Everything started with that key.
I should probably introduce myself, shouldn't I?
Well hi, I'm Jacqueline Rivera, and this is how i ruined my life.
Everything started when I got home, where I live with my sister, Julia, and there was a key in my bag. You may be thinking "why would a key be weird?", well it because your everyday keys don't really have swirling pieces of metal and shiny stuff on it. So yeah, i had the right to be scared, thank you very much. I did what people normally do: ask your sister
—Yo, why is there a weird mistical key thing in my bag? Did you put it there?
—I wish i knew what you are talking about... wait what? Why is this so shiny and weird? And what does this open anyway?
That's when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was some sort of door, which had the exact same pattern on top as the key had engraved.
—Maybe that?
—Probably that.
—Should we check it out?
—Why not?
And just when we were going down the fire escape to see what was going on, we heard our door opening, and I felt a bit of fear, until a voice yelled:
—"WHAT'S UP FUCKERS?"
Followed by two more voices saying:
—"Why are you on my phone?"
—"FUCK YOU, THAT'S WHY"
In that moment i knew that my friends had arrived.
Let me introduce you to my friends: first we've got Alex, who has been my best friend since we were kids. They/them pronouns, by the way. Then we got Amira, who we met last year when she entered our school. And lastly we've got Thomas, who is our neighbor, but also goes to our school. He is the one who asked:
— Jack, why are you climbing down the fire escape? Again? When you have a perfectly functional door?
—Because, unlike you, she has an interesting life— retorted Amira.
Lily, who managed to look behind me, just asked
—Hey, what's that door?
—Thats what we were going to check out before you bursted into our apartment uninvited!
—Then lets go!
And thats what we did, without knowing that our lives were going to change forever.
