Paulina leaned back against a tree in front of the school and sniffed the air. A full school day had gone by since the Halloween fire, but she could still smell acrid smoke in the air. Even though she'd been inside the gym, flirting with Pedro when the fire had happened she felt haunted by it. She could died! Her gaze lifted to the sky, which was clear, blue, and gorgeous.

Just like Pedro's eyes, except the fact that is red instead of blue. Paulina thought with a sigh.

Paulina still couldn't believe Pedro—an older boy with a beautiful face and long silky dark red hair—had singled her out from all the girls at the party. He'd even asked around her. She still couldn't believe it. It was…

Huh? Paulina blinked in surprise as Mary uttered the very word that had just popped into her own head. She blinked a few more times and came to Earth, or rather, to this post-school gathering of her friends under Infinity's biggest shade tree. Elizabeth, Mary, Clara, and Tina were lounging in a circle on the grass while Vanessa and Paulina was leaning against the tree.

"It was so real!" Mary exclaimed. "I don't know how to explained it, but that place was just like being there!"

"What's Mary talking about!" Paulina whispered to Vanessa.

"A dream she had last night." Vanessa whispered back. She had a slightly freaked look on her confused face—something between annoyed and bewildered. "She and Clara were in some bizarre place–a sort of limbo between the Halloween party and the heavens. There was smoke everywhere."

"Clara and I were just hanging on to each other." Mary said with a surprise in her voice. "And then, suddenly, all these geometric shapes appeared in a mist over our heads. They were like colored starts of red, blue, green, icy blue, and orange. And in the middle was a pink small crystalline object that glows very brilliantly. It was very magical but mysterious."

Elizabeth leaned forward as her eyes wide. "And you too? This is the same thing I dreamed about."

"Really?" Mary breathed. She stared at Elizabeth, who slowly nodded her head and blinked heard.

"Neither Mary nor I have 'ever' described it in such detail!" Elizabeth said to Clara. "Do you know about this?"

"Yeah." Clara said with a smile. "I saw it in my dreams, too."

"Okay! Okay!"

The girls gasped and turned to look at Tina. She'd been sitting by silently as Elizabeth, Mary, and Clara talked about the weird coincidence. But now, she was exploding.

"This…this is freaking me out!" Tina whimpered. "What does all of this means?"

That's when Vanessa sighed huffily and pushed herself away from the tree truck. She planted her fists on her hips and scowled. But she finally doing something here—taking charge.

"Let's reason here." Vanessa said. "Strange things have happened to just about all of us, but we don't know for sure."

"And what are you saying, Sherlock?" Mary asked impatiently.

"Maybe we all need to talk it over calmly, but somewhere private for us." Vanessa announced.

"Vanessa's right." Clara said. "And I know just the place."