Realm

T H R E E

3 March 2017

I -well, my body- am in a crumpled mess, on my floor crying when I felt a strange tug. It is like someone wrapped string around my brain, and nothing else and then trying to pull my brain from my body, but my skull is in the way. Then an excruciating pain ripped through the back of my skull. My body's eyes were closed, but suddenly, I could see the body that had encased me is in front of me, tremors running through her body.

It is an odd feeling, being ripped out of a body. One minute every single nerve in your body is on fire, the next, you can't feel anything.

I walk around the girl, inspecting her. She had long golden hair, tied at the nape of her neck. She is quite thin like she is being weaned off food for a diet. My stomach growls at the thought of food. Then I felt another tug in my head.

I am flying; well, floating is more like it. Soon, I am looking at the house my former body lived in. Then the city, the country, the world, the universe. I am soaring. I am being pulled into a tunnel of some sort. The colors whir past. I couldn't feel the wind as it didn't blow onto my face or ruffle my hair. It is bright in the tunnel. I could tell I am moving through dimensions.

A sinking feeling settles into my stomach, right then. I am going to a different dimension. I wanted to go home.

Why would you want to go to a place where you are bullied and ignored? Where you hurt everyone you touch? My inner self-argued. Live a little. You could fit in somewhere else.

I swallow the bile that rose up my throat. I thought I saw the end coming in the form of a black speck miles ahead of me. It's speedily coming into view. Too quickly, in my opinion. My stomach turns over again. I look around to distract myself.

There is someone else here. They were off in the distance, though. I adjust my body so I am heading in the direction of them. As they came into view, I could tell it was a boy my age. He has dark hair that reached his chin. He is dressed in all black, down to his black and black converse. He turns toward me when I got close to him.

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There is a fairly handsome guy in front of me who looks to be about 17 years old. He is kneeling on one knee with a hand stretched out to me. He was wearing a worn burlap shirt and dark capris. He looked like a cross between muscular and unfed. His hair is dirty blond, curly, reaching the tips of his ears. He had full lips in the color of strawberries. But caught me off guard was his mossy green eyes that I could've sworn I've seen before. 

"Will you marry me?" His lips formed the words very carefully as if overly enunciating. 

Before my brain registered what was happening my lips spoke:

  "I will! Oh, I truly will, Eric!" 

What the he-... Oh, I know where I've seen this dude before. I was already here, like ten minutes ago. Then I went through that weird portal thing. A portal through dimensions. Again, what the hell was happening to me?

Before I even finished my thought, I was on the move. Back to my body's house, where I was about to get verbally abused by my parents. 

How do I change this? I don't want to go through with this person's life. Why the hell am I even here?

"ADELINE!" I heard a voice cry.

I wanted to turn my head. I recognized that voice. But my host didn;t even think about turning.  What was her name again?

"We're in a loophole!" The voice shouted again, louder this time. Closer this time. 

I focused all my energy in turning this girl around. I had to be able to do it since I'm in her and all. 

"Ann!" Eric's voice called. 

Ann, that was her name. Well, Ann turned around. Only Eric was standing there. He and all of his handsome-ness. There was something off about the way he wsa just there. Ann walked closer to him. I couldn't place what was off. 

"Ann, let's run away together. Just us. No parents to yell at us. No town peope judging us. HOw does that sound?"

Ann looked behind her before replying. 

"Uhh...."

I finally got it. The thing that was wrong with Eric's face. There was another face there. Another face that looked seemingly familiar.

Elliot.

A/N:

Hello! Hannah here. This chapter is confusing. Even to me. If you have any questions about what is happening in the chapter, hit us up in the comments or message us! We'd love to hear from you. (Frankly, we might not be able answer most of the questions you have, as we don't even know what's happening...)

I hope you enjoyed this chapter! We update ever two weeks on Thurday. Maybe one day it will be every other Thurday but both HubbaBubba and I are busy people with no time in the day to write. We write as much as possible.

Have a fantabulous day and an even better week. 

~Hannah Elizabeth