Fairytales and the Real World

Chapter 3

I woke up the next morning with a pounding headache. I guess the fact that I got absolutely no sleep might have been a cause. And if you are blind and can't see why I haven't been sleeping you better get some glasses. I'm worried sick because there's FAIRYTALE DIMENSION THAT IM GOING TO BE TRAVELING TO!!!!!!
I mean if that's not insane, I honestly don't know what is.

Thank God it's a Saturday, or else I'd be more of a walking zombie than I already am at school. First things first I check my phone and notice that I have a bunch of texts..which is well, weird for me. They are mostly from Cia which is actually kind of normal, but why this many? I ask myself as I scroll through until I find that most of them say the same thing...

Cia: Well...what happened with Aaron yesterday? ;)

Oh boy, now this is where the fun begins. How am I going to tell my friends??? There's no possible way they will believe me. Or wait, I'm not really supposed to tell them the truth. Quickly I grab my phone to text Aaron.

Me: Hey Aaron, umm just a quick question....can I tell Sky, Cia and Jackie about our 'vacation?'

After I click send I take a deep breathe...well this should be interesting.

After a while of waiting I just text my group of friends to meet up at the park , I'm just going to tell them.

"Taylor!!!" they all scream in unison as I walk towards our favorite meeting place, the benches by the fish pond.

"Well, what is this? A group meeting to spill all that happened with Aaron yetersay?" Cia smirks.

"Actually yea, well kinda.." I reply sheepishly.

That gets Sky's and Jackie's attention right away as they quickly put down their phones.

"How to start this off...?" I mutter to myself for a bit until I finally just go for it.

"I know you guys probably won't believe me but nothing really happened between Aaron and I, unless you count the fact that there's a secret Fairytale dimension that I'm going to with him." I quickly finish off the last part and look anxiously to see their reactions.

They all just burst out laughing....well this is starting out awfully.

"Aww, are you both so infatuated with each other that you feel like it's a fairytale?! That's soooo adorable!!!" Cia starts to tease as Sky and Jackie laugh along.

Normally I would have found it funny, but on this stressful occasion it just made me a bit snappy.

"Guys stop!" I yell over the laughter to find them looking at me all concerned .

"I'm serious ok?! Aaron told me this whole story and..."

I go on to recount the whole story in sort of a whisper because the other random people walking around this park aren't supposed to hear. When I finally take a deep breath and finish they all look at me in shock. To put it frankly I just kinda stared back at them, not knowing what to do with myself. Well in my defense they didn't know what to do with themselves either. So here we are, three girls just sitting in the park staring at each other, must have been a pretty weird sight.

"Um well Taylor.." Jackie starts to say, "I..I don't even know what to say. Just wow."

The others nod in agreement. Can I just say that this silence was extremely deafening?

"Yeah guys, I don't know what else to say either. I must sound really crazy, I mean, I don't even quite believe myself." I just sit and look down at my lap not wanting to look my friends in the eye.

"It'll be alright Taylor." Cia says, while putting an arm around my shoulder to try and comfort me. "There's just one condition to this." She stares at me in all seriousness and says..

"I get to go with you. No ifs ands or buts."

I kinda just look up at her in shock, finally deciding to meet her eye.

"You sure? You would really want to go?" I just stutter in shock and in complete awe of this sudden demand.

"I'm absolutely positive. And there's no way in hell that you can change my mind." Then that usual smirk appears on her face. "Wouldn't want to leave you and Aaron alone for too long ya know."

My friends all laugh in response, and somehow I begin to feel a bit better. Maybe everything will turn out alright, what ever everything consists of I have no idea. But I guess I'll find out soon enough.

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After hanging out at the park for a while, I decided I'd head on home. The walk home let me sort out some feelings in my head about this whole fairytale deal. I just figured I'd go along with it even though I was scared, because I really did trust Aaron. I think that was the only point I was hanging on to in order to keep my sanity. When I almost reached home I finally got a text from Aaron.

"Don't tell them. Bad idea. There's trouble. We need to leave tomorrow."

I must have re read that text message about fifty times before finally replying.

"Oops. You're just a little late."

I sent it, sighed, and finally got home.

Not even five minutes later I got a reply back from Aaron.

"We need to talk. I'll be over your house in a couple minutes."

This took me by surprise I can say that much. I didn't bother replying, instead I just sat and waited. Waited to try and prepare myself for whatever surprise was coming next.