Chapter 1

I sit in class tapping my pencil against my thigh in boredom. The sunlight filters in through the window behind my seat. The teacher sits in her seat and clicks away at her mouse as if her life depends on it. My other twenty classmates sit around doing their work. Several stare off to space. The lights flicker making the light white room almost sinister. Cold sweat rolls down the back of my neck. My girlfriend keeps texting me about how we need to talk. For better or worse I've been putting it off.

"Five minutes," The teacher states absently as she concentrates on whatever is on the screen. A few students groan while the rest ignore her. Me included. I finished my work. Now all I can do is sit and wait...

The pen clicks. Someone caughs. The clock ticks. I breathe slightly. Someone shuffles their feet. Another scoots their chair back. I glance up and one of the pretty blonde girls looks down at her desk quickly. I ignore her and watch the clock again. Three minutes.

"Three minutes." I scoff in amusement.

My eyes scan over my open tabs and I notice I have an email. I stop clicking the pen.

I open the email and read the sender and contents. Jiavanni: I'm bored, ready to be outside. This work is stupid. I reply in the affirmative then glance across the room to where she sits. She rolls her eyes at me nods toward Daniel. I extend my hand and tap down on the desk in three sharp pounds with my knuckle. Nothing that would catch the teacher's attention anyway. A few students look up. Including Daniel. He gestures toward my laptop. A light flickers in his eyes and he starts checking his own laptop for his email. I watch as his eyes scan the screen before he cracks his knuckles and begins typing. He hits send and looks back at me and Jia.

Daniel: Yeah I know! I'll just finish it for homework. I'm ready for some soccer.

Jiavanni: We all know you won't.

I hear a buzz, a sort of buzz you hear when a plane flies overhead.

You guys hear that? Sounded like a plane? I've never heard a plane go over before. I peek up at Daneil and watch as his eyes scan over the screen before he looks at me and nods his head. In his eyes I can see him telling me he agrees with all that I said.

Daniel: Yeah, I thought it was weird.

Jiavanni: I didn't hear anything. I look at her and she scruntches her brow before shrugging. I hear bags beginning to be zipped up and the general movement of 'class-is-over'.

"Alright, pack up and get ready to go," The teacher says glancing quickly from the computer to the students. Everyone moves quickly then to get out of the room, packing up and putting away school property and borrowed laptops. I close mine and slip it into my bag.

"What do you think it is?" Daniel calls across the room.

I hear a loud crash and the whole room freezes. Just for a second before our world is consumed into so much whiteness that it's all black.