Millennial in another millennium

Ch 1- The one with the peer pressure

Welcome to Area-52!

This is the sign that I found on driving 50 miles north of Area-51. So, you like my friends would be wondering that what the hell am I doing here, it is quite simple actually, I am one of the idiots who planned on raiding area-51 but chickened out at the end moment and drove past it, and my friends, my beloved friends, who were the ones to convince me to be carefree and cool and come to area-51 with them and I am a sucker for peer pressure, followed my car as they might be crazy but they are caring too.

Having parked my car on the side of the desolate road, I step out of it. The sensation that fills by limbs as I stretch them is divine. I turn around to my friends standing infront of me with their hands folded next to their chest, Mac is the first one to come ahead and ruffle my electric blue hair before flashing his dazzling smile.

'Some little kitten got spooked' , he whispers in my ear, only for me to shove him away.

Having created enough space between us, I say aloud while puffing my cheeks, 'I was not spooked and stop calling me that. '

'What that, kitten?', says he.

'That', I say while clenching and unclenching my fist.

'What, kitten?', he says yet again.

And that is when I kick him in the shin. Do not misjudge me, I am not at all a violent person, heck I follow Gandhi with all my heart, but this guy, he just gets on my nerves, like always. I have no idea what he has against me but it seems like his lifes mission is to either get me flustered or angry all the freaking time. I need space people, I get uncomfortable with people, specially smug idiots, getting in my personal space, but does Mac get it? No, he is always standing too close and he does that all on purpose of irritating me. The fact that he stands so close works out for my advantage when I have to hit him. I am a peace loving hippie, I tell you.

'Can you guys quit flirting, and kiss already?', screeches Keila, clearly not my favorite person in the group.

Keila is now at receiving end of my unrelenting glare while Mac is grinning like an idiot, Ava is checking her nails while stifling a yawn, and Lucas is looking at all of us with an eyebrow raised. After realizing that he is not going to get any sensible response from us, Lucas sighs with his face buried in his hands. He then straightens his back and trains his evergreen eyes at me and asks,'What happened, Ray? Is everything okay? Why did you drive past area-51?'

'I just...uh missed the sign', I answer sheepishly while rubbing the back of my neck awkwardly.

He looks at me for a while, his intense gaze looking right through me and my excuse. He sighs yet again,'It is getting late, let us all camp here tonight and then see what we will do tomorrow.'

He moves to his car and brings out the tent and his and Keila's bag, while Mac moves to get out his and Ava's bag. I grab my own and then we all head to the forest trying to find a spot to set the tent.

I really want to sleep near our cars, I mean what if someone steals them or what if the forest has lions or snakes or bats or bugs or worse than any other thing, what if there are mosquitoes. I voice my concerns only for Ava to ask me suck it up and put my big girl pants on if I want to have some fun.

I am about to reply but Mac beats me at it and says, "Ava, I do not know why you even bother, I mean kitten over here is obviously a cowardly cat and we cannot have fun around her, first she did not stop at area-51, which was the entire point of us coming here, and now she does not want to camp out because she obviously is scared that some actual cat like a lion will come and eat her. ROAR! ROAR!"

Then Keila says in a high pitched squeaky voice while flailing her arms, "Please do not eat me, please, please"

To this Ava snickers and Mac breaks into a fit of laughter.

This fills me with indignation, I head ahead with increased pace, with the notion of proving that I am not a coward. I just do not like being reckless and taking risks which are really unnecessary. I hate it when all of them pick on me for being sane.

With my all these thoughts, I do not realize when I walk past Lucas who was actually leading us all, everything passes in a blur, I do not pay any attention to my surrounding, and am walking wherever my legs are taking me. I hear my friends yelling after me, but I do not stop until I find myself standing at the edge of a lake.

"Ray, Ray, where are you?'" I hear Ava yell.

"Ray, I am sorry, come back", yells Mac. He must be really worried to call me by my name.

I am about to reply back when a I feel the air in front of me getting thinner and suddenly I feel my body stretching and getting sucked in something, all I see is a blinding blue light, before I see myself getting engulfed into darkness. I feel my body getting thinner and stretching to its limits, I am worried that it might break if it is made to stretch a bit more. I lose control of my body, still everything is still, all sensation leave my skin. At the very moment I hear a swishing sound, this sound seems to stretch into eternity. An eternity is exactly what seems to pass before I see that blinding blue light again.

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A/N

Hey,

I uploaded Rayna's character aesthetic!!!

I hope you all like it.

Bye.