Chapter 1- A well kept secret

Back then I would have considered myself your average everyday girl. Every morning I would awaken early in order to go to school, a college where I was studying to be a teacher. In the evening I would leave my classes and head to work before going home to dinner before bed, it was a monotonous life perhaps but normal as they come.

Perhaps my appearance came as a bit of a shock to people, being that I always choose to dress by my own individual style matched with my black hair with pink, bright pink, at the very tips of my hair. It may have been unusual but it was part of my dull life, my boring everyday average life.

It was normal life in all ways, until that day came which would change that boring life forever. It was a sunny day that day, I remember this because we where all cooped up inside due to the fact that our classes came before having fun. How we longed then for the freedom of our childhood then. Oh how simple those day times where as I sat in my Calculus class lazily taking notes and daydreaming about being out under the trees.

It was then in that moment of half consciousness that I first heard her voice. The voice was one like that of a small child. It was quiet in that moment, quiet and distant, as if it came from a very badly tuned radio. Only a few words reached my ears but I still remember that desperate cry, “h…elp …me… p…lease… help”

I looked up in a complete alertness at that point, “what!?” I looked around at the rest of the class who was all staring at me with a looked of deep confusion. Nobody was concentration on the lesson but rather on whether or not I was going to freak out or something, “who said that…someone is in trouble!?”

“Akira? Nobody but Mr. Morgan was speaking at all, are you sure you didn’t dream it? Maybe you should like…lay down after class or something”

“Was it… a dream?” I repeated her in a deep confusion, after all it had seemed so very real to me, it didn’t seem at all like a dream, “no…I’ll be alright, I don’t need to skip Chemistry I already had to miss one last week for advisement, I miss another one and its going to be impossible to pass.”

“Are you sure…..? I mean your acting kind of unusual today Kira….not at all yourself..”

“I’ll be alright Rina, don’t worry about me, it was just a dream I’ll be fine once we get to Chemistry”