The feeling of terror. The race against death. The memorable scream that echos in my haunted nightmare. These are the memories I live through. No escaping it. No escaping the nightmare I have become. The question is though what must I do? And how do I do it? What can I do with my life split in two with one side not even a reality and my other side is the true me. The new me. I have nothing filling my mind except revenge pain and horror. Is this what death is like? Terrible and confusing? At least from my perspective, that's what I thought. Where it all begins, is where it all ends.

"Blue?" Cameron questioned Katie.

"Water," she replied taking a sip of her water.

"Of course you say that," he said with a chuckle.

Cameron had made up a game when we were all bored during lunch for him to list a color and we would tell him the first thing that comes to our mind. Not his best idea, but definitely something.

"You're turn Rach. Um, Rachel?" Katie questioned waving her hand in front of my distant looking face.

I turned my head towards them, "Hmm?"

"You're turn for the color game," she said twirling her brown curly hair impatiently.

"Right. Hit me, Cam." I looked at Cameron.

"Well, if you insist." He leaned forward and charged his hand at my face.

I flinched and slapped his hand away. "Not literally, Camera!" I rolled my eyes at him.

"Seriously, Cameron, just give her a color!" Katie cried.

He leaned back with a sigh. "You girls take the fun out of everything. Red."

"Blood." I told him.

"Blood?" He stared blankly at me.

"Uh, yeah. It's the first thing that popped into my head, alright?" I turned away and opened my book to the last chapter I was on.

"Yeah, I thought you'd say something not so gross," Katie looked at Stark then back to me.

"In her words I'm technically thinking the same thing. I wouldn't say gross though."

"Of course, Camera, because you're a guy." I said turning a page.

"Yeah, sure, whatever. Just stop calling me 'camera'."

"Fine." I smirked.

"Wipe that smirk off your face!" Cameron demanded.

I turned my head to him and stuck his tongue at him.

"Yeah, real mature," he said sarcastically, rolling his eyes.

Katie and I laughed.

"Oh, stop arguing, you guys." Katie said in between small giggles.

Cameron smirked. "Wouldn't necessarily call it 'arguing'-"

"Cam, you always have an excuse for everything, don't you." I said, not really asking a question.

"Sure do!" he stated with a laugh as the school bell tolled three times announcing the end of lunch. "Well, see you ladies later!" He said grabbing his books running off faster than a busy bee.

"Walk to class together?" Katie looked at me with a look of innocence on her face.

I gave her a smile. "Sure." I grabbed my books and she grabbed hers.

There was a whole bunch of chattering and laughing as we walked down the hall to our class.

"Did you get the math homework done?" Katie asked.

I looked at her confused. "We didn't have homework."

"We didn't?"

"No, we didn't." I accidentally bumped into Derek, the popular jerk of the school. "Gosh, I'm sorry!" I looked up meeting his smirk.

"Yeah, you'd better be sorry!" he exclaimed.

I met his smirk with a glare.

"You gonna do something about it, loser?" He knocked my books out of my hands onto the dirty floor. His action was encouraged by the laughter of his friends.

I just stared.

He laughed. "You're such a girl. You can't even talk back. Seriously, Katie, why do you hang out with this little nobody?

"Derek, shut up before I smack you in the face. Hard!"

He gave a little chuckle. "Okay, whatever. Well, that took the fun out of it. Later, losers." Derek walked away giving high fives to his friends.

I picked up my books silently and lost my glare.

I looked at Katie who gave me a sour look. "Rach, you gotta stick up for yourself. You can't just keep letting him pick on you."

"Well, whatever. Derek is just a nobody inside, but on the outside-" I sighed at the truth, "-he's the king."

Katie punched my arm. "He's not even that, he's a bully."

"True," I agreed.

The bell chimed three times.

"Crap, we're late to class!" Katie started running.

I stumbled into a run to catch up with her. "Hey, slow down, Kate!"

"You speed up!" she called back.

We broke into laughs as we ran to make it to class in a minute.