Arabella

Chapter 1

It was two o'clock in the morning. A virus was spreading. In this hospital of the Sick, there were faint whispers everywhere.

Arabella.

"She's going to die," another said out loud. The tiny murmurs were surrounding the frail girl. It was unlucky of the girl who lay there on her death bed. Who knew what was going to happen. Everyone stood around her in the hospital. All that was left of her family was her little sister, only now realizing how she wouldn't last just surviving by herself without the guidance of a guardian, "I'm sorry little girl."
Arabella watched from above as her sister was upset, crying.
"Why'd I have to die now?" Arabella thought to herself.
Time passed by quickly to where she found herself heading towards the light---something they called heaven. There was a gate that stood before her and two angels had stood there.
"Is your name Arabella?" One of the guards had questioned her. The two of them stared at her like it was surprising to see a new person up there.
She stared at both of the young men, maybe at the age ranging from sixteen to eighteen, "Um yeah, I am. Who are you?"
"My name is Alexander," the teen had laughed a little, "Say---have you ever had dreams of this place?"
Arabella sighed at all the questions this Alexander guy was asking, "No. But I just died. Can I go past the gates now?"
"Sure," he chuckled, "You know, I kinda like you."
"I kinda don't" she blurted out and ran off. Alexander stared at her run through the gate, and he smiled a bit.
Jack, the older guard had furrowed his eyebrows asking confusingly, "What are you smiling about?"
"She was cute," Alexander rolled his eyes and went back to work.
Arabella slowed down her pace to a walk and began to scan the entire area. It looked like an ordinary place on earth, but everything was healthy, clean. The floors were polished and the buildings were clean with no graffiti or cracks. Of course though, there was no sunlight. It was just a white sky. People were smiling and talking. Many of those were of old age, many teenagers and children, but not very many adults. Where Arabella stood, she was standing on soft green grass with gentle flowers blue, yellow, red, pink, white. Beautiful homes stand in a perfect line. Trees a dark and light green colors. While she was walking around, many people began to notice her as well. Aside from everything else Arabella couldn't help but admire the beauty of the land. Then she sighed, feeling like an outsider.
Randomly, a girl yelled her nickname "Bella!" She looked around in confusion only seeing two familiar girls running up to her, and then giving her a tight hug. What followed them was a young couple holding hands and calling them back.
"Adeline! Amalia!" The guy had screamed to get their attention. That was when it hit her, my friends.
Adeline had long strawberry blonde hair and pale skin. She was beautiful. Her eyes were a greenish color and was fit. Amalia on the other hand, was almost a chestnut color and had chocolate brown eyes, skinny as well and had long black hair. They all looked at her, then up came the young couple again. A lady at the age of maybe twenty one, along with the guy. She was almost 5"5, and had tan skin with short black hair, eyes as brown as tree bark, "So you're Arabella.." She furrowed her eyebrows and then glanced at her boyfriend. He was tall, maybe around the height of six foot, and had brown hair, muscular too. He smirked and Arabella wanted to back up quickly.
"Bella?" he inquired, "It's me, Max, your brother." She took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.
Arabella then gave a firm hug towards him, "I didn't really recognize you. You look more buff that's why." She stared a little but then looked around while Max began to talk.
For what felt like an hour, she and Max walked around the land. They went to his girlfriend's home where only Arabella sat down in the dining room and the rest of them sat down in the living room. Night time was passing. Outside of the window it looked like a void of darkness. During dinner time, Max brought up a suggestion.
"I'm not going to try and sound mean but you shouldn't be here," he mentioned quickly as if he regretted it. Arabella stared at him weirdly, "I was talking to the person in charge of this place and he told me all of the stories about how there was going to be a great fall in earth."
Arabella shook her head, "What? So I'm not supposed to be dead yet? Where am I supposed to go?"
"You have to go to the Justice Office," he muttered, "They'll take you there, run a test on you and then you'll be put back as the same person, in a different scenario. I heard about it but I don't know if it's actually true."
"But Bella," Adeline began, "It's okay. I have to go there too." Amalia nodded her head at that and sighed from being alone again.
They followed a concrete path that lead to The Justice Office in which was very much packed. There was a side for teenagers only and Adeline and Arabella had lined up. A lady was sitting behind the office dressed in all white and had glasses on, her hair a light blonde color.
"Name," the lady demanded while filing papers to look at the list.
The two teenage girls looked at each other to see who went first, but Adeline did, "Adeline."
"Oh, well you are on the list. Walk through this hallway over there," she pointed to the strawberry blonde's left, "Don't worry about getting lost. We will get you situated within a moment." Hesitantly, Adeline moved along the line.
"Name," the lady asked again now making eye contact with her.
"Arabella," she answered with no emotion. The lady in white nodded her head in surprise.
"You are special Ms.Arabella, go on ahead through that door your friend just went into," she smiled, then looked back down to do more work. Arabella seemed a bit worried. What did she mean by special? What was so special? She walked in, and took a look everywhere