It was 1 pm on Saturday when I heard the doorbell ring. I was home alone, laying on my bed, listening to some MCR and thinking about how to start my "The Outsiders" book report.
Maybe with a quote from the book or maybe with a punch line. I had brainstormed at least two punch lines so far:
-Instead of Stay Gold Ponyboy, why can't it be Stay AU Ponyboy
-"Stay cold Ponyboy, Stay cold," Johnny said as he shivered in the cold Canadian Weather
I know, the punch lines are horrible because my thoughts were wandering off somewhere like Alice wandering off to the rabbit hole.
My thoughts were going to this girl I had a huge, huge, huge crush on (maybe not even a crush, I actually love this girl).
Ruby Diaz.
Black Hair that was always tied into a ponytail and moved slightly the way her body does whenever she walks by me to her next class. The way her t-shirt and adidas track pants fitted her body and showed her curves. The way her dark brown eyes shine during lunch whenever she reads the battered copy of 'The Outsiders'. Lips that make me want to brush it with my finger every single second I'm around her, and the butterflies I feel in my stomach when I'm around her.
Sometimes, I don't even think I have a crush on her. I think I'm in love with her.
My thoughts blew up as I heard the doorbell ring. Maybe after 5 or 6 times since I was too busy blasting 'Welcome to the black parade' by MCR (good song by the way).
I knew that it wasn't my mom or dad ringing the doorbell. Mom had just left for an emergency at the hospital and dad left this morning and won't come back till late at night.
I instantly wished it was Ruby, coming in with her black shiny hair, her sparkly dark brown eyes and her copy of "The Outsiders".
Along with her fangirling.
But, the odds of her coming are less than .1% as she had no idea where my house is.
And she has no idea who I am.
I got up from my bed, after hearing the doorbell ring the 3rd time, and trudged all the way downstairs. I opened the door to find a tall African American man with a orange suit and tie along with a happy face. He took out his sunglasses and his hand saying:
"Hello, the name is Bach,"
I shook his hand, and felt like my hand was going to break into million pieces, he had such a firm grasp.
"Hi, I'm Colby," I greeted. Without asking him to come inside, he went in my house, took off his black shoes and skipped all the way to the kitchen.
"Hey! You know that you can't come into people's houses like that!" I yelled, following him into the kitchen.
"Nice house, you got some food? You don't know how starving I am,"
"Can you answer my question? Why are you here?" I asked him.
"Get me some food, then we'll talk," he said as he settled himself at the head of the table.
"Get me some food, then we'll talk," I sarcastically said and went to the refrigerator to get out some leftover pizza from last night. I heated it over the oven and took it out giving a slice to him and taking one slice to myself.
"Okay, kid, so you want to know why I'm here?" he asked, as if just remembering what he came here to tell me.
I nodded, chewing on my pizza.
"Well, what if I told you that there is one way you can travel to any fictional universe?" he asked me.
I choked on my food, then swallowed before saying "What?"
He smirked. "That girl, you've been crushing on, what's her name?"
"Ru. .by,. . . . Ruby Diaz," I said hesitantly then turned my focus on the stranger sitting beside me. Who is this guy? How does he know about me and Ruby? I thought of her almost instantly, then out of the blue the craziest notion came to me. Could he know because Ruby herself told him? Could she have actually noticed me? No, I think to myself, that would be crazy.
Colby's babbling brings me out of daydream, and I realize he just asked me a question. "I didn't hear what you said sorry, can you say it again?"
"I asked you if she's still a huge fangirl over that book. And if you would like to impress her"
"Yeah" I reply to both of his questions.
"Well I got news for you, with this (he takes out his suitcase and opened it up, showing a small device that looks a lot like an IPod) , not only can you travel to "The Outsiders" universe but you can change everything in that book" he says, and he's voice becomes serious when he adds "you can also change what happens in her favourite book,"
I looked at him in bewilderment and started to laugh. "You're crazy, you know that, that looks like a fucking IPod," I inform him. but he looks dead serious and I get a really unpleasant feeling about all this.
He takes out the device and pressed the button revealing a blue screen saying "Where do you want to go?"
I looked at the device and sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"I have this bad feeling that I'm going to do this, right?" I muttered.
But he just laughed and gave me the device. "Okay, what you got to do is press the button for a long time and say where you want to go. But before you do, you get to take two things,"
Without thinking, I say "I want to bring the copy of "The Outsiders" and money,"
He nodded and gave me the device.
"You're doing it for her," he said.
I nodded. Looking around my house one last time, I pressed the power button and after a few moments I say:
"1967; The Outsiders,"
As soon as I release the power button, I felt a wave of different colours hitting me, my last thoughts were:
"This better be worth it,"
