Hazel opened her textbook. It was a normal, boring day in math class. She had always been fairly smart, so this chapter was pretty easy for her. Not a cake walk, perhaps...but not exactly a challenge either. Day after day, she sat in this class, bored out of her mind. The hour seemed to stretch on forever, and her teacher talked way too much. It wasn't that hard to understand what they were doing. It was only geometry after all. She figured an hour-long lecture was a bit unwarranted... but hey, what can you do? As her eye's lazily scanned the page, something caught her attention. A note.
The handwriting was a bit messy, and slightly smudged, but it was still readable, although just barely. She squinted to get a better look. On further inspection, It appeared to be a riddle of some sort, carelessly scrawled in the corner of the page. "I am the beginning of the end, the end of every place. I am the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?"
Hazel read these words over and over in her head, trying to make sense of them somehow. She supposed it probably had religious connotation. Figures. She couldn't think of any other way these things could possibly be linked. They all seemed to deal with an end of some sort, save for one line. "I am the beginning of eternity," Ordinarily, she would the riddle off, but with her boredom came a determination to solve it. How could something be the end of time and space itself and yet still be the beginning of eternity? It just didn't make sense until...
"Aha! I get it!" The words burst from her mouth before she even thought about it, eliciting a raised eyebrow from the professor. Oops
"Well then Miss Lancaster, care to show the class?" He gestured to the whiteboard.
Just then, the bell rang. All around her, classmates began to gather up their stuff and leave. Saved by the bell! She sighed with relief. Although she understood the material fine, she wasn't exactly fond of speaking in front of the class. As she herself packed up, she quickly scribbled in an answer. The letter E was the only thing it could possibly be. It seemed obvious to her now, even though it had taken her nearly an hour to get it. As she was putting her textbook away, she flipped to the front. Mr. Eldewood had only two geometry classes. She had it second period, while the other class had it first. This meant that the other name in the textbook had surely been the one who left the note.
Augustus Waters.