Chapter 2: The Beginning
Ava was the first to come to her senses.
"SAMI!" she yelled "get off!" Sámi stood giggling madly. Ava tore the jacket off her and Mel's head, so that it was no longer dark. "Mel," she said nudging her friend beside her. Mel groaned and rolled over so she was lying on her back. She glared up at Sámi, who was giggling madly. Ava stood, dusted herself off, and held out a hand to Mel. Mel took her hand and soon she was standing, still glaring up at Sam, who was the tallest of the three.
"Sámi! That hurt! What were you doing?" Mel burst out. Sámi finally stopped giggling.
"Sorry! I was running towards you guys, but I slipped on these stupid floors!" she then burst into another fit of giggles. "Can we do that again? That was so fun!" She finally managed.
"That's because you landed on us!" Mel and Ava said at the same time, they froze, looked at each other, and burst out laughing. Once they had all finally managed to stop laughing, Ava gasps
"Ohmygosh guys! Were SO late!" she said, eyes wide.
"Holy crap!" Mel exclaimed "come one ava! See you at bible Sámi!" and then they split, Sámi turning and running down the hall and out the door, and Mel dragging ava into the math room. In the math room, things were in their usual state of chaos. David was disco dancing in corner, and Lexa, Sarah, and Brittney were giggling and squealing in another. They stepped in the room just as Mrs. Goodwin was taking role. She glanced up at them, and they went to their seats. Ava dropped into her seat and sighed; Mel sat down, and started to flip though her math book. Ava glanced around the room, and then turned back to Mel.
"Hey Mel, did we-"here she stopped, she was staring at something over Mel's shoulder with a stunned expression. Mel also noticed the room go quiet.
"What?" Mel asked "don't tell me Sami's about to fall on us again." She started to turn around" cause I don't think that I-" here Mel also stopped talking, standing in front of the class was a guy, a new one, he looked almost 14, with black hair, and shockingly green eyes, and he was staring right at Ava with the same expression. Mel looked at Ava, then back at the stranger. Suddenly Ava seemed to snap out of her trance looked at Mel.
"Huh? What?" she asked confusedly
"Well" Mel said "you were saying something then you stopped and started staring at that guy like you knew him or something.
"Oh, yay, I could swear I've seen him before" Ava said her voice distant. "anyway, you were saying?" she asked
"um, I wasn't, you were talking" Mel said glancing back at the guy who had now taken a seat in the back away from the crowds of the jabbering teens and had returned staring avidly at ava. He's cute, she admitted to herself just not that cute, I mean compared to- here ava interrupted her thoughts.
"Mel, Mel, come back to me Mel!" Ava said "what do you think of the new guy?"
"He's cute" Mel said absently
"Yeah," Ava sighed "But what does that matter? I have no chance."
"yeah." Mel said rolling her eyes, "not like he's looking at you or anything"
"Yeah-Hey I…." Ava started, but was cut off by Mrs. Goodwin.
"Hey! Settle down now! We have a new student, Jeremy. Wooding, "Jeremy glanced around giving a small half wave. The bell rang and Mrs. Goodwin went into negative numbers, but ava couldn't concentrate, she kept out trying to figure out where she had seen Jeremy before, Mel also could not concentrate, she was thinking about someone…
"Melanie, please do number 6." Mrs. Goodwin called out.
"ummm……" Mel said franticly trying to stall and find the question, and, better yet, get the answer, she scribbled out the equasion, mind working quick, and then, she had it "-4" she cried triumphantly
"yes," Mrs. Goodwin answered already scoping out her next victim "Ava, do number 7 please" ava jumped
"Huh? Oh um" Ava said stuttering, reaching for the first number that poped into her head, and then saying helplessly "positive eight?"
Mrs. Goodwin looked surprised "yeah, that's right, good job!" she stared at ava for a moment.
"Wow." Mel whispered, "Good job, where did that come from?"
Ava, still looking stunned, replied "I have no idea." Just then the bell rang and ava and Mel stated to get their stuff. They left the math room, got their stuff, and headed to the bible room. Sami was just plopping down in her regular seat when they entered.
"Hey Ava! Hey Mel!" she said smiling.
"Hey" they both answered, ava still slightly dazed.
"What's going on with ava?" Sami asked motioning to her friend.
"She just got the right answer in math when she wasn't paying attention, and-" Mel sat down next to her and leaned over to whisper in her ear "there's a new guy, and there like dead gone on each other. I'm serious, there just staring at each other, it gets kind of creepy."
Sam giggled. Ava sat down in her seat and Bible began. Bible was long and boring, due to their boring teacher, Mr. Scriber. And each of the girls once again felt their minds wandering. The bell finally had mercy on them and rang, and Sam, Mel and Ava wandered out the door.
"Hey!" Ava exclaimed "it's raining!"
"Omg I didn't notice that!" Sam said looking around, easily seeing above the crowds of people little 6th graders running franticly about to a few stray high schoolers , leisurely talking to their friends and leaning against the walls.
"well, anyway come on, ava" Mel said pulling ava out into the pouring rain. They were almost to the door, trudging through an especially large puddle that almost reached the top of both girls heels, and stretched for a few feel around, when suddenly Sam let out a piercing scream, and as the last notes of the scream rung out, complete and utter silence consumed Mel and Ava, the only sound being the rain, now crashing down on the roof of their school and splashing into the puddle in which they stood.Mel and ava spun around to find no one, no one at all, everything was completely deserted. Ava and Mel stared at each other.
"what-just-happened?" Ava asked totally confused
"How should I know asked Mel "um maybe the bell rang and we didn't hear it or-" Ava cut her off
"Mel…..Mel….. what's wrong with that…" she said staring terrifyingly down. Mel looked down to see the large puddle that they were standing in swirling silver and blue and green, every second becoming brighter and brighter, the colors rising from the puddle and swirling around them, a soft chanting had begun and was getting louder and louder every second. Ava and Mel were paralyzed. Now the noise was defining, there was a bright flash of white light, and both Mel and Ava fell back wards, as if in slow motion, arms flailing, trying franticly to steady themselves, but to no avail, into the puddle. They fell straight through the puddle into deep icy cold water. They saw the last few glimpses of their school through he top of the swirling puddle. They tried to scream, but water filled their lugs and both girls passed out, everything fading into an inky blackness.
A.N. sorry still kind of short, but it's longer than the last one! Please R&R!