Prologue

I opened my eyes and blinked, not once but twice, only to be met by total darkness. It was very relaxing as I closed my eyes feeling the moist darkness slip through my fingers as I was ready to go back to sleep when a brain wrecking ringing started.

I yelled out in pain letting out a bunch of bubbles out of my mouth that echoed my cry again and again every single time a bubble popped. I snapped my eyes open and the ringing stopped suddenly. Okaaay, so I'm not allowed to sleep right now? I sighed letting out another bubble out of my mouth.

I slowly touched it with my finger to let it pop, echoing my words over and over again. I laughed at that, letting out even more bubbles. Those always made me feel better for some reason. As I stopped laughing, I started looking around.

I was apparently floating in dark black space, as if I was in the depth of the ocean. This place again. I sighed, this time the echoes failed to make me laugh. Will I see another scene from that girl and boy? I wonder who's showing me this and why? I brushed my empty thoughts aside as I started swimming around in the strange space.

I looked all around me trying to find the glowing strings I saw the last time I came to this place. I'm not really sure what those strings meant either, but they were the only thing I could search for in this empty black space.

Something shone from the corner of my eyes, so I turned around and squinted hard. I couldn't really tell what it was from this distance so I dived right to it. The closer I got, the more I could make out several thin lines, in all sizes and colors. The strings! Before I knew it, I was completely surrounded by the strings.

I looked around at the many beautiful and curly strings, wondering which to grab onto first this time around. I giggled as I felt a string tickle my back. As my giggles echoed, I turned around and caught the guilty string. It was a deep purple colored string.

A weird feeling started to bubble up inside of me. And the longer I caught onto the purple string the more that weird feeling increased. Though there was one thing that I did know about it, it was the fact that I loathed that feeling.

In my obstinate rage, I yelled as I pulled out at the string as hard as I could. Cutting it off wherever it is it was hanged. I looked dead at it as the weird feeling subside though the feeling of hatred towards it didn't really die out at all but instead increased. I was about to start yelling again and rip the string apart even more but prior to that, a group of white strings wrapped themselves around me.

A soothing feeling started to swell inside me this time, making me release the purple string into the darkness as it slowing sank in the black space. I looked and stared it for so long as it disappeared from my sight. The feeling of loathing gone and forgotten, I felt extremely exhausted as I really felt like sleeping this time.

I closed my eyes from a few seconds but the annoying ringing came back so I was forced to snap my eyes open again. I looked around the sea of strings tiredly, till I caught sight of an unusually thin string with no specific color. It was that same string I grabbed onto to show me that weird vision! Though it seemed a bit thicker than last time, or maybe it was imagination...

I reached out my hand to it but then stopped, hesitant. I don't know, maybe it was because I was tired or something, but for some reason, I was scared. I gulped the lump in my throat as I slowly wrapped my fingers around it though not completely grasping it.

"Believe in yourself~"

I grit my teeth as determination lighted up in my eyes as I fully grasped unto the incoherent string, lifting me up quickly to the surface, if there ever was one. And in a flash I was out of the black sea only to be met this time by a white sky. Clouds came out of my mouth as I let out a sigh from exhaustion, instead of bubbles, that echoed my sigh as they dispersed.

"You said it was going to be fun..."

A brunette girl mumbled, wearing a pretty white nightgown, as a blonde boy pushed her on the swing hard before running to the swing beside her, and started swinging himself back and forth. The boy was a blonde, still wearing his blue shirt and white shorts. Both kids were barefooted again, their eyes hidden by their bangs.

"I wonder why?"

I thought aloud, forming multiple clouds again.

"What do you mean? We're playing in the swings! How is that not fun?!"

The boy replied the girl enthusiastically.

"..."

The girl stayed silent as her swing stopped moving. The boy, too, stopped moving his swing, looking down. The poor boy, he was trying so hard too.

The boy seemed to have been thinking for a while and then he suddenly looked up, his face lit up with an idea. And I could've almost sworn that I saw a lightbulb atop of his head.

The boy put his hands in front of each other, as he balanced himself on the swing with only his feet. The girl looked at him curiously and then slightly jumped when the boy started to yell a battle cry. I, too, honestly jumped a bit at that.

His hands then started to glow and both I and the little girl looked intently to discover what he was trying to form only to realize when he was done that it was...an ice cream?! I mentally face palmed though the little girl seemed pretty amazed as I could almost see her eyes shine behind her bangs.

"An Ice Cream!"

She yelled out in admiration as the boy rubbed his nose proudly.

"Not just any ice cream! It's the coldest, sweetest, sourest, most tasty, and impossible to melt cone of ice cream ever made!"

"WOAH!"

The girl yelled excitedly, her swing actually shaking from all of the excitement. The boy laughed cheekily as he handed her the ice cream,

"Here..."

The girl looked awed at him and then at the ice cream, she hesitantly took it, and stared at it. Loving it too much to actually eat it.

After a few minutes, the girl finally decided to actually eat the ice cream. Though just as she was about to lick it, she noticed how the blonde boy was staring intently at her,...drooling.

The girl giggled as she put the ice cream cone in between them and smiled. The boy smiled widely at the gesture, as they both hungrily licked the ice cream by turn, getting multiple brain freezes though. It was so cute watching them that I ended up laughing quite a bit mentally.

"So are you having fun?"

"Yes!"

Just as the little girl replied, the white space suddenly started to shake and crumble,

"Wha-?"

Before I could even finish my question, the space completely fell apart, making me sink into a dark abyss as I yelled frightened.

I rolled over in my bed several times, waving my hands and feet around until I finally snapped my eyes open. 'I'm...alive?' That was strangely the first thought that coursed my mind. After that, I had a sudden urge to look outside. I crawled out of my bed slowly and quietly as to not wake up my younger sister, Jenny. I then tip-toed towards the window in time to see the sun rising. The scene was strangely calming as a relieved smile made its way to my lips, "What a beautiful dawn..." I said as new sunrise began; meaning that yesterday passed and today has started. That thought alone, made me feel at ease for some weird reason. I giggled to myself as I stretched, getting ready to go to school.