Chapter 1
I sat at my desk, tapping my pencil on the polished wood as I stared at her homework. "When am I actually going to have to factor a trinomial in a real-life situation?" I think. I plug in my headphones and set my music to shuffle. The only sound that reaches my ears now is "Cosmic Love" by Florence + the Machine. I (reluctantly) start my homework, mentally sending my hate to my math teacher.
About an hour later, I finally push away the yellow algebra notebook and toss my pencil aside. "Finally done." I say to myself as I put away my books and pull out my laptop. The little power button glows when I press it. Minutes later, I'm scrolling through my dashboard on Tumblr. I see nothing but Glee stuff for a while and assume that my friend Lauren is going through another round of Glee spamming. When I finally reach the end of the spam, I'm met with something good. I sit and happily reblog everything related to my favorite show: Doctor Who. "How absolutely amazing would it be to travel with the Doctor?" I think to myself for about the billionth time today. Just the idea of traversing the universe with someone like the Doctor is enough to put a silly grin on my face.
When I've managed to run out of things to reblog, I begin aimlessly wandering the web. This quickly becomes boring so I log off. I'm contemplating watching Doctor Who on Netflix when I'm interrupted by a loud sound. I hear a very familiar sound coming from outside. A sound I know all too well. A sound that can only mean one thing: I have a visitor.
I rush to the window and flip up the shades so quickly that they almost fall off. But I don't care about that. All I care about is the thing sitting in the middle of my front lawn. It's an object that I'm so used to looking at. Something I'd kill to see in person and it's sitting right in front of my house.
It's something old.
Something new.
Something borrowed.
Something blue.
And it's only 50 feet away.