A Second Chance at Life
Chapter 1: Endless spiral
"Ai! Wake up! Your gunna be late for school!"
"Meh"
Why does this always happen? I always wake up late, just make it to school, be bored all day, go home and repeat this never ending spiral. Anyway as you can guess-
"Ai!"
"I'm up mam! Geez…"
Bah, Anyway, I'm Ai. I'm 13 years old and live in a mansion with my mam, dad and older brother Kai. My parents are rich so we are very well off but don't judge me by that! I'm not one of those snobby people who think there better than everyone else. None of my family is. My mam has maids but always prefers to be the one to wake me up in the morning and get me ready for school. My dad is a professional soccer player so works most of the time but always plays soccer with me and Kai when he gets the chance. My brother is a director and always tries to get me a part in his movies. Me? Well I'm in high school and get top grades in all my subjects. I've got some great friends and I'm fairly popular. But no one knows the true me. Sometimes even I forget who the real me is…
*knock knock*
"Come in"
"Miss Ai your friends are here"
"Oh tell them I will be down in a sec"
That was my personal maid Nana. All the other maids call me by my full name but I prefer them to just call me Ai. Nana gets that so that's what she calls me. We try not to be too formal towards together.
"I'll just give myself a quick check"
I've got a rare condition which makes my hair an abnormal colour and the same to my eyes. I have long blue hair with one white streak and bright orange eyes. I usually just put a bow in my hair and style up my uniform a bit. We wear a black, red and white sailor suite with red tights. I usually just add a few badges and done. I headed down the stair case and saw my friends at the bottom.
"Finally!"
"We thought you would never get up!"
"Sorry Setsuna, Kat"
Setsuna and Kat had been my friends since I was little. Setsuna had medium brown hair and brown eyes. She is a good friend but we do get into a lot of fights. One minute she's fine and the next she won't talk to me. However Kat's different. She has ginger scene hair and green eyes. She is great at giving advice and keeping secrets. Her down side is that she gets involved with the snobby popular kids too much and a lot of average people don't like her, I'm not even sure if Setsuna likes her much anymore.
"Ai, here's your lunch money"
"Thanks mam, shall we get going?"
"Yea, come on before we are late"
We left the house and started to walk up the street towards our school.
"So how are things with you and Bradley going?
Bradley was another one of my friends but I also had a crush on him. I met him at the beginning of high school and liked him ever since.
"Kat… It's ok I guess."
"Nawww you should ask him out!"
"No way Setsuna. You know what a socially awkward penguin I am"
"Want me to ask him for you?"
"No. I want to wait for a bit longer"
"Fine then…"
We finally made it to school and walked over to our first class which happened to be English. I enjoy English, It's always interesting and I get to sit next to Bradley. We walked through the door to see that most of the class was already here. We went and took our seats.
"Hey Ai"
"Hey Bradley, good morning"
"Test results beck today"
"Yea, pretty exciting"
"We all know what you're going to get"
"Bradley…"
Then our English teacher walked in. Her name is Mrs Wright and she's awesome! She can make a joke out of anything and she's a great teacher.
"Ok class, I've got your test results here so please wright your scores down in your planners"
Mrs Wright walked around the room passing out the papers to each student. There was a lot of disappointed faces but much more happy faces.
"Aurora, good as ever"
She passed me my paper which had a large ring with the number 100 written inside it.
"Told you"
"Bradley, stop it… What did you get?"
"84"
"That's great!"
"Yea, thanks"
The rest of school passed pretty quickly and I headed home. It's always dark by the time I'm halfway there though. But I couldn't help but feel uneasy this time… As if someone was watching me…
"I'm home!"
"Ai!"
"Dad! You're back!"
I ran up to him and gave him a massive hug.
"Just for tonight though, we have a big match tomorrow"
"That's ok, hey can we play some soccer?!"
"Sure, I'll go get Kai, meet you at the pitch?"
"Ok"
We have our own indoor soccer pitch for dad to practice on, and for us of course. I quickly got my kit on and went down to the pitch, Kai and dad where already there.
"Hey slow coach, you ready?"
"Yup, you ready to get thrashed Kai?"
"Haha no I will be winning today!"
We always have little mini matches and I always win. Kai and dad even go on the same team but I still win. Dad says I should join a soccer club or something but that's when my second personality comes into conflict with me. I'm honestly scared to do it. I think that if I join a soccer club people will think of me badly. You know, because I'm a girl. The real me really wants to be the other me knows I can't.
"Haha got passed you again Kai!"
"Damn it. Dad stop her from scoring!"
"Don't worry, I'll stop her!"
"You wish!"
I swiftly got passed my dad and took a shot at the goal.
"Goal! Haha a hatrick!
"Haha good as ever Ai"
"Come on you should get some rest"
"Awww fine"
I went up to my room and got changed into my pj's and planked onto my bed. I then felt little paws on my back.
"Hey Dia"
Dia was my pet cat. Her full name was Diamond but I just called her Dia for short. She was a cute soft white cat with a red ribbon and a bell around her neck. I found her on the street about a year ago and took her in. She's always there for me.
"Meow"
Dia had jumped off me and started sitting by my wall.
"Oh yea, thanks Dia"
I walked over to my calendar and crossed of today.
"Less than two months till by birthday…"
I decided to just get some sleep so I could get up early tomorrow. Most people would lie in on a Saturday but not me. I turned off the light and hoped into bed and quickly fell asleep.
I woke up the next morning at 7:00 and headed downstairs after changing into my soccer kit. I headed into the kitchen to find our personal chef.
"Ahh Miss Aurora! What can I make you for breakfast?"
"Hmm a poptart!"
"A poptart, you sure?"
"Yes please!"
"Ok then"
He quickly made my poptart and handed it over to me. I quickly ate it and headed over to the pitch but something caught my eye. Over by the door was a small folded piece of paper. I walked over to it and opened it.
Aurora,
Meet me at the park at 7:30
It was made out of cut out letters from a magazine and had no signature.
Should I? Hmm maybe its Kat or Setsuna? I'll get change into something more casual and go down.
So I quickly got changed into a white top and pink skirt and headed off.
I arrived at the park but no one was there. I started to look around for anything suspicious but nothing.
" Damn it, I bet this is some kind of prank"
But that's when I saw it. A shadowy figure in the mini forest. I obviously noticed that I saw them and began to run off.
"Hey wait up!"
I chased after the figure into the forest. I searched and searched but had lost them.
"Damn it"
I then saw something glowing a bit further in. I decided to get closer and find out what it was. When I got to the heart of the forest there was some kind of… Portal?
"What is that?" I got a little bit closer to try and see anything but it was just a spiral of colours.
"I wonder where it lea-"
But before I could say anymore someone had come up behind me and shoved me straight into the portal!
"Wahhhhh!"
It was a strange feeling inside the portal. It was almost as if I was flying. But then my head began to spin and before I knew it I had passed out…