When Illusions Subside
Crash and Burn-Intro
It was dark. Nothing but a single star illuminated the sky. I sat under the porch light with a blanket and my cellphone. I had no sweater on, only my greenday t-shirt and my blue jeans with the writing on them. I stared up at the one spot in the sky. I believe it was a star, up until a few weeks ago.
You see, I lived in a town where nothing much happened. Escondido. It was a semi-normal town I guess. It was noisy too, was. Now its as if it never existed. It all started about 9:12pm one night, my best friend Jackie called me up saying she thought she saw something explode in her telescope. When I looked up, there was some thing oddly greenish in the sky, like a smoke. It looked like a face and a snake slithering out of its mouth.
Jackie looked through her telescope again and almost fainted.
"Oh my gods Lindsay!" She yelped.
"What's going on!" demanded Rachel and Kathleen over the phone.
I sighed, I didn't know WHAT was going on. I heard a crash and a thud and swung around. I almost screamed, my dad lay on the kitchen floor between the door way of the entrance room and the computer room. A person in a hooded cloak stand over him, and a long stick was cluched in his palm. He lifted it and a bolt of green light came bursting forward. I quickly jumped to the side to dodge it and heard screams through the phone.
"Get out of there Jackie, NOW!" I Ran and quickly told her to run to the secret spot in our highschool.
Halfway down El Norte' Parkway, I ran into someone. It had been Randall. I grabbed him and started off again. It was like pulling a led bar behind me. I told Randall to move faster, and he sped up a bit, but it was enough.
POOF. Another hooded figure stood at out 12 o'clock. I pulled Randall to the side as we ran around them. It was a tad diffucult do to the fact that they were casting lights towards us. A flash of familiar green flew towards us and I pulled Randall down to duck it. I jumped up and we ran towards the school. Our Highschool.
Apon the entrance gates, sat Jackie, Rachel, and Kathleen. We asked each other if everyone was okay, and we all were. We then slide under the gates and ran over to our bench. Near it was a tree, which we sat under.
"Who are those hooded freaks?" Rachel blurted out.
"I don't know, but they hurt my dad..." I wiped a tear from my eye.
Jackie was freaking, Kathleen didnt do anything but sit there, Randall was no help, and Rachel was ranting in shock. But little did we know that a year ago when we cast a spell from a book Torinda gave me for my 16th birthday, it was a real spell, and as something came down from the sky...it protected us.
It's been two or three weeks now at the least, and an older man saved us from the wreckage of our once town. His name, was Dumbledore, If I remember, Now we're in a castle, Hogwarts. Safe from the life we knew. Now our families are gone, well the ones in Escondido anyway. Now we're in a whole different world. But I know we'll make it. Together.
