"Come on, would the line just move already!" I mumbled angrily to myself. Here I was, at 4:00 P.M, standing in a line at the grocery store, buying groceries my dad should've bought 'before' I even got home. Apparently, he had no idea what that meant, being as im here doing his job for him. I looked back in front of me, only to be overjoyed that it was my turn to checkout. I shouted for joy inside my mind, that I would no longer have to wait in a terrifyingly long line, with a very achy back.

"Will that be all ma'am?" the clerk asked me as I got out my wallet, or should I say, my dads wallet.

"Yep! That's it!".

He told me my amount due, and I quickly handed him the money. With a very fast thank you, I ran out of the store, groceries in hand. I ran home as fast as I could. It took me exactly an hour to get here, being as there was a whole bunch of people on the sidewalks, which made it very hard to get through. I had been running for awhile, so I pulled out my phone to check the time.

"CRAP! ITS ALREADY 4:45!?!?!?!" I yelled to no one in particular. I looked back up to see my house just in my view. I ran up the steps to the door and quickly unlocked it. I ran inside, kicking the door shut behind me. I ran into the kitchen and put the groceries away. I quickly glanced at the clock, only to groan. 'Great…Just frickin great….Im late now.' It was already 5:00. I pulled out my phone and dialed a number, waiting for the other person to answer.

'Lilly! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!?!?!'

"Look, Riku, I know im late, and im really sorry! But my dad-" Riku cut me off before I could finish.

'No Lilly! This is the 8th time you've been late for band practice! I gave you so many warnings and way to many second chances, and today…is the final straw….'

"What! No Riku, please don't! Look im sor-" He cut me off once more.

'Im sorry Lilly, but I have no other choice. I cant have you drag the rest of us down because you're always late. Lilly, you're out.' And with that said, I heard the line click.

I ended the call and slipped my phone back in my pocket. My face was wet with tears as I ran up the stairs to my room. I grabbed a small backpack and stuffed it with some clothes and toiletries, along with my ipod and cell phone charger. I picked up the picture frame that was on my bedside table. I looked at it sadly, remembering how much better things were before my mom had died. I placed the picture carefully in the bag and moved over towards my guitar. I quickly picked it up and strapped onto my back. Just as I began to walk downstairs, my phone began to ring.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Lilly Koshiro. It is time to decide your destiny Lilly." The voice said.

"Say wha?" I asked.

The woman continued to talk. "Your destiny is calling you. Take the 5:45 outbound train.' and with that she hung up.

"Destiny…..ooookkkkaaaay…..hmmm…I wonder if clothes are necessary for this destiny…ehhh whatever." I quickly grabbed my red baseball cap and placed on my head and ran out the door. I started to run down the street only to notice a very familiar face coming along to run beside me. At first, I couldn't tell who he was, but I then noticed it was my neighbor.

"Hey, did you get the message too?" he asked, while panting. So he got the message to, huh?

"Yea." I simply answered while running along side him. I've lived next-door to this kid since we were in diapers, and I cant even remember his first name. I know his little brothers name is Shinya, because 1)Im always asked and paid to babysit him sometimes because his big brother here cant even stand him and 2)I can always hear him getting yelled at by this kid running along next to me. I know his name starts with a T.

'Hmmm…..is it Taylor..? Nope!…..Taky….Oh I know! Takuya!!! Yea that's it!!!!

"Hey, Takuya, do you know what time it is?" I asked, smiling inwardly that I remembered his name.

He pulled out his phone and yelled a loud cry.

"GAHHH! We've only got 10 minutes!" Before I could even start to panic along with him, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me along with him.

"Hey, what the heck do you think you're doing Kanbara?! Lemme go!" I shouted as he pulled me along. We had made it to the station, and I was running into people as he pulled me along. The machine that gave you the train tickets, was apparently malfunctioning, because it was shooting out tickets everywhere. Takuya grabbed 2 as he continued pulling me along. I looked up at a clock, only to go into panic mode because we had only one minute left to get on the Shibuya bound from the Jiyuugaoko station. I felt goggles over tighten his grip on my wrist as he started moving faster. I saw the train that was in our view, and before I could even realize what was exactly going on, Takuya jumped through the doors, pulling along with him. Amazingly, we made it without killing anybody, or ourselves.

"so what's with the guitar and backpack?" I heard Takuya ask. At first I had no clue what he was talking about, but then I remembered that I was planning on leaving home.

"Well, I was in the process of running away, when I got the message to come to the station."

I could tell he was fixing to ask why I was running away, when the train doors opened, and I was once again pulled by the wrist and running to the wherever we were going. When we began to run down the stairs, I thought I was gonna die, being as I nearly fell down the whole flight of stairs. Finally we reached a whole bunch of trains. Takuya stopped to glance at each one, probably wondering which one to get on. I saw one that looked like it had absolutely no one on it. I began to dart towards it because all the other ones were beginning to take off, but Takuya grabbed me again and started to drag me towards one that was already leaving.

"Takuya you idiot! Were not gonna make it!" I shouted, and only to be proven wrong as he pulled us both up on the back of it. He then dragged us through a door that led inside the train we had boarded. Instead of an empty train, we were met by 3 other kids. One was in a blue jumpsuit, and was kinda chunky. The other was a blonde girl who was wearing a lavender skirt and well…he whole outfit was basically lavender. And then there was a kid who looked younger than the rest of us. Probably 8 or 9, and he was wearing a big yellow hat that was shadowing some of his face, but I could clearly see that he was crying.

Before I could manage to ask what was wrong with the little guy, Takuya started to ask questions.

"Uhh, are you guys here because of the phone message thing?" He asked the other three, while pulling out his own phone and pointing at it.

The lavender girl and Mr. Jumpsuit just quietly nodded.

The girl didn't leave her answer at just a nod, because she started to add a statement, "With the two of them here, that makes five of us. Maybe this is something really special."

"Wait! Something special? Huh?! Why'd you guys get on this train?" I mentally sighed at Takuya's never-ending QA. Either he wasn't listening the first time the girl hadn't mentioned anything as to why they had got on the train, or he was just being stupid.

"Well…Uhhhh…" the lavender clad girl mumbled, obviously looking for an answer in her head.

"Was it…ya' know? The message?" Ok Takuya, we heard you the first 2 times you asked. We get it already!!!

But, hey, I couldn't blame him for wanting to know and make sense about all this not only to himself, but the rest of us as well. I just stood next to him quietly, trying to contemplate what was going on, and exactly where we were going, which, I had no idea about that. My thoughts were very rudely interrupted by jumpsuit dude.

"Hey kid," he said, might I add rather RUDELY. I was just glad he wasn't referring to 'kid' as me, because I might of gone all 'Call me kid again and ill beat the crap oughta ya' mode. Apparently, 'kid' was Takuya, "This was the closest train to the elevator okay? Now look, just leave me alone already."

I looked up to see Takuya's face, which was scrunched up in shock and anger of how rude the kid was to him. All in all, he didn't take the jumpsuit dudes reply to well. "Wow, ok sorry."

The rude jumpsuit dude sighed before apologizing to Takuya, "Sorry, im just nervous."

Takuya nodded his head in acceptance to the apology, before continuing on with his never ending QA, this time addressing the lavender clad girl, "But, there's gotta be a reason you picked this train, right?"

She smiled and quietly giggled before answering, "Im like him," she said pointing to the jumpsuit guy, "It was the closest train to the elevator." What is it with people picking the one closest to the elevator.

The three of them started to talk amongst each other, so I walked away from my spot next to Takuya, and went and sat down next the little boy with the yellow hat.

"Hey, little guy you ok?" I asked in sweet, yet quiet tone. The little boy looked up at me when he heard me speak. My suspicion that he was crying was confirmed, because his face was tearstained and his eyes were puffy from crying. He didn't say anything, but when he looked like he was about to start talking, Takuya started up with the questions again.

"So, my names JP, what's yours?" The jumpsuit kid asked the lavender clad girl.

"Im Zoe. Its nice to meet you!" She replied.

I had noticed that Takuya wasn't anywhere to be seen, but then I saw him peer out from behind JP. "And im Takuya. Hi there." Everyone got quiet again. I looked up to see everyone else's face on me.

"Well……?" Takuya asked questioningly.

"Huh…? Oh! Sorry, my name is Lilly! Its nice to meet all of you!" I said with a smile.

"I-I'm Tommy, but I didn't wanna get on this train." I looked back at the little boy next to me, identifying him as the person who just introduced himself.

"Huh…? What are you saying?" Takuya asked him.

He was quiet for a minute until he started to cry again. "T-two kids, bullies and they," He was choking on the words as he was crying, "they pushed me on the train and shut the door." He then started to cry even harder, before he looked up to face the rest of us.

"Why are kids always picking on me?" He questioned while sobbing. Apparently, he asked Takuya the question, but Takuya just stood there, staring and probably trying to contemplate what to say to the kid as he broke down into even more uncontrollable sobs.

"Jeez, that kid is like a broken faucet," I heard JP mutter, before Zoe started to scold him for being so mean. I frowned at him for saying something like that to the little kid.

Obviously, Takuya wasn't going to do anything to help get Tommy to stop crying. Actually, he probably had no idea how to handle this kind of situation, being as when ever his little brother started to cry, he would just yell at him to stop crying. It wasn't to be mean, but just out of annoyance for Takuya, because he was naturally a nice guy, that could get easily annoyed.

"Hey, its ok. Were here to take care of you! Were not gonna try to get rid of ya like those bullies did! You're safe here with us. I promise you, I wont let anything happen to you when we get to wherever we're going. I'll take care of you and that's a promise!" I said happily, my voice filled with determination. I was rubbing my hand up and down the little boys back, trying to calm him down. I meant every word I had just said to the little guy about taking care of him. I knew what it was like to feel helpless and alone, so I could easily relate.

"Yea, don't worry Tommy! Lilly's right, you're safe now that you're with us!" Zoe chirped happily.

"Yea, you heard what Lilly said." I looked up to see Takuya walk over and kneel down in front of Tommy. I had placed my hand on top of Tommy's in order to let him know we were here to take care of him. I then felt a hand place itself on top of mine.

"We'll take care of you buddy! We both will!" Takuya said, squeezing my hand in reassurance, which made me turn to a light shade of pink at the contact. It was like that for a few minutes until Tommy stopped crying and Takuya removed his hand from mine and came to sit on my other side.

"Hey, Lilly? Why'd you bring a guitar with you?" Zoe asked. Oh. That.

"Well….I was sorta in the process of running away from home when I got the weird message thing, and seeing as I was already packed up and everything, I was all like, 'What the heck? Whatever destiny is, might as well bring some stuff with me,' so I did.

My thoughts began to drift back to earlier to when I was talking to Riku. I had been cut from the band that we had started together. We were supposed to be a team no matter what, and now, I was no longer part of that team, thanks to my dad. If he had gone to the grocery store like I had asked him to do before I had gotten home from school, I would still be a part of the band as there guitar player and best vocalist. But, now….I had no part in it what so ever anymore.

"So you play guitar?" Zoe asked me. Well duh?! Why else would I carry it with me. Do you think im using it as a decoration?

"Yea." was I said. I then began to wonder that since I was no longer in the band, if I should quit playing the guitar.

"Could you please play for us? Please!!!!!" Zoe begged.

"I dunno…."

"Yea lets hear it!" JP said.

"Im not very good though." I said self-consciously.

"Come on Lilly! I've heard you play, and you're the best ever! And you're an even amazing singer too!" Takuya said encouragingly. My stomach started to do flips when he told me I was an amazing singer.

"Please Lilly?" I looked down to see Tommy looking at me with a pleading smile.

"Ok. I'll play!" I stood up and un-strapped the guitar from my back and sat back down to strap around my neck and shoulder. I took out my lucky pick from my pocket and began to warm-up by strumming each cord before playing. But before I could even manage to even start to play a song, it got dark inside the train as we passed through a tunnel. Then we were all thrown to the ground, which was quite painfully being as me and Takuya conked heads as we fell. But what set me into an even bigger panic mode was my guitar. I still had it in my grasp and luckily, it was spared. I strapped it back onto my back before we could fall again and the result would be it breaking. I heard Takuya groan, and I looked over at him to see him pull his phone. It started to glow! I pulled out my phone, only to find that it was glowing too. I looked behind me, only to see my guitar glowing also. I looked back to my phone which was now replaced with a weird pink and white thing. I turned to look at my guitar which was now nothing more than a small guitar key chain. I picked it up and studied it in shock, until a voice form what used to be my phone, started speaking to me.

"What the-!" I exclaimed.

"Welcome to the digital world Lilly. This is your D-tector."

"Digital world? You're kidding….What've I gotten myself into!?!?" Takuya shouted.

Finally, the light flooded back inside the train. Then Takuya started to talk again. "Did you guys get that message?" No one said anything as they stared at their 'used to be phones' in awe.

"Woo-Woo WOO-WOO!"

"Ahhh!!!!" We all shouted as we covered our sensitive ears to try and block out whatever was making the loud noise.

"You could hear that up on mars!!!" exclaimed Takuya.

After the noise had died down, we all got up from the floor. I rubbed my head where it had collided with Takuya's as I stood up. I could already feel a headache coming on.

"Man…" Takuya said while looking around and rubbing his head too.

"Are those ghosts?" I heard Zoe ask. I turned to look out the window, to see small little white creatures flying.

"Wha-what are those things?!" I asked

"They look like ghosts…" I heard Tommy quietly say as he stood up.

"Or marshmallows. They go great with chocolate." Of course JP had to go and say something like that.

One of the little flying ghost thingies flew over to the window Zoe was looking out, and smiled at us. At first, I thought it was kinda cute….that is until it decided to suction itself onto the window and expand itself, while smiling which made it creepier. Zoe screamed, causing all of the little things to fly off.

Of course, Takuya had to go and freak everyone out with what he said next. "Probably ghosts of kids that came here before! Ohhhhh, what have I gotten myself into, and what if there is no way of getting back out?!"

"Jeez, calm down Takuya! We're all in this together." Zoe said in attempts to get him stop him from panicking even more than he already was.

I began to question myself and what Takuya had said. What if he's right and there is no way back? Great, now what have I gotten 'myself' into? Some day this has turned out to be….but hey it cant get any worse right?

'At least….I hope it wont.'