ONE

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I meet Evil Mcperfectpants

I guess I went insane when a Pegasus winked at me on my way up to the top of the Empire State Building. Up until then I was perfectly sane. Alice saw it too, so I'm not crazy. Alice and I ditched Audrey Day High school to go to Central Park, but we had been there so many times that we decided to shake things up a little and go to the tallest building in New York. Alice Hart wore her long golden blonde hair "Boho Wavy" (as she called it), and had sparkly chocolate-brown eye shadow on that made her blue eyes shimmer. I wasn't surprised. Alice was beautiful, and a teensy bit conceited. Compared to me, she was a goddess. I, on the other hand, had dirty blonde hair and blue eyes with flecks of gold in them. I'm just boring Emma. I have a last name, that by law I'm required to have, but I refuse to use it. It's my adoptive mother's last name (If it's even right to call her a mother.) I just don't want to be known by the last name of the most evil woman on the planet.

Anyway, Alice and I were on our way up when she gasped.

"Alice," I said "What's wrong?"

"Oh Emma, not again!" She replied "I chipped my nail polish!"

She held her manicured thumb up to the window, and then I saw a black mass out of the corner of my eye flying through the sky.

"Alice! Look!"

She shoved me out of the way and gazed out the window. There it was. High in the sky was a floating black horse. I squinted to get a better look, and saw what looked to be someone on its back.

"Alice, I think it has a boy on its back." I yelled.

"Ooh, I wonder if he's cute!" she squealed and flipped her hair.

Definitely an Alice reply.

When I looked up again, it was gone. Once we got to the top of the building, we looked around. Almost instantly, I felt a chill run down my spine. My gaze locked on a harsh looking woman, with slick black hair and sinister red eyes. Something about her spotless outfit was off. She was dressed like she was going to a cocktail party on top of a tourist attraction. Her red eyes landed on Alice and I, and I no longer felt safe.

"Alice." I whispered, tugging her away from the woman.

"What?" she giggled back.

I didn't answer as we walked away from her to the other side of the building. It was oddly deserted today. Just me, Alice, and Evil Mcperfectpants. Then Evil Mcperfectpants walked over to us with a fake smile glued to her face. She walked with a limp.

"Hello Girls," she smirked. "Shouldn't you be at Audrey Day right now?"

She knew our school? My adrenaline kicked in as Alice and I slowly backed away from the woman.

"Um, we were just selling cookies to…to the pigeons!" Alice replied with a smile.

Such an airhead when it comes to thinking on the spot…or any thinking at all.

"I bet you were." she cackled, slowly but deliberately heading towards us.

I started rapidly pushing the down button the elevator.

"You're not going anywhere." she hissed, and erupted into flames, turning into a freaky looking creature.

On the left was a donkey leg, and on the right was a metal-like pipe. We screamed, and started pounding on the elevator doors. She started manically laughing, and we turned to look at her. She was slowly hobbling towards us and was only a couple yards away. Suddenly, the elevator doors opened to reveal a lanky teenage boy with bad acne, and hooves for feet. Alice gasped. Could this day get any weirder? I didn't have time to think about it, because everything went black.