Chapter 1: Pilot pt. 1

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The sound of my cellphone wake me up. Growing I take it to see that's Karma, one of my best friends.

"What the fuck is wrong with you, Karma? What time is it?" I asked her.

"And good morning to you too, Alice. 7:30. How the blind people chose clothes?"

"I'm guessing they wear a lot of sweatpants." Now I hear the voice of my other best friend, Amy. "You're not still serious about this."

"Of course I am. It's a great plan." Karma said.

"I don't see how." I said.

"Yeah, tell me again how this will rescue us from obscurity, because yesterday it sounded crazier than Shia Labeouf's Twitter feed." I laugh a little as I hear a knocking on a door over the phone.

"Hold on." Karma told us.

"Morning, muffin." I hear Karma's Mom, Molly, voice.

"Hey, mom, I'm on the phone." Karma said to her Mom.

"Oh, happy Friday, Amy and Alice." She greeted us. "I made you some chamomile tea. Your chart indicates a major cosmic shift that might upset your tummy." Molly told her daughter.

"Let's hope so, but I should go. Amy's in crisis."

"Oh, no, what happened?"

"Her... hamster died."

"Oh, no."

"Yeah, she needs me. Bye." I hear Karma close her bedroom's door.

"You know Amy's creeped out by rodents as pets." I told Karma.

"I know, it was the first thing I could think of. Why can't I have a normal mother?" She asked us. I hear another door opening than Amy's Mother, Farrah's voice.

"Rise and shine." And the door closes.

"You and me both." She said. And I afraid of opening my bedroom door, but I did. When I opened I instantly regretted by seeing my Mother in her gym clothes elongation and her red butt was looking at me.

"Oh, hi sweet!" She great me and I close the door

"Put me on it either." I told the girls. "Anyway, you were explaining this plan." I said to Karma.

"Right, so we live in Austin, a blue oasis in the red sea of Texas."

"Yup. Haven't forgotten." Amy said sarcastically.

"And our high school is so tolerant and accepting, the outcasts are the in crowd."

"Just tell us the plan." I pleased.

"I found a way in. Trust me. They'll never see it coming." That's what I'm afraid of.

At our school, Hester High School, Amy and I were helping Karma to walk since she was, well... 'blind'.

"See? People are wondering what happened to me." Karma said to us.

"Me too." Amy and I said together.

"How are we gonna explain to people you went blind last night?" Amy asked.

"Brain tumor pressing on my optic nerve, which I'll have removed to make a triumphant return. Preferably at prom." She answers.

"Here." I mummed and we seat on a bench. "With a name like 'Karma', you should be more cautious of your schemes." I told my friend.

"I'm just trying to get us into Shane Harvey's party tomorrow." She said.

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