Ace Steele heard the doorbell ring and growled inwardly. Not ten seconds ago she had finally laid down on her bed to finish re-reading her final draft of her continuation of "A Christmas Carol".

She sighed, and got back up. Trudging to the door, she could her father lecturing her little brother and sister. Probably for whacking each other in the head with their plastic lightsabers, which Ace had given them on their birthdays for their presents. She saw Christian, another of her brothers, who was only a year younger, walking up the stairs she had just walked down and walk into his room. He shut his door with a bang, and locked it. Ace sighed.

She walked to the door, and looking out of the peephole, saw that it was her best friend, Elizabeth.

Ace quickly opened the door, and let Elizabeth, who she coined the nickname Lizzy on, into the house.

"Well well well what have we here?" She asked jokingly, locking the door back up.

"A cold teenager who desperately wants hot chocolate." Lizzy replied. Ace laughed, but after one look at her best friends face, she realized that she was dead serious.

"Well you know where the kitchen is Liz. As mom would say, 'our home is your home. Or as Ace calls it, her home'."

Liz laughed and headed to the kitchen, dropping her backpack in the middle of the hallway, exactly where Ace had already dropped hers earlier.

The two raided the kitchen, grabbing plates, utensils, and food. Or, more specifically, cookies, pizza, donuts, icecream, chocolate, hot chocolate, and whip cream.

Afterwards, the two headed back upstairs after kicking the bags to the side of the hall, out of the way. They laid on the king sized bed, and Ace shut her laptop. The two talked about different things. Or, more specifically, boys, gossip, and about Aces favorite subject in the entire world: Star Wars.

"Have you seen teaser trailer for episode 7 yet?" Ace asked, her voice getting a little higher than she meant for it to.

"Have you forgotten that the second it came out, you made me watch it with you?"

"Yea..." Both girls laughed. "Oh! That reminds me! You know that story Mrs. Wikstrom is having us write, the one about the sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'?"

"Yea? What about it?" Liz asked.

"Well, I've finally finished it!" Ace said, sitting up as she almost spilled her ice cream on her brand new Star Wars comforter. If there was one thing she didn't want spilled on her comforter, it was ice cream. That stuff NEVER came out.

"Really?" Liz asked, also sitting up.

"Yea!" Ace grabbed her laptop and opened it. It had been on the document she had been re-reading, so all she did was scroll to the top.

Liz took the laptop, but didn't read it. Instead, she scrolled down through the document, all the way down to the bottom. "300 pages?! Ace what the kriff is wrong with you?!"

Ace snickered at her best friends use of "kriff". She knew that Liz had picked it up from her; Ace never cursed regularly, (even though "kriff" wasn't really cursing) and only used those kind of words to "curse".

"Oh calm down Liz! Its not that bad! She didn't give me a limit on how long to make it!" Ace said, quickly defending herself.

"Calm it Ace! You'd think I had just discovered your secret diary about your dear love C-"

Ace cut her off quickly. "ELIZABETH!" She screeched. She jumped up, and opened her bedroom door, looking around the hall. She had a feeling that her little brother and sister had been listening to her conversation again. Even though Liz hadn't said "HIS" name, she had a feeling that they could figure it out now.

She shut the door again, and just for safety, put a chair in front of the door handle, so that they couldn't get in.

Elizabeth laughed. "Your such a worrywort! They don't care!"

"Maybe not, but knowing them they'll come in and beat us with plastic lightsabers."

Ace took the laptop back from Liz, just as another one of those annoying ads popped up. She started to exit out of it, but the word "Skywalker" caught her eye. She involuntarily, and out of habit clicked on it.

Much to her terror, the laptop screen went black.

"Oh kriff.." Ace muttered, hoping that the add hadn't had a virus on it.

"What's wrong?" Elizabeth asked, glancing over at the screen.

Ace was about to answer, but the screen turned green, and the webcam came on.

"Hu…?" The screen started blinking. "UGGH!"

"I'll get your brother" Liz said, getting up and going to the door. She moved the chair, and opened the door.

"Liz just because my brother got me my laptop doesn't mean that he knows how to fix this." Ace said, grumbling. Everyone always went to her brother for help, and it was very annoying.

"Yea but just think, if it breaks, then you can blame him. That way your dad doesn't yell at you for breaking something again."

It was true. Ace broke things almost as soon as she touched them, much to everyone's annoyance. It wasn't that she tried to. Kriff, she tried not to more than she tried to study for an exam! It just came naturally to her; kind of like Jar Jar.

Liz left the room, and the computer kept blinking. Ace growled still, and looked over at the window. An odd image was slightly visible in the glass. It was like that of a different world. Ace scoffed, thinking that the stress of the week was getting to her.

But after a few moments, Ace looked back. It was still there. And it was very annoying.

Ace got up and walked to the window, giving up the laptop as a lost cause. She could almost make out the image of a hallway, and people walking inside it.

Again, she scoffed. She had been reading too many Star Wars fanfictions lately. But something, as if not by her own force, made her reach out to touch it. It was an intriguing thought that she was seeing this, and it made her touch it. Little did she know it would drag her into an entirely different life.