Well, I just have to say I'll be surprised if anybody ever finds out the truth about my friends and I. I don't know how it happened, or if anyone else is like this, but as far as I'm concerned, the answer is no. My friends said it was bound to happen anyways, but I say that fate was the decider, and I suppose it was fate that drove me to write down the story of what happened to the six of us last May. That's when it began. May 16th. Also known as my 14th birthday. Totally innocuous, right? Just an average Chicago girl having her 14th birthday. Happens all the time, right? Not mine, it doesn't. "You planned anything special?" Savanna asks me. She's my best friend. The pair of us, along with Kiersten, did everything together. We lived in Chicago, a girl's heaven. Well, I guess besides New York City, but we love Chicago. It's significantly smaller than New York, but just about the same population. We went to the same middle school, Harold James Secondary, in the eighth grade. "Not really," I answered her. Kiersten didn't live close enough for us to walk to school with her, but we had the same schedule, so we met up almost as soon as we got to school. "I think Mom's keeping a secret for later. She gave me this." I show her the necklace that Mom gave me at breakfast this morning. It was kind of cool, because it had a leaf pendant, and it was hollow, and inside was a bunch of gold dust. When I'd asked Mom, her answer had been, "It's "It's glitter, dear." Sure doesn't look like glitter to me. Just pretend.