofed off, I complained about chores. A normal life.
It was normal, I was just like every other kid; but all of that changed the day those men arrived at my school.
Had I known their true purpose, the actual reason they were there, then maybe things could have been different. I could have lied, put on an act, I don't know, I could have done something, anything.
But I didn't.
How could I have known?
My carelessness caused my life to change forever. I wasn't just your average girl who just happens to have above average hearing anymore.
Now I was an Alice user. I was different.
If only I had known what was going on from the beginning, then maybe my life never would have changed.
I'm planning for this story to hopefully be 3 books long, focusing on Riley's life from elementary school through to high school, the problems her and her friends encounter and the mysteries surrounding their school.
This is my first time writing a story with only OCs instead using characters that already existed, so it's all new to me. I think that making sure that everyone has their own personalities and that they stay in character is going to be my biggest concern. This is also my first time writing a story in first person instead of third person, so that will also be a little different for me. If it's not the best at first please try to bear with it because I'm sure I'll improve with each chapter.