Our Land of Imagination

Our Bad Introduction

Hi, I'm Christina. My best friend is Liv and we are at her house. Here, in reality, it's getting pretty boring. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I referred to this place as "reality" because, in the past few years, Liv and I have been trapped in our imagination. Take it away, Liv! I'm going to eat your cake now.

I'm going to ignore her and say my part...                                                                                              

One day, we started a book of all the things we thought up. We filled eighty-three pages in one week. Then, ran out of ideas. We had made up so many new things that our minds were completely empty of new ideas. We decided to staple all eighty-three sheets of paper together, and once we did, opened the book. After we had finished looking at the last page, we looked up. There was literally a PORTAL in front of us. Christina was like "what the..." She was pretty freaked out. Me? I was hiding under my book. I have reasons, okay?

Yeah, yeah... "reasons". Anyway, we looked at each other and she came out from under her book which, by the way, was the size of half a piece of printer paper.       

"Should we go through?"

"Uh... Christina? Are you crazy?! It's a black hole!"

"Dude. It's a freaking PORTAL. Not a black hole."

"Whatever."

After a few minutes of talking, my best friend stood up, her bouncy brown hair vibrating with fear because she was nervous.

"Ready?"

"Yeah."

"Let's go." And we jumped in. I remember passing through a tunnel of paper-white and it was covered with drawings. Hey, that cake was good. I'm taking Aquinoa's piece too. Wait, no, it's covered in quinoa.

Christina! Stop eating other people's cake! And Andrea's name is not Aquinoa! We just call her that. I have no idea why she's my friend.

Ith ot ash if you're no wed eider! (It's not as if you're not weird either!)

Ok, great. Thanks for sharing. Now shaddup! I'm narrating! After the paper-white tunnel, we fell and landed on our faces.

The pain is still fresh in my mind.   

When we looked up, there was a world like we've never seen. It was full of super-weird  things. For example, THERE WAS LITERALLY A GIGANTIC NARWHAL WITH WINGS! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING CHRISTINA?! THAT THING WAS THE SIZE OF THE EIFFEL TOWER!

Hey, at least I didn't invent A CHICKEN WITH THE HEAD OF A HUMAN WHICH WAS ABOUT 50 TIMES BIGGER THAN ITS BODY! Sound familiar?!     

Okay, I'm just gonna pretend I didn't hear that. Anyway, we had no idea where we were. We looked back and the portal was closing.

I screamed "NO! YOU CAN'T LEAVE ME HERE WITH CHRISTINA! SHE'LL EAT EVERY PIECE OF CAKE THERE IS HERE UNTIL I DIE OF STARVATION!" and tried to go back through the portal.

It didn't work.  We got trapped in the world made from our minds. Hey, Liv? Do you know what the most stupid, well, second most stupid thing about our book was?

What?

We didn't draw a way out. That's right, we didn't even draw a fu-

OK! We get the point, you are not happy. At all.

Exactly. Now you go do your "speech of life" while I finish all the cake. And maybe the frozen fruits too.

Hey! Christina? Wait! What was the most stupid mistake?

Creating the world in the first place. I mean, if we didn't create it, we wouldn't have gotten stuck there for like, what... 15, 16, 17 years!

Yeah. Ok. Sure. Anyway, I'm going to continue with the story. *Ahem!

I tried to go back through the portal, but it already closed. I frantically scratched the ground where the portal was, trying to somehow re-open it. "Let me out! I CAN'T STAY HERE! I'M GONNA DIE! I JUST GOT INTO COLLEGE! WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO HERE?!?!?!?!?! LET ME OUT!!!!!!!!!" I kept on screaming until my voice was basically gone. i sat on the ground and looked around properly this time, scanning my surroundings. I then realised that Christina was nowhere to be seen. I stood up and was about to start looking for her when I saw a light shadow cross the ground. "Who's there?" I remembered that no one else entered the portal with us. "OK, Christina, this isn't funny! Seriously, I need food! What are you doing?"

"I am not your friend, nor am I your enemy."  (underlined will be for this character from now on) What the heck? Was the first thing I thought.

"What do you mean? ho are you? Show yourself! I-I-I'm not afraid!"

"Don't be ridiculous, I know what you are thinking, I know what is on your mind."

"Oh, really?" I said, my voice overflowing with sarcasm, "What am I thinking?"

"Hmm, I don't know, maybe you are thinking about... How do you say- I mean, think it? 'Where the he(beep) is Christina the demon when I need her?' "

"OK, who are you? Seriously."

"You don't remember your own creation?"

"Wait... What?"