CHYNA

Ever since I found out that I had been in a coma, my parents have tried to make everything easy for me. Turns out Cameron was in some sort of shock, be he recovered before me but has had pounding headaches while I was still in a coma.

Turned out half the school were in comas, or in shock, or other states. Some got better before others but still had the terrible headaches. No one knew what was going on but us.

"We were in some sort of dream state," I told Olive and Fletcher the day we returned to school. "I'm not sure what was real and what wasn't."

Fletcher nodded. "Why don't we ask someone?"

Olive's pupil's dilated. "That's not a good idea. If we do, people might think we're crazy! But something fishy's going on...maybe there's someone we can ask that knows everything."

I snapped my fingers. "The book! Olive, did you ever finish it?"

She shook her head. "I only got up to the most beautiful melody part. Nothing else."

"OK," said Fletcher, "We'll just go back to the library and find it. No biggie."

So after lunch we went to the counselor's office and got an excuse because of our 'sickness' to refresh ourselves, and went to the library where it was once again empty.

"Where did you find the book?" I asked.

"In the history section, which I found confusing. It was called 'The History of Webster: The Untold Tales of the High'."

We went searching for the book. Finally I found it and opened it, dust spilling out into the open air.

However, problems rose, and Melody finally decided to put the students into a simulation, thus scaring them to sanity and peace. This has worked for several years, but if the students are in the dream for too long, they are permanently thrust into the world of magic. Anyone who is willing must reenter the world and rescue the being, or they may never be seen again.

I shut the book.

"So? No one was left there. We're all good. It's not a problem. We can go back to normal."

Olive and Fletcher turned pale white. "Oh...no..."

"What? Nothing wrong, right?"

"Lexi. No one saw Lexi. She hasn't been here since we woke up."

And then reality sunk in.

"Chyna...we have to do something...we can't just leave her!"

"But-but...maybe she likes it there!"

"But maybe she doesn't..."

"OK, so we're just expected to risk or lives for some girl who wants my ass dead? No way."

I stood up and swiveled my feet to leave.

"Remember, Chyna-"

I stopped.

"It was all your fault in the first place."

I paused, took a deep breath, and walked out.