Chapter 1

The Normal Day

"Ugh!" I yelled in frustration. "What?" my friend, Amelia, said. We were talking over the phone. "Sorry Amelia," I said. "I didn't realize I said that out loud." I could hear her scoff.

" Well you're going to tell me anyways aren't you?" She said. "It's what you usually do."

"Oh, whatever. I still don't understand 'the coincidence.'" I have been trying to figure out what this coincidence meant because I don't believe in them.

"Well, Nixi, maybe it's just the fact that you need to believe in them!" Amelia thinks I'm crazy.

Dodging the subject, for her sake, I said, "Hey, are you coming to my house today?"

There was a small pause.

"Yep." She said. "Actually, I'll come right now. I was getting bored here."

"Alrighty." I hung up and prepared the house and waited.

The doorbell rang 10 minutes later. I was greeted with a big hug that took the breath out of my lungs. I managed to croak out, "Since when did you hu-ug me till I c-c-couldn't breathe?" That was actually true.

She stopped hugging me and held my shoulders. Then had the look that said 'Get ready for the truth!' Then she smiled and said, "Since like now." She let go and walked towards the couch.

"Amelia, you're a couch potato, you know that, right?" I said.

She snapped her head around and gave me a smirk. She said, "Aww seriously? I know. But who could resist a tv?" I had to hand it to her, no one can resist not watching tv AT ALL. If they did, I would give them a reward.

"How can you be so relaxed?" I said once I sat next to her. We were watching Doctor Who. It was Sunday and it was 5:38 in the afternoon. I go to bed at 12-1 o'clock in the morning even though my mom said 11. I'm sneaky like that.

"What do you mean?" When she asked that, her eyes were just glued to the screen.

"It's Sunday, there are only a few hours left, and schools tomorrow."

"I enjoy the now."

"How do you enjoy the now if you know it will be ruined by the later?" Suspicion and anger from her patience risen quickly.

"Good point." She said simply

I sighed and closed my eyes only for a second because well, if you were a Whovian, you would understand that, no matter how many times you have seen Doctor Who, you always want to see it again.

I was woken up by my alarm clock going off. My friend left at 10:30 and I 'went to bed.' at 11. Angrily wishing that school didn't start on Mondays, I swung my feet over the bed and onto the floor.

I walked into the bathroom and turned on my faucet just as my phone rang. I sighed then ran to my bedroom, grabbed my phone, and walked back to the bathroom. I looked at the caller ID and it was Amelia. With a groan, I hit answer and sat it down on the toilet lid. I put her on speaker.

"Yes, Amelia?" I said. I really wasn't happy when she called me this early in the morning. It was 7:30 when I was woken up but know it is 7:37.

"Hey, do you want me to pick you up?" She said, a little groggy.

In reply, I said, "Splash your face with cold water. I don't want to get us in an accident because you fell asleep." I heard her chuckle softly over the phone. I also heard her turn on the faucet and scream.

"AHH! Cold, cold, cold! Too cold! Too-hoo hoo cold!" She exclaimed. I cracked up. I was laughing to tears and rolling on the floor.

"Hey! That's not funny!" She objected. I could see her face now. All pouty with anger.

"Yes! Yes, it is!" I shouted, hardly being able to breathe due to laughing.

"Whatever! Hurry up! You have 10 minutes!" And with that, she hung up.

"Sheesh!" I said. I washed up and put my hair in a ponytail. With four minutes to spare, I got dressed in a shirt with a TARDIS on the front, some sea blue jeans I dyed, and some seafoam colored running shoes. I grabbed my phone, turned off the bathroom light, ran into my bedroom to grab my book bag, ran downstairs, said bye to my mom, then stepped outside.

I waited for 2 minutes then saw Amelia's car coming. I stepped off the porch, got inside the car, and she headed for school.

"You look awful blue today!" Amelia joked. She was a Whovian too. But wasn't as into Greek mythology like me. She believed in it, but wouldn't go as far as wearing trident shirts from time to time.

Yes, I wear shirts with tridents. Nothing wrong with that! Anyways, it was actually the first day of school. I just don't like school days.

We arrived at our school. Amelia found someplace to park while I waited for her at the stairs of our school. When she walked over to me, she asked "Ready?"

I took a deep breath and said "Ready."

We walked up the stairs and walked through the doors. We saw a few kids walking, finding their homerooms, or just plainly waiting in line for their schedules.

When we made it up to the table that had ours, a nice lady asked, "Your name sweetheart?"

"Nixi Jackson," I answered.

"Here you go. And you ma'am?" She was talking to Amelia.

"Amelia, Miss." She answered. The lady gave her her paper and we walked away. We had the same schedule, science, math, Spanish, French, ELA, swimming, and free period.

We went to science class, which was ok, math, which I hated, Spanish, eh, French, even worse than hate, and ELA was terrible due to my dyslexia.

Amelia and I walked to swimming class. All the students knew they would have it due to emails, so we were prepared.

"I can't wait!" I exclaimed. I loved the water. It was the only place I could relax and think straight.

" Yeah, yeah," Amelia said, sarcasm dripping from her voice. "Whatever."

She didn't like swimming.

Once we walked in, and into the restrooms, we got dressed for swimming. While I sat at the bottom of the pool (it was Freeplay), Amelia relaxed at the top. I turned around to see a boy with his back to me doing what I'm doing. He had jet black hair. I couldn't see his face so I just turned around.

The time came and went pretty fast, so did free period. Amelia left to go get food before picking me up. While she was away, I talked to her, over the phone, on the stairs of the school.

It was about 'The Coincidence'. I thought I was alone when I was talking to her. I was extremely wrong. That's when all the Hades broke loose.