Young Readers discussion

The bell rang, and I hopped out of my seat and ventured outside. The fresh air was a bliss, of course.
It was Saturday, a working day, and surprisingly, I was the only girl, and student, at school. The teachers still stuck to teaching me.
I went inside and grabbed my bag when Mr. Senova found me.

He said, 'Miss... '
'Aelin Galathynius, sir'
'Yes, miss galathynius, what are you doing here? '

((ikr, Aelin seriously? I am obsessed and I love that name ❤️ oh and that queen))

((Atleast someone replied, lol)

When I suddenly saw a glint out of the corner of my eye. 'See you later then, Mr. Senova!'
'I wasn't done talking, you insufferable--' His words were lost to me as I turned my back and ran down that hallway, ready to follow that shine anywhere, anywhere but here.

As I ran down the hall, weird things started happening. It grew bright all of a sudden, a truly crushing whiteness, yet somehow that twinkle still gleamed. It grew and grew until, all of a sudden, it expanded into a portal of liquid silver. 'Should I step in? Or no?'
You know, it's pretty crazy that you talk to yourself. Not that you're crazy or anything, but still, weird. Anywho, of course you shouldn't step in! Who the heck just jumps into a--WHOA!!!! Without giving it another thought, I jumped through, my hair billowing behind me as I leapt into the unknown.

Around me, were books. Books that I loved.
But that voice. It was a boy's voice. I heard it again.
Literally, I told you. DO NOT STEP IN. Don't you understand?! Now you will be trapped here till eternity, just like me!

"Who is it?!", I ask, startled. "What do you mean by trapped?!"

"Aelin, right?", that voice said.
"Yes... who are you and how do you know my name?", I replied, suddenly scared.

"I've been here for hundreds of years. Long ago, I was named Daniel. As for how I know your name..." Daniel, who definitely did not look hundreds of years old, waved his hand and an orb of light appeared.
"Hey, is that me?" I remarked, looking at the spherical TV-thing. "Wait...Is that ketchup on my face? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Well, uh..."
"As elderly a person as you couldn't bother to tell me I had sauce on my cheek?" I've got him on the ropes... "Geez, so much for manners."
"W-what? I do have manners!" he whined. " I'll even tell you where you are!" Yesss! Got 'im. Manipulation for the win.

"Humph! You're manipulating me!" he huffed as he crossed his arms and looked away.
"Wha-what? How did you know?" I stared at him with my mouth hung open. Could he read minds?
"Ha! You were manipulating me!" he turned around with a triumphant expression on his face.

Ok he was really starting to freak me out now.
"Look, I get that this is weird, and that I am freaking you out, but trust me, you knowing or not knowing where you are and what this is isn't really going to change anything. You're stuck here with me, until you die, just as I've been for the past 20 years."
"20 years!", I replied, shocked.

"Yeah. I know. I don't look like it. Good to hear that even after 20 years I am still devilishly handsome," he gave me a smug look and after a second I realised he was teasing me. Bright red color creeped on my cheeks.
"You-you insufferable -," a loud thud and a few gunshots cut me off.

I jumped because of the startling sound."What was that!?",i asked almost shouting.
Daniel smirked."Oh that look on your face!"He burst out into laughter."You look horrified!"
My cheeks further reddened and i turned my face away from him.
"Well, i don't know any anything about this place! Now are you going to tell me what that noise was?" It was becoming extremely difficult for me to keep talking with Daniel.

"The New York Public Library's future."

"What the heck?!" I say, but I never swear, I promise. "Are you talking about?!"

"Well, it's 2050 in the library. If you go out, it would be back to 2020.", he said.

"Right...", I was speechless.
"Wow, I thought you never shut up!", he chuckled.
"Um, excuse me for being speechless when I am told that a parallel universe that is 30 years into the future exists in the middle of my freaking school!", I yelled at him.
"There! Aelin's back!", he said, grinning.

((Np! Happens when a few people are online together.
Also, glad to see you being active here :) ))

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((Wait there is some glitch I can't see shreya's comment anymore))

((Well um I think Shreya might have deleted it because my comment came? Dunno. Can you please continue Shreya?))

(( I guess there's some glitch. Anyways i wrote it again in continuation to yours Aahana))
I returned his smile sarcastically.
"So, what about the gunshot noise?", i asked."Where was that from?"
Daniel crossed the room to reach a bookshelf. I looked up to see-Action and Adventure written on the top of the bookshelf.
"Want to know about the gunshot?",he said smiling."Open a book!"

I was kinda freaked out by the way things were going, but I didn't want him to see I was scared. So I opened the book.
"This is just a simple book. I don't understand how do the gunshots relate to this..?", I said.
"Oh Aelin, use your brain would ya?", Daniel said, rolling his eyes.
Oh, the way he drove me crazy!

((anybody there? I don't think I should continue writing right after mine!))

"Me? You're the one who doesn't even make sense. Just because it's so-called 2050, doesn't mean magic will exist," I said.

((I got it))

I started reading the pages, and I couldn't stop. The book was a story of how a single cowboy stopped an entire army of bandits using his own two pistols. They called him Gun-slinging Magee, after his father, Sheriff Magee, and the bandits were after the town's large bank.

Slowly, it started to make sense to me...
"Wait so you mean that this library... and the books in it, actually happen?", I said, shocked.
"Bingo!". he said, with a smirk.

((I'm not sure how to continue..))

I gasped, unable to process it properly. I calmed down and looked at the book I was holding.
"So practically these books would be non-fiction, then," I say.
"No no no!! You can go inside these stories! Remember how this book was already open?" he asked.
"Yeah....." this is bliss. But I need to know more. "But how?"
"Oh, nothing! You just have to say "insufferable".

And then I remember. When Mr. Senova said "insufferable", then I found the shine. And when I said "insufferable", the noise cut me off.
All of a sudden I hear the sound of what possibly is a cowboy, screaming.
"Get 'em! Get 'em, get 'em, get 'em!". That sounds exactly like what was written in the book. It's the gun-slinging Magee!

"I get what you mean! I-I-I...." my voice trails off. Obviously, this is the most to take in.


((Turns out I'm not able to stop now :P))

"This is all super weird, but why not have a little fun?" I thought as I smirked at Daniel. I walked down the bookshelves, running my finger down their spines. I stopped when I saw one that was perfect for my plan It was about a long lost princess coming back to her kingdom and finding her prince charming. I grabbed it off the shelf and opened it up.
Daniel, seeing what I was planning on my face, looked at me with wide eyes and said, "Don't!"
But it was too late, I had already shouted the word "Insufferable". I watched with awe as the surroundings changed from the dusty bookshelves to a large blue castle up on a hill.
"Yes! It worked" I said, half doubting it would. Now all I have to do is find the princess, kidnap her, and take her place. After all, who doesn't want to be a princess...

((anyone else willing to write?))

I looked around at the scenic countryside the book had taken us into. Green hills extended as far as my I could see, with cottages springing up in the valleys. Lush rivers flowed around the little kingdom, and on the top of the tallest mountain was a large blue castle.
"Wow," I breathed, looking around in awe. I had never before set a foot out of New York in my life, and this kingdom looked absolutely gorgeous. "Now to find the princess."
I turned to Daniel, who had crossed his arms and was staring at me in horror. "You can't be thinking about replacing her!"
"Oh yeah?" I asked, arching an eyebrow. "Watch me."

((Oh, I love those descriptions <3))

"Bu- but you can't You can't alter the stories!" Daniel stuttered. "It doesn't work that way!"

I thought, what does he know about changing stories? but then I realized that he'd been here for years.

"Okay," I challenged. "Then what would happen if I did?" Movies I have watched began to drift into my head. In New York, I lived in an apartment fifty stories tall with my mother and dog. We have two bedrooms with a bathroom; and a kitchen that connects to a living room. We have fitness equipment in the hallway; and in the living room, a small couch, and an even smaller TV set. The only things we can do is watch TV or work out, and I find myself on the couch with potato chips too often than I should. Most of the movies I watched were sci-fi, and one of them is about making a time machine. When they went back to the age of dinosaurs, somebody stepped on a butterfly and the entire future was changed... for the worse. If I tried to change the princess, would it alter our future? Or, since we are in an alternate universe, would it not?

"It could change our entire future," Daniel said, jolting me back to the present.

"Our future?" I asked.

"You don't have a future," he says. His words hurt. But I do have a future... with him. Or maybe I can find a book in that 2050 library that will bring me back to the present. "But, if we did, yes. The future of the real world would change."

I look into his forest green eyes, and he looks into mine. I realize how much more beautiful he is than me. He has large eyes, but a small nose and a small mouth. I have, well, normal eyes. My nose is small but I have a big mouth. In more ways than one. Most people I know would love to have such big lips, but I just don't see the beauty in them. If only I had Daniel's mouth. His dark blonde hair is short-cropped but he has a little cowlick that perfects his features. He has a square-shaped face that I just noticed is always tense like he is always grimacing. He had a thick neck and the rest of his body is rippled with muscle. I can see it through his tight, ripped, white t-shirt and navy sweat-pants. He is wearing Vans, why Vans? Converse is better and they look a lot better than I would think for having worn them for twenty years.

Looking at this boy who thinks he has decided my fate, I realize that maybe, just maybe, I like him.

((I'm sorry if that was too long))

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