I wake up with a beam of sunlight in my face I look over at the clock, still a half hour before the alarm is supposed to go off. I head over to the bathroom and look into the mirror I'm not exactly happy with what I see but I can't complain either, a flat chest and stomach, not a lot of fat but not a lot of muscle either, short black hair and brown eyes. I look away from the mirror sigh, turn the shower head on and get in. When I'm done I grab a towel wrap it around myself, and walk out to find my roommate Andy just waking up with his long stringy black hair in his face
"hey man, how'd you sleep?" I ask
"pretty well I guess, what about you?"
"I slept like a dead man, which is what we're both gonna be if we're late for class again, so hurry up and get ready".
He gets up and heads into the bathroom and I get dressed, a couple minutes later he gets out and I grab my stuff and head out of our room so he can get dressed. My friend Jess comes walking up to me "Hey Deon, what are doing just standing outside your room?" She asks
"Just waiting for Andy, what are you doing?" I say
"Going to class like you should be doing"
"I'll make it jess don't worry" she gives me a skeptical look
"Riiight cause you always make it on time"
"Just go, I'll see you there" she hugs me and I'm a little surprised but I hug her back "what was that for?"
"I don't have to tell you" she pulls back, smirks, and starts walking off "see you in class"
When Andy walks out we start heading to class. We're still in high school but it's a private school, we get dorms and roommates and things you would get in a college. We make it to the middle of campus with still a couple minutes til class starts when a man in a purple suit walks up to us. When he reaches us he asks "do you boys like reading?"
This is a weird question I mean what would you say if a random guy walked up to you and asked that, but both me and Andy love reading, the guy might sell books or something so we we both say yes and a relived look comes across the guy's face
he says "how would you like to to be able to live in your favorite books?" ok so maybe this guy doesn't sell books
"it would be awesome but how would we be able to do that?" I ask him
"I can give you the ability to do it" now I think this guy is completely psycho, he could be some escaped mental patient! He could be dangerous!
"Ok yeah sure do it give us the ability then" Andy says but I can see that he thinks he's crazy too because he starts slowly backing away
"but this may come with a price. Are you still willing?"
"Yeah totally" I say, the only chance we have is to outrun this guy because all of the students around us has left to class, we still need some distance from him though, I just need to stall a little longer
"so how do we do this then?" Andy asks
"I'll show you" he grabs both of our heads, I panic but its to late he has a strong grip. The guy closes his eyes and scrunches his face in concentration. I start to feel a rush of energy in my body like this guy put all the energy drinks together and I drank it. Maybe this guy isn't so crazy but its just energy,I could just be freaking out. The guy let's go and asks
"how do you feel?"
"Fantastic" we both say
"I would like to demonstrate how these powers work to both of you then, do either of you have a book on you?"
I smile at this, I always have a book on me. I take off my backpack and take out the book ' Vladimir Tod: twelfth grade kills ' I love this book I've read it over 7 times. I hesitantly hand him the book,
"ok first lesson boys, the less familiar you are with the book the more likely you are to get stuck in it, for instance I have never heard of this book before but I'm guessing that you have so we will be fine"
"wait what do you mean stuck in the book?" Andy asks
"I mean that you will be stuck in the series of the book you went into until someone finds you, or you're dead" a sad look crosses over his face "that's how I lost my last recruit"
"Now I will actually teach u how to get into the book, you read whatever part you would like to be put into and picture yourself in that situation" " I will take you into your first one but from there, you're on your own" "grab on to my shoulders boys" we each put a hand on his shoulder and he starts to read a passage towards the end.
