Chapter Two

Kristian Garcia ran to catch with her best friend, Brie Towser. Kristian had an unnerving experience earlier in the day that she just had to tell her friend. She grabbed Brie's arm and swung her around. Kristian said, "Brie, there is something I absolutely have to tell you."

"What is it?" asked Brie.

"I was walking to my first class and I heard this music. It was loud and annoying. Next thing I know…"

"Everything goes black and suddenly you are in your first class with a few minutes left," Brie finished Kristian's sentence.

"How do you know?" asked Kristian.

"The same thing happened to me at the exact same time," Brie answered.

"Oh, I thought it only happened to me," Kristian replied, disappointment laced in her voice.

"I guess not," said Brie.

As if on cue, the music started once more. This time the music was louder than before. It shook the walls. The floors started to crack and the windows exploded. Brie and Kristian wanted to run, but they couldn't. All that their bodies would let them was to go towards the source of the music. Like drones, they walked without any regard of what was actually going on around them. In their minds, the school was being destroyed from the ground up, but in reality, nothing was happening. People gave them confused looks as the two girls walked down the hallway with emotionless, blank faces. Just as it happened before, everything went black for Brie and Kristian.

When their vision returned, they were in an empty classroom with five other people. Kristian knew two of them: her twin sister Karin and Karin's friend John. She did not recognize the other three people who were actually Val, Colt and Zack. She was starting to freak out, "What is going on here? Why are we here? I am freaking out right now. I want to know what is going on. I want to know now!"

"Oh crap," Karin said. She ran over to her sister and embraced her. Kristian burst into tears and sobbed in her sister's arms. Karin told her in a soothing voice, "It's okay, Kristian. Nothing is wrong. We all heard the music."

"I know but what is it. Why do I hear the sound? I am not a crazy person."

"I don't think our sanity is in question if all seven of us hear it," Colt spoke up from behind Val and John.

Val turned around, "Well then. Can you tell us what's going on then?"

"I can't. I have no idea what's going on. I have never read or heard about seven teenagers hearing some strange song that leads them to an old classroom. I don't even know where to begin on that one," Colt replied.

"See! We are crazy," Kristian went on.

John shot a look at Karin that told her to control Kristian. She was getting annoying. And John knew he wasn't the only one getting annoyed by her crying. Karin shot back at him a look that could kill an elephant. John sighed and shook his head. Karin was his best friend, but her twin Kristian was one his least favorite people. She was highly emotional and somewhat conceited. She was nothing like Karin who was level headed and was not self-obsessed. Just as he had known Karin for eleven years, he had known and grown to greatly dislike Kristian for eleven years. It was amazing to him that someone who he could get along with so easily could have not just a sister but a twin sister so annoying was mindboggling to him. He couldn't understand how two people who had grown up together had turned out so different from each other. He had to stop thinking about that before he made his head hurt.

"Did it get colder in here?" asked Zack looking around.

"It is colder than it was a few moments ago," Val confirmed, "Did anyone touch the thermostat?"

"No," Brie said rubbing her arm.

With every word that was spoken, the person's breath was able to be seen clearer and clearer. To add insult to injury, water started to seep up through the floor. Val shook his head, "I'm getting out of here before I freeze."

He went to the door and tried to open it, but the door did not budge. He pulled and pulled until the door handle came off. He looked back at the others in shock. He turned his head back to the door which had vanished. There was only a wall there. Val dropped the door handle in the water that had risen over everyone's ankles by now. He knew it. They were all finished. Something had lured them all here to die. Well to whatever it was Val thought that it should go and screw itself. He was never one that kind to someone or something that tried to harm him. Who is in that situation? In a quiet voice filled with rage he asked, "So what do we do know?"

Before anyone could answer, the situation answered itself. The floor vanished followed by a rush of water shooting up from below. It engulfed the whole classroom for several moments. The seven teenagers were thrown around in the water, hitting the ceiling and other objects floating in the water. To make everything stranger, a rainbow of light shot from the water source. The light broke the classroom's floor plane; it broke off into individual colored light beams. Each color hit one of the students. The orange beam hit John. The blue beam hit Val. The red beam hit Karin. The purple light hit Colt. The green light hit Kristian. The grey light hit Zack. The gold light hit Brie. There was one light beam that didn't hit anyone. A pink light beam continued to shoot up without hitting anyone. One by one each one of the teen vanished in an explosion of light that was the same as the colored beams. Just as suddenly as everything appeared, everything vanished. When the water receded, the classroom had returned to the state it had been before. There was no one in the room.