Post by ๖ۣۜCrossroads on Aug 7, 2016 20:07:08 GMT -5
Chapter 1--
**Everything written in italics is Oliver and Isaac’s voice over from the present; everything else is in the past**
Oliver=Blue
Isaac=Red
“Ollie, I got the news! What happened to her?!”
“I’m sorry, Isaac. But Elena is gone.”
“Why are you even here, she specifically said she wanted to be alone until she was ready to talk to anyone at all.”
“Let’s start at the beginning. I was born with a color blind disease called… you won’t believe this, but it’s called black and white color blind disease, which of course means all I see is black and white. But the strange thing was… I could still see color. The green leaves, the bright blue sky. Everything. It was never active until I was older and… she entered my life.”
“First day of 11th grade…” groaned Oliver. He slammed his alarm clock, the red numbers indicating 7:15 A.M. He pulled the grey and red bedsheets off and slid out of bed squinting at his reflection in the mirror. “How ya doin’ handsome?” With a sly grin sliding onto his face, Oliver snapped his fingers and pointed finger guns at his reflection.
“Ollie??” She poked her head into his room, shielding her eyes. Oliver turned around, and smile spread across his face. “I have shorts on, Macie, don’t worry.”
“Isaac, you know Macie, right? My little sister? Y’know, the one that you said was getting hot when she was around 17?” Isaac shied away, a look of somewhat shameless embarrassment painting his features.
Macie peeked through a gap in between her fingers and a sigh of relief escaped her. “You should wake up earlier so I don’t have to get you out of your room all the time,” she complained. “And maybe you should knock first because you know that I’m not actually asleep when you show up,” he countered. Macie sported a white and blue t-shirt along with black shorts that definitely seemed too short for school. Oliver took a swift glance at her as he pulled on his navy blue t-shirt. “You don’t seem ready for school yet, anything wrong?”
“No. Nothing,” she answered casually, tugging at her auburn red hair.
“Nothing was wrong with her that day. It was what would happen to me. I’m sure you remember. Let’s skip this along with the first two periods of the day. Third period. Chemistry.”
“Hello class, my name is Mr. Grayson. Welcome to 11th grade Chemistry honors. Before we go on to introductions, I’ll take roll.”
“Let’s skip that too. Basically, Oliver Hawkins, Isaac Rush, a bunch of other people, and of course, Elena Black. But she wasn’t in class, as you well know. She never showed up to school until about two weeks later. It was like she attended some other place.”
“I thought she got her classes switched?”
“Can you let me speak, please? And no, I never saw her in the halls until that one day we were doing that one experiment.”
“What experiment?”
“The one you didn’t do because you got kicked out of class that day.”
Week two of school. Oliver was on his way to Chemistry, everything seemingly perfectly normal. That was, until he entered Mr. Grayson’s classroom. A girl- long black hair was all he could see from the door of the class. That girl was sat in his own chair adjacent to Isaac’s. Once he could hear someone enter, Isaac whipped around in his chair and pointed at the two seats behind his current position. He seemed to be trying to say something, but his whisper was too low. His voice kept rising, but Oliver simply stood at the door until he realized he wasn’t the only student that had to enter the room. He skirted around the outside of the desks, only to see Isaac on the other side of the room, trying to get his attention. Isaac’s voice rose more and more, though it was still difficult to decipher what he was attempting to deliver to Oliver.
“Sih ver her.”
“What?” he motioned with a shrug.
“SIT OVER HERE!” Every pair of eyes shifted their gaze to the source of the sound, which unfortunately was Isaac. Oliver used his hand to cover his massive grin which was only getting larger. Isaac could hear an “ahem” from behind him and rolled his eyes.
“Right, I know,” he groaned. “‘That was very inappropriate behavior, Mr. Rush. You will have in school suspension for the rest of class.’” Mr. Grayson’s only response was a slight screwing of his eyes.
“I’ll stop talking…”
“Ha, that was classic.”
“Shut up, I gave a horrible first impression to Elena.”
“And yet, you don’t care about the ISS?”
“I got like one every week, it doesn’t affect me anymore.”
“Right, so back to serious mode here, this is when I first met Elena. To be absolutely honest, I thought she was a demon at first.”
“What?! Dude, do you know how amazing she is? Your sister doesn’t stand a chance against her…. I’ll stop talking now.”
“Disregarding what you just said about my sister, it was about what happened during the chemistry experiment. Something happened.”
“If you tell me that you ‘felt a spark of love’ or something, I’m gonna punch you.”
“Mr. Hawkins, seeing as Mr. Rush does not need his seat for today, you may take his place beside Ms…” Mr. Grayson retrieved his clipboard with the names of all the students. “Uh, Ms. Black.” Oliver acknowledged and slid into the chair beside the dark-haired girl. Wow, he was sitting next to a girl. That was awkward. He was too comfortable whispering over to Isaac whenever they were beside each other, but the presence of a girl seemed intimidating.
“Duuude. You were scared of her? Is that why you thought she was a demon?”
“Not, that’s not it! And… I never had a girlfriend, nor did I really talk to that many girls before then.”
She didn’t bother to look at him, but Oliver knew, behind the dark hair hanging in front of him, there was a pretty face. He could just sense it. He was tempted to speak, but the teacher beat him to it.
“Alright class, flip to page 394.” There were a few giggles heard from each side of the room in response to Mr. Grayson’s Severus Snape impression.
“Page 394 and 395 are about color blindness. You might be wondering why. The school board had allowed me to show off a new element that has been discovered recently. It is called Chlariousnium. It emits very weak radiation that affects your eyes, but humans that do not already have a color blind disease are immune to it. Please raise your hand if you are color blind.”
“This is where I screwed up. I have that black and white color blind disease, but since it wasn’t active, I didn’t think it would affect me.”
No hands were raised. Mr. Grayson then passed it to the guy at the front of the class. Oliver silently watched as the rock kept getting passed down through the rows of desks until it reached girl beside him whose name he hasn’t gotten beside Ms. Black. She promptly tapped his shoulder when she was prepared to hand it over to him. Oliver felt a little… scared? He wasn’t sure what got a hold of him. He shifted his empty gaze from the front of the classroom to the rock then to the girl whom he acquired it from.
She was beautiful. Like a kind of “back off, I’m dangerous” beautiful. Her jet black hair fell on either side of her face, allowing her striking blue eyes to stand out past her pale skin. As he reached for the rock, Oliver simultaneously stared down the girl, as if they were locked in a glare to the death.
“Then I blinked. I had a quick fit of frustration for not coming out on top of the staring contest, but then I realized, my whole world had turned black and white. It was the rock, but my subconscious was sure it was the girl.”
“And then you were in a coma for a week. Dr. Raymond was convinced this was some Harry Potter dark arts stuff, because it seemed like the rock melted away your memories of color and replaced them with black and white.”
"There's something else that I haven't told you..."
Chapter 2--
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