Sonny

It turned out that Ben was taking me to another dimension for a party. Every time I would ask questions about it, he would ignore me. As I studied him in the car, I realized that he'd barely said a word since I came out of the bathroom. Yeah, we were driving. You had to in the dimension we were in.

"What's wrong?" I asked, with a pout. I was playing this up. "Did…did I do something wrong?"

He looked at me with hurt eyes. "No, no. Of course not. It's just that…my sister was spying on me. She got a psychic to listen to our conversation. I'm just a little worried that she's trying to find me. She hates me, and when she wants to find me, it's never good."

My head was starting to hurt, and I didn't know why. Maybe it was just because lately I've been so stressed out. Every time Ben left the house I would cry. I missed my mom so much. I wondered how she was doing without me. I didn't know if I was ever going to see her again. I took a deep breath and slumped in my seat.

The car was slowing down. I looked over at Ben because there was no way this was where we were going. The road was dirt and there was nothing around us except for farms and townhouses. In between those there were nothing but fields full of cows. For a second my heart pounded hard because I thought he was taking me to a party like the ones I used to go to in Wisconsin. But, he pulled to the side of the road, and didn't park.

I was just about to say something to him, when he pulled me into a kiss. It was…well, passionate. My mind immediately told me to pull away, but my body was saying something else. Our lips felt like one, moving against each other's. Instead of putting his hands in my hair, he stroked my temple with one hand and held my chin up in the other.

For a moment, I forgot about everything. I didn't care that this was the bad guy. In fact, it was just the opposite. I wanted him because he was the bad guy. The fact that he had black leather on made it worse. I could tell that he wanted to do much more than just kiss me and the strange thing was that I didn't care. I knew that I was going to have to be the one to end the kiss. That I knew because while we were kissing, his hands were moving everywhere. From my face, to my hair, back to my face, to the air, and then in my hands.

If this kiss was drawn out anymore he would want to turn around and never let me out of the house again. I tried to pull back, and he whispered, "Just a little longer." Well…that didn't sound so bad to me. So, I leaned back in and kissed him a little bit more. A thought went through my head before I could stop it. It was just an impulse. Something my teenage hormones were making me feel. I shook the thought by trying to picture someone else's view of our kissing.

I pictured my mind pulling away from my head and turning to sit on the hood of the car to watch. What I saw surprised me. It wasn't Ben that I had pulled close to me in my arms; it was Chad. Handsome, wonderful Chad, who cared for me and who I loved. He may not have loved me, but I knew that as soon as I got back I was going to have to tell him how I feel or risk losing him forever.

It was like a bucket of cold water hit me and I pulled away instantly. I tried not to look at Ben, but it happened anyways. Ben's eyes were hungry. He wanted to take me back home, if you get what I mean. Also, I really didn't get why he wanted to be with me. I was so much younger than him. He looked as if he was maybe 23 or 24.

"Where is the party?" I asked, once I caught my breath.

He looked to the ground, took a deep breath, and then looked at me. "Not too far from here. I hope you like it. It's probably something you aren't used to. We mostly dance and drink. Then there's the stupid people who end the party by setting something on fire or breaking something very valuable. You should have fun."

For someone who was supposed to be really bad, Ben was surprisingly normal. I took a deep breath, thought about Chad, and said, "Let's go."

***

Amy

"I CAN'T STAND THIS ANYMORE!" I screamed. We'd made it through three dimensions. One big one and two small ones. We still had twenty-three more dimensions to go. While I was taking a break, I sat down and kind of fell asleep. The dream I had was horrible.

It wasn't actually a dream, I realized. Apparently, with this psychic thing, I not only hear conversations people have, but I also see them in my dreams. What I just saw, I didn't want to tell Chad, but I knew he would find out. Part of the reason for that was that Hayden was sitting right next to me, and he said that I was talking in my sleep. He told me I needed to tell Chad.

So, I got up and took a little walk.

If I didn't tell Chad what went on in my…vision…then Hayden would tell him and then Chad wouldn't ever trust me again. I knew that he would be upset, but I also knew that I had to tell him no matter what. This got me thinking about exactly what I just saw.

I'd fallen asleep and started dreaming about being back home with my dad, who, by the way, I'd told that I was at Sonny's house. If you thought about it, I really was trying to find Sonny, so it wasn't an entire lie. I was with my dad in the kitchen in the dream, and we were making grilled cheeses.

"How are you doing?" my dad asked.

"What are you talking about, dad? I've been with you for two weeks now. You know how I've been." I replied.

"No, I mean with your trip. I know that you've been stressed. Going to a new dimension can do that to you." he told me.

"Dad, how did you know that?" I asked. Before he could answer, though, I was looking through Sonny's eyes. We were in a red car, and it was on a country road. She sat nervously in the passenger's seat, wondering where they were going. I could feel a little bit of what she felt, but sometimes it was hard to pick up what she was feeling.

Everything sounded tunnel-like. What scared me was that Ben knew that I had heard them talking earlier. He told Sonny so. I was so scared that he was going to come after me. I mean, this guy did look bad. Of course, he was hot, and I knew that deep down he was upset about something and that's why he was doing this, but he was still dangerous.

Maybe if I was lucky, he wouldn't know it was me. Or maybe he would find out that I didn't mean to spy on them. I was also wondering if he knew that I was spying right then. By the way he was sitting, he probably did. He started to pull the car over. I noticed this before Sonny because she thought that she was going to a country party.

But I knew what he was actually after. This guy knew that I was watching, and he could communicate with me. This wasn't a talking kind of communication; it was more like I could feel what he was feeling, and I thought that he could feel what I was feeling. I knew that he was about to pull over and seduce Sonny. Not in a way that made her want to…well, you know, but in a way that made her want to kiss him until he suffocated.

It turned out exactly like he wanted it to. They kissed for a long time, and it sucked for me(no pun intended) because he kept giving me feelings. When he opened his eyes and looked at Sonny, it felt like he was sending the feelings to her just to get them to me. Somehow, in the mix of all that, I felt like he was trying to kiss me instead of Sonny.

The bad part is that it was starting to happen. I was smart enough to know that he was using magic to get to me. My actual lips, not Sonny's, felt his lips on them. I knew he was trying to make me leave. It wasn't hard to tell, even for someone like me.

Somewhere in the middle of all of this, I felt that he wasn't trying to make me go away anymore. When Sonny broke away from the kiss, and Ben asked to keep kissing her, I knew he was trying to latch on to me, I just didn't know why. It was really starting to annoy me. Then something weird happened. I was pushed out of Sonny's head and to the front of the car. What I saw pissed me off.

I actually was still in Sonny's mind, I was just seeing what she wanted to. It was like I was peeking in the windshield, looking at Sonny and Chad kissing. So, this girl really did like Chad, huh? This whole time he'd been anxious and talking about how he hoped he would find Sonny and tell her how he felt. Searching through her mind, I could tell that she felt the same way towards him, but would never admit it. I guess Ben knew I wasn't there anymore because he wasn't gripping her so tightly anymore. Also, he might have seen what was going on in her mind. She broke away, Chad's face being a bucket of cold water to her extremely hot face.

I was back in Sonny's head, seeing the road again. I was then pushed out and woke up back to where I fell asleep. During this trip, I'd been mostly talking to Hayden. I really wanted to talk to Chad, but he was having a fit most of the time. He really didn't like being away from Sonny. Hayden had been fun to hang out with. I learned a lot about him.

He'd been engaged to a woman who had a lot of power here. It was actually a very tragic story. The short version was that he met a woman who was actually one of the men from the council's grand-daughter. He didn't know that's who she was at the time. She wanted to get away from all of the royal crap and just go out and have fun, so she went to the movies with a bunch of friends.

They started dating, and he eventually purposed. Unfortunately, her family didn't know about him because she was supposed to marry another important figure in the fairy dimension. Hayden wasn't one of them, so her family broke them up. They were both devastated, but Hayden let it go. He loved her, but he knew that if he kept thinking about it then he would eventually wind up depressed.

"She was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. I wish I could hold her one more time." he'd told me. To me, it sounded like she was dead. But, then I thought that to him she must be dead. If only there could be something to fix that.

I'd been walking in the woods for a while when I heard something else walking around. I stopped and stood as still as I could. Whatever it was, it was slowly making it's way toward me. I shut my eyes so tight it felt like they were going to get sucked back into my skull. That turned out to be a mistake. I guess I forgot about being psychic, huh?

***

Chad

I didn't know how long I'd been out here. There were miles of woods out near where we were staying. I was mostly looking to see if Ben was smart and made a house that was in the middle of the woods. I guess not. Jewel was walking with me, but she had to go back. She wanted to search some other areas. That meant that she'd gone on to other dimensions and we couldn't leave this dimension until she got back.

It was really pretty out here, but I had no time to think about that. It was going to take all of my energy to find Sonny and get to her as fast as I could. We hadn't been having much luck. No one had seen Sonny or Ben. Then again, no one had seen Ben for over four years, including his sister. She'd told me all about how he'd pulled a prank on her to get ahead of the working fairies. According to her, he pretended like he was going to become an actual working fairy in order to learn all of their tricks and then disappear and use them against the working fairies.

I'd been thinking about all of this stuff he'd planned when I stumbled on Amy standing in the middle of nothing with her eyes glued shut. By the way she looked, her eyes might have been literally glued.

"Amy?" I asked, stepping toward her. Her face relaxed, as did her posture, but she didn't open her eyes. "Are you okay?"

"Don't get any closer." she replied. She didn't sound like herself, though. She sounded like she was sleep-walking. I didn't know how she knew how close I was to her.

"What happened?" I asked. Even though she warned me not to come closer, I did. That's when she did the only thing I thought she could do to save herself in a situation where someone was coming at her. I wasn't there anymore. I was now in Sonny's arms. We were dancing.

She looked so beautiful. She was in a maroon dress with a diamond necklace and matching bracelets. Her hair was long and flowing, never ceasing to enchant me. I couldn't take my eyes off of her. I was so interested in her that I almost didn't hear when she said, "So, Cooper. Who's falling for who now?"

Oh boy, did I like it when she teased me like that. "You wish, Munroe."

She giggled and raised one of her eyebrows. She looked to the side as we spun away, and then she looked straight at me. "So…how are things?" Sonny's face became grim.

"What do you mean?" I replied. She sighed and looked at the ground. She shook her head and started to say something but I stopped her. "Sonny…before you say anything else, there is something I have to tell you."

"No, no. You don't have to tell me anything. I already know that as soon as all of this is over, we're going back to the same old way we used to be." she said before I could tell her that I loved her.

"Sonny, you don't understand. That's not-"

"Sonny!" Ben yelled from across the room. She looked at me and pulled away. She curtsied and gave me pleading eyes.

"I have to go." she whispered. I started to shake my head, but her eyes became clouded over and she looked back at Ben. She ran into his arms. "I'm terribly sorry, Ben. I don't know why I left you." She pulled away from him and was leaning in for a kiss…

"No!" I screamed, but I wasn't there anymore. I was back in the woods. Amy still had her eyes closed. We were going to have to snap her out of this and get to Sonny. I started to take a step toward her again, but she saw me without eyes.

"I told you not to come any closer. Defy me and you will go back." She sounded like a Goddess. How was I ever going to get her to snap out of this? All of a sudden her eyes fluttered open and she looked at me for just a second. It was then that I noticed she was sweating and breathing rapidly. Her eyes locked with mine and she whispered, "Chad…" Then she fell to the ground.

Hayden once again caught her before I could. I guess he'd been watching everything that was going on from behind her. It was weird. Amy didn't look like herself anymore. Her hair was slowly going from blonde to white, and she was getting paler every minute. I knew I was going to have to take her home soon. I just hoped that she would make it until we found Sonny.

Jewel came flying right between Hayden and I. She took Amy's hand and held it for a moment. "She's getting weaker. We have to feed her something quick. She will get some more energy that way. Hayden, can you carry her while we walk and she sleeps. She desperately needs it. Poor girl wouldn't last two minutes in the Plauge."

"What's the Plauge?" I asked.

"It's a dimension that focuses on your mind. It can be the best place in the world, or it could be your worst nightmare." Hayden said, simply.

"Please…" Amy managed to say. She had opened her eyes and was looking at Hayden. Hayden looked back with pleading eyes; probably begging her to stay with us. I, on the inside, was killing myself. If she did die on this trip, it would all be because of me and I would never forgive myself. I was going to find Sonny as fast as I could so that I could get her back.

I may not love her like she loved me and I loved Sonny. Amy let out a whimpering sound and then said, "Hold me." Hayden pulled her into an embrace. At first glance, someone would think that they were falling for each other. Someone who really knew love would say that they were just two people who wanted to comfort each other. Amy was in need of someone strong who could comfort her during this time and Hayden needed someone to help him get rid of his thoughts of his ex-fiancé.

Jewel let go of Amy's hand and looked back at me. "You're going to have to pack our stuff. I found out a lot of information. We're going to the Evoba dimension."

"What is the Evoba dimension?" I asked.

"It's just another one of the dimensions that people go to. A lot of it is land that fairies start their new lives and families in, and the rest of it is for partiers to use. The last I saw in Amy's mind, they were on their way to a party there." Jewel explained.

"You can see into her head? And you saw them on their way to a party? When was this?" I asked.

"She didn't tell you?" Jewel asked. She shook her head. "That girl just does not know the meaning of 'soul mate'. She's so bent over you. She didn't want you to see what she saw, and I guess she was actually smart about that. If you knew what was going on, you would know exactly how close we are cutting it on finding Sonny."

"Well, how close are we? You have to tell me." I pleaded.

"She's under his influence, but mostly because of Amy. He can tell that she is there and he is trying to get to her through Sonny. I won't go into any details, but it's really not good. Just pack our things and I will explain on the way. We have to get moving."