One more day. Just one more miserable hormone filled day, Nat. Then you'll be free for a solid week. For about the trillionth time I reminded myself of this fact as I sat down into my regular seat in sixth block English. Slowly the room started to fill with familiar faces , all chattering away about their Autumn break plans. Ugh, and for some reason they were all being more obnoxious than usual today. Hannah Lolley screamed as one of her "guy friends" ran up behind her and started poking in her in her ribs and then ran off with her bag. Then there was Chris and Jared sitting across me in the next row of desks, talking about all the different methods of ingesting a pill. Highschool: Don't you just love it?

The bell rang for silence and everyone began to take their seats. I turned my mind on the "ignore everything" setting when a few moments later one of my closest friends came bounding into the door. Chasity looked around to make sure the coast was clear of Mrs. Corne , the naggy, lecturing English teacher. She smiled with delight to see that Mrs. Corne was as tardy as herself. She took her place behind my desk and slammed her books underneath her seat. I turned around in my seat to start chastising the little blonde about her arrival.

"I'm so sorry Nat!" I know I promised I'd never been late again but I just couldn't help it! Jess pulled me in the hallway and said someone was probably getting the boot today in practice and then I went to my locker and Adrian cornered me and begged to go break up with his girlfriend for him and well now I'm here." Before I could even open my mouth she had already spewed an apology and told me where she had been in the last five minutes. She amazed me sometimes.

"You forgive me?" She continued with her baby blues gleaming at me . I rolled my hazel ones and nodded. " Of course." I was about to go on when Mrs. Corne came in.

"Hello my darlings!" She greeted in her usual exuberant fashion . "I know tomorrow is the beginning of break and you'll more than likely forget everything that I tell you today, but I'm sorry to tell you that I'm teaching you any way." Several students groaned with agony at the news. Most teachers had spared them this fate but not Mrs. Corne ,of course. I sighed and leaned back in my chair preparing myself for one of her infamous speeches. I heard Chas sigh and then felt her fingers going through my chocolate mane. It was just another day at Olkton highschool.

"As most of you know when we come back from break we will start into our Greek Tragedies section. You should know most of them already so it probably won't take us too long. Today we will just be reviewing some of the ones you learned already." She picked up her blue podium and set it in front of the class. She nudged her glasses onto her oddly shaped nose and began her speech. " Who remembers Oedipus Rex?"

One of the idiots in the back yelled out " The mother lover?" The class burst out laughing at his interruption.

"Very good Jeremy! That's right." Mrs. Corne said congratulating with hint of disbelief in her voice. "Now who remembers Narcissus?"

The class fell silent again as Mrs. Corne started to go through some of the disturbing themes in the tragedies. There was mother lovers, self lovers, animal lovers and just plain out weirdos. I held back another sigh. So this what we'll be learning about for a solid week? Joy.

Chasity continued brushing my hair with her fingers. Usually she would make small braided patterns through my shiny locks, but not today. Today she was simply brushing.

My eyes were becoming more heavy with each brush. I wanted to sleep badly and God knows I needed the rest. I had been up since three A.M this morning because of another stupid nightmare. I had the nightmares before but they were never this strong and I would ,for the most part, just get up,splash water in my face and then go right back to sleep but not last night.

Last night was just miserable. I took my shower and brushed my teeth and then went to sleep in my warm king bed with all my pillows gathered close around my body like normal. I was really tired because of the drills Ms. Haze, my dance teacher, had made me do,so sleep came easily. My dreams had been black and dull for awhile until there was a sudden vision.

I stood in a enormous room with white marble arches all around me. I stood in the center of a circle. All of the sudden the room began to shake wildly. The arches began to break under the pressure of the tremors and stone began to fall. My heart was beating fast and I could hardly breathe. A huge block fell inches away from me. Some how I knew I was going to die here. I stared at the chaos, unable to move. Suddenly my body was jerked around and I faced a tall man. His face showed the apparent signs of stress and worry as little pieces of black curly hair fell in his face. I looked into his eyes not expecting to see anything but a blurry color since this was a dream, but I saw them so clearly they still haunt me. They were gray like storm clouds and fierce and opened all the way. For a moment I thought I saw a streak of blue.

"Listen to me!" He commanded in a strong urgent voice while holding my arms with a tight grip. "You will die from the fall but it is only a mortal death and you will come back from amongst the dead and return as a human. The pain you feel will only be brief, and when you go into your human shell you will not remember any of it."
I felt my chest heave with sobs as I began to cry. "What of you?" I heard a voice say. It sounded close enough to be my own.

The man's eyes gave a look of pain. "I shall be like you, but on the river Styx I swear that I will find you again, mortal or not, and you shall return to your rightful place beside me."

With all the strength left in him he embraced me. I smelt fresh rain on him.

"I love you." He whispered. Then I was falling. Falling away from everything. Falling from the room, the man, and life its self. I looked down to see where I was going through the black clouds that surrounded me.

I felt the ocean engulfing me in it's savage body. Salt rushed into my nose and eyes and the water was quick to get into my lungs. Huge blocks were being lifted onto my chest and I was falling fast. I tried to heave in air but nothing but water greeted me. I stretched out my arms and felt the sand of the ocean floor. "Only brief..." a voice whispered somewhere. "Only brief..."

I woke up nice and sweaty and scared out of my mind. I tried to wash the dream out of my eyes with cold water like all the other times the nightmares woke me but I couldn't erase the sights scarred into my memory or shake the drowning feeling away from my body. I was breathing too heavy and my heart was going too fast. I went onto other calming methods like breathing in and out deeply for a few minutes and taking a hot shower but nothing worked. I gave up around four and finally turned on my lamp and began to finish some homework, hoping desperately that AP Trig would heal me of my sudden ailments.

Now I'm dead tired and the only thing in the world that would make me happy right now is a nice fluffy pillow. On the bright side, I got all my homework finished.

My eyes had only closed for a second when I was awoken by a loud voice. " Ms. Hemmington, would you care to tell us which goddess cursed the nymph Echo." I looked up tiredly from my desk to see Mrs. Corne's eyes glued to me from her bright blue podium. Her pupils were so huge, they made her eyes look almost black. This meant only one thing: some one was in trouble.

I tried not groan or give her an evil look .I hate it when teachers do this. When they ask you stupid questions to make sure your listening, it's kind of annoying. I sat up straight and thought for a moment, my mind trying to scan all the myths at once. The names were all a blur but I managed to pick one. "Hera."

Mrs. Corne frowned a little bit. "That is correct, but next time try to stay awake for the actual story okay?"

I nodded. She was just mad that I got the answer right.

Mrs. Corne opened her mouth again to speak but the bell replaced her voice.

Had it really been forty- five minutes already? I had slept longer than intended.

"Have a nice break everyone." Mrs. Corne said dismissing class. I grabbed my stuff and headed for my locker.

I pushed through the horde of teenagers usually blocking my locker and jammed my key into the lock. I tossed my books in and was about to slam the door shut until I noticed my gym bag half shoved/half hanging on the hook in my locker. Crap it was dance day. I was about to start banging my head into the locker. "All I want to do is go home." I mumbled angrily. Instead of getting to go home as planned I had to go to another long, boring, sweaty, dance practice in the gym with my PMS-y dance coach.

I was considering all the positives of banging my head into a locker when Chasity popped up beside me from the crowd. "Hey are you coming to practice?"

I looked her over to see she already had her gym bag hanging off her shoulder and her clothes in place, complete with a high pony tail. I sighed and yanked my bag out of the black hole I called a locker. "Of course."

"Good, because between you and me I don't want to be left alone with Katie again. That whole story about her getting some new birth control put in her arm freaked me out yesterday."

I couldn't help but laugh. Poor Chasity got paired off with freakishly tall, talkative Katie yesterday and obviously Katie opened her mouth to talk about another one of her odd stories from the Doc's office. Chasity had been describing all the horrors of the conversation since this morning.

I slung the bag onto my shoulder and began to walk in the direction of the closest girls' bathroom to change. Chasity followed close behind talking about all the high lights of her day from her annoying teachers to the juiciest gossip.

"Did you know Jacob was going to have his party this Saturday but then his parents found some stuff in his room?"She said as we crossed the threshold into the bathroom.

I wasn't really surprised . Jacob seemed like he would experiment a little with drugs, but just for Chas's sake I feigned interest. " Really? I thought he was one of the good kids!"

Her blues were popping out of her head. "I know right! He's so sweet too!"

Knowing how much Chasisty idolized the boy I tried to offer her some sympathy. "Maybe they weren't his." I offered.

She stopped at the mirror to make sure her appearance was still decent. "They couldn't be Nat! He's too good for that crap! Maybe he was trying to throw it away for a friend or something!"

"Maybe." I mumbled closing the stall door behind me. I slid the metal piece into place and hung up my bag. I started yanking off my clothes ready to change into the much more comfortable shorts and tank top in my bag.

Seconds passed in silence. Chasity must have been putting on some gloss. It was about the only time she would shut up. I stuffed my clothes into the bag and slipped on my tennis shoes. I opened the door again.

"So who do you think's getting the boot today?" I asked recalling her previous gossip.

Chas smooshed her shimmery pink lips together and then shrugged. "I don't know but I kind of hope it's Katie."

I was shocked, usually she wasn't this mean. "Chas!"

"What?It's the truth, that weirdo just needs to go."

"You're mean today."

Chas smiled at the comment. "I woke up like this. Now, hurry up and put your hair up so we can go. It stinks in here."

I brushed back all my hair and tied it with a hair tie. I slung my bag back over my shoulder and with Chas walking next to me, I gradually made it to the gym.

Today wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It was still extremely sweaty but Ms. Haze wasn't as bitchy as usual. In fact she was in a pretty good mood. Chas had whispered something about her finally getting laid. Wow, maybe she did wake up mean this morning.

Turns out she was wrong about someone get the slip though. I guess Ms. Haze was just too happy to do so.

Practice had been over for about ten minutes so the locker room wasn't crowded with screaming girls. There was only a group of three standing by the door and me and Chas. Chas was vigourously drying her hair with a towel. She had already took her shower and changed back into regular clothes. Really the only one in the room who still had their gym clothes on was me. Besides me being naturally slow at changing, I was waiting for them to all leave so I could hit the shower. I wasn not going home sweaty and was not getting completley naked in front of them. I didn't care if they were girls or not. I was taking shower alone.

Chas threw the wet towel into her bag and zipped in up again. "Well I got to go. If I come home later than seven my mom jumps me."

"Be careful."

She gave a huge stretch and began walking out the door. "Of course, but I think I can at least hit seventy before I start to swerve. I'm a pro at these roads."

I smiled at her sarcasm. Chas is a horrible driver. There was hardly any curves in the roads of Olkton but with her special abilities she could wreck on any of them. I remeber her turning into the wrong side of the road once and she just kept on driving like that until she saw a car coming. From that day on I promised myself I would never get in a car with her again.

Shortly after she had left the group by the door left aswell. Now was my chance. I stripped off my dirty clothes and tossed them on the bench. I grabbed my soap and got in the shower. Usually I hated getting in the locker room showers because they're so dirty but today I needed a good scrub. I turned the heat up and let the smell of my vanilla body wash take over my senses.

I stood there for about another ten minutes and then I got out. I put the clothes that I had worn today back on and towel dried my hair like Chas. I was too lazy to whip out my blow dryer.

I walked slowly outside back into the gym but no one was there of course. It was a short walk to the parking lot. Before I walked through I noticed it was raining. Great, just great. My car was going to hate me today. I covered my head with my jacket and ran for the little yellow bug.

I unlocked it quickly and crash landed into the driver side. I slammed the door and tried to put the key in the ignition. The old yellow bug stuttered alive. I sighed with relieve. Maybe I could actually get home tonight.

Like the gym the roads were pretty clear, probably because of the rain. Everything was pretty calm until a few streets later I heard that dreaded sound. Thunder. Then my poor car began to die. I moved it over to the side of the road. Then it died.

I was so used to doing this that I wasn't even worried. I yanked the key out and then stuffed it back in. I turned the key over to only heard the sound of stuttering. "Come on, Come on!" I hissed. I just wanted to get back home and sleep. I tried again and then there was no sound at all.

Now I was worried.

I put my jacket back over my head and kicked open my door. I checked under the hood at the back to see if the engine was alright and it looked fine . I tried starting again but of course nothing. I wanted to scream. I dug my phone out of my bag and tried calling my dad. I waited for a few minutes until I noticed there was no dial tone. Great my phone was dead too.

I slammed the hood shut and just stood there in the pouring rain without my jacket not caring at all how wet I got. At this moment I didn't care if I got some infection from standing out here. I just wanted to curl up in a little angry ball and die.

The thunder roared again. "Screw you!" I screamed back. It was the thunder's fault. Everything was the thunder's fault. "I just want to die!" I mumbled.

Then I noticed a strange electric blue light shooting across the sky. I hardly had anytime to realize what it was when my heart began to go crazy. It's just like the dream, I thought. I struggled to breath.

The lightning cracked again and then , like the dream, I was falling.

A/N (Sighs) It has been a long time since I've written. About a year I think. Words can not even truly describe how much I want to get back into this world. I'd really appreciate it if you reviewed and tell me all the pros and cons of my writing, and if I should even continue at all. Much thanks! :)