1. The Story Starts
The story starts in a very average town.
The story is about two people.
The story starts at the beginning of a school year, the time when people are sleepy and annoyed, but are excited nonetheless.
The story starts at night, at an hour some people will be asleep and some people will be awake.
Looking in the window of a house, you see a boy packing his backpack with all the new school supplies for the new school year. He has a small smile on his face as he checks off each word on the list as he puts the appropriate item in his new backpack.
Something possesses people to buy new school supplies, even though the old ones are in perfectly fine condition. Something drives parents to want to stock up all the new school supplies because they're so cheap at that time of year.
Seriously, a nickel for 10 notebooks. Wow.
Ahem.
Anyways, moving along. We step into the local mall, still bustling with people even at this hour. A boy sits outside a dressing room, waiting. He looks tired, like he'd been dragged around the mall all day, but he put up with it.
These two people are completely normal.
They could easily be extras put in a story. The person shoved over as the protagonist rushes past. The person whose bag had been stolen, and thanks the hero profusely when he fights the thief and brings it back with a charming smile on his face. Or perhaps, they're the burglar, scorned by all the readers because he has a different motive than the main character.
Have you ever wondered about those people's lives? What do they do every day? Are they special, or are they all just plain ordinary, paling in comparison to the protagonist's brilliance?
You're about to find out.