A heart beat sounded…then another…and then another…

Allie gasped for air as she looked around quickly, feeling her heart race in her chest rapidly. Her hair was in her face and she raised her wet hands to move the strands away and saw that she was lying in the mud at the edge of a river. She could only assume she had washed up on shore and looked up at the sky wildly, but felt something calm in her as she stared at the too bright moon.

Allie closed her eyes and took a deep breath before getting to her feet and made her way up the hill as steadily as she could. She even crawled up it to make sure she didn't go sliding back down. The blonde wondered how she was still alive as she was sure she was going to drown, but it seemed she might have just needed some air.

She shivered in the night air and used the tree at the top of the hill to keep herself up and decided to go home as whatever was after her didn't seem to be around anymore. Another shiver ran through her before she saw a car driving down the road and tried to wave it down, but if seeing a soaking wet girl with a wild look in her eyes made people keep going, Allie couldn't really fault them for it.

Sighing she decided to walk home herself. So trekking along the road, she hugged herself and hoped she'd get dry soon. Allie soon came across her home and saw that her parents were home now from their night out. She found enough energy in her to run the rest of the way home, walking into the house with a smile on her face, feeling safer than before this all happened.

"Mom, dad, please don't freak." She said and stopped dead as she saw that her mother was sitting worried on the couch and seemed to be crying and her father was on the phone.

"Yes sir, our daughter is missing and we tried her boyfriend's but he said she asked him to leave he hasn't seen her since." Her father said.

Allie felt her eyes widen. "Dad, what are you talking about? I'm standing right in front of you." She said moving in front of her parents.

Her father continued to ignore her though and Allie felt frustrated.

"Don't you see me?" she shouted, but neither of her parents reacted. "Why? Why are you-" she froze as her father got off the phone and walked right through her.

Allie's face was one of shock and disbelief. She stared down at her hands and backed away from her parents as they talked about how she was missing and she couldn't believe what she was hearing. But she couldn't say anything as they didn't seem to hear her, and they couldn't see her either, so was she dead or something?

No, Allie dismissed the idea because if she was dead then it would mean she could go through walls and stuff, but she couldn't as she used the door which was solid and when she jumped, she didn't go through the floor either. So what was going on?

Not being able to watch her parents talk about how she was 'missing' any longer while not being able to tell them she actually was in front of them, she turned away and walked up the stairs to her room, hoping when she woke up in the morning this was all just a bad dream.

Allie opened her eyes and saw the sun peeking through the window in her room and yawned while stretching her arms above her head and swung her legs over the bed before getting out of it. Her smile crashed once she remembered what had happened the day before and though about how deceiving it was that she could still touch things like there wasn't anything wrong.

With a heavy heart, she made her way down the stairs and out the door, not wanting to be around this place any longer and watch her parents walk through her like she didn't exist. Instead she decided to try the school and hoped that maybe someone there would be able to see her. She stretched her legs before getting into a runners pose and took off for the school, feeling the air leave her as she realized she'd run a lot faster than she ever could.

Just what had happened the night before after passing out? She couldn't be dead she reasoned as she wouldn't be able to touch anything, so all that was left to answer was just how she was like this in the first place. Though in the back of her mind, Allie thought it had something to do with the whole reincarnation thing.

Yet another reason this whole thing sucked.

Since she was at the school before the other-Allie felt her breath hitch as she corrected herself-her former classmates arrive, so she walked over to the bench by the school and sat down, wrapping her arms around herself and hoped she would be able to be seen by at least one of them. She vainly hoped it would be Miles, but she wasn't holding her breath for anyone to notice her.

As the first bus pulled up, Allie brought her knees up to her chest, cringing as each one of them walked past her. She saw none of them even glance at her, and put her head on her knees.

It was just hopeless-

"Allie?"