Gifted

Chapter Twenty-seven Cecelia and Emily

Emily
The portal lies before us, as I hear a loud explosion. The ground shakes and I hear screams if pains and of fear. A bomb. It was bomb, the US army launched a bomb in the back of the students, they killed a few, and hurt a dozen. I don't have time to think, the portal is there. We hold hands and jump in.
I feel a sharp shock run through my arm again, maybe my arm isn't completely healed after all. I decide to ignore it and start focusing. I take a quick look at Cecelia. She's closing her eyes, did she faint? No. She braver than that. It feels like we are both floating in mid air, but it's purple everywhere... Is the portal even working? Are we going to be stuck in between two worlds forever?

Cecelia
The purple air is sucking the oxygen out of my lungs. So I close my eyes and plunge forward. All of a sudden, I feel a tug in my hand. I open my eyes, and see Emily looking at me, holding my hand. I nod to her and move forward, swimming in a way. All of a sudden, I see a purple light infront of us. So we move faster, running out of air. Just when I have no more air, I give one more final push. I close my eyes, waiting for death. But I feel nothing. I open my eyes. I am standing on green grass, next to Emily. I'm not dead! We made it through the portal!

Emily
The dry grass under me pokes my back. Wait-grass? I just almost died of cancer  suffocated in that weird portal thing, now I'm lying on top of grass? I look around and see that Cecelia is awake as well. We stare at each other for a few seconds, as if we can read each other's minds... Suddenly, a massive body falls from the sky and lands on her feet.. Missing Cecelia and I by only a few inches...It's a girl.. I think I recognize her... But I can't remember... Sky! It's Sky!
I try to speak to her but I can't, I'm too weak. We just lay there, not talking, in an extremely awkward silence.

Cecelia
When that girl lands from the sky through the portal... That's when the memories come back to me of the person who I haven't thought about in a long time.... Emma! I haven't realized how much I miss her... And now that I'll never see her again, and if I do, what will she think of me!? I'm a freak with magical powers that disappeared for a year and then lived in a different world for however long we'll be here. All of a sudden, more bodies fall from the sky. Faster and faster, tens, twenties, fifties, until suddenly no more bodies are coming through the portal. It stops... The portal then appears. One of the teacher then produces a green powder and throws it on the portal. The portal... Is gone. The teacher closed it... And now we can never go home.