Kendra's POV:
…God I feel awful…what's…what's going on…where am I?
"Kendra. Time to wake up." Who is that? I feel happy hearing that voice. I felt a light weight near my side but it didn't feel like it was directly on me.
"Pinti, you want to wake her up?" the woman's voice asked jokingly. I felt a soft surface beneath me and I didn't want to wake up. I felt a hand very gently shaking my shoulder and the woman's voice said again "Honey you've got to wake up or you'll be late for school."
At this my instincts took over and I finally woke up. I saw my mom looking down at me then I felt a light yet sharp pain on my wrist. I looked down and saw that my dog with his big brown baby eyes was staring right at me and that sharp pain was caused by him pawing at my wrist.
"Shower, get dressed and eat as fast as you can. Traffic is going to be terrible." Mom said before exited my room and Inti, my dog, left with her. Without thinking I got out of bed and into the bathroom which was barely ten feet from my room. I took a quick shower, got changed and ate a muffin before going to use my motorcycle. You would not believe how much time and energy I had to use to get enough money for my car, not to mention all the time I spent keeping my grades up and rehearsing for my school's theater production of Peter Pan. All this and I was barely able to convince my mom to let me buy my motorcycle. But it was seriously worth it!
I was able to beat most of the traffic by the highway by weaving through the cars and trying to stay ahead of them. (Though I can't help but think that some of the moves I made were a tiny bit illegal.)
I made it to the front of the school and I chained my bike to a post, hoping that no one would be suicidal enough to take my baby. I shouldered my backpack and ran to the lockers, already running late enough as it was. I steam rolled there and back past anyway who got in my way. I ran up the three flights of stairs, ignoring my burning thighs and tight chest and stampeded to my first and worst class: Biology.
I just made it before the final bell and landed hard in my seat. Ms. Shope, my Biology teacher, closed the door after I jumped through the slit and literally hopped to my seat.
The entire class erupted in laughter from my display and I blushed madly as I quickly got out my things. I could hear my friend Margaret laughing like crazy along with the others, but I knew she was laughing with me (in a nice way). I like being a nerd sometimes. It makes things interesting. Soon Biology commenced and I pretty much zoned out for the rest of my classes.
The day went by normally, almost a bit routinely but lucky for me school went by pretty fast. Before I really knew it school was over and I grabbed the things I needed for homework and headed to the auditorium where we held practice from 3-5.
I put my backpack on the seat and met up with my friend Therese who was playing Wendy. I was playing a pirate so although we couldn't stand each other in the play it made it even more comical that we were such good friends behind the scenes. Practice was a little more exhausting than usual as the whole time I kept zoning out like I did in school, only this time a nagging feeling in the back of my head was telling me that there was something I desperately needed to remember.
"Kendra!" Mr. Zufelt, the director, called to me when I zoned out again.
"Huh what?" Was my smart response.
"Are you okay? You seem a little off today." He asked. I could see some of the others kids staring at me while a few rolled their eyes in annoyance.
"Yeah I'm fine. Sorry." I apologized sheepishly. Practice continued on as normal and I struggled to stay focused. This was really strange for me. I never lost focus during rehearsal. But I just couldn't help it. One minute I would be looking at Therese's face and the next I saw another girl's face on top of Therese's. It only lasted for a second or two but I noticed that the girl was around my age with semi longish brown hair and brown eyes. More than once I adjusted and cleaned my crooked and scratched glasses. I realized that my vision was getting blurry but I'm pretty sure that bad eyesight didn't cause hallucinations.
And things only got worse when not only did I see that girl but I started to hear what I think was her voice. There were only tidbits that didn't make any sense but seemed oddly familiar.
"Hey Kendra. Can you help me with this line?" Madeline, one of the lost boys, asked waving me over. I knew Madeline from the call backs and thought that maybe I wouldn't see anything. I know. Desperate hope.
Madeline began "Slightly, has Peter come back yet?"
"No, Tootles, no." I said in a bored voice. It's not that I was annoyed but I was exhausted from seeing that girl.
"I do get so scared when Peter isn't here to protect-" Madeline's voice stopped and her voice along with her face was replaced with the girl's.
Suddenly we weren't in the school auditorium anymore. We were in the middle of the woods surrounding by what I thought as the mutilated remains of two bikes, one of which happened to be mine. I fake sobbed over the death of my precious bike while that same girl tried to get cell reception.
I was only faintly aware of the fact that I was on the hard floor because my head felt fuzzy. I heard muffled voices around me as I stared blankly at the ceiling while some blurs clouded my vision. I thought I heard someone call my name and begin to shake me.
"Kendra?" a distorted voice asked. I didn't respond. I felt something lift me up until I was in a sitting position.
"Kendra what's wrong?" the voice said again only it was becoming more and more clear as my vision came into focus. Finally everything was back to normal and I saw that it was Mr. Zufelt who was shaking me, along with Madeline and pretty much all the other cast members surrounding me. "Kendra what happened?"
"I…I don't…" My head felt like it was about to burst became it suddenly became raging hot and clammy. Madeline lightly pressed her hand on my forehead.
"Holy crap! You're burning up!" Madeline exclaimed. No duh.
"I'm going to have to call your mom. Do you have her phone number?" Mr. Zufelt asked and although I didn't want to leave practice I didn't think I could take much more of whatever that hell was messing with my brain. Maybe going home wouldn't be such a bad idea.
"Okay, here." I reached into my pocket and dialed my mom's number then handed it to him. He went off to the side while two of my fellow pirates, Haley and Nicole, helped me off the ground and to a nearby seat. My mom AND dad came by sooner than I had expected since my school was at least 20 min from my house and she practically stampeded towards me.
"Kendra what happened?" Mom asked me while checking me over quickly with an almost panicked look on her face. My eyes widened with shock. I've never seen my mom this…I don't know…not composed before. She's definitely more level headed than my dad or me and even Cassandra but I've never seen her so…shaken. And I wonder why dad is here? Shouldn't he be at work?
"I'm fine mom. I just got a little light headed." I lied really wanting to wipe off that worried look on her face and the ever growing worried and scared look off my dad's. My parents are good people and good parents which means they know when and when not to show emotion so you can imagine my surprise when I saw my mom shaken and my dad looked like he was about to jump out of his skin. Unfortunately Madeline just had to step in and make it worse.
"Kendra, you passed out in the middle of our practice and hit your head on the floor." Madeline piped up and I could've slapped my forehead when I saw that my mom's forehead just earned a new crease line.
"I'm fine now. The spinning has totally stopped." I tried to comfort her but that look just wouldn't go away. I saw Dad turn to Madeline.
"Thank you for helping her." He said gratefully.
"No problem Mr. Leon." Madeline said. "You need help getting her to the car?"
"No, thank you." Mom said and I unconsciously noticed her Peruvian accent as she spoke. Mom carefully helped me up and lead me outside with Dad to where the car was parked. The entire time I noticed that they kept close to me with their arms slightly away from their bodies as if they were ready to catch me at any moment.
When we got to the car I noticed Inti was jumping inside and came up to the window and stared at me anxiously, as if he knew what had happened. Once we got in the car they bombarded me with questions like "Are you sure your okay?" or "Did you make sure to eat?" and also "You're not leaving the house today". And frankly I didn't argue with them. I was dead tired. Maybe I'll just sleep in today. Wait. I was supposed to meet with Taran and Regine today as Regine's house. Eh, I'll call them when I get home.
Later after I was all rested I decided to call Taran first since I remembered that Regine A) never answered her cell phone and B) her home phone is broken. I dialed Taran's phone number and it ringed but it wasn't Taran's voice I heard.
It was the girl's.
"Taran? You sound different-" I said hoping that I had heard wrong and my mind was playing tricks on me.
"Oh, sorry, wrong number." The girl explained. Damn it! I'm going insane but why does that girl seem so damn familiar. Crap! I'm trying to abstain from swearing but look how well that's going.
"Oops, I'm sorry. I'm always getting phone numbers mixed up. I think I put the seven before the one…My best friend just changed her phone number recently and I've been through hell to get it figured out. Sorry again. Bye." I finished my rambling feeling a little disheartened because I wanted to know the girl's name but I know that it would be totally weird if I asked a strangers name over the phone.
"Bye." She said before hanging up. Not a second later I felt a familiar feeling. I knew I had seen that girl before. I've got her face and-yes!-I'm remembering her name. Oh what was it? I know it was something original name or something along the lines. God what was it? Sara? No too plain. Sabrina? No. Sam? No! Come on Lafontaine! You have an excellent memory now use it!
Scarlet, Selena, Seana, Shea, Sian, Si-Wait! Silynne! That's it! Her name is Silynne Joanse! But where did I meet her? I know it's important.
School? Nope. Neighborhood? Nada. Convention? No-Wait yeah. Convention…convention…which one?
As quick as a flash I saw myself at what I guessed was Comic Con since I've only been there twice and girls all around me were screaming their lungs out for Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. Twilight convention. A girl was grabbing my arm. I looked and it was Silynne. From her attire I could see she was Team Jacob.
That's when everything clicked. Her name was Silynne Joanse, we met at the Twilight convention at Comic Con, we chatted and drove together on our bikes, we…we had a crash and then got stuck in…
"Twilight." As soon as the words escaped my lips there was a pressure in my lap. I was no longer aware of my parents as I looked down and saw Eclipse in my lap. Curious I opened the page and then, possessed or not, the pages somehow were ripped out of the book and twirled all around me.
I was blinded. I couldn't see anything. And as if I wasn't already confused someone was whispering something.
I'm sorry…I'm so-so sorry…
The guilt and remorse in that boy's (I think it was a boy) voice made my heart break and if I could see him I would give him a hug. Wait a sec. His voice is familiar too. Where…oh my god…Seth. What's happened that has made him to miserable? I have to find out. I don't care if I'm not an imprint, Seth is my friend (and at this point I don't care if I say it-crush) and he needs my help.
Kendra? You're waking. Come on Ken! Come on!
Suddenly the whirling pages separated and parted on either sides of me like the Red Sea to Moses. I saw a light shining up ahead and Seth's voice was coming from it, begging me to wake up. I'm not sure what he meant but it was worth a shot.
I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, maybe even faster, and in a matter of moments I reached the light. I broke through and that's when I saw…
Duh duh duh! Clifhanger in case you didn't get it! It's short but still it's something.
Your turn Nessie!