Chapter I rewrite
"Beep, beep, beSMACK... ugh."
Monday mornings were just so cruel. Amelia curled up in a tight warm ball under her fluffy warm covers as she waited for five minutes to pass. While she waited, she watched the sun rise and spill its warm rays of light into her bedroom. Though there was sun, mornings were never warm especially if you lived in a country such as Holland. Amelia lived in a medium sized house in a tow called Hilversum, nothing much ever happened there to her disappointment.
She was snapped out of her daydream as the snoozer alarm went off, she put if off a little les violently this time. Amelia crawled out of her warm and soft bed and prepared herself for the cold, cruel day of school that awaited her. She walked sleepily across her bedroom to her chair where she had her clothes neatly folded up on a pile. As she pulled of her pajamas and pulled on her clothes, she listened to one of her friend's favorite songs, called pocket full of sunshine. After getting herself dressed, she sat on the ground near her bedroom window and absorbed the warm soothing sunlight that it emitted, but her moment of peace and glory was short-lived because she was abruptly disturbed by her one and only best friend, Abby, who was squinting up at her with a WTH face. Amelia ignored Abby's amusing facial expression. Abby propped her self up on one elbow and asked what in the world she was doing. Amelia replied by saying that she was just a little cold and needed to warm up a little. Abby sighed loudly and curled up into her covers again.
Abby was saying at Amelia's house for a few days because her parents were on a business trip to South Africa. Because Amelia's parents weren't home ether they though it would be fun to sleep together.
Amelia got up from here position on the ground and somewhat ripped the covers of her friend and told her to get up or else, but the only response she received was a groan and a kick that missed her by a meter. As Amelia walked to the bathroom to brush her hair and teeth, she could hear Abigail crawl out of her bed and emit another one of here noisy groans. When Amelia was done, she went back to the bedroom. She found Abigail on the ground wrestling with her skinny jeans. Passing her with a small shrug Amelia got to her bag, which was lying next to her messy desk. She filled it with her books and homework, after doing that, she filled Abby's bag so she would not forget anything and blame it on her or some other unsuspecting person.
When Abby had finished her wrestling match, they both ran downstairs with their bags on their backs. Amelia opened her little laptop to see if they had nothing else due for that day as Abby walked around the kitchen hunting down that mornings breakfast. As they ate there cereal, which Abby had found in the back of a cupboard, they both sang along to the songs that were playing. After their hasty meal they pulled on their shoes and coats, grabbed their heavy bags and walked outside, Abigail got there bikes out of the shed while Amelia locked the house.
The cycle to school was nice and cold as always. The two friends were singing along to a few of Lady Gaga's songs the hole way there. At arrival they dumped their bicycles into the bicycle-rack and headed to their first class, Spanish.
The day was long and boring, when it ended they met up at the schools entrance and played some football with the guys in their class. They were both crappy footballers but being a goalie was easy, so Amelia spent the game guarding the goal while Abby kicked the ball around aimlessly, she still managed to get a few goals, which did not surprise Amelia because their opponents were not really trying to stop her from doing so. After half an hour of that Abby decided it was enough and dragged a reluctant Amelia out of the game. They got their bikes out of the racks and walked out of the school gates, and cycled home.
To get to Amelia's home they needed to pass through a narrow dark alleyway, she always tried to avoid this way home but because the way she usually went was blocked due to some road works, they did not have much of a choice but to go through it.
The alleyway smelt of smoke and rot, the ground was wet and littered with broken bottles and soda cans and other nasty looking junk. Amelia accidentally rode her bike over a broken bottle and ended up with a flat tire.
"Ugh…" she said looking at the deflated tire.
"What happened?" Abby asked with concerned look on her face.
"Flat tire" Amelia groaned glaring at the broken bottle, which did this to her bike.
"Ooo..." Abby said looking at Amelia's flat tire with a that-looks-nasty face
"Well, we better get moving, this place is giving me the creeps," she said while looking down the gloomy alleyway, Amelia nodded in agreement as she kicked the broken bottle away. They walked in complete silence wincing at every sound that they made. Then something bad happened, they both had already suspected that this would happen to them some day, and that day was now upon them.
They stopped as a group of gangsters came walking their way. Amelia stopped mid step, and Abigail's face went pale.
"Hay girls," The front one said mockingly. The others in the gang started laughing at us. He walked up to Abby and grabbed her by the wrist, she dropped her bike and wacked him away violently.
"Get of me!" she shouted. Amelia had dropped her bike as well and was glaring daggers into him and his gang. Abby staggered back to Amelia who was still intensely staring at the group of hooligans. They knew these guys, they were wanted by the police for robbing innocent people and they had been accused of murder on a number of accessions.
Amelia whispered, "let's show 'em what were made of." Abigail grinned in anticipation. Abby and Amelia had, already from a young age, mustered practically every self-defense technique known to man, they practiced everyday after school and God help the people who had the guts to threaten, let lone attack them so openly. Another gangster in the group spoke up
"Look at them, I think they like us!" Abigail smirked at him and said,
"Challenge excepted." The two friends both got into their defense positions and looked at the laughing group of morons, Amelia started the count down.
"3... 2...1…" they both launched at the unsuspecting group at the same time. Then everything seemed to go in slow motion. Amelia looked to her right as she saw Abigail launch her self high up in the air and did a round house kick which knocked at least 2 of the dipsticks out. Amelia did a front flip and landed on one of the thugs knocking the air in his lungs straight out of him. Then she gracefully jumped of him and delivered a full speed head but into another one who was standing right behind her fist victim. After a rather short time, the group of at least 8 thugs were on the ground either groaning or out cold. Amelia stood next to Abby who just smiled proudly at their recent victory, this fight had been easy, almost pathetic considering the amount of people they had to fight in one go.
"Um… I'll call the cops," Amelia said, Abby nodded in agreement. The cops asked for their names and age's but they just said that if they wanted the thugs, that they would have to come right now. The two friends hid behind a corner to make sure that all of the criminals stayed down until the police came. After all of the gangsters had been arrested and take away they walked home in silence, there bikes were practically beaten into scrap metal in the fight, so there was no point in trying to bring them back home. The night was warmer than usual and beautiful as always. Amelia just loved the dark, it was not like she was an emo or anything, but the night just soothed her, it made her feel free. As they walked through deserted alleyways, something unusually strange happened. In the middle of the alleyway a giant portal appeared, you know, like the one in transformers prime. (Abby and Amelia were hug transformers fans, they loved the animated series, prime series and all three of the movies and they also both possessed a ton of action figures). They looked at each other, then back at the green and blue swirling vortex. Amelia felt adrenalin pumping into her veins, she was super exited, and both had always wanted this to happen, and nether was going to miss this once in a life time opportunity. Amelia wasted no time and did a flat out sprint for the vortex and Abby was not far behind. As they entered the portal they felt this tingling sensation and then, darkness.
The two of them woke up in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. It was some kind of desert, Amelia had no Idea where they were because she had never been out of Europe before, but her friend, who had been practically everywhere in the world, knew exactly where they had landed, the Grand Canyons. Amelia looked at her in disbelief, she was lost for words. She had always wanted to go to and see the Grand Canyons and there she was, surrounded by them. Abby got up and brushed herself off, Amelia followed her example and then they left to go on their biggest journey yet.
