Chapter 1 : Don't Ask

Seriously! Can this day get any worse?! I was just getting ready to head back to my apartment when it started raining out of nowhere. I'm wearing a light blue cocktail dress, not good clothes for this kind of weather. This was strange since we shouldn't be having any rain fall until next month, it's the beginning of August! "Damn, damn, damn!" I am holding a rolled up newspaper in one hand to cover my head as much as I can while my other hand held on to my shoes. I was standing at a crosswalk and waited for the cars to go by so I could cross. Just my luck that a large Ford truck would go by and splash me from head to toe in dirty water, soaking me even more. "Fuck you!" Once it was clear I ran as fast as I could to find some kind of coat or umbrella to protect me more that this stupid news print that was more wet than the seven seas. My feet patted against the wet cement while rain drops slap against my pale skin. I was ghostly white and my friend convinced me, somehow, to dress up today and get some color on my skin. Honestly, all I wanted to do was chill at home and read some of my manga and listen to Evanescence. My friend had other plans though and wanted us to go out shopping and finds us some boyfriends. I wasn't into that kind of thing but it made her happy thinking that I was having fun with her. I don't even know how we became friends in the first place, it just kinda happened like, "Hey!" "Hey?" "What to hang out?" "Who are you?!" And ever since eight grade she had clinged to me like a rash. I love her with all my heart but she is too much to handle at times. Today I was suppose to met up with her at the coffee shop and go from there. I waited two hours just for her to tell me through a text that she was on a last minute date with some guy and forgot to tell me. I felt like a idiot and went to go home but as soon as I left the door rain poured down on me like a waterfall. So that is where I am now, running home so I can relax and get warmed up.

My feet raced up the flight of stairs to my apartment as I unlock the door and run inside, shivering from head to toe. I immediately turn on the heater and run to the bathroom. It was small but I never really like having a big house, it's just a good excuse to keep buying junk to fill up the empty space. I sat on the edge of my bathtub and turn on the hot water, placing my hand under it to make sure it was the perfect setting before I got in. My skin is sensitive to temperature changes which is the main reason I ran so quickly to get home, I can get easily sick after being out there for so long. Once the water was warm enough I peeled off my dress and placed it in the sink so the extra water would drain out before it put it in the wash later. I watched as the bathtub filled up before turning it off and sinking in to the steamy water. The level of the water came up to about my arm pit level and I brought up my knees to my chest, think about my life. Today was the one year anniversary of my "Gift". My ancestors were once witches that were granted magical abilities once they hit adulthood. But over the years, only a few generations still live to this day and since our witch blood has thinned out, we are only allowed one ability. We don't get to chose what it is unfortunately and I was granted the gift of a "Pure tongue" so to speak. It means that whatever I say goes. I can alter history if I wanted to by saying Hitler was a girl or America was still part of England. But I have to be extra careful with what I say at the same time.

That meant that today was my birthday and I was suppose too spend it with my friend, suppose too. Now I'm sitting all alone. I remember the first week that I had gained my "Gift". My friend and I were having a argument about what manga was the best. We were at the point of yelling at each other and I got so mad that I said, "Why don't you just admit that I'm right and you suck lemons!" She instantly copied me and we were both shocked. After that she kept asking me what that was all about but I knew better than to let her know anything about who I am. So I basically grew up keeping my mouth shut since I had a bad habit of saying the wrong things. I hated it but there was nothing I could do about it, just had to suck it up 'cause life was unfair like that. I sighed to myself and gazed into my reflection in the dirty bathwater. I noticed the bags under my eyes and the slight pink on the tip of my nose, warning me that I needed to take some vitamins in order to keep myself from getting sick. By now the water was getting cold so I stood up and let the water drip from me before I grabbed a towel to dry myself off. The warm, fluffy towel caressed my skin and I felt comforted for a few seconds.

I left the bathroom to walk into my bedroom and open my closet. I grabbed my overly-large, black shirt that had a picture of a animated graveyard. I pulled the shirt over my head and looked through my drawer to pull out black boxers and slip them on. My hair was semi wet so I finished drying it off before I brushed it. It was medium length that went to about my shoulder level. My natural brunette hair was dyed a shade of crazy plum purple. It's a beautiful dark shade of purple and the color really brings out my green eyes. I was born with blue eyes and they turn hazel growing up, it was only a few years ago that they turn green and I love them for it. It wasn't just a normal shade of green either, it was a emerald green.

As I left the bedroom I heard a knock at my door and I thought it was my mother. My mom would love to stop by at random visits, most of the time during the holidays. I loved her for it and she did call me earlier today to wish my a happy birthday, and by early I mean midnight last night. So I walked over to the door and opened it wide. "Hey what's up-" I was definitely not expecting my friend.

"Hey Arial! You will never guess what happened!" My friend walked inside and sat herself on the couch. I noticed the pink on her cheeks and how her clothes were a little off. Normally she would wear something easy like jeans and a shirt but she was wearing a blue suit, so unlike her. The other thing that caught me off guard was a diamond ring on her left hand.

"He proposed?" She stopped and looked at me with her big brown eyes that were on the brink of tears. Her hands clasped together in front of her and she jumped from the couch to give me a hug after I shut the front door.

"Yes! We're getting married next month! I want you to be my maid of honor and help me out with the planning." She bounced around like a five year-old during the opening of Christmas presents. It made me kinda sick to my stomach for several reasons but the main thing was that she only had one date with the guy. "Arial, I'm thinking a colorful wedding in Vegas. What do you think?"

I sighed and took a hold of her shoulders so I could have her look at me. "Look, I'm not okay with this. I don't know him and you only had one date with this guy. How do you know that he isn't a kidnapper or a homicidal maniac?" We were both quiet. She stared deep into my eyes and I watched as her whole demeanor changed in a split second. She grabbed my arms and pried herself from me. "What's wrong?" She took a step back and lifted a finger at me almost like she was accusing me of something.

"I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to keep me from being happy! You are always miserable so you want to bring me down too." I couldn't believe what she was saying. "Nothing was ever good enough for you, Arial! I won't let you keep me from being happy. Some friend you are!" That was when I snapped.

"Some friend?! Today was my nineteenth birthday and you go and ditch me to have a last minute date with some asshole and you call me a bad friend? That's bullshit!" My hands balled up into fists as I stalked up towards her. "You are the one who is always dragging me everywhere you want to go or do and never consider what I want for once. I waited two hours just for you to tell me that you were on a date! That is not a real friend!" Our faces were only inches apart. Her body slowly retreated to the far corner of my living room, shaking from fear. I had enough of her and I backed away from her. "I've had enough. I am going somewhere far enough from you where I can be content with my life and live it the way I want too, never returning here. Right now!" I turned from her to go and pack up when my vision began to blur. I didn't understand what was going on until I replayed what I had said in my head. What have I done?! I knew that I was being transported to somewhere else in the world. It felt my body fade into the air before everything went black altogether.

My body was as light as air, maybe even lighter, as I flew across the sky and entered space. The stars and plants flew past me, only smeared colors was all that could be seen. Strangely enough I wasn't really scared, nervous yes but I wasn't scared. It was like I was being reborn somewhere else, being able to start a whole new life the way I have always dreamed. The thought kinda excited me in a way. I can start over. Be who I want to be and have nobody to hold me back...I wonder what this world would be like? I clamed myself and let myself drift off.