'Imagine if you suddenly woke up and your whole life had been a dream, and you're actually a completely different person living a different life in a different world'

The thought had brought comfort to most, as they desperately wished for the statement to be true, but they dismissed it. For if they had had another life, they surely would've remembered it. With the majority of the population, the statement never would be true. But for those lucky four exceptions, the statement applied perfectly to them. They did live elsewhere, in a different world, with their real friends and family. Yet here they were, in another world, living normal teenage lives, dismissing the statement like the rest of the world.

The four had been snatched from their world by a person with an evil intention. A simple experiment, and she'd taken away the one person from each of their loved one's lives that had mattered the most to them. As they were snatched, their memories were wiped, or so the person thought. However, a trigger occasionally made them remember. They remembered snippets, and thought they were going insane. Particularly if they were memories where they hadn't appeared in the actual TV show or film or book series.

How ironic they'd end up as best friends in the alternate world, each having a soft spot for a particular TV show, film or book series. Regardless, they'd began in separate parts of the world, living their usual lives, with their respective friends and family.