Chapter Six part 1

Sorry I've been gone so long! I've had the craziest few weeks, first I had three performances I didn't even know about, then I got terribly sick and now as I'm recovering I had another audition. So I'll try to keep up!
At last the moment you've all been waiting for! Well at least it's the moment I've been waiting to post. This chapter is really where it all began. It all stemmed from the idea of this chapter so I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter Six

Shards of the Heaven’s gem

            I woke up with my face stuck to the paper I had only written two words on.

It was pitch black outside the big windows that seemed to dominate most of the walls in all the school dorms. I could see the lights of the base were still on. They were probably having yet another meeting.

Crashed on my bed I vaguely made out the time on my digital clock. 1:54 am. I closed my eye’s and thought I’d be strait back to sleep, but sleeping with my clothes on bothered me so groggily I got up and stumbled around till I found my bag and extracted some pajamas.

After that I found myself going through my usual bedtime routine: brushing my teeth, replacing my retainer and writing in my journal. Now I was fully awake and lying on my bed waiting for sleep to come aroused memories of that day. My fiends had abandoned me, I was being sent on a dangerous mission.

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“Poke her.”
“No,”

“Just because you like bothering everyone doesn’t mean we all do.”

I opened my eyes to see four faces grinning above me. Collin, Drew, Carly and Sam. I sat up and tried to make my hair look… not like a curly mess.

“What are you doing?” My voice cracked with morning.

“Uh… what aren’t you doing, it’s quarter too,” said Drew.

I looked frantically at my clock. 9:47 am. I jumped out of bed.

“Why didn’t anyone wake me up?”

“That’s what we’re doing,” said Sam.

“They decided to ex-nay classes today,” said Collin.

I had stood up too quickly and got a head rush and had to sit back down.

“Look,” started Collin.

“We feel really bad about how everyone treated you yesterday,” said Sam.

“How we all treated you,” said Collin.

“I mean, we were all just jealous of you, but you probably know that,” said Carly.

I couldn’t suppress a smile then. It meant a lot to me that they had all come down just to apologize.

“We’d better let you get ready, you’ve only got ten minuets left to get down to the base.” They all left Carly staying a little longer to give me a quick wink.

The four of us filed into the same meeting room at the base not saying anything. Now we had all had time to really think about what going on a mission meant. Miss Heiden sat at the head of the table and we were left to sit by professor Mason and the Ambassador at the end of the table. “We are very proud of each of you. You have all shown extreme skill and talent.” Miss Heiden’s speech sounded extremely rehearsed.

“You will be taken by Emty in our school van to Virginia where you will receive more instruction. Everything you need is in your backpacks. Now are there any questions?”

All four of us raised our hands.

She pointed to Sam, “Aren’t you forgetting something? Like, what the heck is this mission?”