What You Wish For
- Prologue -
Melany, Texas 1991
Maxine Tripp sat on the wide steps infront of Melany Elementary school waiting for her older brother Matthew to come down the street from his school Melany High School to walk home with her. Max kicked her feet against the hard concrete of the stairs and looked up at the sky. A foreboding gray sky hung over the small town of only 3,000 people. Max had heard of High Schools with more people in it then Melany had.
Melany was a town built around nuclear plants. If you didnt work for a nuclear plant you had no business in Melany unless you were a small child or a house wife like Krista Tripp, Max's mother. The mother of four kids, Max, Emmaline, Matthew and Jodi. James Tripp worked for one of the nuclear plants in town, he was a hard worker and a good father.
Max decided it was time to go home and Matt wasnt there yet so she would walk home alone. She had done it before when Matt had been sick or Emmaline had been sick like she was that day. She began to walk down the street when a soft tingling started all over her skin. She looked on the ground, it had begun to rain. But it wasnt just ordinary rain it was acid rain. Max began to walk faster, normally it didnt get bad enough to burn you but she didnt want to be in it if it happened to.
Max's home was in sight when she felt the first real burn. She looked down at her arm as the large drop of acid rain hit her arm. She looked up in panic, instantly the house she had lived in her whole life seemed miles away. She began to run, but she tripped on a branch. A loud creeking informed Max that this was the end of the line, even at the fragile age of ten she knew what death was and this just happened to be her day.
"Max!" She heard Emmaline, her sister, yell from the front step of their home.
A zap of blue light told Max that Emmaline was using her powers to try and block whatever it was Max had no time to dodge. But it was too late for Emmaline's magical powers to help Max. The moment that blue Dodge pickup hit Max and smashed her into the house next to her it was over. The flames that spurted from the car and caught the house on fire sealed the deal.
The last thing that Max heard was the frightened cries of her sister and the world closed in around, everything was black and there was no white tunnel at the end for Maxine Kristen Tripp.