Chapter 1: 30seconds is more like 30 minutes
Ai Celeste sat in her last period class staring at the clock and drumming
her French manicured nails on the desk impatiently. 'Only 30 seconds to
go'. Today was February 29th and it was the day of her 16th birthday.
Keeping with Nemesisian tradition she would only be receiving two gifts:
one from her mother and one from her father. Even though her father was
dead he had left instructions in his will about a gift that she was
supposed to receive the day she turned sixteen. Ai couldn't wait to see
what it was, her older half brother Helios had practically gotten all of
Elysion when he turned sixteen and since she was her father's only daughter
she couldn't help but think that her gift would be something better than
that. There was also the fact that he had left it in his will, so it must
be important. Ai looked up at the clock again, there were still at least
15 more seconds till school was over, this had to be the longest thirty
seconds in her whole entire life. When the bell finally rang fifteen
seconds later Ai let out a small sigh of relief that she didn't half to
listen to her home economics teacher talk about sewing patterns until
tomorrow. She dashed out of the classroom knocking over people and objects
as she made her way out of the building. She ran as fast as her legs would
carry to her apartment, she had to make a quick stop there before she could
go and receive her gift.
