DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Sims.

So, this was a random idea I got for a story when I was working on another non-fanfic project and hit a brick wall. I hate writer's block!

This story is for my old computer, which I haven't thought of in years. May you rest in peace.

NOTE: this story is set in the world of sims 3.

One. Sky

Hayden and her younger brother Jack were taking the long way home from school.

It was sunny. It always seemed to be sunny nowadays.

They cycled across the old iron bridge lazily.

"Can we go over to our Island Hayden?" Jack called back to his sister eagerly. Twelve-year-old Hayden thought for a moment. They didn't need to be home for a specific time or anything. What the hell.

"Yeah, ok," she called back.

Jack veered off the road onto a winding path through a field of long grass. Hayden followed at a slower pace. Her legs were tired enough from PE.

A few minutes later, they dropped their bikes under some trees and hopped over the watery gap between the mainland and the little clump of grass that Jack had called their 'island'. The little island was barely big enough for the single tree that stood on it, but Jack and Hayden had found it themselves years and years ago, and it was their favourite place in the world.

"Hay! Watch me! Watch me!" Jack squealed, clambering up the trunk of the small tree.

"Alright, alright, I'm watching," Hayden said bemusedly, straightening her pink and black mini-kilt absently.

Jack found a foothold and reached up for the topmost branch. He's really going to do it, Hayden marvelled, he'd never climbed all the way to the top before.

Crack.

Jack screamed and fell to the ground. Hayden looked around bewildered, but it wasn't one of the branches that had cracked.

It was the sky.

"Hayden!" Jack wailed, leaping off of the grass and wrapping his small arms around his sister's waist.

There was an almighty tearing sound and, as the two kids watched, the sky ripped apart.

Beyond the tear was…numbers? Green 1s and 0s on a black background scrolled across the tear with alarming speed.

"What's going on?" Jack whimpered.

"I don't know, Jack. I just don't know."

Short chapter! Just a beginning! Please review, I love hearing what you think!