Everything that has a beginning has an End ...

This is the beginning of that inevitable end that is requiring me to write this. Let's start from the beginning so you all know how this inevitable end has come to be. My name is ... hold on that's how one of those TV shows starts up but anyhow my name is not important moreover like I have been told names have power and giving mine out is not so safe anymore, so you can call me Nightshade. That's the name I used to use when I had to create characters in any game I played. Back to the story, this all started a long time ago in the year 2006. It was the month of May and I had just finished my 10th grade in my boarding school where I had been for the last 3 years. It was one of those strict kinds of boarding school, I mean really strict each semester we were allowed one visit with the parents outside of the school, the internet was still not a mainstream enough thing to be considered a necessity, and we weren't allowed cellphones, only had access to TV once a week on Saturday night only thing that brought us news of the outside world was the newspapers. Let's face it if you add homework and exams the US has minimum security prisons that are at the same level of strictness, for the most part, at least that's what we as students thought when we were there. There was a charm to it though, it was the easy life, the stakes weren't really that high even if everyone made it seem like they were.

But that changed when I came back home, a home that had changed cities again, and had to apply to go to a new local school and had to give an interview for joining the 11th grade class of which there were only 2 classes the Science batch and the commerce one, both of around 30 students each. I had to get in the science batch as I was planning to be a Computer Engineer or at least that's what I had been thinking at that time. My memory gets a little fuzzy on the details here, well not just here but for everything on and before that day. Let's get right to it the point in time when it all really started, I was sitting outside the principal's office and or standing it's not really clear and I saw her walk in and it was love at first sight, I didn't really know at that point in time that it was love but now I do, I did think I was "IN LOVE" before that point in time but in hindsight that was barely even a bit infatuation. But this, this was true Love and people who talk about "One True Love" let me tell you it's not true, I have actual proof, Magic combined with Science kind of proof that there can be more than one the proof is valid at least for me not sure how it would test other people. Let's not skip ahead, and there I saw her my First True Love and caused a certain feeling to erupt inside me, I was feeling hot and sweating and nervousness was creeping up and I felt like all my muscles were twitching a little and my nerves were feeling like a little heat was flowing through them, but these effects were all very small and no that is not because I was in love or technically speaking it was from the side effects of something that happened when I felt True Love for the first time which is I went through my Awakening. Again 14-year-old especially introverted ones who are a little shy tend not to be interested in international news, so I can't say for certain that it was that day that I woke up in a Parallel reality, a reality where things from my original reality's comics and movies were going to come true. I never really read comics and had very limited access to the internet but what I did know after the interview that, which by the way somehow went great, that when I went home and got online Marvel and DC comics didn't exist any cartoons and movies and TV series related to them didn't exist anymore and I couldn't find any traces of this stuff online. I will be honest after coming back from school all I had done was prepared a bit for this interview and played Age of Empires' Campaign mode that had been a gift to me from my friend. So this incredible shift in reality could have technically happened anytime between my last vacation in December to this day in May but that isn't really important, what was important was that now all these things about Marvel and DC only existed in my head and not anywhere on the Internet but since it was just that and no other changes that I could see in history, there wasn't really anything I could do about it, so I just ignored it and got on with my life.

It was the first day of school when I saw her again. She was in my class and this time the effect was much less pronounced barely noticeable but still present, and I was starting to get a feeling that something was up. I had read somewhere "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action" and now I was paranoid about having this happening the third time. I was watching for when this "Enemy Action" would actually happen and what the result of it could be, if it would keep getting lesser and be the end of that issue or if something else altogether would happen. That future was not as far away in the future as I had hoped but further than my minimum expectation of it happening the next time I saw her. We were in the same class the whole day and the next day came and then the next, and I relaxed a little, then came the fated day Thursday. On Thursday morning I was sitting in the back seat since I came early and when I saw her come into the classroom nothing happened and I relaxed for the day, little did I know that my life was going to get it first and one of the most dramatic and drastic changes ever.