There were 5 more minutes left in the school day, five oh so tedious minutes. I know that high school isn't actually that bad, and five minutes is just five minutes but just let me be dramatic here, ok.
"Ali I swear to jesus christ himself what the actual fuck are you doing" , next to me Erin smacked me in the face.
"What" Honestly I don't think I processed any of that.
"Ali you dumbass the bell just rung, why are you still staring at your pencil like it's going to give you the secret to a perfect SAT score." Erin stood up and started to pack my things up for me.
"Finally" Damn I can't believe during my dramatic complaints about there being five more minutes of school left the five minutes actually passed. Wow, time is crazy like that.
As Erin and I walked outside I began to zone out once more but in my defense she was ranting about Captain America and his abs so I really didn't need to listen.
"Ali, I have a feeling you're not paying attention," Erin said as she waved a hand in front of my face.
I slapped her hand away from its intended target of my nose, "Damn what gave you that genius but, please, I've heard this rant like maybe ten times already, I get a pass this time."
"Fine but this weekend we're finishing our MCU binge and I will hear no complaints about my obsession over all the Chris's," Erin said.
"Agreed. But on the one condition that you can't yell at me for screaming every time the characters are total FUCKING IDIOTS" I stage shouted the last part in her ear just to prove my point. Erin had a soft spot for basically every character ever, and thus my life was doomed to try and get her to see that they were all so increadibly stupid. Like sure, I rooted for the avengers like every other person that watches marvel movies but Civil War?! So much conflict that could have been avoided if they all just put aside their egos for like ten minutes.
Our walk back to my house continued the way it usually does, Erin and I semi-bullying each other while causing far too much noise. I swear we're best friends. I just spend too much time around her to not hate her a little, but yes deep down I love her to the end of the earth.
Seeing as it was a friday the weekend had not officially started and as I had pointed out to Erin most lovingly, "we finish the binge…. tomorrow", after she pouted for about 5 seconds then got distracted by the fact that my mom had bought a new box of cocoa puffs. Cocoa puffs are amazing and as far and Erin and I are concerned about the best snack that exists. Yes, I said snack. We eat them dry while watching youtube, netflix, movies, you name it we have eaten cocoa puffs while watching it.
"Do you think that Tik Tok will ever have the same cultural influence as Vine did?" Erins words of wisdom interrupted my cocoa puff induced thoughts.
"No, Tik Tok is too big now and there's too much on it for anything to cause as much lasting impact, plus Vine was the first so it just has seniority."
"That doesn't make sense" Erin threw a cocoa puff at me.
"It does, you're just stupid" I said as I threw one back.
In hindsight that was a pretty epic final line if I do say so myself. Not what I would have planned to be the last thing I ever said to my best friend of 10 years but you know, shit happens.
Everything went black and it felt like I was falling, but of course I wasn't because that makes no sense. Also I couldn't see anything so I had nothing to go off of, just the dropping sensation in my stomach and a bad feeling.
Oh my god why does everything hurt. Did I just pass out or something, what the fuck was that. I tried to open my eyes but all I could get was a blurry light something and then I had to close my eyes again. My whole body ached with pain, as I tried to piece together where I was I let my hands slip from on my chest to beside me. Wait, what, why do I feel grass. I'm inside, or at least I was inside. After a couple minutes of confusion I attempted to open my eyes again and thankfully found the world to be visible again. Thankfully I seemed to be lying on my back in the grass in some park. What. The. Hell.
"Hey, are you all right?" I heard some voice not too far off shout and I had a strange feeling the person was talking to me. However stranger danger and if being a woman for my whole life had taught me anything it was don't respond to men that ask you questions on the street. To be fair I wasn't all right but he didn't need to know that. I was going to be fine.
"Hey, you look like you need to get medical help" The voice sounded pretty close now and my panic meter was preparing myself for the unfortunate task of standing up. I had to stand because I had to find out where the hell I was, where the hell Erin was, and also to get away from this stranger. Ugh come on Ali you got this, just sit up first. There we go then hand on the ground, you got this. Push UP! With one final push I rose to my feet only to feel really really dizzy. Oh shit maybe this wasn't a good idea my legs feel so not good right now. And I was falling again but this time a pair of hands caught my shoulders.
"Hey, are you ok?" Whoever caught me was trying to steady me.
"AAAAAHGHHG" I shrieked and immediately twisted away only to actually fall on the ground. Fuck. This might be a good idea to look at whoever had just caught me. I looked upward and my eyes met two faces. Jesus christ where the hell am I and why are Chris Evans and Anthony Mackie concerned for my well being. And why are they wearing their costumes from the opening scene of Winter Soldier. So many questions ran through my head but the only thing that came out of my mouth was, "I'm sorry"
"You have nothing to be sorry for, we saw you just sort of appear here a couple minutes ago, and you look pretty out of it, I'm sorry that I freaked you out" Chris held out his hand and I with a couple seconds of hesitation took it and slowly stood up. I literally only came up to like his shoulder. Not even. Why am I so short.
"So if you don't mind me asking, how did you just pop out of the ground." I turned as Anthony Mackie made a motion with his hand.
"Ummm… yeah that's a great question. I have no idea, where am I?"
"The Mall, Washington DC" Chris replied.
"WASHINGTON!….what….what" random squeaking noises came out of my mouth, I was in Washington DC, as in about a 8 hour drive from where I was 5 minutes ago.
"Is everything ok, you're not in danger."
"This makes absolutely no sense." I said as my body promptly gave out and I most gracefully passed out on the ground.