chapter one;
It was an ordinary day, the same as all the others, apart from one thing: destiny had changed it's course - destiny had chosen us.
It satarted in the usual way; getting ready for school. It's always hard - getting up in the daylight, that is. I guess I'm just slightly nocturnal.
The day droned on and on, like it was never going to end. That droning only got worse last period. That was when everything changed.
A strange noise filled my head. It sounded almost like music. It welt like the alarm of a car was right next to my eardrum, but nobody else seemed to hear it, "It's all in your head," I thought to myself, "all in your head,"
That's when Siobhan turned to me.
"Can you hear that?" she asked cautiously.
"Destiny." I whispered.
We exchanged a worried glance, and I knew from that that I wasn't the only one to hear it.
School finished before I was ready to go home. I guess that I was too terrorfied about what was going on (what the noise was and why we were the only ones to hear it) to notice the hands of time speed around the clock.
The journey home was painful. My dad tried to start a converstation with me several times. Each attempt failed. I just couldn't bring myself to force my lips to move, to make a sound.
The music played over and over again in my head as I tried to make sense of it. I couldn't understand it at all.
A chubby man in Wellington boots beckoned me, an image in my head. Who was he? I swear I had never seen him before in my life.
That man. I thought I saw him at the edge of the road, searching for me, waiting for me, ready for me.
Little did I know, the chase was on. If I ran, he would follow me. To the edge of the earth, if that's what it took.
