PROLOGUE: THIS IS MY AWESOME FAKE LIFE. IN A JOURNAL.

I was listening to music and managing my blog on my computer. I heard footsteps outside my door. My door knob was slowly opening. Now I was scared. Who was gonna walk into my room? “Brace yourself Meredith,” I muttered under my breath. I grabbed the best weapon I could find close by and got out of bed. I walked towards the door cautiously. The door creaked open about an inch, and I was about to hit somebody in the head with a dictionary if I had to. I held the dictionary above my head, ready. The door opened more, and more, and more! I could already see something that looked like a monster! The something that looked like a monster looked at me. I looked at… someone with messed up, scraggly hair and wrinkles? I was about six inches away from whacking the person in the head, but then I saw them clearly. “Mom?” I asked her. “What are you doing up at 3:20 in the morning?” she asked sternly as I put the dictionary down on my desk. “I uh, I’ve been up this whole time.” I answered, hoping she wouldn’t pick up the book and whack me in the head with it. “Why would you stay up this late?” she asked, sounding irritated. “I was listening to music and managing my blog.” I said truthfully. “Well, go to bed!” my mom shouted at me. “Ok! Jeez.” I responded, and got into bed. "Wait… but you said that I could always stay up as late as I wanted.” I told her before she walked out the door. “So? I’m not right now, am I?!” my mom replied pleasantly. Not. “Gosh. Why are you so mad? And how did you even know I was awake?” I asked her. “I have really good hearing, okay? I could hear your typing from my room. So, I came in here to tell you to go to bed. You got it missy?” She answered my question, annoyed. Then she left and I went to bed.
So that might not have been the coolest or most interesting intro to something you’ve ever read, but it works for me. This is my fake life, which is awesome, in a journal. You can read more now.



KICKING AND DODGING

Today my cousin Cameron came over at 1 am in the morning. We took a flashlight outside and found a 20 foot long dead snake with its guts hanging out. Not something I would have liked to see, when say, I had eaten just about 10 minutes before. My cousin’s an eleven year old boy, who look’s absolutely nothing like me. He has a darker complexion, since he is Filipino and Italian. He also has black hair and I have to say, I have no idea what color his eyes are. I’ve never really looked at them close enough to be able to describe them. I’m a fifteen year old girl who looks sickly pale. Okay, so maybe not sickly. I have brown hair, and I think I have greenish, gold eyes. I’m 5’6 (and a half!) and he is about 5’2. He had his soccer ball that he brought with him, and he kept punting it and asking me to estimate how high it went. So here’s the cool part: one of the times he punted it, it went like 100 feet up! I’m not joking! Oh! And I’m—sorry I paused there. I had to duck so that I wouldn’t have to have a messed up face for the rest of my life.
I’m in P.E. in school right now, which I hate, and I could’ve just got hit with a dodge ball. But instead, I dodged it. That’s a good thing, huh?
I make my friends laugh a lot. I don’t really know if its how naturally funny my face is, or if they just think the things I say that are meant to be funny, are. I criticize myself a lot, don’t I? Note to self: stop making yourself feel bad about yourself. Oh my god! Mark just took a ball and threw it a Mr. Cannon’s face! This ought to be good. Wow, I wasn’t expecting that! Mr. Cannon just went over and punched Mark! And suspended him! I go to a really violent school. I try to stay back and not get noticed AT ALL. The last thing I want is someone throwing a ball directly at my face. Oh, wait, that already happened. But getting hit in the face is what Mr. Cannon gets for being the most arrogant, mean, aggressive and ignorant teacher you could ever meet. Okay, now I have to go. Not like go to the bathroom or anything. Okay… so this is embarrassing. Okay, I actually do have to go to the bathroom, so bye.
“Meredith, come over here!”
No, no, no! Oh no. Now I definitely have to go. Go talk to the teacher who’s mad as a fat person trying to fit into a movie theater seat! That was a really weird metaphor.
Anyway, I’ll be back as soon as I can, wish me luck!
“Meredith! Come over here right now and say how good I am at throwing dodge balls!" “But I don’t want to! Why do I have to be the one to compliment you?!”
Why, why did I just say that? Wow, I’m still writing in this. Now I really have to GO.
“Meredith, I’m the teacher, so get your butt over here right now and compliment me if I want you to!” Mr. Cannon yelled at me, since I’m sitting in the very back of the gym. “Fine! I’m coming.” I yelled back.
Why does my life have to be so weird sometimes? Whatever. I’ll be back as soon as I can to write some more about what happened.
Okay, so that was an interesting thing that happened. Mr. Cannon made me compliment him, and then I had to go to the bathroom so much that I asked him if I could go. Like, go, go. He looked astonished at me, wondering, I guess, why I would ask him that question. Or as if, I had just asked him if he could loan me a half a million dollars so that I could start my own fast food chain. If I did get that opportunity in my life sometime, though, I would name the restaurants “Eat and Get Out.” People would probably just go to it because of how interesting the name is.

I love writing, but talking is also a great way to communicate and share your ideas and just general stuff with other people. That sentence was totally out of the blue. I’m quite random. One time, when one of my teachers was talking to the class in civics or something, I randomly yelled out “potatoes.” I don’t know why at all. That’s also an example of one of the stupid, not-thinking things I’ve done. I got a detention for it.



NOTES IN ABANDONED HOUSES

“Hello?" I asked as I entered an abandoned house on the corner of some street and another street. I was sure that it was on a corner though. You ask why I was entering an abandoned house at 3 am in the morning? It’s because I snuck out of my house through my window (of course), and I was supposed to meet my friend Sammy there. She chooses strange places and times to ask people to meet her somewhere. But since I’m used to it (you kind of just act as though it’s normal after time), I just deal with it and go where she wants me too. And yes, I am writing this in that abandoned house right now. Yet all the stuff I’m telling you happened sometime around five minutes ago. I have no idea what’s gonna happen after I stop writing in this. It could be something totally abnormal, like, Max from "Maximum Ride" strode in here just after tucking in her wings. That would be awesome! That can't happen though, because she isn't real. Huh. There’s a piece of paper on the floor by a wooden dresser in front of me.

Dang it! Now I’m curious. I walked over by the dresser and picked up the piece of paper. It surprisingly had writing on it!
To be continued In, "Lying isn't always the best policy,"

I was bored series book two!
Naw, I’m just kidding. This is what the note said:
Hey Meredith. Yeah, sorry I’m not there. Thought I would be, but I got stuck in this elevator after going to the store. I kind of got this premonition that I might get stuck in an elevator.
“Wow, she’s really weird, isn’t she?” I said to myself. I continued reading.
So, I wrote this note, placed it where you found it, by that wooden dresser. Then, I went to the store and was gonna come back and meet you where you are now, standing approximately three feet away from that couch in there.
I looked around to see if Sammy had been spying on me this whole time. No one was there but me. Yes, the note was longer, so I kept on reading it.
I had a premonition about that too.
No comment. At all.
Anyway, after I left the store, this was a two story store by the way; I went back down the elevator and got stuck. That is why you’re reading this right now with me not there, so, yeah.
Bye I guess,
Sammy

I finished reading the note and looked up. I had felt something dripping onto my head. There was a leak in the ceiling of the house. I moved out from under that spot and sat down on the couch. I seriously came here for nothing? Now I was pretty ticked off. Um… I was also kinda wonderin’ what that squishy annoying thing I felt was. I got off the couch and looked at it. I had sat on the one spot that had a lot of mold on it. Eew! I got up and brushed my butt off with my hand. Disgusting. That’s when I figured there’s no point in being in this abandoned house anymore. These are my reasons: (1) it’s a freaking abandoned house! (2) Its 3:30 in the morning! (3) I want to be asleep! (4) Sammy’s not even here! (5) I snuck out of my house and my parents don’t know where I am! (6) I might be in huge trouble!
That’s pretty much all my reasons. I walked outside and made my way towards my house. At least it was only like a mile away. Then, the worst possible thing that could’ve happened at that moment happened. It started pouring. The rain dowsed me as I walked sluggishly to my house at around 4 in the morning. My parents might already be awake! I thought. They’re real early birds. I hoped they hadn’t checked on me, since, you know, I wasn’t there.


GETTING GROUNDED SUCKS. BAD GUYS DO TOO.

I finally got home and snuck through my window at the back of the house. I got in my room and the door was open. That’s sooo not good.
I searched the whole house, calling, “Mom?! Dad?!” Oh crap. They had gone looking for me. Why does my life have to be so bad sometimes? I’ll do my best and draw a picture of how I was feeling. Here it is:
Yep, that seems about right. Now it's about 1 o’ clock in the afternoon. It’s also the same day when all that stuff that I was just talking about happened early in the morning. My parents, Marnie and Joney, eventually came back. They were super mad at me, so I told them that I was outside in the backyard this whole time. I’m not a very good liar. They weren’t convinced, and instead of asking me what really happened, they just grounded me. That’s why I’m writing in this. Also cause, since they grounded me, I have no technology to use instead.

My Mom knocked on my door and said that I have to get ready for school tomorrow, since it’s 9:45 at night on a Sunday. Ah, wonderful school. I’m being sarcastic. Anyway, my parents are making me go to bed at 10pm every night on school nights, instead of my usual “go to bed whenever you want, but you’ll have to deal with the result,” bedtime. I liked that one better, even though some days when I stayed up really late, and I have to wake up at 5:30am, I would only get about an hour and a half of sleep. The first day I’m not grounded anymore, I swear to god I’m going skydiving. See? That’s just another one of my random, yet true, comments. Let me just remind you again, none of this is true. I’m actually just sitting on my bed, not grounded, writing in this. But keep reading, because my fake life keeps getting better and better.


“Mom, can I go see NeeNee?” I was about to walk out the door without asking, ‘cause we all know she won’t notice if I’m gone for a couple hours, but I decided to ask anyway.
“Yeah, sure, whatever honey!” She yelled from the kitchen.
I left and started walking down the sidewalk. NeeNee’s house was only about three or four blocks away, so I figured I would get there in around five minutes from now. NeeNee’s one of my best friends. That’s one of the reasons I’m going to her house. The other reason is because we’re gonna spy on the absolute meanest person EVER. In the world. Well, she’s probably not the meanest person in the world… I might be exaggerating just a tad. Anyway, her name is Satonna. Isn’t it weird how much that sounds like Satan? You only have to change a few letters. I swear that she’s the devil in another form on Earth. Satonna knocked NeeNee’s lunch and my lunch out of our hands at school; in front of everyone. It was so embarrassing! We were obviously really ticked off about it, since we are spying and videotaping her right now to get revenge. NeeNee and I are really hoping she does something embarrassing so we can catch it on tape. We’re not stalkers, mind you, we just really want revenge on her, for making us look sooo stupid in front of everyone at school.

We watched as she talked to her friend Miranda, and then Miranda left. Satonna looked sad, or maybe mad, but we were at a distance, so we weren’t sure how she looked up close right now. She sat on the curb, and buried her face in her hands. “Do you think she’s crying?” I asked NeeNee. “I don’t know… maybe she’s tired?” NeeNee replied. “Yeah right. I highly doubt that.” I said, thinking about how embarrassing this must be for Satonna. But we have to catch her doing something totally embarrassing. Like, itching her butt or picking her nose. “I know what you we’re just thinking about. That’s disgusting.” NeeNee said, surprising me, and making me wonder if she was gonna start being like Sammy. Saying stuff like, “I predicted that was gonna happen yesterday,” or, “I had a premonition about that.”

The funny thing about revenge is that you have to sit spying on the person and videotaping them for hours. “Can we stop now?” NeeNee asked. Her stomach grumbled. “No, we can’t. We need revenge. Satonna deserves it. But go eat, I don’t want to listen to that. It’s creepy sounding.” I told her, and she said, “Okay,” and left her bedroom to go eat something. I kept watching Satonna. She got up and her face looked red. OMG, she was crying! “NeeNee! Come in here!” I called her from her bedroom. “Okay! I’ll be right there!” she called back. NeeNee walked in with some food in the corners of her mouth. I could tell her that later. Right then, I had to explain to her what just happened. “Satonna was crying. When she got up, her face was all red, and I think I saw tears running down her face. She also wiped some snot on her arm.” NeeNee shivered with disgust when I said that. "Ugh. But that's not embarrassing. And don't you think it would be a little too mean to show her crying?" "Yeah, I guess."

Once I got back home, I had to eat dinner. My mother's cooking is disgusting, so I just pretended like I was eating. Then, I got up every 5 minutes to go spit out the food in my mouth. She didn't even notice! I would make myself something to eat later. Once I was done "eating" I went upstairs to my room and started writing a new post on my blog about how I saw Satonna. Like no one actually reads my blog, so she must not. Since I like typing, I just figured I'd write it.

The next day when I went to school, I was in lunch then Satonna just walked up to me. I was sitting with my friends NeeNee, Sammy, Jennifer, and Connor. "Hey, so I read your blog last night." Satonna said when she was standing right behind me. "Wow, seriously? I thought nobody read my blog. Thanks Satonna." Sammy elbowed my rib and I glared at her for a second. "And that's why I know that you spied on me and saw me crying." Satonna continued. My heart felt like it stopped beating. My eyes went wide. Then suddenly, everything went black. What had happened? I don't remember any pain, or a fist coming at my face. I woke up, and I was DEFINITELY not anywhere familiar to me. "What the..." I said and looked around more. I just had to turn my head slightly and- "Ahh!" I turned my head away.
"Its so bright! It burns my eyes! Why is there a light there anyway?!" Then it occured to me; was I dead? Was I supposed to "go to the light?" Because if I was, I am surely not going anymore towards that light. If there is such thing as an afterlife, I don't want to be blind in it. So, I closed my eyes and stumbled with my arms out to where the light was. It was suddenly very bright, then, a few seconds later, I heard a voice and opened my eyes. It wasn't that unusually bright anymore, But everything was WHITE. Just, plain, WHITE. "You shouldn't have been spying on me..." It was Satonna!
"Where are my friends? Why is everything white? Where am I?" these are all questions I asked her.
"You're friends are not here... no one is here, not even me..." Who did she think she was? Some weird Guru or something? And, of course, I had no idea what she was saying.
"Whats with all the funny talk? And you didn't tell me where I am."
"You are not anywhere real... I can tell you that for sure..." freezing water was poured all over me.
"Hey! What the hell did you do that for?!" I yelled at Satonna.


REVENGE IS SWEETLY SOUR.

Then I woke up. My mom had doused me with cold water!
"What the heck are you doing?!" I asked as I jumped out of bed. I was now extremely cold. "It's ten after eight. You're gonna be late to school, since you missed the bus. Get ready, and I'll take you. You'll be about thirty minutes late though." My mom said while my teeth were chattering.
"Can't you just say I'm sick and then I won't have to go today?"
"You're not getting out of school today. I've already let you too many times." my mom replied.
"Fine. But get out of my room. I have to get ready." my mom left me in my room and I changed into dry clothes immediately. I packed my backpack and made sure all my homework was signed. I went outside the house, and my mom was waiting for me in the car. When I arrived at school, I went to my first period class and got a tardy. At lunch, I was crossing my fingers that what happened in my dream wouldn't happen. Nothing did, and I was relieved.

When I got home from school, I walked through the door and asked my mom if I could go over to NeeNee's house again. She said I could, so I went to her house. Why I was going to NeeNee's house again so soon, was because we didn't find anything we wanted to use on film. None of it was embarrassing enough. When I arrived at NeeNee's house and she let me in, we brought the video camera and ran across the street really fast. Satonna hangs out at the hot-dog snack shop across the street from NeeNee's house literally everyday after school. We set up our camera and sat in the seats near the back of around the shop. We started to film. Satonna suddenly walked up with her boyfriend Vivian and they didn't even see us. Vivian told Satonna that he had something to tell her, and then she asked what.
He said, "I don't think things are working out between us," and a large frown wiped over Satonna's face.
"Why... I think they are." she said, and I could see how worried she was.
"You know what I mean't. Don't make me say it." Vivian said with a frown on his face.
"Say what?" Satonna asked, and it looked like she was about to burst into tears.
"I'm breaking up with you. Sorry." Vivian said, and just walked away.
"OMG." me and NeeNee both said at the same time. Satonna shuffled away with her head hung low, and then she tripped on a crack in the ground and fell, except she caught herself and only scraped her hands. We got all of that on tape. We were going to post it to youtube and facebook. My mom called me and told me I had to have dinner, so I told NeeNee not to post it until I was there with her to, and she promised she wouldn't.

I fake ate dinner again, and later that night I ate macaroni and cheese. The next day at school, everyone was asking Satonna if her relationship with Vivian was doing okay. She kept saying it was; she was lying; so apparently no one knew they broke up, since Vivian wasn't at school today. I guess she didn't want anyone to know about how they broke up. But soon all of them will anyway. Mwah hah hah. Sorry, that was weird. Anyway, that evening after school, NeeNee came over to my house and we posted the video. The next day, Saturday, the video on youtube had 2,356 views! That's more kids than are in the whole school! I called NeeNee to tell her, but she already knew. Wow. Satonna must be so embarrassed. Wait... If Satonna knew about it, that's how she would be embarrassed about it. So, she would want MAJOR revenge back on us. My mom wasn't home. So it was peaceful in the house, and I knew I was alone.

Then there was furious knocks at the door. I walked downstairs, and before I opened the door, I checked outside. It was Satonna. I panicked and ran back upstairs and called NeeNee to ask her what I should do as Satonna kept banging on the door.
"I'll run over to your house and ask Satonna what she's doing. Then, when she's talking to me, you knock her out and then when she's out, we'll delete the videos, and everyone at school will be idiots when they talk about them and how they're there. When Satonna wakes up, we'll tell her she hit her head on the door and, if she asks about the videos, just say, "What videos?" and she'll think there is something wrong with herself and just leave us alone."
"Great Plan. Go... now." I said, and NeeNee hung up the phone.
I knew once she hung up, she was already almost here, because she runs really fast. Not like, "I'm a mutant," fast, but really fast for a human. I grabbed my dictionary and kept looking out the window to see when I should open the door and then knock Satonna out. NeeNee ran up and tapped on Satonna's shoulder. Satonna turned around and NeeNee asked her what she was doing. I opened the door as quickly and quitely as I could and the dictionary was about to hit her head, but she turned around just in time and dodged it. NeeNee and I panicked after that and tried to tackle her. The last words I; or me and NeeNee; heard before everything went black was Satonna saying, "Planet yalnýz iki var!"
"What?" I thought.


HOW DID WE GET HERE? AND HOW DO WE GET OUT?

After everything went black, I woke up in my bed. Very strange. How did I get from tackling Satonna with NeeNee to waking up in my bed? I went to go check if my parents were home, and they weren't. When I went outside after ten minutes of searching for my mom and dad, everything seemed unusually quite. I mean, my neighborhood is pretty quite, but this was way too quite. I started running towards NeeNee's house, and once I got nearer, I could see her standing outside her door. She told me her parents weren't there, and wondered how she got to lying in bed from tackling Satonna with me.
"That happened to you also? That's exactly what I wondered."
"Yeah, I don't get it. And it seems so quite out here. I wonder where my parents are too."
"Lets call Sammy and see if she's home."
"Why?"
"I don't know, just we need to call her."
NeeNee took out her phone and handed it to me.
"Thanks," I said, and dialed Sammy's number.
A robot voice came from the phone that said, "You are not able to make this call."
So, I called Connor. The robot voice said the same thing again.
"Maybe T-Mobile is down or something?" I said.
"I don't really think that's possible to tell you the truth."
I checked the date and time on NeeNee's phone. It said it was 12:01 on... Monday?!
"Oh my god. Its Monday. We're late to school by like four hours, but I don't understand how this is possible. We were tackling Satonna on Saturday, and, wait, did everything go black for you too?"
"Yes."
"Then we both woke up in our beds and our parents weren't home, on Monday? I doubt that we both forgot the rest of what happened that day and slept for a day and a half after."
"I don't either. None of what's going on makes sense."
"Wait. Maybe it does make sense. Did you hear that thing Satonna said before all this happened? What if she's a witch or something and she transported us to Earth, but with only us two on it?"
"Then we have to go to school and see if anyone's there."

NeeNee and I didn't really want to walk to school, and since I have my learners permit, she let me drive her and I in her parent's car to school, that was strangely still in her garage even though her parents weren't there. We didn't bother bringing any of our school stuff, because we were only going to school to see if anyone was there. And If they were, then we would bring our stuff and just be more late.
"I actually really hope people are there. Or it means that it really is only us in the world."
"I don't mean to be corny or anything, but I would actually miss all my friends and family if I knew I would never see them again." I said.
"Me too."
"It would also be pretty lonely."

When we got to school, they're were absolutely no cars parked outside. It also looked deserted. We were not so thrilled about this. When we walked inside it was empty.
"You know what this means." NeeNee said, and I gulped.
"It means that we are the only to people on Earth. Or this one anyway." she continued.
" Well, now that we're here, what should we do? Start figuring out how to get out?" I said.
"Let's have some fun. Do things that, If people were here, we wouldn't be allowed to."
"Like what?"
"Lets go skydiving."
"What?!" I said, apalled. "Are you crazy? We don't even know how to fly a plane!"
"We could learn online. Drive to some place that they would do that if there were humans there, get a plane up in the air, and we could take turns flying the plane and skydiving."
"I think that would be awesome," I agreed. "But it would be dangerous, and I highly doubt this is a dream. I don't want to die."
"We're not gonna die if we know what we're doing..."
"Fine. We'll give it a try. But If I die, and you are still alive, and make it out of this world, you better carry my body out with you and tell them to write on my obituary, "Killed by doing what stupid friend NeeNee told me to when we were in a world with nobody on it but us."
"If I did that, I would sound mental, and it might not fit on the paper."






WE'RE GOING SKYDIVING!

NeeNee and I started going back towards my house, and looked up, "Online courses on how to fly a plane," on my computer once we got there.
A ton of results came up, and I clicked on the one that looked the most professional.
"Lets hope this plan doesn't go down the crapper." NeeNee said.
"What?"
"It's okay if it does though, because if we can't do this, let's, like, go scubadiving."
"Why do all the things you want us to do end with diving? I don't even like regular diving."
"Does it really matter if all my cool ideas end with "diving"?"
"Not really, but still, I don't like diving."
"Whatever. Let's just start training."
I looked at the computer clock. It was 9:58 am.
"We should be done training by..." I looked at the training course information."about two weeks from now."
"Two weeks?!" NeeNee doesn't really like waiting. "That's a long time!"
"Not really. I'd rather train on an online course for two weeks and know how to fly a plane without a "fall, boom, boom...and we're dead"."
"We're not gonna die." NeeNee remarked, though I had a bad feeling that I totally didn't believe that. "If we do take this online course on how to fly a plane, skydiving is easy. You just jump and pull that string before you go "splat" on the ground."
"The possibility of "splatting" is the scariest part to me."
"What about if whichever one of us flying the plane does something wrong and we start falling to our death."
"You seriously had to put that thought in my mind?!"
"Oh. Well, that probably won't happen if we know how to fly the plane. Duh."
"Probably?! I really don't think we should do this NeeNee."
"We'll be fine. Just purchase the damn training course."
I clicked the "purchase" button and it loaded another page. When the page was done loading it said, "Thank you for purchasing, "learn how to drive a plane like a pro" you may now start your training." Then it had a button that said "start training."

"Yes, awesome. Now we can finally skydive." NeeNee said after a grueling week of learning how to drive a plane on our computer.
"But we still haven't actually flown a plane. We could still die."
"Well then, lets go get a plane and fly it. It'll be our practice run."
"A practice run?! It's not a "practice run" if we still have a high possibility of dieing! And where are we going to get a plane anyway? I am NOT letting you drive us to like, the airport to steal a plane."
"It's not stealing if there is nobody on earth. Nobody owns it."
"Fine... I can't believe I'm letting you do this."
NeeNee rubbed her hands together anxiously.
NeeNee said, "I can't believe it either!" then let out one of her extremely high pitch giggles that annoys the crap out of me.

We arrived at the airport to do what I'm still going to call, "steal a plane," thankfully unharmed or dead. I still don't trust NeeNee with driving completely. NeeNee ran in front of me into the airport. I finally caught up with her, and we found the place where all the planes are. We found a little jet and got inside. I made sure that there were parachutes, something that NeeNee would've forgotten to do.
"I can't believe it! You're skydiving first though. I'll fly the plane."
"I don't want to skydive first! I trust myself more with flying the plane."
"You can't even drive a car. Who got us here? That's right, me. I think jumping out of a plane and pulling a string is easier than flying a plane. So how about you jump out first, okay?"
"You can't just tell me what to do! You don't think I can fly a plane better than you? You can't even make scrambled eggs!"
"I've never had to make scrambled eggs before. That's why I never learned how to make them!"
"Oh, so I guess you don't like cooking then? Well then I hate you!"
"Oh no you did not just say what I think you did. Not everyone has to like the same boring stuff that you like!"
"Cooking is not boring! It's also a wonderful skill to have!"
"Well I don't care about cooking, and that's just to bad."
"Fine. What do I care if you like cooking or not?"
"I don't know."
"I don't know either."
"Okay. So I'm still gonna skydive first?"
"Yep."
"Ugh..."
I got in the plane fully and went to the back of it. I put one of the parachute packs on and sat in the seat right by the part of the plane that opens up to jump out of it. I was crossing my fingers and even toes that she wouldn't kill us before I even got to jump out. NeeNee sat in the pilot's seat, since she was the pilot, and buckled her seat belt.
"You better not kill us." I said.
"I won't don't worry."

She started the plane and I held onto my seat. She actually got us in the air, even though we only had like twenty feet of distance between the plane and the ground. She pointed the plane straight up, to a point where if I got up out of my seat and started walking on the floor of the plane, I would've just proved the law of gravity wrong.
"NeeNee!!! Make the plane straight again! We're like 10,000 feet up!" I yelled.
"How do you know we're that high up?"
"Because it looks like it. A LOT."
"Okay. I'll make the plane straight."
NeeNee pulled a lever to make the plane straight again. I could finally breath.
"Thank god! That was really scary!"
"Pssh. No it wasn't."
"Yes it was!"
"Whatever. I'm gonna open the back so you can jump now."
"No, wait! When do I pull the the string again?"
"You pull it when the houses down below look more like tiny squares and less like dots."
NeeNee opened the back of the plane behind me. I looked down and felt nauseus.
"Do I have to jump?"
"If you don't jump, you'll have to fly the plane, and then you'll have an even bigger chance of dieing."
"Okay I'll jump."
"I promise It'll be awesome once you're falling."
"Please don't refer to it as falling."
"Okay. You can jump now."
I looked down again and my stomach felt bad. But I closed my eyes and jumped. I could feel the wind wiping through my hair. I was falling. It was so cool, NeeNee was right. Then I opened my eyes to see if I should pull the string to let the parachute out yet. I opened my eyes and the houses looked like medium sized squares! I pulled the string and nothing happened. Not even a slit jolt upwards. I was really scared. Was I going to die? I pulled it again. Nothing happened.
"Oh my god. I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm to young to die!"
I literally had my whole life play before my eyes. Everything was getting bigger and bigger. I closed my eyes knowing my time had come. Meanwhile, NeeNee was up flying the plane and lost control of it, spiriling towards the ground, like me, except I was falling. Five minutes later, I knew I should've been dead already. Then I opened my eyes, wondering if I was in heaven and I felt nothing when I died because it was so fast. It wasn't all white when I opened my eyes, so It couldn't have been heaven. Don't even think that I went to hell instead. It actually kind of looked like concrete. I turned around onto my back, and someone was leaning over me. It wasn't NeeNee.


I DON'T BELIEVE YOU...

"Ahhhhhhh!!!" I jumped up. "Who the hell are you?!"
"Hey, no need to get all pissed off at me. I didn't do anything."
"Where's NeeNee?!"
I saw someone get out of a screwed up (as in crashed and on fire) plane, and it turned out to be NeeNee.
"I'm right here. And I can't believe I'm not dead. Why aren't you dead Meredith?"
"I have no idea." I answered her. "But I also have no idea who this is." I pointed to the girl who seemed to come out of nowhere.
"You can't die in this world, you know. And why I'm here and no one else is, is because you thought of me. You just don't know me. You must have thought of someone that looked like me, so I appeared." The girl said.
"So, pretty much since I didn't think of anyone, no one is here other than NeeNee and I? And, if I think of someone, they'll appear here out of thin air?"
"Yup. Exactly what I'm saying. Strange, isn't it?"
"Got that right. I can't believe this." NeeNee said.
"Oh, yeah. You can also think of anything and it will appear. And if you think of somewhere you'll be transported there. If you want to have anyone come with you, just hold their hand."
"Just hold their hand like they do in movies? Cool. But how do I know you're telling the truth? And do you have a name?" I asked the girl.
"Of course I don't have a name silly! You didn't think of a name for me, and I'm not someone you know who already has a name." She patted me on my head.
"Wow," NeeNee said once she was by us. "Meredith must've thought of her mom at the same time she thought of you, 'cause your as annoying as her mother."
"Hey! Don't make fun of my mom!" I said. "But yeah," I faced the girl. "I agree with her." I said as I pointed to NeeNee.
"Okay..." said the girl. "By the way, you can name me if you want to Meredith."
"Fine. Your name's Natasha. Can I try out my thinking powers now?"
"Yeah, sure."
"Who do you think I should bring here NeeNee?"
"Definitely Sammy. She would be so excited. But, does it like bring the actual person here? Do they like, disappear from the regular world and everyone gets freaked out 'cause they just pretty much evaporated?"
Before I could say, "I don't know," "Natasha" answered NeeNee.
"Oh, no. I figured you might wonder that. It looks like they just started daydreaming. Even if they're walking. They just stop and stand and stare off into space. Not as bad as evaporating, is it?"
"I guess not." NeeNee said.
"Okay. I'll think about Sammy then." I said.
I closed my eyes and thought of Sammy. Her voice, her name, how she looks, and then opened my eyes when I heared her voice say, "Hey, Meredith, NeeNee, some girl I don't know, where have you been lately? Haven't seen you in a while. And, WHERE THE HELL AM I AND WHY AREN'T I IN CLASS LEARNING ABOUT HISTORY?!"
"Haha, sorry," I said after I opened my eyes. "You must be a little confused."
"Yah think!" Sammy yelled at me.
"Let me explain." I started off.
"So, Satonna's sort of a witch. She sent me and NeeNee here in this world that looks exactly like earth, before we could knock her out by hitting her on the head with my dictionary. Don't ask why we were about to do that. Anyway, she said these weird words and me and NeeNee woke up here in our beds and in our houses, but absolutely NO ONE was here. AT ALL. So, it was NeeNee's idea to go skydiving, and we learned from this course online how to fly a plane. My little string thingy that lets up the parachute didn't work, and I thought I was falling to my death. It turns out that the plane crashed too, with NeeNee in it. But then this person," I pointed to "Natasha", "was standing over me when I "woke up," and I was astonished that I wasn't dead. Then she explained that you can't die in this world, and that any person or object that I think of appears here. Oh, yeah. Any place I think of that I want to be, I am transported there."
Ah, I finally finished explaining everything to Sammy.
"Yeah, Satonna always was a bitch." Sammy said.
"No, you see, I said "witch"." I replied.
"Yeah, I know." she said calmly.
By the way, we were walking towards NeeNee, Sammy, and I's school while I explained everything that had happened to Sammy.
"Wow," NeeNee said, "That was a really long sentence you said to explain everything to Sammy."
"Actually, she said multiple sentences." "Natasha said unnaturally cheerfully to NeeNee.
NeeNee rolled her eyes when she turned her head.
"That girl's really annoying. Where do you know her from?" Sammy asked me when she whispered into my ear.
"I've never seen her. For some reason I thought of her. I think I just thought of someone who looked like her, so she appeared. But since I just thought of her, and nothing about her, just how she looked, she didn't have a name or anything. I named her "Natasha". I have absolutely no idea why I thought of someone so annoying."
"Oh, okay." Sammy said, not whispering anymore.
"What?" NeeNee and "Natasha" both said.



SOME THINGS POP IN...

We arrived at our school, the only person out of the four of us who doesn't go to our school is "Natasha," the person I thought up. Natasha weirdly asked me did I "care" about my school. Of course, I answered, "No," and NeeNee said it at the same time. She said that I could think of stuff I wanted to appear inside my school, and to remember that if what I think of could hurt us, it won't, because-she reminded me- none of us can get hurt in this world.
"I have a question Natasha." Sammy said.
"Yes?"
"Can Meredith make things disappear

too?"
"Yes," Natasha started. "Meredith, you might want to listen to what I'm about to say."
I turned my head towards Natasha.
"Okay," Natasha continued, "You can, Meredith, make things disappear. It's simpler than making things and people appear

. You can even keep you eyes open when you make things disappear. Just stare at the thing you want to disappear, and say "setom". It will not disappear immediately though, it may have up to a five second delay."
"Is that all?" I asked her.
"Oh, one more thing. Never, ever

make people disappear. Unless you can really consentrate on them and where you want them to be, they could have a chance of just being wiped off the face of the Earth. And I mean BOTH Earths when I say that. They'll just be gone forever."
"Wow, good thing you remembered that part." Sammy said.

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Texte: All text belongs to Mani Gmelin. (ME!)
Bildmaterialien: Cover photo belongs to ievolve.org.
Lektorat: Mani Gmelin Edited this.
Übersetzung: It has always been in English.
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 15.02.2012

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Widmung:
To all of my friends, because I know all of them are truly my friends and will help my through any problems I have. And to Maximum Ride, a fictional character from the series "Maximum Ride," by James Patterson, for being the "inspiration" of me writing this book.