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Solaria Found

Ch. 1

1 means thoughts

"" means talking

"Thanks, and have a nice night." I told the customer blandly he drove away from the window of the drive-thru where I worked. That had better be the last order, it had been a long night, and I was ready to go home. Closing on a Friday really sucks when your super busy. It was now midnight, but it would be at least another half hour till I got out of this damn place. Ok, so don't get me wrong. I love the way the Chicken Dixie paid for my new car, a 2005 blue Mustang, but it gets really old when you're here ALL OF THE TIME! At least I got to close with one of my friends this time; Ann worked in the kitchen making all the sandwiches and chicken tubs.

I walked back into the break room thirty-five minutes later to get my keys from off the counter meeting Ann picking up her stuff also to go home.

"So what time are you picking us up at my house tomorrow?" She asked taking off the chicken head visor included in our uniform.

"I figured that nine o'clock should be enough time to get to the party, who's all coming with us?

"Just Laura, Theresa and Alec."

I froze. "Alec is coming? Who asked Alec to come?" I asked interested. " He heard me talking about it earlier and I told him he could come, is that all right?

HELL YAH that's all right! Now I can get some serious flirting time in! "Doesn't bother me at all." I told her.

"Good, then I'll see you tomorrow, bye!"

"See ya!" I said as I walked out into the lobby to leave, but as I clocked out at the front counter the manager, Mr. Chadwick called me back to the office. Dammit, what does he want now? "Did you need me for something?" Mr. Chadwick was one of the night managers for this place. Everyone except the owner hated his guts. He's only a year older than me, tall and lanky, with a pizza face and horrible teeth. He thinks he's the only one that knows what he's doing around here.

"I want to talk to you about your attitude here at work. You may think that this is all fun and games, but you are getting paid to do your job, which is to serve the customer anyway you can. I saw you earlier with a male customer; I believe that he asked what you were doing after work and if you would go out with him tonight, correct? What did you tell him?" " I told the guy to go hit on someone else and stop bothering me." What the hell are you trying to get at ass?

" I believe that your exact words were, to stop hitting on me PUNK ASS, and order your DAMN food! Now I can't tolerate that kind of attitude to the customer.

"What was I supposed to tell him, to skip the small stuff and go have sex next to the dumpster? The man was twenty years older than me! And if you ask me, he was clearly off his rocker. Who hits on a girl that could be your daughter? CREEPY! "

"I'm NOT asking you now am I? What you should have said was that I don't get off till late or otherwise I would take you up on your offer, sir."

What! Why don't I just wear a pink teddy and put "Kate, here to please" on my nametag!

"Now, I won't write you up this time, but if this ever happens again, I might have to tell the head manager about your behavior to the customers." Go ahead and tell, you little lap dog.

I walk out after he dismisses me, getting into my car, I head off for home. I couldn't wait to get into my pajamas, and collapse on my bed to sleep until noon the next day. But I just couldn't get to sleep like my body wanted to. I laid there tossing and turning till at least two in the morning. Even when I did finally drift off I had the dream that has been plaguing me for months now. I was standing in the middle of a large bedroom, dressed in a chicken suit, and when I turned around there stands Chadwick down on one knee. "Will you marry me?" He asks as I run away revolted, toward the door. But while running I trip on the suit and fall to the ground. When I look back in the direction of Chadwick, instead of him, I see a large energy ball hurtling right at me, I close my eyes expecting to get blown away. That's when I wake up drenched in sweat, breathing like I just ran a marathon. The dream feels so real; I sit up in bed expecting the energy ball to come out of my closet or something. But all I see are a pile of dirty clothes and my cat, Cleo, sitting on the end of my bed, almost as if she's trying to say, "what the hell happened to you?" She regally pads toward me, and curls up in my arms. For some reason this cat has the power to calm me down and make me happy more than anyone else can. She's a gray, orange, and white calico with a round white spot on her forehead and paws. I found her on my birthday day a few years ago. She was still a kitten, and was skinny, so I fed her and ever since then she's been like a sister to me.

I woke up at noon the next day to find my apartment quiet. There was a note on the kitchen table explaining. My roommate had gone to work and then was spending the night at her boyfriends house. This didn't surprise me one bit, she spends so much time there she might as well have her mail forwarded there. She was the kind of person that needed a lot of attention, physical attention, if you know what I mean.

"Looks like it's just you and me Cleo," I said to her as she meowed in agreement. So I went to take a shower to get rid of the chicken-y smell that still lingered from last night. After my shower I sat down on the couch totally planning on vegging out until I had to get ready for the Halloween party tonight. I went to the kitchen to get something to drink, when I got this feeling that I was being watched, that I wasn't alone.

"I must be spending too much time at work, or else someone slipped me some LSD or something in my sleep." I said and went to go watch tv.

A few hours later I decided to finally get ready for the party. I went and laid out on my bed and closed my eyes. Imagining Alec putting his arms around me and kissing my neck. I turned around to kiss him back but instead of Alec, it was a man that looked sorta like Alec, but different somehow. I opened my eyes and looked at the clock next to my bed. Crap! Its 8:00! I only have an hour to look to get ready! My friends and I decided to all go as porn stars for the party tonight, and I was the bad girl that loved to love, so I put on a black tank top, with fishnet shirt over that, and a tight black pleather miniskirt with fishnet stockings and black knee boots that added three inched to my already 5'8" frame.

I put my light brown, shoulder length hair in high pigtails with washout streaks of blue and pink, and some black eyeliner and lipstick . There! that's about as scary and sexy as you can get! I looked up at the clock in the bathroom. It was ten to nine, and it would take about ten minutes to get to Ann's house, perfect timing. When I left, Cleo was all laid out sleeping in a chair in the living room. When I went by she opened one eye and decided that it wasn't worth getting up for, and went back to sleep. Good bye to you too!

The party was at a popular dance club called Retro. There were tons of people there, all in some crazy costumes. I saw one guy that was a dust bunny, and his friend was the vacuum.When we walked in there was people everywhere, and I got separated from my friends. So I went up to the bar hoping that they would see me. I sat down and ordered a drink, soon I had guys coming up to me, hitting on me. Now these aren't the ordinary geeks that I usually get, they were creepy geeks. They all thought that I was a hooker, but that wasn't surprising considering that I was dressed like one. But there was one guy that was different, he didn't come up to me at all, he just sat there and drank his drink watching me from across the bar. He was about my age, tall, good looking, but once I looked straight into his eyes, I got this chill running up and down my spine. That was the second time today that I got the feeling that I was being watched. It must just be my mind playing tricks on me. I really do need to work less.

I heard my name being called over the music, and saw that my friends had found me and were waving over the crowd.

"Hey its time to be judged for our costumes, come on, lets go!" I heard Alec yell over the music. So I gulped down the rest of my drink and forgot about the guy watching me.

At about three in the morning we were on our way home from the party. My friends and I won the prize for the best costumes, though I think mine was the most complete.

"Could that party gotten any more crazy or what guys? Exclaimed Ann. She was great to work with, but also the most hyper and crazy partier. She was the nicest person most of the time, and the one to most likely to take you head off. She went to the party as a hooker, with a red pleather tube dress that went to her thigh, and red platform shoes.

"If that was possible then all of us would have been dead a long time ago. Besides, what do you expect, it's Halloween." I said as I turned the corner onto the highway home.

"Dude, you better slow down or you might get a ticket." Warned the only male of the group, Alec, while looking for something good on the radio, then deciding to look through the CDs again. The first time that I met Alec was my freshman year of college. One of the cool guys that a lot of people I knew hung out with. Then I started my job at the local Chicken Dixie, where he also worked. We hit it off right away. He was the kind of person that didn't really open up to many people very easily, but for some reason he could tell me everything. He was dressed up as a pimp, with a leopard print suit and hat with purple feather. He was majoring in computer technology.

God he looked good when he was trying to concentrate. I thought as I went through a red light. "OOPS! Didn't see that one!

Multiple groans could be heard from the backseat. "Why did we let her drive?" Asked another of my friends from the backseat. Her name was Theresa and she was always the word of reason in the group. She has long copper hair and gray eyes. Theresa is a real live genus, she got a perfect 32 on her ACT's. Thank God that she loves to help people, or I would have never gotten through biology. She's majoring in elementary education, and dressed up as a naughty teacher, with a white button up shirt, and really short plaid pleated skirt and spiked mary janes.

"Well for starters I explained, I have the best car out of all ya, and I get free gas from my parents. Besides, what would a cop be doing out this early in the morning?" I asked, pushing down the accelerator with my platform shoes, currently going 85 in a 55 zone.

Just then red and blue lights flashed in her rearview mirror.

"Seems to me like picking up your sorry ass for speeding is what they do at this time of morning." Laura added sarcastically. Laura has been my best friend since we were little. Her house is practically a second home for me. She always knows what to do in a bad situation, and is a quick thinker, even though she doesn't look it, though she has her moments. Laura has long blond hair; light blue eyes, and is super tall, and is really strong. She played basketball and is a thrower in track. She got into college on a scholarship for basketball. I wouldn't want to get in a fight with her. Laura was majoring in physical therapy. She was dressed up as a naughty nurse with the short nurses uniform and a stethoscope..

"Umm, I think we should pull over, that cop looks mad." Exclaimed Theresa.

I thought for a moment, "Wait a minute, I can't get a ticket, That would be the third one this month! I'm going to try to outrun him." and with a jerk our car sped off ahead of the police. They squealed around a corner and onto the highway as the cop slowly crept up behind us.

"Dude this is sooo cool! It' just like Cops!" screamed Alec, who was at the moment sitting next to me in the front seat.

"Oh, My, God. We are going to die." Panicked Laura over and over as she hugged Theresa next to her.

"I don't think I can take this, what if he starts shooting at us?" yelled Ann.

"Everybody shut up or I am swerving off the road and killing us all right now!" I yelled as I nervously looked down at the speedometer which now read 180 MPH. Wow, I didn't know that my car could go this fast. Thank you V8 engine! I secretly thought though I knew that if it were said out loud, the whole group would kill me in a murderous rage.

Though before I even had the chance, a cat wondered onto the road. Oh God! to miss it I swerved right at a light pole.

Exactly when I thought that we were going to hit it head on and die, every thing seemed to stop as a flash of light blinded us all while noticing that we had stopped moving and the sound of the engine was now silent.

"Are we dead? I hope not, cuz I don't want to be found in this as a naughty nurse." Laura said, obviously not paying that much attention because they could now hear the sounds of people on a busy street.

"I can see the headlines now" Ann said, "group of hookers and pimp in deadly car accident Halloween night. Wouldn't that be every thirteen year olds dream ghost story."

Just then they were threw into a world none of them recognized, we all fell to the ground in a big pile, with me of course on the bottom. "Ow, who's on my arm?" I asked and untangled myself from the pile. Looking around I saw different buildings, nothing I had seen before, until I saw something that caught my attention. This can't be real, I'm dreaming.

The others gasped as a large structure came into view.

I craned my neck to see the large crystal structure partially hidden behind some futuristic buildings. " Oh my God, I don't think we're in Iowa anymore!"

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