Chapter One-Time Travel
Stonybrook High School, 2011
"Miss Nix, are you paying attention to me? " Mrs. Wallace snaps.
"A! B! C! All of the above!" Stevie Nix shouts out randomly, her chocolate brown waves bouncing as she whipped her head around, cinnamon brown eyes wide open.
Teddy Mitchall sniggers, closing her dark black eyes, and putting her blonde head in her arms to muffle her giggles.
"Shuddap, Teddy!" Charlie Martin says, fighting a smile herself. "The answer is x equals twenty-four and one half." She bows her head, her dark red hair falling over her left shoulder, green eyes glued to her work.
"Correct once again Miss Martin." Mrs. Wallace says, turning her beady glare away from Stevie and on to someone else.
"Ah, yes, and once again Miss smarty pants is right." Max Taylor says, shaking her head, her short black hair moving as she did, and her one intense blue eye and one bottle green eye sparkling with mischief.
"Oh, quiet, you!" Stevie says. "Thanks, Charlie."
Charlie waved her hand to say it was nothing. Secretly she loved to show off that she was taking all AP classes, and was about to graduate early.
"Now if only this day could hurry up, that'd be fab!" Teddy says, rolling her eyes behind those nerdy glasses that just looked so perfect on her (A/N Think Corey Feldman in Stand by Me, who played a character called Teddy ^. ^).
"So! Whaddya say to goin' out tonight?" Stevie proposes grandly.
"I'm game!" Max says instantly.
Teddy shrugs. "Whatever!"
"Err, I dunno, guys it's supposed to rain again and-"
"SHUT YOUR GOB!" The other three shout in unison, covering their ears as if Charlie had said something offending.
"You'll jinx it!" Teddy says, horrified.
"Alright! I'll go if it doesn't-"
"Don't even say it!" Stevie says.
"Fine."
Charlie sits on her couch, watching the tele, when her doorbell rings. She sighs, looking out the window at the pouring rain.
"I told you!" She says to nobody in particular. She walks over to the door and opens in.
"You bitch!" Teddy spits at her. "You made it rain, goddammit!"
"And now I get to rub it in your face!" Charlie retorts.
"We're still goin' out you know." Teddy says, grabbing Charlie's arm.
"Why? Where?"
"You'll see! It's your punishment!"
Charlie didn't like the sound of that.
"And we are here!" Stevie announces.
They stand in front of a weather beaten red gate, looking at Stevie like she's gone mad.
"Stevie, we're at Strawberry Fields in the rain. It's not gonna be as fun." Max points out.
"And besides, it looks kinda thunder-y, don't you think?" Teddy says, worried.
"And with thunder comes lightning!" Charlie adds.
"Oh, come off it! Nothing bad is gonna happen!" Stevie says, waving a hand around, and turning back to the gate.
She pushes it wide open and marches through. Stevie notices a rippled haze floating just above the fog in the distance.
"Ay, what's that?" Teddy asks, pointing to the disturbance.
"What's what?" Max asks.
"Aye, I see it too!" Charlie exclaims.
"Well? Let's go check it out then!"
The four friends tramp through the fields, as thunder rolls overhead, and the rain comes down harder than ever.
"Is anyone gonna explain to me what the hell we're- oh, that." Max says, her words falling short.
"What is it?" Stevie breaths, her eyes never leaving the strange disturbance.
Suddenly, lightning flashed, blinding the four girls. They are thrown backwards, and they hit the ground with a jarring thud.
The only thing is, it was eight people who hit the ground.