A REGULAR ADVENTURE

19-year-old Phoenix Willows was sitting in her lounge room on her couch in the late afternoon flicking through the channels on TV. She was really depressed because she had recently been involved in a car crash with her family and had been the sole survivor.

(Flashback)

Her parents had been driving in their trusty, old (not really old, I just needed a word that fit, and it was only made several years ago), black Mazda 4 with Phoenix and her siblings, who were younger than her, in the back. Now, her parents had been driving properly (if you thought they were the ones doing something wrong) and following all the rules, but some crazy drunk driver had driven through a red light and their car had crashed through the front, crushing and killing her parents instantly. Her 13-year-old brother, Ash, and her 9-year-old sister, Holly, who both got car-sick easily and so they had been sitting on the window sides while Phoenix had been in the middle, had both been crushed and killed by head injuries which had bled too much.

Phoenix had been showered in glass and had some very severe cuts, but she had noticed none of them as she had crawled out through the door of the car which had been broken open. She took out her phone and called 911 and waited for the person to ask what the emergency was. She told them that she had just been in a car crash and that they were on S Main Street (Los Angeles) and that her family were still in the car, as was the drunk guy. They sent an ambulance over immediately and told her to wait on the side of the road. She crawled away from the car, too exhausted and injured to walk properly and had lain there. As soon as her thoughts had caught up with her situation she realised that her family were dead. She just kept lying there, sobbing.

The ambulance had arrived soon after and they had made a big fuss over her as they lay her on the stretcher, trying to be as gentle as possible. They had removed her family and the other driver from their cars and had put them on stretchers as well, but unlike her, they had put a white sheet over the bodies.

As soon as they got to the hospital she blacked out. When she came around she had stitches up her arms and legs and even a plaster on her right leg. She had a few broken fingers and toes, but the toes were only on her right foot, which already had plasters on it. She had bandages all over her arms and legs as well and a big one on her throbbing head and she was also missing one of her top front teeth. She also had a very deep, curiously shaped cut on her upper arm just below her shoulder which was exactly shaped like a star.

(End Flashback)

She found out later that that would be a very visible, permanent scar when it healed. She had taken several months to heal, and when she was let out of the hospital she had been bombarded by reporters asking her about the crash (and she had turned away all of them but it had seemed to make her even more mysterious and famous), well-wishers that brought her gifts, mainly people hoping for fame as well as some random rich person that had given her a brand new, shiny, twenty-four-carrot tooth to replace her lost one, and the only ones that she truly appreciated (like, at all, although she did appreciate the gold tooth) were her friends coming to comfort her. She had decided to live alone and her friends visited from time to time, with her best friends, Chloe Jackson, Justice Kelly, and Heather Hunter visiting the most. A month or two later things had settled back to normal, for everyone but Phoenix, and lavender eyes which had once been sparkling and so full of life were now dull and haunted.

I guess now you should know what she looks like. She is a little short for her age with a pale but still slightly tanned complexion, now criss-crossed with so many scars that it looked white. She has long golden hair that has somehow naturally turned a beautiful rose pink from the tips to about 10cm up. She also has, like you already know, lavender eyes. Since the crash she's been wearing a blood red t-shirt under a black hoodie and short, dark-blue jeans. She has also been wearing medium-length white socks and knee-length, high-heeled boots with a gold buckle on the side. Before the crash, she had been so bright and cheerful, and now, unless someone or something (spoiler XD) comes into her life soon, she'll probably be anti-social and dull for years.

Now she is just trying to find a TV show that can take her mind off her life and problems. Finally, she rested on her favourite TV show which was conveniently on right at this moment and half-smiled. It was Regular Show (don't own, don't sue) and it was an episode that she hadn't seen yet. It was called 'Death Bear' and by the end of the episode she was grinning. She decided to settle down for the night with some ham and cheese pizza, some chocolate milk, and a whole list of recorded Regular Show episodes.

Eventually, she had finished all of her food and drink and was now sleepily rubbing her eyes. She was about half-way finished her Regular Show recordings and had a soft smile which disappeared as soon as it had come. She turned off the TV and changed into her pyjamas and brushed her teeth. As she was walking back into her room she looked out the window at the night sky filled with thousands of stars. The first star that her eyes landed on was a particularly bright, sparkling star that seemed to draw her eyes.

She sighed and whispered, "Star light, star bright. First star I see tonight. I wish you may, I wish you might, grant this wish I wish tonight." She breathed in deeply and continued, "Please, I wish that things were as unreal and impossible for me like they are for Rigby and Mordecai from Regular Show, because maybe then my family would have had a chance to survive." She sighed as she didn't believe that her wish would come true at all. She went into her bedroom and fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow.

She had a weird dream with everyone from Regular Show calling out to her and waving, and the weirdest thing was that she waved back. In fact, in the dream she realised that she was happy and content unlike in real-life, and hoped that the dream would never end.

Suddenly, in the dream a chilly wind blew everywhere, and Phoenix shivered. As soon as the bout of shivering was over, however, it felt as if she had been wrapped in a warm, welcoming blanket and she felt peaceful as everything turned black.