Hey, so a few quick notes. Anything in italics means it's a thought. So I hope you enjoy this story. R 'n R!
Jemina was in her mother's behemoth of a truck on their way home from her high school. Unlike most people, teenagers to be exact, she loved school, there were a few classes that she could do without, but was more than ready for her usual three day weekend. Her school only went four days a week but they were in school longer. Most of the kids didn't mind the longer hours as they had a longer weekend. She had spent her day daydreaming, thinking about her favorite shows and books and wanting something exciting to happen in her life. It was then her brother's voice broke through, "Then Optimus got a jetpack and helped the Dino Rangers take down one of Rita's monsters…" He continued on melding different TV shows he liked together to create one strange story. He defiantly had his sister's imagination, crazy and wild, you never would know what would come next.
She sat thinking about the Transformers, trying to drown out his voice with her thoughts. He would/could talk for hours about nothing and yet everything and would babble on till either her or her mother needed a break, which lasted thirty seconds at best. Jemina became so lost in her thoughts as to why the G1 Transformers where better than the new Prime ones that she didn't see when her mother pulled into their neighborhood and fishtailed.
Jemina smiled at her mother once she got the truck on a straight path again, her mother was always yelling at her father whenever he purposefully fishtailed. When they arrived at the house she was meet with a cold breeze that carried some snow in it. Closing the front door of the truck and went to the back door to grab her backpack, it was heavier than usual. Full of almost all of her school books, which totaled to three, not that she needed them. She had a friend who was pretty sick and missed a lot of school and needed help in catching up. She didn't know if she would need them for tonight but she brought them home anyway.
Jemina smiled then called out, "Jayce, race you to the door?" She was answered by her brother tromping through the two-and-a-half feet of snow, quite a feat for him since he was only three-and-a-half feet tall. She raced to get to the door but kept slipping on the slick ice. They reached the door at the same moment, it came down to whoever got inside first. Jemina turned the handle and she and her brother burst through the door, it was a tie-not that uncommon. They were then greeted by her dog, Aja, when a light, pure white light surrounded and engulfed her, her brother, and her dog. It was the last thing she knew.
Jemina opened her eyes, she was facing her sky blue wall and she could feel the pressure of her dog on her knees. That had to be one of the weirdest and stupidest dreams I have ever had. She turned over and grabbed her iPod to check the weather, it wasn't like she ever actually cared but she was curious to see if it would snow. They had two-and-a-half feet of snow already but she was secretly hoping for more, she loved the snow and cold and would live in Antarctica if she could. She turned it on, entered the pass code, this was a must since she had a six year-old brother, and went to her weather app. It opened up and gave high of 58 and a low of 40. Dang we must have summer coming early, it barely gets above 35 in January and that's really pushing it. She then absentmindedly looked at the city, it read Jasper. She was about to close the app when it donned her, Jasper? The app must have a glitch, just her luck…literally. She rebooted it but it still read Jasper. She sighed and then realized that the two other cities that should been up weren't. That's strange. She turned the iPod off and laid her head back down on the pillow, there's no town named Jasper in Northern Idaho, and what happed to the other places I had on there.
She was disturbed from her thoughts when her brother came in, "Jemina? I can't find mom or dad."
"Well dad's at work. Did you check their room?"
"Yes."
"Did you check their bathroom?"
"Yes."
"Did you the garage?"
"Yes. I can't find them anywhere." That was unnerving, she wasn't supposed to be anywhere.
"Alright, let me get up." Jemina then looked at the clock, 8AM, not too late. She got up and opened her door all the way and what she was greeted with shocked her, all of the Christmas and other boxes they had stacked up in the hallway were gone. She looked out of her room and down to the left, the Christmas tree which they had yet to take down was gone also as were all of the other decorations. Ok, this is creepy. They searched the house top to bottom, more like end to end since it was only a one-story house, but found no one. What Jemina did see was a perfectly clean house, no boxes everywhere, no toys strewn about, no tools in odd places, everything was neat and put away. Ok, this is beyond creepy, this is terrifying.
She then opened the door to the garage and called out, "Mom?" But go no reply. She looked in and saw that the garage was also cleaned up, the narrow pathway was no more. Instead everything was on shelves and two cars, the Satturn and the CJ-5, were in the spot where they had had a mound of stuff. Another thing she noticed, the air was somewhat warm not frigid like it should have been during the dead of winter. "Jayce, go get you clothes on."
"But I'm hungry." He came back with, typical six-year-old.
"Alright I'll make breakfast and then we'll take a walk. Sound good?"
"Yeah." He piped up.
"Ok then get the table ready." She went the back slider and opened it to let the dog out when she saw that the fence, which had been blown over during a wind storm, was back up. What's next? The house is going to be flying through the sky, held aloft with balloons? She went to the kitchen and got breakfast started.
An hour later they had breakfast, got the dishes done, beds made, and clothes on. She clipped the leash onto Aja, grabbed her purse, closed the door, and locked it. Once they were outside Jemina spoke to Jayce, "Stay right next to me, there is enough weird stuff going on as it is." He only answered with a nod. For once he was actually quiet, scared after not being able to find their mother.
Once Jemina was outside she noticed that the ground was bare. There was grass to be sure but the snow…it was gone, not only that but the air was warm. She looked around and saw that the neighborhood was changed also, she had never in her life seen these homes before.
"Jemina…?" Jayce asked.
"I don't know Jayce, I just don't know." She would/should have known or remembered if they had moved or at least known what her neighborhood looked like, and this was not it. They went to take a lap around the center island of the neighborhood when they came to a street light. Ok, this is not the neighborhood I remember. She took out her phone and dialed her mom, strange she's not on speed dial anymore. Then again what's normal anymore?
"Jemina, can I walk Aja now?" Jayce asked, getting bored with nothing to do.
"Hu, oh, sure." She handed Aja to him, "Just keep a tight grip on that leash."
"I will." Came his reply. Jemina then turned her attention back to her phone. The ringing had ended and she got a female automated voice, "We are sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and try again." She checked the number again to make sure that it was correct, it was. Odd. She punched in her dad's next and got the female automated voice again, "We are sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and try again." She tried every number she could think of family, friends, teachers, youth leaders, heck she even tried an old pastor they had and got the same message for all of them. She was frustrated now.
They made their way back to the house when Jayce asked, "Where are we?"
"I don't know Jayce. I can't get ahold of anybody and I don't recognize this town." They made it back to the house when Jemina saw a boy, either sixteen or seventeen, pull a pink, blue, and black motorcycle out of his garage. "Uh, excuse me?" She called out to the boy which made him jump.
"What?" Jack turned and saw a teenage girl and young boy walk over to him, oh great, a teenage mother moved in, "Uh, hi."
"Hi." Replied the girl.
"Do you need something?"
"Uh, yeah. Can you tell me where I am?"
She has got to be kidding right? "You're in Jasper, Nevada. The most boring town in the world." He looked at her face, it practically screamed what and how! "Are you and your son lost?"
