Chapter 1: Tuesday
"Tuesday agenda: Yearbook meeting 3:15, dentist 5:30, flute lesson 6:00 then dance at 7:45. No time to breathe let alone take a quick nap," Chloe muttered as she packed last night's homework, which took her all night to finish, in her backpack along with her yearbook and confirmation binders, her flute and dance outfits. As an after thought she packed her disc man with a few CD's. She ran upstairs from her room to the kitchen. "Why is everything always on Tuesday? Oh right, so I have the rest of the week to hang and shop. Please no one remind me this was my idea," Her sister Zoe giggled when she saw Chloe.
"Did you forget something?" she asked, "look in a mirror," Chloe turned to the long mirror by the door. She was still in her PJ's.
"Damn, put some toast in the toaster for me, will ya Zo?" she called as she ran back to her room. Checking the weather outside, she slipped off her pj top and put on a green monkey t-shirt and slipped on some khakis. She ran a brush though her hair and clipped it back with a few clips.
She slipped on her pack and ran back upstairs. Her toast just popped and she buttered them in a smooth practiced motion. She slipped on her sandals and ran out the door.
She caught up with her best friend Abigal and stopped to catch her breath.
Noticing her bulging pack sack, she said, "Tuesday again?" Chloe just nodded and started to walk. "Don't forget the fair on Saturday. You have to be there, everyone else will."
"I didn't. I even know what I'm wearing. My genie dance outfit, I'm performing there."
"You are? Woh talk about lucky, now your folks can't say you can't go,"
"Yea, 'cept I don't want to perform in front of everyone I know, especially a solo number."
"You'll do great," Abigal encouraged. "Plus, all the guys will see you in that skimpy costume," Chloe grinned.
The day went by so fast soon it was time for the yearbook meeting, then confirmation, then flute. Dance was always last. Chloe always saved the best for last. She loved to dance. Dancing was her life. When she got there, she changed into her warm-up outfit. Laura was already there, preparing the music.
"Hey you!" she said grinning, "Hope your ready to dance 'til you drop."
"Yea," she answered, stretching.
The warm up was just a bunch of moves randomly chosen by Laura and danced to the music playing. That went by quickly. Chloe went to change into her genie costume.
Just when she was stuffing her warm-up costume into her pack, she was surrounded by a strange glow, and was sucked into some tunnel. She fell to the ground with a thud, and shook her head to clear it. She got up and looked around. She was in a room full of cute guys.
"Who are you?" asked an extremely cute guy with blue-black hair and sapphire blue eyes.
"I'm Chloe. Who are you?"
"You don't know?" said another guy, this one looked sweet; he had white blonde hair and blue eyes. His cheeks were rosy, and he was very butch. "He's the prince Lady, Prince Roald."
"Prince Roald?" She squeaked, "But how are you here? How am I here? Oh god how do I get back?" She thought of Laura waiting for her to come out of the change room, of how Abby will be waiting for her to perform at the fair. "Oh god, how do I get back? You have to send me back!" I'm in Tortall, she thought, I'm in my dream place and I get to meet my favourite characters, so why am I so upset? She asked herself. She looked back at the boys. Who were looking at her face, her costume and her legs. Of course, they don't usually see half naked girls popping in out of nowhere. Her costume was a one-strapped two-piece, with a blue see-through dress around her waist and a genie face cover that goes around her face and across her nose. She blushed slightly. Just then two more people walked into the room, one was Neal, she guessed, the other was none other than Kel, the page-girl.
Forgetting who was around her, she said, "Oh my it's actually you! I am in Tortall!" Looking around she said, "I mean hi,"
Kel looked bewildered, "Who are you?"
"I'm Chloe," she answered
Neal stepped forward and glared at the rosy-cheeked youth, Oren, "You cast the world spell, didn't you?"
He glared back at him, "He dared me to," he said pointing to his friend, Vinson.
"If Vinson dared you to jump off a cliff, would you?"
"Depends on the size of the cliff," muttered Chloe under her breathe. "You brought me here?" she asked Joren. He nodded, "Then send me back, now!" she demanded.
"I can't," he mumbled,
"What?! Oh Gods, I'm in mucho trouble," She started pacing, "My mother is going to kill me for being late home, Laura's going to kill me for not practicing, Abby and the guys will think I chickened out of performing at the fair, oh gods, is my pack here?" she said looking around, "Yes," she said when she saw in on the ground. She dug into it pulling out her clothes. She took off the genie face scarf and pulled out her clips. She cringed and she pulled out her ponytail and she let her blonde hair fall to her shoulders.
"Is there a place where I can change?" Chloe asked Kel.
"Yes, you can come into my room," Kel said, pulling her away from the gawking boys. "So who are you?"
"I told you, I'm Chloe. And your Kel, wow, I've never thought I'd ever get to meet you! This is so cool."
"Cool? How do you know my name?"
"Oh well, you know how Neal said Joren did that world spell, well in my world, you're all in books. You and Alanna and Daine and Numair and Jonathan and Roald."
"We are?"
"Yep, I read about you and how you always wear a dress to dinner and how Joren is mean, even if he's cute and that Roald is betrothed to Princess Chasakimi of the Yamani Islands and that Neal's least favourite aunt calls him Nealon and-"
"Alright, I get it," They walked in silence for a while. "Hey why are you wearing that silly dress?"
"This? It's my costume. I'm doing a dance to "I Dream of Jeanie" and this is my costume."
"You dance in that?" Kel asked, amazed.
"Oh ya, would you like to see my other costumes? I have them here, cause I was at dance when I was brought here,"
"Sure," said Kel. The two walked into the room and Chloe showed off her other costumes.
"What's that?" Kel asked pointing to her flute container.
"Oh that's my flute, I had flute practice today too, along with a yearbook meeting and a confirmation lesson."
"Wow you keep busy,"
"Yea, on top of all that I have school homework. My geography teacher piled it high today."
"Geography? Isn't that study of the ground?"
"Yea, my teacher's pretty cool, but he likes homework,"
"Well, I wonder what we can do with you until we find out how to send you back," There was a knock on the door. "Come in," Neal walked in with Cleon, Seaver and the rest. Chloe ran into the bathroom and changed into one of Kel's dresses. "Chloe, allow me to introduce-"
"Let me guess," Chloe pretended to think hard, "Neal, Cleon, Seaver, Merric," she pointed to them all in turn, naming off everyone's name. "I think that's it,"
"Kel, you told her our names before we got here, didn't you?" Neal accused, Kel shook her head, "Well how else would she know all our names?"
"Magic," answered Chloe, straight faced, as Kel hid a grin under her hand. The other boys just gaped.
"Can you read minds? I mean I see no Gift or Wild Magic in you!"
"No nothing like that, it's just something I was born with," she answered.
"What's that?" asked Merric, pointing to her flute case.
"That's my magic wand," she answered, "No just joking, that's my flute," Chloe walked to her flute and put it together. She started playing the song from the titanic. The others settled around her and listened to the music.
When the song was finished, Quinden asked her to play another. Thinking of songs she knew, she started playing Baby One More Time. Both those songs were very long on the flute, so after she took a break. By then it was near lights out anyway and the boys went to their rooms.
"That was fun," commented Kel. "But we still don't know what to do with you,"
"It's too late to think about that, do you have any homework?"
"You mean unfinished work?" Chloe nodded. "Yes, math."
"I'll help you," Chloe offered.
"O Kay,"
They went to work on the math problems, luckily for Chloe, she learned this is grade 7, so they were done quickly.
"You must be a math teacher in your world," said Kel yawing.
"Hardly," muttered Chloe, and she fell asleep.
"Tuesday agenda: Yearbook meeting 3:15, dentist 5:30, flute lesson 6:00 then dance at 7:45. No time to breathe let alone take a quick nap," Chloe muttered as she packed last night's homework, which took her all night to finish, in her backpack along with her yearbook and confirmation binders, her flute and dance outfits. As an after thought she packed her disc man with a few CD's. She ran upstairs from her room to the kitchen. "Why is everything always on Tuesday? Oh right, so I have the rest of the week to hang and shop. Please no one remind me this was my idea," Her sister Zoe giggled when she saw Chloe.
"Did you forget something?" she asked, "look in a mirror," Chloe turned to the long mirror by the door. She was still in her PJ's.
"Damn, put some toast in the toaster for me, will ya Zo?" she called as she ran back to her room. Checking the weather outside, she slipped off her pj top and put on a green monkey t-shirt and slipped on some khakis. She ran a brush though her hair and clipped it back with a few clips.
She slipped on her pack and ran back upstairs. Her toast just popped and she buttered them in a smooth practiced motion. She slipped on her sandals and ran out the door.
She caught up with her best friend Abigal and stopped to catch her breath.
Noticing her bulging pack sack, she said, "Tuesday again?" Chloe just nodded and started to walk. "Don't forget the fair on Saturday. You have to be there, everyone else will."
"I didn't. I even know what I'm wearing. My genie dance outfit, I'm performing there."
"You are? Woh talk about lucky, now your folks can't say you can't go,"
"Yea, 'cept I don't want to perform in front of everyone I know, especially a solo number."
"You'll do great," Abigal encouraged. "Plus, all the guys will see you in that skimpy costume," Chloe grinned.
The day went by so fast soon it was time for the yearbook meeting, then confirmation, then flute. Dance was always last. Chloe always saved the best for last. She loved to dance. Dancing was her life. When she got there, she changed into her warm-up outfit. Laura was already there, preparing the music.
"Hey you!" she said grinning, "Hope your ready to dance 'til you drop."
"Yea," she answered, stretching.
The warm up was just a bunch of moves randomly chosen by Laura and danced to the music playing. That went by quickly. Chloe went to change into her genie costume.
Just when she was stuffing her warm-up costume into her pack, she was surrounded by a strange glow, and was sucked into some tunnel. She fell to the ground with a thud, and shook her head to clear it. She got up and looked around. She was in a room full of cute guys.
"Who are you?" asked an extremely cute guy with blue-black hair and sapphire blue eyes.
"I'm Chloe. Who are you?"
"You don't know?" said another guy, this one looked sweet; he had white blonde hair and blue eyes. His cheeks were rosy, and he was very butch. "He's the prince Lady, Prince Roald."
"Prince Roald?" She squeaked, "But how are you here? How am I here? Oh god how do I get back?" She thought of Laura waiting for her to come out of the change room, of how Abby will be waiting for her to perform at the fair. "Oh god, how do I get back? You have to send me back!" I'm in Tortall, she thought, I'm in my dream place and I get to meet my favourite characters, so why am I so upset? She asked herself. She looked back at the boys. Who were looking at her face, her costume and her legs. Of course, they don't usually see half naked girls popping in out of nowhere. Her costume was a one-strapped two-piece, with a blue see-through dress around her waist and a genie face cover that goes around her face and across her nose. She blushed slightly. Just then two more people walked into the room, one was Neal, she guessed, the other was none other than Kel, the page-girl.
Forgetting who was around her, she said, "Oh my it's actually you! I am in Tortall!" Looking around she said, "I mean hi,"
Kel looked bewildered, "Who are you?"
"I'm Chloe," she answered
Neal stepped forward and glared at the rosy-cheeked youth, Oren, "You cast the world spell, didn't you?"
He glared back at him, "He dared me to," he said pointing to his friend, Vinson.
"If Vinson dared you to jump off a cliff, would you?"
"Depends on the size of the cliff," muttered Chloe under her breathe. "You brought me here?" she asked Joren. He nodded, "Then send me back, now!" she demanded.
"I can't," he mumbled,
"What?! Oh Gods, I'm in mucho trouble," She started pacing, "My mother is going to kill me for being late home, Laura's going to kill me for not practicing, Abby and the guys will think I chickened out of performing at the fair, oh gods, is my pack here?" she said looking around, "Yes," she said when she saw in on the ground. She dug into it pulling out her clothes. She took off the genie face scarf and pulled out her clips. She cringed and she pulled out her ponytail and she let her blonde hair fall to her shoulders.
"Is there a place where I can change?" Chloe asked Kel.
"Yes, you can come into my room," Kel said, pulling her away from the gawking boys. "So who are you?"
"I told you, I'm Chloe. And your Kel, wow, I've never thought I'd ever get to meet you! This is so cool."
"Cool? How do you know my name?"
"Oh well, you know how Neal said Joren did that world spell, well in my world, you're all in books. You and Alanna and Daine and Numair and Jonathan and Roald."
"We are?"
"Yep, I read about you and how you always wear a dress to dinner and how Joren is mean, even if he's cute and that Roald is betrothed to Princess Chasakimi of the Yamani Islands and that Neal's least favourite aunt calls him Nealon and-"
"Alright, I get it," They walked in silence for a while. "Hey why are you wearing that silly dress?"
"This? It's my costume. I'm doing a dance to "I Dream of Jeanie" and this is my costume."
"You dance in that?" Kel asked, amazed.
"Oh ya, would you like to see my other costumes? I have them here, cause I was at dance when I was brought here,"
"Sure," said Kel. The two walked into the room and Chloe showed off her other costumes.
"What's that?" Kel asked pointing to her flute container.
"Oh that's my flute, I had flute practice today too, along with a yearbook meeting and a confirmation lesson."
"Wow you keep busy,"
"Yea, on top of all that I have school homework. My geography teacher piled it high today."
"Geography? Isn't that study of the ground?"
"Yea, my teacher's pretty cool, but he likes homework,"
"Well, I wonder what we can do with you until we find out how to send you back," There was a knock on the door. "Come in," Neal walked in with Cleon, Seaver and the rest. Chloe ran into the bathroom and changed into one of Kel's dresses. "Chloe, allow me to introduce-"
"Let me guess," Chloe pretended to think hard, "Neal, Cleon, Seaver, Merric," she pointed to them all in turn, naming off everyone's name. "I think that's it,"
"Kel, you told her our names before we got here, didn't you?" Neal accused, Kel shook her head, "Well how else would she know all our names?"
"Magic," answered Chloe, straight faced, as Kel hid a grin under her hand. The other boys just gaped.
"Can you read minds? I mean I see no Gift or Wild Magic in you!"
"No nothing like that, it's just something I was born with," she answered.
"What's that?" asked Merric, pointing to her flute case.
"That's my magic wand," she answered, "No just joking, that's my flute," Chloe walked to her flute and put it together. She started playing the song from the titanic. The others settled around her and listened to the music.
When the song was finished, Quinden asked her to play another. Thinking of songs she knew, she started playing Baby One More Time. Both those songs were very long on the flute, so after she took a break. By then it was near lights out anyway and the boys went to their rooms.
"That was fun," commented Kel. "But we still don't know what to do with you,"
"It's too late to think about that, do you have any homework?"
"You mean unfinished work?" Chloe nodded. "Yes, math."
"I'll help you," Chloe offered.
"O Kay,"
They went to work on the math problems, luckily for Chloe, she learned this is grade 7, so they were done quickly.
"You must be a math teacher in your world," said Kel yawing.
"Hardly," muttered Chloe, and she fell asleep.