The Ripple Effect

Beginnings

The idea that an individual is not in control of their own actions or emotions is one commonly described to be blasphemy, or a mental disorder. Society has reached a general agreement that every individual is in full control of what they feel and what they do at all times. Influence from other individuals is always a clear factor as to why someone would spontaneously do something unlike their character, but this is simply the idea of influence; not of control. Regardless of whom the person is, no one person has ever had total control over another human being. It's a violation of our human rights and having those rights taken from us is the last thing that anyone would ever want to accept. Thus the idea that there is only influence; no control. But what if this idea were to be completely blown away? What if it turned out that every last one of us were under some sort of control by something, or someone, other than ourselves? After all, there's no way to prove that we aren't. We feel self aware, but there isn't anything saying that we are. Everything in our world has been crafted upon our own minds; with nothing ever truly proving this is how the universe works. This has never proven to be a problem and more than likely never will, but the idea of parallel worlds is far from one that has never been thought of before and surely one that is just as far from being false.

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Daniel Wright was a normal average human being just like the majority of the population. He went to school, like a normal boy, passed his classes, like a normal boy, had a faint idea as to what he wanted to do in life, like a normal boy, and had fallen into love and into heartbreak on countless occasions, as would a normal boy. He had no special connections to anyone; no beyond outstanding achievements in life. His parents weren't billionaires,nor were they bankrupt, and his siblings exercised the usual horrendous torture that all siblings put their brothers and sisters through. Daniel was one of the few outstanding ideas of what is commonly believed to be "normal."

On this morning, much like most mornings, he got up (unwillingly) to the sound of his alarm and began to prepare for a usual day. He got dressed, he ate breakfast, he brushed his teeth, he gathered his supplies for school, and then he left for the bus after shouting a quick goodbye to his parents as he went out through the front door. He then ran to his bus stop and waited with the small population of other kids from his neighborhood for the bus to arrive, and upon it doing so they all boarded and sat through a fifteen minute drive to the school which could be reached in that same time by foot.

When they arrived at the school, Daniel and the plethora of other juveniles hectically left the bus in an extremely unorganized and somewhat chaotic fashion before being met with the sound of the first class bell and being damned to the task of making their way to the aforementioned class.

This was normal, and normal was a perfect word to sum up the boy's life, from day to day it was still just as boring. Daniel saw nothing to it, as it was his life; one that he had taken so much time to get used to, but to the audience (to you) doing this every day for five days a week then doing nothing, or the equivalent to that, for two days is something that seems like it would drive people mad, regardless of the occasional anomalies or hormonal ups and downs. But there was one common thing that would eventually bring this young boy's life to a very interesting point, and that was Acacia Taylor. Now, romance was far from something uncommon in the life of a teenager and Daniel's life was far from the exception, however the events that were to force the two together as well as the events that would surround the couple as they went throughout their day to day lives in 100% "unconditional" love are amusing, interesting, and confusing all at once.

Now, just as Daniel was a very normal boy, Acacia was also a very normal girl. She followed the same exact criteria of normality that Daniel followed aside from being the opposite sex and having just moved to the same town as Daniel. Despite the first semester already having come to an end, Acacia had been forced to move to the same school abruptly by her father's change in office due to his occupation.