The Pride of Athena

Cigarette Daydreams Is Ruined

The pic up top is of Hailey

Hailey turns the volume up on her phone.

Did you stand there all alone
Oh I can not explain what's going down
I can see you standing-

The song cuts off, and a woman's voice takes it's place. "Hailey, I call upon you, retrieve my missing Diamond and restore balance between my sides. Or the world will reach havoc. Find the local nymph."

-next to me

The song continues in her ears as she hastely walks down the stairs. She pulls on the wires, and her ear buds pop out. The music puases as she walks through the kitchen. She checks every room in her two story house. When she doesn't find anything, Hailey walks back up the stairs and lays on her bed. She opens her friends contact.

Rillen
Hailey: meet me @ town square
Rillen: y
Hailey: cuz we need 2 talk
Rillen: k be there in 15

Hailey stood up from her bed, sliped her phone in her back pocket, grabbed her sweatshirt, and headed out the door. When she's halfway to town square her phone buzzes.

Rillen: change of plan mom said I have to pick up miley
Hailey: ok i'll come get u

She runs down the sidewalk, until she gets to Rillen's apartment building. The doorman greets her with a, "Hello, Hailey! Are you in a hurry?"

"Hello, um sort of." Hailey responded. Mr. Jones made a gesture as to say, Go right in! Hailey ran up the stairs to the 4th floor, and down the hall to door 36. She lifted her hand to knock and on the first one Rillen opened the door. He was wearing his usual, black sweatpants and his dark blue Harvard sweatshirt. His black hair was a mess, sticking out in all different directions. Hailey giggled and pointed at his hair. He rolled his eyes and flipped his hood over his head.

"Okay, what did you want to talk about?" He asked as he started down the steps.

"Well, when I was listening to music-"

Rillen cuts her off, "Your always listening to music. Continue."

"I was listening to music, and-"

"Wait what song where you listening to? You have good taste."

"Rillen! Fine, I was listening to Cigarette Daydreams. Anyway," Rillen pulls out his phone and starts typing, "what are you doing?"

He glances up, "Playing Cigarette Daydreams, I love that song." He scrolls through the songs on his phone, "Here!" He taps on one of the songs and it starts playing.

Did you stand there all alone
Oh I can not explain what's going down
I can see you standing next to me
In and out somewhere else right now
You sigh, look away
I can see it clear as day
Close your eyes so afraid
Hide behind that baby face
Do do do do do do
You can drive all night
Lookin' for the answers in the pouring rain

"Yes, that one," Hailey says.

Rillen pressed the plus sign, and at the bottom of his phone it said:
Cigarette Daydreams has been added to Hailey's Suggestions

Hailey laughed, "You named your playlist Hailey's Suggestions?"

"Ya one of them, I've got like, fifty, ok what happened?"

"Well, I was listening to that song, and it was cut off by a woman's voice. She said, 'Hailey, I call upon you, retrieve my missing Diamond and restore balance between my sides. Or the world will reach havoc. Find the local nymph.' Then the song started playing again. It was weird. I dont know how they knew my name."

"Did you recognize the voice? 'Cuase you should."

"Um, I kind of recognized it. Why, wait have you had this happen."

Rillen nodded, "Ya, he always asks me to do these weird missions. And it's always when I'm writing, the words change, and are said aloud, and I can't erase them. But he's never asked me to do something as big as finding a diamond. At the end he always says, 'Find the local nymph.'"

"But aren't those just fairytales?" Hailey asks.

"No, I found her. She belongs to the maple in the school's front yard."

"Why can't we see her?"

"You can, she's that girl who always leans against the fence."

Hailey gasps, "Her?!"

Rillen nodded, "I know, that's what I said."

They stopped at the primary school and walked in. Sitting outside the office was Miley. "What took you so long?" She asked.

"Nothing," Rillen said.

"We where just talking and walking," Hailey said.

"We have to stop by the middle school, we need to talk with somebody," Rillen said.