Parallel

Chapter 1: The Light That Blinds

Will's POV:

"William Bateman!" The teacher called.

"Uh...yeah?"

"And just what are you doing on that computer?" She crossed over and towered above me.

"Just reviewing my notes! I'm trying to make sure I really learn what you're teaching!" I smiled.

"Oh really?" My teacher picked up my laptop and looked at the screen. "Hmm..." She mumbled. Then she placed my computer back onto my desk and strutted off.

Good thing she hadn't looked at my minimized tabs. I clicked on one of them and minecraftskins.com popped back up. I had taken a ton of notes in advance just in case that had happened.

I wasn't actually making any Minecraft skins...I was talking with this girl. I had been participating in a role playing skin (which is basically just when you make up a character and type in the comments what they're doing and how they react to the other characters) and our characters had pretty much just clicked. Now we were just chatting and we actually had some stuff in common! We had been chatting for a few months now, her account name was StoryBookSkins. Mine was a little less creative: CriticalIsError. Don't ask me why cause I have no idea why I named it that okay?

Boredom.

StoryBookSkins: gtg but I'll be on later tonight?

CriticalIsError: Yup! I'll be on too!

Let's just skip school k? In fact...let's skip to tonight.

"WILL!" My mom yelled. 

"Uh...yeah?"

"Make sure you brush your teeth!" She called.

Oh thank goodness. I thought she was going to take my iPad. "Mhm! I will!" I continued running up the stairs and lunged onto my bed.

First I checked my email. I had four new messages so hopefully some of them were from Sophie. (Her name was Sophie, I forgot to mention that.)

StoryBookSkins: Hey you on?

CriticalIsError: Uh huh! 

We began chatting as usual when I saw it. This has been happening to me a lot lately. I saw a pair of eyes peering at me in the darkness.

I glanced at the clock and saw it was three a.m. Oh perfect! Not only did they have to come tonight, but they had to come at THREE!?

I tip-toed over to them to see if I could see where they came from as usual. They stopped in the usual spot. Right at the bottom of the stairs... they did their usual thing: A super long blink. By that I mean it was super slow and creepy. Then something hit me and I fell down the stairs.

I saw a super bright light.

'Am I dying? Or am I dead?' I thought. But soon my vision cleared and I went back down the stairs into my room.

I climbed into my bed and messaged Sophie.

CriticalIsError: Oh gosh I saw them again 

StoryBookSkins: :(

CriticalIsError: And I fell down the stairs too

StoryBookSkins: Wait, did you follow them AGAIN!? I thought I told you not to do that! You keep getting hurt every time you do!

CriticalIsError: Eh don't worry! I'll be fine. I think I'm going to go to bed now though, my head hurts.

StoryBookSkins: Ok 'night!

And then of course I fell asleep.