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************* Chapter 2- Colors: Prelude to Death-Blue *************
Hiya! Nice to meet ya! My name's Jack! You know my buddy Jesse, don't ya? Well that's alright if you don't, cause this ain't about him. You know, that kid is WAY too serious, even before all of this happened. Well, I can't really blame him, at least sometimes. But you don't have to listen to me talk about our problems, so listen to a very, very blue tale.
It was about a month after the incident with Sarah, and soon the school was split into two groups, the group that were so fascinated, or were so scared of Sarah that they nearly fell in love with her, or they were so freaked out or afraid of her that they avoided her like the plague, which was odd for her, being as she had the personality that no one could hate. We, that is to say, me and the other two, still hung around her and treated her like we always did.like a goddess.
"I just don't understand it." She said in a sadder-than-usual tone. Just last week, muscle boy Milfag dumped her. Why? He told her because it wasn't working out, we all knew it was because he was freaked out by a girl with strange powers. But like I said, we didn't mind, she was still Sarah to us, in fact, she seemed to fit in better than usual.
"I've been listening in the bathroom," Tayliana said, "Some of the girl's are calling you a witch." Speaking of witch, don't listen to what Jesse said earlier, she's a real bitch. So what if she has long legs, a nice even tan, large breasts.beautiful, shiny black hair.well I mean! Look what I'm saying, and SHE gets mad whenever I can't take my gaze of her boobs. She always gets on my case, sometimes I just can't stand her.
"Don't worry Sarah," I heard Jesse assure her, and I say that because I usually walk behind them, in case I have to quickly break away when the conversation goes.weird, "I'm sure no one will try anything, it's not like you did anything wrong."
And it was starting to get weird. I'm not into that mushy stuff. I would have gone off and booby trapped some freshman's locker, but then we reached Sarah's locker. I knew something was wrong, I noticed the hinges on her locker slightly straining, more so than usual. (When you're a pranker, you notice these things.) She opened her locker and, WHOOSH!, out came every piece of garbage known to man. On the inside of her door, and in the middle of her locker, were the words "SATAN'S BITCH!" written in red paint.
"Seems as if Alexandra and the others needed to work on their snart." Tay said, who has an annoying little habit of mixing words together. Oh, did I forget to mention there was a third group? The third group is actually a little odd for a public school, the Roman-Catholic group. Now, I'm not atheist or anything, nor am I against the Catholic religion.but for Christ's sake, they have to get over themselves! In short, they've been taught to believe their religion is better than others, and have been taught to "teach" their beliefs on others. And being so, "close to God," as they are, they automatically assume anything dealing with the Wican religion is an act of worship to the devil. And Sarah's little trick certainly did raise some questions.
I leaned in closer to the locker, "They certainly are naturals at it, the letters are in perfect aligning." I heard Tay growling at me, so I looked back to see them. I saw Tay, glaring down at me, Jesse, his face red with anger for the idiots who did this. He doesn't hide his emotions very well. I also noticed that Sarah.was gone. "Sarah?"
We all looked around to see where she could have gone. It wasn't like her to run off like this, cause one, she didn't get angry or upset enough to do this, and two, she ALWAYS told Jesse or Tay where she was going. But Tay, who was a local of the girls bathroom gossip, that is, by accident or force, (she's a little bit of a tomboy), figured that Sarah was sitting on a toilet somewhere.
We went through three different bathrooms and a locker room, (it's a big school) before we found the can that Sarah had planted herself. Tay had gone in, being as we can't, although I wish. Even with a door blocking us, we could hear poor Sarah's sorrowful sobs as if they were right next to us. I looked over at Jesse.
"This is so unlike her," I told him, "Whenever she would get angry, she'd always come to one of us, usually you or Tay." I noticed by his frown he was not in the mood to discuss Sarah, so I talked about something else, "I- I'm not the kind of person you can come to. But YOU! You have a knack for dealing with trouble! I'm not though, I'll just tell them to 'get a drink ,' a-and that's that. But you know what to say! You know the right words, at the right.."
"Jack?"
"Yea."
"Shut up."
So I shut up. We waited about ten minutes, before Tay poked her head out of the bathroom.
"What did you get out of her?" I asked.
"Nothing really, just 'I'm a freak. I'm a freak. I'm a freak.'" She answered in her overly sarcastic tone. She looked over at Jesse and grabbed his shirt, "I think you should talk to her." And she ripped him into the bathroom. I just stood a little dumbfounded, looked around to make sure no one was coming, and slipped into the bathroom. Me and Jesse, we stick together, like two peas in a pod, a pair of underwear, stuff like that.
The bathroom was nice. Nicer than the men's room. A little too pink for my comfort, oh sorry! I noticed that the sobbing had gotten louder, and I followed Tay and Jesse to a closed door of a bathroom stall.
"Never been in the girl's room before." I said, trying to lighten the mood, but Tay just glared at me. Jesse leaned close to the door and whispered into it.
"Sarah?"
The sobbing had stopped for a while, and she answered, "J-Jesse?"
"Wh-wh-what's the matter?"
"What's the matter?!" she burst out, "I'm a freak, that's what the matter is!" And the sobbing continued.
"I take back what I said."
"Shut up Jack." Tay hissed at me.
'"W-Well Sarah, it isn't your fault. I mean, an angel such as you can't be a.."
"Oh Jesse! Then what happened?! I mean.I was leaning over him, and I thought for SURE he was going to die right in front of my eyes! And then.then.."
"Sarah?"
"I.I heard a voice."
"A voice?"
"A VOICE JESSE! A VOICE! It.it told me that I could help him! It told me that it.that it was time. I asked it how, and it told me to hold out my hand. Then it told me to think about him, think about him when he was in good health. And then it happened.and.and.and.." She was gasping for air, "And.I.knew what to do. I don't know how I knew.I just knew. And I.expanded it, I grew it to a level that.that I knew would heal him."
"But you didn't KNOW that there was something special about you. You didn't know beforehand you.had special powers." The sobbing began to stop, she was at short, raspy breaths now. "Honestly.I always thought there was something special about you." I rolled my eyes, this was exactly the weird stuff that I was talking about, and when I looked over at Tay, it seemed that she shared the same view. We waited for about a minute, then the door opened up, very slowly. Sarah stepped out, her eyes red from crying so hard, and she forced a smile.
"I'm sorry." she said, "I don't know what came over me. This isn't usually like me." She wiped some tears away, this time, they were tears of happiness, I can tell that much at least. She gave everyone a hug, even me, who didn't really say anything. I guess it was just for being there, I guess. She seemed to give Jesse the longest hug of them all, in fact, she didn't want to let go. But I know Jesse, he would either pass this off as compassion, or wouldn't notice it. Of course, when you're two guys in a girl's bathroom that usually never leads to anything good. As soon as Sarah let go of him, some stuff fell out of her pockets. Nothing special, just some pens, a pencil, maybe a couple sticky notes, nothing important. As soon as they hit the ground, "I'll get it!" Me and Jesse both hit the floor, quickly picking up everything in near record timing. Why near? As we picked up the last of her items, we noticed two wrinkled, high heeled ankles standing in the middle of us. We slowly looked up the body (it wasn't pleasant), of our chemistry teacher, Mrs. Cramer. Every year the freshman would ask her how the dinosaurs died, but me and the other juniors, naw, we knew better than that. We'd ask her if Adam was a good a lover as God intended him to be. Heh heh. Anyways, she didn't like us, any of us. Well, except for Sarah, but then nobody could hate Sarah, at least her personality and looks. But, the old crone had it in for men and women who were within two feet of each other.
"SO Mr. Johnson, Reynolds, Tohana, Harrison." We all looked at her nervously, "Oh no, don't let me stop you, it'll just give me more reasons to suspend you."
Me and Jesse got up and looked at the girls, then Sarah spoke up, "M-Miss Cramer.."
"No but's! Come with me."
Well, I'm sure everyone knows how a trip to the principal's office goes, especially when he or she has had a stick up his ass for the past thirty years. Even Sarah was hardly spared, and SHE had nothing to do with our little intrusion. But she's real good, she doesn't get mad often, or upset, actually seeing her in tears like that wrenched something in my heart. Oh don't get me wrong, she's just a friend. There's no doubt she's beautiful, long, golden hair, silky white skin, not too white, but juuuust, right. Boy do I get off track. Anyways, school had just ended for the day, and me and Jesse were walking down the hallway talking to each other.well, me talking to him.
"Can you believe it?! He gave US detention for something we had NO control over, and he gave Sarah one, just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time!" Jesse wasn't much of a talker, he was a listener, and I'm glad for that. I couldn't stand listening to me talk. He would usually smile, sometimes laugh, but he's a cool kid, too uptight though.
"Well, he IS related to Milfred." I laughed, sometimes he can make a good joke. "So," he said, "Is Tay driving us to the mall today or are we walking?"
Subsequently, she's the only one who could drive. Sarah had her drivers permit, but her father just got canned, so she takes it REAL easy on the driving, meaning never. Jesse's parents are over-protective, they don't let him leave for school without telling them where he's going, and me.well my parents don't trust me behind a two ton can of metal that can go up to 100 miles per hour. I like fast things.
"Perhaps you can get your mom to let you take that Jaguar for a spin." I was joking of course, but he still glared at me. I laughed, in a mocking way of sorts, and behind his head I noticed a shadowy figure watching us. It was Drake, and he was watching us.menacingly. A small smirk was on his face, and when he noticed that I was looking at him, he smiled wider turned around and walked away. I watched him disappear behind a car, before we ran into Sarah and Tay.
"Are you guys ready to go?" Tay asked us, twirling her car keys around her finger. "Unless of course you want to change your diaper before we go." She said, obviously directing it at me. I just smiled and laughed.
"Only if you're the one changing them."
"Ha ha. In your dreams pervert." She snarled at me, and led us all to her Ford P.O.S. truck. I was always afraid to ride in it because I was afraid my seat would fall out from under me. But still, it was rare that everyone in our little group had enough time to get together like this after school, so, I jumped in. Sarah was in the front with Tay, me and Jesse sat in the back
"Buckle up everyone." Sarah called out. I never wore my seat belt though, it always annoyed me. I heard Tay's truck backfire, and my heart skipped a beat. I hate Fords, I hate trucks, and I hate anything made before 1980. This thing avoided none of my pet peeves.
It's a fairly long drive to the mall, about a thirty minute drive. He were about halfway there when we had to pass over a bridge. It was a pretty sturdy bridge, a little rusty, but still good. What was odd about this bridge was that it was high above the ground it was supposed to be protecting us from. Yeah, that's right. We were just about to go over it while Tay was too busy arguing with me.
"Listen, I am NOT driving over to the Club 69!" She screamed at me. It was an open gentlemen's club, and I was feeling a bit gentlemanly, so I told her that.
"In other words, you mean a strip club." I heard Jesse comment from beside me, he was always good at ruining a good mood. This argument continued for several seconds now, before something odd happened. The tires slipped. On what, I don't know. It was the end of fall, no snow, no rain, but the tires still slipped. We skidded sideways for about a yard, then, we sent straight forward. What shocked us into a speechless state beforehand, scared the shit out of us as everyone screamed at the top of their lungs. We went straight through the guard rail. I don't even recall hitting it. We plummeted straight down and I swore I saw my life flash before my eyes. It was short, unfulfilled, and lacking of one important quality I wanted more than anything, sex. Okay, so I'm somewhat of a pervert! The next few seconds were a quick prayer, and something about my family, I don't remember exactly. Then we hit the ground, and I flew forward. By the way, I wear my seat belt from now on. I was unconscious for a minute or so. I've had a few knocks to the head before, so I was resistant to blows to the head. I felt that my waist was hanging over something, and I was in a lot of pain. 'Well, I guess this is it," I thought, "I'm dead. I wonder if there are Victoria Secret Models in Heaven." I sighed in ecstasy, and noticed my nose was itching. I opened my eyes and saw my nose was in the back of Tay's head. I slowly reached up to move her head..
"Don't.touch.me.." I heard Tay said. My eyes shot wide open and looked up, catching myself from falling downwards. I looked out the window and noticed something very strange.
I could see the ground, but it wasn't smashed into the windshield, like I thought it would be. It was actually about four feet from it. Then I noticed that the ground was kinda hazy, so I took a closer look, and saw why. I was a little amazed at first, but I had to look out the side windows, and the back. We were, the truck, was enclosed within a giant, blue, bubble-like thing. Like a shield almost. I quickly glanced over at Jesse and Sarah, who just happened to woke up, then back at Tay. Her arms were outstretched, with one hand grasping the back of the other, and they were blue. Her hands were glowing blue. Amazed as I was, I looked over into her face and saw the look of determination, her teeth gritting so hard she could have bit steel in half. Sweat ran into her eyes, and she forcefully closed them. Then I felt the truck slam into the ground a second time, and then fall over onto its back. There was silence for a while, as I lay on the ceiling, Tay's hair tickling my face. They all had they're seatbelts on, so they were hanging for a little whiles.
"Tay?" I asked. A look of annoyance on her face, and petrified one on the other two.
"What, Jack?"
"Next time we go out somewhere, please smack me if you're the one who's driving."
There was another slight pause, then I heard her say, "Okay Jack. Sure." In a, relieved sort of way actually.
Well, to make a long story short, we got out of the ravine, except for the truck that is. Not that I really cared. An ambulance had come to pick us up, cause there were other drivers around. I think they were more amazed that the car actually made it through with only being turned upside down, then the fact we were okay. Covered in a blanket, I looked over at Sarah and Jesse who were sitting in the back of the ambulance, and one of the paramedics walked over to them. I heard him say, "We called you're parents, they're heading over to the hospital now." Jesse thanked them, and continued to talk to Sarah, most likely trying to comfort her. Tay walked over to them, and I began just walking around the road, just exploring. All the whiles listening to their conversation.
"Sarah? What happened?" Tay asked her, "I mean, last month, what happened?"
"I heard a voice."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"What did it sound like?"
There was a pause, then Sarah spoke up again, "It.it sounded like me.except.except that, I knew it wasn't."
Another pause, then with a tone of sadness, I heard Tay say, "Oh.okay."
I began to walk around some more, then I noticed something, that I hadn't before. I called out to Jesse and the others, and they quickly ran over to me, asking what the problem was.
"Look." I pointed at the guard rail, which obviously wasn't very good at guarding. However, why it didn't came as a complete shock to me.
"What?" I heard Sarah said.
I walked closer to the edge of the ravine, and ran my hand along the edge of the open metal, "Look at it.it's been cut through. It's been cut clean through."
"So? We did hit going at some speed." Tay answered.
I turned around and started raising my voice a little, "Listen! We hit this thing going at around thirty to forty miles an hour, right?" They nodded, and I motioned my hand to the rail, "If we HIT it, going at that speed, don't you think there should at least be a DENT, or something in there?!" I noticed that I actually stunned them silent, see, my brain IS good for something, "And look at how the pieces are. If we were to hit it hard enough to force it in two, the piece of metal would have been mutilated, shards of metal would have been scattered, the large piece of metal would have shown some sort of resistance to the blow, a jagged edge or something, and the wood holding it up would most likely have been broken somewhere from the ground level up."
They, were, silent. Not one of them talked, until Sarah that is, "My gosh.he's right."
Tay walked over to where I was standing and ran her hand up the edge of it, "Maybe, maybe it was cut before hand, and when we hit it, it.."
"No," I heard Jesse said, "Like Jack said, there would have to be at least ONE dent in the metal. This looks like it has been sliced cleanly down the middle and then just PUSHED out of our way."
"But that's impossible," I argued, "To be able to do that you'd have to stop time or something!"
There was another long pause again, as we looked around to make sure no one was listening, then Tay, from her one-knee position on the ground, began to spoke up.
"I.I.I have something to tell you guys."
We all looked at her, she got up and walked into the middle of our group, "W-when we were plummeting, I felt something weird. It took me a while to figure it out, because I think it's cause I had my eyes closed. When.when I opened them, everything.was stopped." We just stared at her, "Nothing.was moving, not the car, not you guys, not anything. Then.Sarah.." She looked over at her, and this was the first time I had seen Tayliana with tears of sadness in her eyes, "I.heard.a voice, in my head. It sounded like me, it sounded EXACTLY like me! It told me, it told me.."
*Flashback* 'Do not let them die. You must not let them die. They are your hope, Tayliana Tohana, they are your thoughts, they are your dreams. They are what keep you you. If you are to lose them, then you have no chance at happiness ever. You love them, don't you? You don't want them to be hurt, do you?! Tayliana Tohana! Embrace your gift! You know you have it! From the bottom of your heart to your every bones, you know you have a gift inside you! Embrace it Tayliana! Throw your hands out in front of you, and do what you know you can do, to protect every one of your friends! Every part.of your SOUL!'
I didn't know about the other two, but that whole "soul" part made me nervous. We didn't speak much for the remainder of the day, but we all made it back to our homes safely.and grounded!
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THE END
************* Chapter 2- Colors: Prelude to Death-Blue *************
Hiya! Nice to meet ya! My name's Jack! You know my buddy Jesse, don't ya? Well that's alright if you don't, cause this ain't about him. You know, that kid is WAY too serious, even before all of this happened. Well, I can't really blame him, at least sometimes. But you don't have to listen to me talk about our problems, so listen to a very, very blue tale.
It was about a month after the incident with Sarah, and soon the school was split into two groups, the group that were so fascinated, or were so scared of Sarah that they nearly fell in love with her, or they were so freaked out or afraid of her that they avoided her like the plague, which was odd for her, being as she had the personality that no one could hate. We, that is to say, me and the other two, still hung around her and treated her like we always did.like a goddess.
"I just don't understand it." She said in a sadder-than-usual tone. Just last week, muscle boy Milfag dumped her. Why? He told her because it wasn't working out, we all knew it was because he was freaked out by a girl with strange powers. But like I said, we didn't mind, she was still Sarah to us, in fact, she seemed to fit in better than usual.
"I've been listening in the bathroom," Tayliana said, "Some of the girl's are calling you a witch." Speaking of witch, don't listen to what Jesse said earlier, she's a real bitch. So what if she has long legs, a nice even tan, large breasts.beautiful, shiny black hair.well I mean! Look what I'm saying, and SHE gets mad whenever I can't take my gaze of her boobs. She always gets on my case, sometimes I just can't stand her.
"Don't worry Sarah," I heard Jesse assure her, and I say that because I usually walk behind them, in case I have to quickly break away when the conversation goes.weird, "I'm sure no one will try anything, it's not like you did anything wrong."
And it was starting to get weird. I'm not into that mushy stuff. I would have gone off and booby trapped some freshman's locker, but then we reached Sarah's locker. I knew something was wrong, I noticed the hinges on her locker slightly straining, more so than usual. (When you're a pranker, you notice these things.) She opened her locker and, WHOOSH!, out came every piece of garbage known to man. On the inside of her door, and in the middle of her locker, were the words "SATAN'S BITCH!" written in red paint.
"Seems as if Alexandra and the others needed to work on their snart." Tay said, who has an annoying little habit of mixing words together. Oh, did I forget to mention there was a third group? The third group is actually a little odd for a public school, the Roman-Catholic group. Now, I'm not atheist or anything, nor am I against the Catholic religion.but for Christ's sake, they have to get over themselves! In short, they've been taught to believe their religion is better than others, and have been taught to "teach" their beliefs on others. And being so, "close to God," as they are, they automatically assume anything dealing with the Wican religion is an act of worship to the devil. And Sarah's little trick certainly did raise some questions.
I leaned in closer to the locker, "They certainly are naturals at it, the letters are in perfect aligning." I heard Tay growling at me, so I looked back to see them. I saw Tay, glaring down at me, Jesse, his face red with anger for the idiots who did this. He doesn't hide his emotions very well. I also noticed that Sarah.was gone. "Sarah?"
We all looked around to see where she could have gone. It wasn't like her to run off like this, cause one, she didn't get angry or upset enough to do this, and two, she ALWAYS told Jesse or Tay where she was going. But Tay, who was a local of the girls bathroom gossip, that is, by accident or force, (she's a little bit of a tomboy), figured that Sarah was sitting on a toilet somewhere.
We went through three different bathrooms and a locker room, (it's a big school) before we found the can that Sarah had planted herself. Tay had gone in, being as we can't, although I wish. Even with a door blocking us, we could hear poor Sarah's sorrowful sobs as if they were right next to us. I looked over at Jesse.
"This is so unlike her," I told him, "Whenever she would get angry, she'd always come to one of us, usually you or Tay." I noticed by his frown he was not in the mood to discuss Sarah, so I talked about something else, "I- I'm not the kind of person you can come to. But YOU! You have a knack for dealing with trouble! I'm not though, I'll just tell them to 'get a drink ,' a-and that's that. But you know what to say! You know the right words, at the right.."
"Jack?"
"Yea."
"Shut up."
So I shut up. We waited about ten minutes, before Tay poked her head out of the bathroom.
"What did you get out of her?" I asked.
"Nothing really, just 'I'm a freak. I'm a freak. I'm a freak.'" She answered in her overly sarcastic tone. She looked over at Jesse and grabbed his shirt, "I think you should talk to her." And she ripped him into the bathroom. I just stood a little dumbfounded, looked around to make sure no one was coming, and slipped into the bathroom. Me and Jesse, we stick together, like two peas in a pod, a pair of underwear, stuff like that.
The bathroom was nice. Nicer than the men's room. A little too pink for my comfort, oh sorry! I noticed that the sobbing had gotten louder, and I followed Tay and Jesse to a closed door of a bathroom stall.
"Never been in the girl's room before." I said, trying to lighten the mood, but Tay just glared at me. Jesse leaned close to the door and whispered into it.
"Sarah?"
The sobbing had stopped for a while, and she answered, "J-Jesse?"
"Wh-wh-what's the matter?"
"What's the matter?!" she burst out, "I'm a freak, that's what the matter is!" And the sobbing continued.
"I take back what I said."
"Shut up Jack." Tay hissed at me.
'"W-Well Sarah, it isn't your fault. I mean, an angel such as you can't be a.."
"Oh Jesse! Then what happened?! I mean.I was leaning over him, and I thought for SURE he was going to die right in front of my eyes! And then.then.."
"Sarah?"
"I.I heard a voice."
"A voice?"
"A VOICE JESSE! A VOICE! It.it told me that I could help him! It told me that it.that it was time. I asked it how, and it told me to hold out my hand. Then it told me to think about him, think about him when he was in good health. And then it happened.and.and.and.." She was gasping for air, "And.I.knew what to do. I don't know how I knew.I just knew. And I.expanded it, I grew it to a level that.that I knew would heal him."
"But you didn't KNOW that there was something special about you. You didn't know beforehand you.had special powers." The sobbing began to stop, she was at short, raspy breaths now. "Honestly.I always thought there was something special about you." I rolled my eyes, this was exactly the weird stuff that I was talking about, and when I looked over at Tay, it seemed that she shared the same view. We waited for about a minute, then the door opened up, very slowly. Sarah stepped out, her eyes red from crying so hard, and she forced a smile.
"I'm sorry." she said, "I don't know what came over me. This isn't usually like me." She wiped some tears away, this time, they were tears of happiness, I can tell that much at least. She gave everyone a hug, even me, who didn't really say anything. I guess it was just for being there, I guess. She seemed to give Jesse the longest hug of them all, in fact, she didn't want to let go. But I know Jesse, he would either pass this off as compassion, or wouldn't notice it. Of course, when you're two guys in a girl's bathroom that usually never leads to anything good. As soon as Sarah let go of him, some stuff fell out of her pockets. Nothing special, just some pens, a pencil, maybe a couple sticky notes, nothing important. As soon as they hit the ground, "I'll get it!" Me and Jesse both hit the floor, quickly picking up everything in near record timing. Why near? As we picked up the last of her items, we noticed two wrinkled, high heeled ankles standing in the middle of us. We slowly looked up the body (it wasn't pleasant), of our chemistry teacher, Mrs. Cramer. Every year the freshman would ask her how the dinosaurs died, but me and the other juniors, naw, we knew better than that. We'd ask her if Adam was a good a lover as God intended him to be. Heh heh. Anyways, she didn't like us, any of us. Well, except for Sarah, but then nobody could hate Sarah, at least her personality and looks. But, the old crone had it in for men and women who were within two feet of each other.
"SO Mr. Johnson, Reynolds, Tohana, Harrison." We all looked at her nervously, "Oh no, don't let me stop you, it'll just give me more reasons to suspend you."
Me and Jesse got up and looked at the girls, then Sarah spoke up, "M-Miss Cramer.."
"No but's! Come with me."
Well, I'm sure everyone knows how a trip to the principal's office goes, especially when he or she has had a stick up his ass for the past thirty years. Even Sarah was hardly spared, and SHE had nothing to do with our little intrusion. But she's real good, she doesn't get mad often, or upset, actually seeing her in tears like that wrenched something in my heart. Oh don't get me wrong, she's just a friend. There's no doubt she's beautiful, long, golden hair, silky white skin, not too white, but juuuust, right. Boy do I get off track. Anyways, school had just ended for the day, and me and Jesse were walking down the hallway talking to each other.well, me talking to him.
"Can you believe it?! He gave US detention for something we had NO control over, and he gave Sarah one, just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time!" Jesse wasn't much of a talker, he was a listener, and I'm glad for that. I couldn't stand listening to me talk. He would usually smile, sometimes laugh, but he's a cool kid, too uptight though.
"Well, he IS related to Milfred." I laughed, sometimes he can make a good joke. "So," he said, "Is Tay driving us to the mall today or are we walking?"
Subsequently, she's the only one who could drive. Sarah had her drivers permit, but her father just got canned, so she takes it REAL easy on the driving, meaning never. Jesse's parents are over-protective, they don't let him leave for school without telling them where he's going, and me.well my parents don't trust me behind a two ton can of metal that can go up to 100 miles per hour. I like fast things.
"Perhaps you can get your mom to let you take that Jaguar for a spin." I was joking of course, but he still glared at me. I laughed, in a mocking way of sorts, and behind his head I noticed a shadowy figure watching us. It was Drake, and he was watching us.menacingly. A small smirk was on his face, and when he noticed that I was looking at him, he smiled wider turned around and walked away. I watched him disappear behind a car, before we ran into Sarah and Tay.
"Are you guys ready to go?" Tay asked us, twirling her car keys around her finger. "Unless of course you want to change your diaper before we go." She said, obviously directing it at me. I just smiled and laughed.
"Only if you're the one changing them."
"Ha ha. In your dreams pervert." She snarled at me, and led us all to her Ford P.O.S. truck. I was always afraid to ride in it because I was afraid my seat would fall out from under me. But still, it was rare that everyone in our little group had enough time to get together like this after school, so, I jumped in. Sarah was in the front with Tay, me and Jesse sat in the back
"Buckle up everyone." Sarah called out. I never wore my seat belt though, it always annoyed me. I heard Tay's truck backfire, and my heart skipped a beat. I hate Fords, I hate trucks, and I hate anything made before 1980. This thing avoided none of my pet peeves.
It's a fairly long drive to the mall, about a thirty minute drive. He were about halfway there when we had to pass over a bridge. It was a pretty sturdy bridge, a little rusty, but still good. What was odd about this bridge was that it was high above the ground it was supposed to be protecting us from. Yeah, that's right. We were just about to go over it while Tay was too busy arguing with me.
"Listen, I am NOT driving over to the Club 69!" She screamed at me. It was an open gentlemen's club, and I was feeling a bit gentlemanly, so I told her that.
"In other words, you mean a strip club." I heard Jesse comment from beside me, he was always good at ruining a good mood. This argument continued for several seconds now, before something odd happened. The tires slipped. On what, I don't know. It was the end of fall, no snow, no rain, but the tires still slipped. We skidded sideways for about a yard, then, we sent straight forward. What shocked us into a speechless state beforehand, scared the shit out of us as everyone screamed at the top of their lungs. We went straight through the guard rail. I don't even recall hitting it. We plummeted straight down and I swore I saw my life flash before my eyes. It was short, unfulfilled, and lacking of one important quality I wanted more than anything, sex. Okay, so I'm somewhat of a pervert! The next few seconds were a quick prayer, and something about my family, I don't remember exactly. Then we hit the ground, and I flew forward. By the way, I wear my seat belt from now on. I was unconscious for a minute or so. I've had a few knocks to the head before, so I was resistant to blows to the head. I felt that my waist was hanging over something, and I was in a lot of pain. 'Well, I guess this is it," I thought, "I'm dead. I wonder if there are Victoria Secret Models in Heaven." I sighed in ecstasy, and noticed my nose was itching. I opened my eyes and saw my nose was in the back of Tay's head. I slowly reached up to move her head..
"Don't.touch.me.." I heard Tay said. My eyes shot wide open and looked up, catching myself from falling downwards. I looked out the window and noticed something very strange.
I could see the ground, but it wasn't smashed into the windshield, like I thought it would be. It was actually about four feet from it. Then I noticed that the ground was kinda hazy, so I took a closer look, and saw why. I was a little amazed at first, but I had to look out the side windows, and the back. We were, the truck, was enclosed within a giant, blue, bubble-like thing. Like a shield almost. I quickly glanced over at Jesse and Sarah, who just happened to woke up, then back at Tay. Her arms were outstretched, with one hand grasping the back of the other, and they were blue. Her hands were glowing blue. Amazed as I was, I looked over into her face and saw the look of determination, her teeth gritting so hard she could have bit steel in half. Sweat ran into her eyes, and she forcefully closed them. Then I felt the truck slam into the ground a second time, and then fall over onto its back. There was silence for a while, as I lay on the ceiling, Tay's hair tickling my face. They all had they're seatbelts on, so they were hanging for a little whiles.
"Tay?" I asked. A look of annoyance on her face, and petrified one on the other two.
"What, Jack?"
"Next time we go out somewhere, please smack me if you're the one who's driving."
There was another slight pause, then I heard her say, "Okay Jack. Sure." In a, relieved sort of way actually.
Well, to make a long story short, we got out of the ravine, except for the truck that is. Not that I really cared. An ambulance had come to pick us up, cause there were other drivers around. I think they were more amazed that the car actually made it through with only being turned upside down, then the fact we were okay. Covered in a blanket, I looked over at Sarah and Jesse who were sitting in the back of the ambulance, and one of the paramedics walked over to them. I heard him say, "We called you're parents, they're heading over to the hospital now." Jesse thanked them, and continued to talk to Sarah, most likely trying to comfort her. Tay walked over to them, and I began just walking around the road, just exploring. All the whiles listening to their conversation.
"Sarah? What happened?" Tay asked her, "I mean, last month, what happened?"
"I heard a voice."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"What did it sound like?"
There was a pause, then Sarah spoke up again, "It.it sounded like me.except.except that, I knew it wasn't."
Another pause, then with a tone of sadness, I heard Tay say, "Oh.okay."
I began to walk around some more, then I noticed something, that I hadn't before. I called out to Jesse and the others, and they quickly ran over to me, asking what the problem was.
"Look." I pointed at the guard rail, which obviously wasn't very good at guarding. However, why it didn't came as a complete shock to me.
"What?" I heard Sarah said.
I walked closer to the edge of the ravine, and ran my hand along the edge of the open metal, "Look at it.it's been cut through. It's been cut clean through."
"So? We did hit going at some speed." Tay answered.
I turned around and started raising my voice a little, "Listen! We hit this thing going at around thirty to forty miles an hour, right?" They nodded, and I motioned my hand to the rail, "If we HIT it, going at that speed, don't you think there should at least be a DENT, or something in there?!" I noticed that I actually stunned them silent, see, my brain IS good for something, "And look at how the pieces are. If we were to hit it hard enough to force it in two, the piece of metal would have been mutilated, shards of metal would have been scattered, the large piece of metal would have shown some sort of resistance to the blow, a jagged edge or something, and the wood holding it up would most likely have been broken somewhere from the ground level up."
They, were, silent. Not one of them talked, until Sarah that is, "My gosh.he's right."
Tay walked over to where I was standing and ran her hand up the edge of it, "Maybe, maybe it was cut before hand, and when we hit it, it.."
"No," I heard Jesse said, "Like Jack said, there would have to be at least ONE dent in the metal. This looks like it has been sliced cleanly down the middle and then just PUSHED out of our way."
"But that's impossible," I argued, "To be able to do that you'd have to stop time or something!"
There was another long pause again, as we looked around to make sure no one was listening, then Tay, from her one-knee position on the ground, began to spoke up.
"I.I.I have something to tell you guys."
We all looked at her, she got up and walked into the middle of our group, "W-when we were plummeting, I felt something weird. It took me a while to figure it out, because I think it's cause I had my eyes closed. When.when I opened them, everything.was stopped." We just stared at her, "Nothing.was moving, not the car, not you guys, not anything. Then.Sarah.." She looked over at her, and this was the first time I had seen Tayliana with tears of sadness in her eyes, "I.heard.a voice, in my head. It sounded like me, it sounded EXACTLY like me! It told me, it told me.."
*Flashback* 'Do not let them die. You must not let them die. They are your hope, Tayliana Tohana, they are your thoughts, they are your dreams. They are what keep you you. If you are to lose them, then you have no chance at happiness ever. You love them, don't you? You don't want them to be hurt, do you?! Tayliana Tohana! Embrace your gift! You know you have it! From the bottom of your heart to your every bones, you know you have a gift inside you! Embrace it Tayliana! Throw your hands out in front of you, and do what you know you can do, to protect every one of your friends! Every part.of your SOUL!'
I didn't know about the other two, but that whole "soul" part made me nervous. We didn't speak much for the remainder of the day, but we all made it back to our homes safely.and grounded!
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