CHAPTER TWO Mandy has to drive 20 minuets just to get to school. Since she went to Rogers High School, but lived in the Waite High School district, Mandy had to get school-of-choice in order to stay at the high school her friends went to, well all but Brad and Zach. Zach had moved on her and Brad was in a pre-college. This was what Zach had wanted, and she let him. Now she wanted him back here. But he wasn’t, so she dealt with it by just talking to him. “Mandy, how did you manage to wake up late today?” “I don’t know mom. I just did I guess. Sorry. I guess it was because I wasn’t able to fall asleep until late last night; I kept tossing and turning until after Grandpa went to bed around 1. Can we get a cappuccino?” “Yea I guess we can. And why don’t you go to bed earlier then 10 ‘o’ clock?” Her mom was giving her one of her ‘you-do-what-I-say-or-there-will-be-consequences’ looks. “Because if I do that, then I will get too much sleep and won’t go to bed till later the next night. You know how I am with that.” Mandy had to look away from her mom or they might start arguing again. Oh I don’t need her criticism today, she thought. Well already her day was starting out bad. Now what did RM say about my day today? RMs’ voice rang inside her head, “You’ll wake up late, you’ll have to rush to get ready, and then today at school will be awful” Mandy began to think to herself again. Oh yea, that’s what he said. And it’s already starting out like he said. Damn him for all I care right now. Mandy couldn’t believe what she heard next inside her head. It was as if RM was there. “Mandy, I am almost exactly like the devil. It is as if I am his kin. So if you want to damn me, it’s too late. I am already damned. Oh, but if I am able to get this to work how it is suppose to, then I will no longer be damned, but dead, how it should be. And tonight, I am introducing you to an old friend, one you never realized you have met.” Ok now she knew she must be crazy, to hear his voice inside her head, again for that matter. ‘Fine RM, I’ll meet this old friend, and then I’ll decide on what to do.’ When she got to school, she still had 5 minuets left before class started. So she decided to check her phone. When she flipped it open, Zach was calling. She could have screamed, but instead she answered. “Hello?” “Hey, Chica. I miss you, and I had a really weird dream last night. You wouldn’t believe it.” “Oh I bet I could. I had an abnormal dream too, and you were in it.” Zach didn’t answer right away, and Mandy started to worry a little bit. “Ok, so if yours was weird too, then did yours have a guy named RM? And did you, I think you did, run off a cliff? Because normally, I don’t have dreams like that.” “Yes to both of those questions. So, then you remember the answer Brad gave me? The answer about why he tried to run off the cliff?” “Yea I do. But here’s the thing, that’s not what I was saying though. My dad woke me up and told me I was talking in my sleep, which I normally don’t do. He told me that I kept saying, ‘Mandy, I was the one running after you. Brad just stood there, and I kept trying to get to you. I kept running and jumping, I never came to a cliff, Mandy I’m sorry. I love you.’ I thought he was crazy, but Bonnie heard me too, and so did my step-bro. So I was the one to go after you, not Brad.” Mandy couldn’t believe it, Brad didn’t go after her, Zach did. “Well can I call Mike to make sure? You know, so this way tonight, when I fall asleep, and if I see RM again, I can tell him he was right? As much as I don’t want to admit to him he was right.” “Yea that’s totally fine. Mandy, I do love you.” Mandy thought she was back in a dream again, but the teacher was hollering at her to get in class. “MADELINE!!!! GET TO CLASS!!!!” “Yes Mrs. Reynolds. I’m coming.” “And get off the phone too. You know your not suppose to be on it

CHAPTER ONE “Hey Brad, are you here?” Brad was a fun guy, always making her smile, and she thought she was in love with him. Yet, even though she used to see him all the time, she still liked seeing him in her dreams so much better. He didn’t have all of those flaws she didn’t like in a guy. “Hey you, who are you?” Mandy yelled. This stranger just stared at her for the longest time. Mandy noticed that this guy was tall, short hair, and his hair was colored really different. Then, after a few minuets, the stranger replied in a whispering voice “I am the one who will change everything you have ever thought to be true or to be possible. If you want to find out what I mean, you must follow my every step and not fall behind.” And away he went. He went running off towards Mandy. “Oh no, please don’t hurt me!” she yelled. But the stranger didn’t hurt her, or even touch her, he just ran right past her. Mandy whipped around and started running after him. He is really quick on his feet, she thought. Then, before she knew what was happening, the guy stopped and just stood there as Mandy was getting closer. She hadn’t realized what was going on, but she ran right passed him. She came to an abrupt halt and turned to head back towards the guy. She didn’t know that she had ran right off a cliff; Mandy then was falling, falling to what she thought was her grave. “HELP ME!!!!” she yelled at the stranger. She didn’t know who had heard her, but they grabbed her hand in time and pulled her up. “Oh my gosh! Thank you so much!” Mandy looked up into her rescuers face, hoping to see who it was. It was someone she knew! It was Brad! He had helped pull her up and to safety from falling. “Do you know who that guy was that was just standing there?” Brad asked her. So it wasn’t Brad that I was running after. Now how do I find that guy?, she thought. “No Brad, I don’t. I was trying to figure it out. Did he look familiar to you in any way?” “No, I don’t know him. He ran off the cliff as well and just stood in mid-air from what I could see. Then I saw you run past him, and I was so afraid you would fall, so I ran to you, in time to catch you. But when I went to grab you, the guy told me I shouldn’t have done that, that you would have been safe. Why did you run after him Mandy?” “No, I was following him. He stopped at the edge of the cliff I thought, while I kept on running. If he said I would have been safe, I think he was right.” Mandy stood up and turned around to face the cliff. Wait, what if I turned and jumped off? What would Brad do?, she thought. She turned back to Brad, who had his back turned to her and was looking over the cliff, and she just shook her head. “I’m sorry Brad.” And away Mandy went, she ran right off the edge of the cliff. “NO MANDY COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!” His voice was fading now. She thought for sure he would have run off too. But then again that mystery guy had told her he was going to change everything, so maybe he was right; maybe he has changed everything she thought to be true. As she was falling she began to think. I thought he would have jumped off and tried to catch me, or even die with me. Oh Brad I thought I loved you so much. “Well mystery man, what do I do now?” As she was falling, she thought she was slowing down, but then she came to halt in mid air, and then was gently guided down to the ground, which wasn’t to far from where she stopped. The place she landed was magnificent. The beauty of the land was indescribable. Her jaw dropped open at every thing she saw, every noise she heard. The grass was a bright and lively green, as well as all the leaves on the trees and bushes. The flowers were to die for as well. Their beauty stuck out the most. The flowers glimmered at every turn of the sun. Their colors were so beautiful, bright, and gorgeous. Mandy started to roam this foreign land to her. Sh

PROLOGE Mandy is an 18 year old girl from Toledo, Ohio. She has brown hair, hazel eyes, and an outgoing personality. One of the shortest people in her senior class, her friends like to make fun of her about that, but she always gets them back. Of course like all girls, she has a crush, but her crush is her best friend. Mandy can be a friendly person to all, but of course, there are some she doesn’t like. She loves her animals, her family gets on her nerves, her friends mean a lot to her, and she’s like a normal 18 year old girl. “Good night Mom! Night Grandpa! 'Night you little brat.” “Hey, sissy, be nice. Mommy gets mad when you call me that.” “Yea I know, but mommy didn’t hear me. So boo-yah.” Off to bed Mandy went. She had a hard day, doing nothing. At 18, she thought everything was hard, especially after being sick for so long. Finally finding out she’s anemic, she gets worn out very easily. But going to bed to sleep off the day became her favorite part of the day. She got ready for bed, laid down, closed her eyes, and tried to picture her crush and her together again. But at times, her boyfriend appeared instead. But as she laid down to go to sleep, her dream was about to take an unexpected turn.