The Light Prism #Wattys2019

Chapter 1:Explain.

When I woke up I was encompassed by darkness.The stillness of the air took away what little moisture that was left in the room. I could feel the cool concrete on the back of my thighs.As I lay on the floor, the only light shining through was the bright moonlight reflected on the silver beam above me. Specks of dust floated about as they looked for a resting place. As I sat up I could hear the muted voices near me. One by one the halogens flickered on decreppied and unused.

This fimiliar place was where I spent my childhood. My father worked here, he was a supervisor but most of the time he spent supervising me.I remember so clearly the musky smell of the corridor. With flickering lights and the concrete floor that lead me to the empty section of the coffee factory as I walked through to the room, I was accompanied by the pungent smell of ground coffee beans in the air. That seemed to be blown about from the rusty fan blades that waft the smell.

"Hey Tiffany,"said Luke and Kallum in unison.

I could feel the anger rising inside me like burnt toast I wasn't going to be remedied by scraping off the surface, I was furious, Kallum was my friend we had been friends for a long time, I could honestly not see my life without him. Kallum was fit from running track but not skinny, he had curly blonde hair and blue eyes  a surfer vibe but he didn't surf, so he was out of place. Luke on the other hand, was my boyfriend, he was new my junior year, he was handsome with  light brown hair and blue eyes, he was tall but not towering, with broad shoulders and muscular arms. He was a dreamboat.

"How yah feeling?"said Luke in a sweet loving voice

I had so much anger, I wasn't about to put up with his fake tenderness and I was not having it.

"I don't know Luke, how am I feeling ?"I responded sarcastically

"the last thing I remember is you pushing me into the street"

"Twirled" Luke interrupted, with a sly half smile that was so annoying I wanted to punch him in the face.

"Excuse Me?!"I snapped back, fed up with hearing his voice.

"I twirled you in the street"he responded so sassy I could feel the lack of concern he had.

"You sure are something Luke,I Infuriated by Luke's attitude. I could have died I was hit by a freaking car and your correcting me on how I got into the road!"

As I lunged toward Luke he didn't even flinch when I slapped him, but I was momentarily stopped from continuing by the words Kallum uttered."T, you died"

I could feel my breathing quicken,my head dizzy and tunnel vision take effect.

Was I imagining this? Was I living in a different world...was I dead? Where Kallum and Luke dead too as my spirit guides or something? Was this all a hallucination brought on by the drugs the doctor administered?Just as tears were brought to my eyes,Luke lifted my chin to look into his baby blues."Tiffany you're alive,now please, "Luke begged"stop crying.

All I wanted to do was kick and scream and punch, but instead stared,I looked into the blue eyes that brought me here, the ones who made me die, I stared into those blue eyes and hated them. Hastily, I swatted Luke's hand from my chin and pushed him away,I scrambled up and stared into the eyes of my kidnappers.

"what the hell is going on!,why am I even here"?I yelled realizing what was transpiring.

The air thickened as I waited for a response,after glancing to Kallum, Luke began to speak."That car you hit...it killed you" but the café we were next to had a doctor in it.He ran out to stop the bleeding.When he checked your pulse and you had stopped breathing so he did CPR. Just as he was about to call you as dead,you sputtered awake. When the ambulance came it brought you to the hospital you were alive but unconscious. So after surgery,I stayed with you waiting.When weeks turned into months and you didn't wake up, I asked Amiee's mom to keep me updated,I was practically living at the hospital waiting for you.

"Wait months?"

Yes you were out for three months.

"I was in a coma for three months?"

Yes T,Just when I was loosing hope,two days ago you woke up.

I was appalled by Luke he was the type of guy would could tell you your pet died and ask what you wanted for dinner in the same sentence.

When you were given the okay to come home Kallum distracted the nurse while I picked you up,you were drowsy and on pain meds so we brought you here, Luke looking around realizing how odd it was bringing me there, to explain the reasoning behind all of this.

Luke was a ass but I needed to know why I was targeted for his master plan and how Kallum was involved ,so I did what was prudent."Fine,i said reluctantly,explain why im here Luke."

After Luke had finished his reasoning, I was shocked. It all seemed silly, I was now a Luminator, since I had died and was recesitated, I could enter a different part of Earth. I could enter Earth's light world, It existed on Earth and had been there all along I as a human just couldn't see it. It almost sounded like a sci-fi flick, I was human but altered,changed by momentary death, I was a version of my self. I had abilities of a ghost but the freedom of a human.It seemed far fetched at first,but then took form in another thought, the book in my mothers safe talked about Dark and Light Luminators. I supposed it to be a disturbing children's tale that my mother wrote by her own hand,it talked about the good and the bad and I finding out which was which by people's auras.It even indenitified that every person in the world could have this predisposed gene, and how people with brown eyes had not activated the gene, green eyes hadn't phased, people with blue eyes had and hazel didn't have the gene. At the time it sounded mythological but Luke and Kallum knew of it somehow.

Kallum tried to explain why Luke had to force his hand to make phasing a possibility he was upset about how sad i was about my parents, so he did some digging and found out my parents were from the light world and who had taken them.He also found out that i had the gene.I truly was angry but his reasoning but was to help me find my parents.Luke told me his uncle was on a council in the Light World and had been actively been looking for them. Lucky for us our spies found out their location.I asked why they hadn't been saved and Luke said no ones ties could pinpoint their location enough to find them, it had to be a blood relative because the light connection carried more pull. That connection could lead them directly to my parents with little guessing.I told Luke I was scared for them, the dark figures knew them and they knew the dark figures. But to a unfortunate display of events so did Luke and Kallum "Shadow Thieves " they whispered questionably glancing at each other.

"Shadow Thieves?" I questioned

Luke glanced at Kallum with a stunned look on his face.Before any words where said I looked at the two. Guys, hello? I think my mom knew one of the shadow thieves, she called him Roger.

"Roger" Luke repeated flatly,Tiffany, Roger is a elder are you sure you heard right?

"I am positive, what's an elder?" I asked questionably in a sassy tone as I thought back to the moment when they were taken.

Elders are our governing body Tiff, responded Kallum it doesn't make sense if Roger was there because that would mean he's working with the Dark Luminators.

"It's not unheard of, that people would be a traitor to their own I guess, but I think there has to be another Roger out there it may be a different guy."

As we tried to work out what had happened Luke was determined to begin my training as he was worried he would be attacked by other dark beings so the work began.

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