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Wouldn’t it be weird if everyone alive and the world as we know it was merely a shadow? An illusion thought up by a single person to interact with in a sick game? Well, what if I told you that it was true? The world really is like that? Would you laugh, or tell me I was crazy? I’m not sure which reaction is worse because it really is true. My name is Sia Tamm and this is my story.

I lived a pretty normal life I guess. I was a junior in high school with my own car (a white jeep that I loved to death), not all that popular but I wasn’t a complete loner either. I played a lot of sports, soccer and softball mostly and had a decent amount of friends. I didn’t have a boyfriend but that was because I didn’t want one.

I guess that day started off pretty normal… well, as normal as the second to last day of school can be anyways. It was halfway through fourth that I noticed something weird was going on. A couple of the kids were starting to look a little fuzzy in the corners of my eyes. Especially Angelica, a girl I hated with most of the fibers in my being. Think of Barbie with brown hair, braces and was completely obsessed with Usher…like beyond stalkerdom. Eww…

Anyways, I thought it was because I was tired or my glasses were just dirty, because when I looked at them, they were normal. So I cleaned my lenses and survived my English class. The teacher liked me and I ended up getting chocolate (WOOT!) and extra credit for not leaving about halfway through class.

I wasn’t the only one who stayed either but that might have been because I wasn’t paying attention. The ones that stayed were so bored, two of my friends in that class pulled out some Pokemon cards and started playing…I was bored enough to watch and flipped a coin when needed for them.

Everything was fine after I left once the bell rang for lunch and I forgot about it…until my seventh, which happened to be P.E. One of my best friends, Alec, (whom I’ve known since 7th grade and have developed a major crush on) was playing basketball with a few other guys from his class. I chose not to ditch like most of the other kids were doing and sat on the bleachers watching the game.

Eventually Alec wandered over and sat down next to me, breathing hard from the game. We talked about some random stuff until Alec asked me suddenly, “You know what would be weird?”

“If you stopped acting like an idiot penguin?”

“Well, apart from that.”

“What?”

“Wouldn’t it be weird if everyone alive and the world as we know it was merely a shadow? An illusion thought up by a single person to interact with, how would you tell who was an illusion and who was the real person?”

I must confess, I thought he was being his normal self and asking a random question not- but I’m getting ahead of myself. Sorry about that. I laughed and told him he was crazy. Alec just shrugged then I noticed the fuzziness set in for a moment and I swear, the entire room seemed to fuzz out, like a TV does sometimes when the antena goes all wonky.

I blinked and the world was back to normal. That was weird… I thought, cleaning my glasses again.

To Be Continued...

Nothing else happened so I shook it off as tiredness (I’d stayed up ‘til one last night on the Internet, messing around and had woken up at six thirty) After the final bell had rung, Alec and I waited for Lynn, the third member of our odd little trio.

She was taller than both Alec and myself by at least an inch if not two. Her long blonde hair was usually kept in a low ponytail, hanging down her back. Hazel eyes flashed with annoyance as she caught up to us. I frowned and asked,

“Hey, you ok?”

She scowled, “I really want to kill him.”

“Who?”

“Daniel.”

“What did he do this time?” I asked.

Daniel had a crush gone wrong on Lynn. The trouble had started in middle school when he’d asked her out but Lynn, who hadn’t been interested, had turned him down. He’d turned practically into a stalker after that, going so far as to follow her home sometimes and spreading rumors about their “relationship”

Naturally Alec and I had sided with Lynn and none of us liked Daniel.

“He walked up with some of his buddies and do you know what he said?”

Her scowl deepened, “Thanks for last night.”

“No.” I said, horrified.

“Yes.”

“You hit him right?” I insisted and a small look of satisfaction lit up in her eyes,

“No, but I kicked him where his balls should be. I don’t give a damn if I get in trouble or not. Finals are over and I’m not going to summer school so if I get suspended…” she shrugged

“Vacation starts early as far as I’m concerned.”

Alec grinned, “I wish I’d been there, I would have kicked his a** for you. That’s just low right there though. Telling a girl that...” he shook his head. “On the behalf of the male gender, I apologize.” He said strait faced.

Both Lynn and I laughed. We were passing the red and black colored softball backstop with the school’s mascot painted on it, a rearing black dragon with red flames encircling it.

I always liked this particular field, maybe it was because I hit that in field grand slam back in sophomore year. I still grinned thinking about it. I noticed with disgust that some idiot had tagged on the dragon’s flame. It read: The One is here in bright blue ink, showing up clearly against the red.

What was THAT was supposed to mean?

“Sometimes I’m ashamed to call myself human” I said sadly, shaking my head and indicating with a nod of my head at the graffiti.

“Honestly, that sickens me.”

“Wait, you actually claim to be human Sia?” Alec asked me, a mock expression of supprise on his face.

I would have punched him had he been in range as he ducked and ran a few steps ahead. I didn’t bother to chase him. Alec was a track AND cross-country star. Yeah, I played soccer and softball so it wasn’t like I didn’t know how to run, but both his sports focused only on running… and I had the habit of loading my backpack with several different and “useless items” that slowed me down.

By that I mean books. If I have less than three different non-required books in my backpack, my friends ask me if I’m sick or something. It has been speculated I carry bricks and 3 by 4’s in my backpack (I’m serious on that one too)

To Be Continued...

oh, oops, lemmie go fix that...