Chapter 2:
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I quickly went downstairs and got my phone out of my backpack. Anxiously, I dialed Kaitlin's cell number. It ringed for what seemed like forever, and still, she didn't answer. Her home phone? I tried dialing that number. Again, nobody answered.
Now, I didn't know what to do. I decided to go back upstairs and figure out this whole "vision" thing. I seriously didn't know what to think of it. Was it a "vision" anyway? I didn't know what to call it.
Were the people at my school dying from an explosion, and pleading desperately for me to help them? Was it the future? No. It must just be my imagination.
But it had seemed so real... See, this is why I needed Kaitlin to talk to. To tell me if I was going insane or not. Well, I guess I'll have to figure that one out on my own. And, I think I have a pretty good idea of the answer.
My Dad's voice yelling my name to go to supper pulled me out of my thoughts. I went down to the dinner table, not daring to tell my parents or my sister about the "vision".
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At 7:00, the stupid thing someone invented and named an "alarm clock" woke me up. After slamming down sleep for 20 minutes, I walked over to the window. It was a sunny day. I smiled. It would be a good day. I skipped over to my closet and put my dark skinny jeans, a simple T-shirt and a hoodie on. I went down to the kitchen and grabbed an orange and put a slice of bread in the toaster.
While I was waiting for the toast, my happy mood suddenly vanished, for I had remembered the vision. The vision I couldn't figure out. The one that led me insane, or just the one that made me realize I was insane. Who knows. I was the complete opposite from happy now. I kept on finding more and more things that would upset me today. We had a double-block of math, I had only one class with my friends, I would have to finish all 75 questions of algebra tonight...
I promised myself I wouldn't sulk the whole day. I had to forget about the vision, and act as if it were another normal day. The vision after all was only my imagination, right? Right. I pulled my sister out of bed, headed outside, and drove us both to school.
After I had dropped my sister off at her Elementry school, I headed down the road almost speeding, to get to my school before the bell.
As I was pulling in the parking lot of my school, I glanced at my cell, sighing in relief, realizing there were still two minutes to the bell. I opened the car door, and I couldn't believe what I saw. There was no one there. And, there was no school. Instead, there were ashes. Everywhere. Why were there ashes...? The vision. It was just like my vision. Did that mean everyone was dead?
No. This couldn't be real. No. It couldn't. NOOOO!!! I screamed, my voice echoing across the empty schoolyard. Picking up a handful of the ashes of what used to be the school and the students, I collapsed on the ground crying. I should have done something. The vision had been showing me what would happen. I could have saved all my welcoming, nice, innocent schoolmates and friends. And now there was no sign of life.
Until I heard the voice. The voice I had wanted to talk to just last night. The voice I always ignored when it was babbling on and on about boys, or shopping. I didn't ignore it this time. The person it belonged to was in pain. Kaitlin was in pain.
"KAITLIN!" I screamed. The all-too-familiar voice didn't answer.
I started walking to where I had heard her voice the first time. I heard a moan, and started running. She was lying on the ground, covered in blood. Oh my god. I gasped and helped her get up. When she opened her eyes, and she realized I was there, she half-smiled and tried to stretch her arms around me in a hug. She flinched in the pain, and I hugged her instead.
"Ashley... Your here... I can't believe what just happened.... Did you see? No... you had a dentist appointment... or something like that... I-I... I'll explain, just give me a sec."
"Kaitlin, you can when your ready. Right now, what's more important is getting you to a hospital."
"No. No hospital. I don't want to go. I want to tell you." She paused, and then said :" Ashley, there was this huge explosion... The school went up in flames and-and... Well, I had this feeling that something was going to happen. I don't know why, but something was just telling me to get out, get out, get out of the school. When I didn't budge, the feeling seemed as though it were yelling at me through my whole body... I don't know... It was really weird. I just ran out of the school, and just kept on running. I didn't know where I was going, but just away from the school." "And then... that's when I heard a huge boom, and I glanced back, only to see the explosion 5 feet away from me... I-I... well, I had to go and get Hayley. I had left her by my locker, and didn't say anything to her. I should have, I should have told her to run. So, I-I ran back to the school, and-and nobody was there. No bodies or anything. I didn't even realize the pain and the damage I had done to my body, until I came back out. And-and when I came here I fell back down to the ground, and-and I think I passed out..."
Kaitlin didn't look the same, and didn't have the same cheerful personality she usually did, but she still had the same talkative personality. I helped her stand up, and together we drove off to the hospital, with me praying there would be good doctors, to take care of Kaitlin, so I could ask her the many questions I had. I needed to figure this out. My vision, her feeling, and the school blowing up. And, I would need her help to do so.
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Jen
