1 Chapter 1

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The quiet voice calls out. He knew it called his name but beyond that was nothing more than mumbling.

Then suddenly the floor flicks on, a bright blue light threatening to chase the black empty world away. The voice calls again.

Adam turns and sees a red door that wasn't there before. He walks across the blue floor, each step echoing. He opens it and steps through, it shuts and locks quietly behind him.

Surrounded by dark...wait no there's a light, around that corner. A soft inaudible tune echos, he starts walking over, the closer he gets the more he notices a shadow dancing in the light. The more the tune turns into words.

"-our heart, belongs with me, your heart, beside me. I need your love, to lift me up-"

He jolts upright and gasps. No one notices, they are all paying attention to Miss Hendricks.

He drops his head in his hands. That dream, that was his first time making it in the door though. The first time he heard that voice, heard singing.

A tiny white ball with blue lines, lands on his desk. Adam looks over at Jessica, she flicks her eyebrows at him and looks at the teacher.

He unfolds the note, 'Dude you slept through half the class again?!'

He rolls his eyes, crumples it up and throws it back at her when the teacher's back is turned.

Jessica grins and sticks her tongue out. He tries his best to focus but he can't focus on anything but that dream.

The bell rings and she sits on his desk. "Hey, you still here?"

He looks up at her, "Yeah, sorry I had the dream."

"Same one?"

"Yeah."

"The heck is it with you and this dream dude?"

"More happened too, it was weird."

He explains it to her, she gives confused look. "So...deep inside, you're really a singing girl?"

"Ha-ha-ha."

She giggles and starts towards the door, he grabs his bag and follows her out into the hall. They walk out of school and sit on the lawn, Adam lays down on the grass next to her and looks up at the sky.

She hums as she runs her fingers through his hair. "You look tired."

"I'm always tired after that dream."

"You need to see a psychologist Adam, please, you're deteriorating right now."

He shrugs, "Jess, I'm alright."

"Adam, I'm serious, you're growing more and more restless."

"I'm okay, Jess I promise."

She stops running her fingers and she starts getting to her feet. Adam gets up and walks beside her.

"Jessica?"

"Please consider it? For me?"

He sighs, "Alright, I promise to consider it."

She hugs him tight, "Good, I got to go home, I'm babysitting Tina and Alex till like eight tonight."

He raises his eyebrows at her, "Yeah my parents are going on like the longest date ever, I'll see you tomorrow k?"

"Okay have fun." he says waving,

"Jerk. Hug me!"

He spreads out his arms and smiles at her. She throws herself into him and wraps her arms around him.

"Jerk."

"Loser."

"Moron."

"Bye."

She lets go. He waves again and starts home, he walks in and up to his room and plops on the bed. He does his homework and like every other day it takes hours to finish. Finally the moon replaces the sun.

He finishes at 12:48, he crawls under his blanket and turns off the lamp, he's too tired to eat or do anything else. laying on his bed for that long has exhausted him.

Seems like not even a second passes that he slaps the alarm clock. He rubs his eyes climbs out to his feet.

He walks over to the bathroom and flicks on the light. He jumps and gasps.

He turns the light off but he looks normal again. "....Alright Jess, I'm on board." he mutters,

He flicks the light on, still normal, his eyes must have been playing him, but he still saw it in his mind, his face but with a deep skeleton outline.

He showers, gets ready for school, Adam hated getting up this early for school. He walks to the front door, staring at his shoes and walks through.

But immediately he notices it and looks around. "Shhhhoot."

The darkness and lit up blue floor. He looks back and sees the red door, he reaches back remembering the flashlight he has in his backpack next to his knife.

But his backpack isn't there....of course. He walks over to the door, but before he reaches for the knob the voice calling after him turns gravelly and evil.

"He's waited for so long."

He looks around, his skin crawling. He can feel his head pounding with his body as he frantically searches for the voice's owner.

But nothing, silence....endless silence. Adam hurries through the door and shuts it behind him.

He looks over at the light, but this time it's not the usual yellow. A sign hangs from the wall with a glowing green symbol he's never seen before.

All is painfully quiet. He creeps over, once he gets close enough to touch it, it disappears and is replaced with that familiar light in past dreams. But it's down the hall, the soft tune playing.

He walks down and hears the singing, "your heart, belongs with me, your heart, be-side me. I need your love, to lift me up into the skyyyy-ee-yyyy-"

He clears his throat, the singing stops. He freezes, the painful silence fills his body with fear.

"Did you hear that? I think someone's watching me."

His heart pounds faster and harder as the shadow shrinks. The young woman walks into the T, in the hallway and turns to face him. She breathes shakily and squeezes her hands, her body begins to shake as she stares right at him.

He opens his mouth but she beats him to it. "H-hello? Is someone there?"

He huffs out almost silently with relief, she takes a step back. "Who's there?! I heard you, come out now!"

His body shakes as violently as hers, he can't even force himself to move. "If you've come to kill me there's no point....unless, you're the one who will save me?"

Different lights appear hidden around the corner that she just appeared from. She turns to look at them and fear slaps her hard. The lights show enough for him to realize it's Jessica.

She huffs out, shakily.

The van speeds into view and smashes into her and throws them both through the wall.

"Adam!"

He jumps up and screams, slamming the top of his head into Jessica's. She grunts and grabs her head.

"Ugh Jeez! Frick that is it! You're going to that stupid psychologist!" she yells,

He sits up and looks around the lawn, people looking over and staring. The sun smiles down almost directly above, he looks back at Jessica, she rubs her head and looks at him.

She sighs and and reaches out, "I'm sorry."

He pulls back, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell but, you're dying here, come on. You zoned out the entire day, say something Adam."

"What the heck just happened?" he mutters,

She gets to her feet and grabs her backpack, "I'm going home, I'm not seeing you like this anymore, call me when you want to figure out what's going on with these dreams."

He gets up, grabs his backpack and hurries after her, but she's moving faster. "Hey wait!"

She makes it to the crosswalk and those familiar lights appear. Fear spreads over him, the world slows down, only long enough for him to realize it's the dream, he's already in a sprint by the time the horn sounds.

"Jess!"

He pushes her out of the way and the van slams into him, making everything go black. His eyes drowsily open.

Everything is blurry, the loud noises, his sight. But then suddenly it all clears and a black cloak appears.

"You knew she'd die, but you still chose to save her and take it yourself?"

He can't move, all he can manage to do is blink, he doesn't feel anything. Not even his limbs.

"I've waited for so long. Come."

The gloved hand reaches down, he stares at it for a few seconds and the dark soft voice chuckles.

"My apologies, you need to move."

It all comes at once and he sits up right. He looks at the hooded figure, his face totally hidden. "Wh-what's going on?!"

He looks around, people crowd a bloodied body, his body.

"I...look like a broken...doll."

Jessica cries and sobs, kneeling over Adam. "Please don't leave me! Please Adam, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." she whispers through her tears,

"You saved her, you gave your life in her place."

"Take me back! Now!"

"If I do, you'll die eventually and I'll have to take her too. She can live a long life now, thanks to you, you my friend, I have plans for."

He looks at the hooded figure, he chuckles and extends his hand.

"You're the devil aren't you? Why did you do this?!"

"I am Death, people assume I'm unforgiving because they don't know what comes after."

"What do you want with me?!" Adam spits, beginning to cry,

"Life is not the only one who can ressurect."

Adam looks at Jessica, still begging him to stay and then looks back at Death. "Do I have to?" He sobs,

"You can join the other lost souls, or I can grant you another life."

"Why me?!"

"Four times now, you have helped someone cheat death and have been willing to take their place. I may be Death, but I'm not heartless."

He looks at Jessica again he stares at her for the longest time. Finally he looks back at Death. Adam takes his hand and he pulls him up to his feet.

"So I just leave this life? Where do we go?"

"I have another world for you."

Adam cries, tears run down his hot cheeks as he stares at Jessica, "What if I'm not good enough?"

He chuckles and puts his arm around Adam as they start away. "My boy, you see the way she cries for you? You are one of the best."

He looks back at Jessica, tears stream her cheeks. "I won't see her again."

"No, but she will still live a good life, I've seen it, she will heal."

As they walk everything turns white, everything disappears, like the dark room it's empty.

"In this world, you will be on your own. You won't see me again, I'll give you magic, but you must find your own way to unlock it and unlock your world. I'm not looking forward to seeing you anytime soon, I'll give you another gift...but you will have to find it yourself."

"Okay, where do I start."

He chuckles, "The one thing your world had right, I'm cruel, but I also have a sense of humor. But trust me, something good will come of it."

He snaps his fingers and like that everything is gone. His energy is suddenly depleted, everything is black.....again.