Cherish

Chapter 7

A strange noise had pulled me out of my trance-like state and the rest of the kids in the room began to settle into their seats. An older woman, maybe in her mid 30's, walked through the door and then started to write on the large green board in the front of the room with a white powdery cylindrical block. She wrote the word 'READING' on the board and then began talking about a book that we were going to discuss today. She started to pass out the books to the front row and the front row started to pass them back. I grabbed the collection of books from the person in front of me and took one for myself and continued the passing behind me.

"Alright. Now that everyone has their books, please turn to the first page and begin reading until you get to the second chapter."

I began to read the book and started to get pulled into this maze-like place. The book had made me envision the actual place that it was talking about. As I kept reading, I started to find the plot of the book and realized that this story was not what it seemed. This story was a story of two people. They were stuck in a world together with no one else around them. Even though they were the only ones there, they seemed so happy to have each other. They wanted nothing else than to be with each other.

"Alright class, if you would like to continue reading, you may go into the hallway. If you have finished the first chapter, we will begin to discuss the storyline and continue our work from yesterday." I looked around and realized that I was still in the classroom and people were starting to move around. I looked to the butler, he was standing directly beside me.

"Would you like to continue reading, Ms. Cherish?" he asked me after my staring caught his attention. I nodded slowly. He nodded back and began to lead me out of the classroom to the hallway. I sat down with the book and continued at the same spot I had left off.

'The universe had not wanted the two to be together and created a separate world with another person with the same look and personality as the man in the first world. The woman looked at the other world and began to move toward it. She was curious and wanted to see what this other man was like.

When she made it to the second world, she became trapped and could not return to her world. The worlds kept repeating the same pattern until the woman had finally had enough and she made her final choice. She began to work very quickly so that the worlds could not appear as quickly. She began to make another person. A young girl, the same as her. When the next world was made, the woman pushed the young girl into the other world and trapped her there. But what the woman didn't realize, is that she had just ripped the worlds into a spiral. The young girl, when pushed into the next world, was split into many particles and was strewn across all worlds. She was only able to be one piece of herself in one world at one time. If she wanted to find her other pieces, she would have to travel across the world's to find them. But if she did so, she would be stealing them from their worlds and they would never be able to return.'

As Cherish was reading, the world around her began to move faster. She was stuck in the book, quite literally, and the only way she would be able to escape the grasp of the book was to finish it. Her eyes kept moving and moving slowly across the page as if she was in a trance. The butler beside her was watching her and their surroundings very carefully. He had to make sure she was safe while she was stuck. He couldn't let anything bad happen to her like when his worlds Cherish was younger. He was willing to do anything to protect her.