A/N: Sorry this update took forever! Its been what 7 months, Eeek I had a writing block of the major variety :P But I tried to put together a second chapter, it may be short but I already have plans for a third chapter: ) thank you to my two reviewers Angelic Chocolate Fairy and Lyanne sends undying love their way So here we go chapter 2 I hope everyone enjoys it and I look forward to getting reviews wink wink (I have brownies for reviews wiggles eyebrows)

Disclaimer: Meg Cabot Owns all used characters .. she da man

I wake up to face a new room, this one much different from the last. The new room is blanketed in a dark blue heavy haze and I barley see a few feet in front of me. My head spins and throbs as I try to move and wiggle for my freedom. When I come to a sharp thought, and I could nearly smack myself for not thinking about it before.

"Yes!" I scream out loud my own voice taking me by surprise as it vibrates through the mysterious room.

Honestly, how could I have not thought about it before? I can escape to the Shadowland! A splinting headache does even hold a candle to my place of current captivity. Hah, whoever is holding me captivity here surely underestimates me and the power of thought. Maybe one day I can share my story to the world and I will be asked to make a commercial telling kids to stay in school and keep learning because the can escape an impending doom just like me, hah hardly but hey can't a girl dream? Well here goes nothing, Shadowland here I come!

I close my eyes and try to picture Shadowland as I know it, dark and unknown, my body jolts forward and I open my eyes to discover that I am still in the same spot, for whatever reason I can't shift.

Well this seems hardly fair! If I believe Paul (and believe me I'm not that sure I do…) I should be able to set the rules right? I mean it is my mind you know!

Lalala have I mentioned how boring it is just sitting here in the haze? Just incase you have never had the pleasure of being trapped inside your own mind I will explain it to you..It sucks!

Uggh what to do..what to do?

It wasn't until I paced around the room about 50 times until I felt it, blinding pain, exhaustion overwhelming my every limb, darkness. I fall down into the darkness and let go.

And cue the splitting headache; Check defiantly feeling that part of shifting now. Uggh definite check on the pain, but that just means that I'm at Shadowland; the pain means that it worked, Right? As I reach up to hold my throbbing head in my hands I realize something.

I'm glowing! ME SUZE SIMON A GHOST….A GHOST! How is that at all possible. I'm not dead! Well, at least I don't feel dead! OH MY GOD! I, SUZE SIMON AM DEAD! Alright then I close my eyes and when I open them next I will not be glowing. I'm not dead..I'm not dead..Suze Simon is not dead..maybe if I say it enough it will come true. Peeking open my eyes I realize that my mantra had no effect on reality, my hand is still glowing to my disdain.

Before I even realize it I am pacing the room, it is at this moment that I realize that I am not in the Shadowland, I am not in the rooms I was before, I am at the beach not far from my house. Remember those people I mentioned before that were laughing at me? There sides certainly must be aching by now.

PS: For anyone that does not know a Conundrum is a defined as :a riddle or a difficult problem

-Katie