My eyelids flutter like wings on a bird until they adjust as I wake up to a world reversed from my own. Although this world was diverse and unusual from anything I've ever seen , that didn't take away from how beautiful it was . The scenery matched that of a tropical island with an open field and skinny palm trees that shot up from the ground and stood tall. Ive never actually been to a tropical island before that type of thing is foreign to a city boy like me but I've seen loads of pictures of them on the internet and while I don't know what it looks like in person I do know that the palm tree leaves and grass aren't supposed to be red and the sky anywhere on earth isn't supposed to be purple. I'm not a rocket surgeon but I think even I can tell you that the only normal thing about this place is the fluffy white clouds that drift by.
Nevertheless for a moment I sat there and admired how beautiful it was , but in just a few blinks i was interrupted by destruction reigning upon everything the eye could see. With just a few blinks I witnessed war of an intensity I've never seen before , even the setting and calmness of the world had shifted. Lightning bathed in the sky as men surrounded the field in battle. With every attack landed the worlds climate gets worse and worse , while spectating i look closely to see what looks like the people fighting are wielding elements such as lightning bolts or flames to use as weapons! Through all the chaos I see something that confirms my thought of people literally wielding lightning bolts like spears or swords , a man glides through the sky leaving a trail of flames heading straight my way. There's no way these people are human , they all look like someone out of Stan Lee's superhuman series or the x-men! The way everybody had a perfect physique male or female , extremely toned muscles and superhuman reflexes , my thoughts were being confirmed almost as quick as I'd been thinking them. People used lightning to pierce bodies while electrocuting them or to cover their hands while throwing quick barrages of attacks with them while flames were used to burn flesh shot from the arm like shotgun bullets in close range. What surrounded me was now complete demolition.
The guy flying towards me looked middle aged with colored skin , a brown color that wasn't light enough to be called light skinned or dark enough to be called dark skinned just like mine. He had long black hair with bangs in his face , extremely tall and fit dressed in clothes that resembled royalty. After flying towards me with fire emitting from his feet he lands right before me to tell me he's sorry he couldn't see me grow up to be the successful man he knows I'll be with a shaky smile. He pauses with his head down a moment before forcing out a "I'm sorry but now it may be all up to you to set everything straight" while tears slowly trickle down from his baby blue eyes down his cheek he places me in a contraption. "I hope to see you again Azeil" he says before a door slams shut and I'm shot up into the sky. The jolt of the machine was so strong it pushes me on my back the instant it lifts off. I spring back up as fast as I can to see the whole planet I was just on burst from the inside out. As the destruction of the planet expands everything turns pitch black and I can feel my heart beat speed up as fast as it's ever has. My eyelids fly open as my upper body swings up all in one motion. My heavy breathing echoes the room while I try to calm myself down , I dreamt that dream again I thought to myself. Every since I can remember I've been dreaming that dream seeing more and more each time but this time is the most I've ever seen. I'm usually just graced with the land scape of that beautiful mystery planet for however long my mind decides but this time I've seen much more. I'm lost in thought with my face stuck in it's frightened gaze towards the room door from when I first woke up. "Azeil ! It's time to get up for school !" I hear to wake me up from my trance , I swing my head up to meet my uncles eyes as he stands frozen in place. "Hey what's wrong ? I've been calling you for awhile now and the only response you've given me is this look like your brain is overheating or something" He asks with curiosity and a sense of caution. "I've had the dream again" , I say with a hint of being annoyed "and I've seen much more than I ever have like a war between these super humans that could grasp lighting itself or flames and use it to attack" I add sounding like I'm trying to convince him and myself while gesturing with my hands. He looks but remains silent as a thief in the night. I ask him if this is normal because me having these dreams feel like anything but that , in fact it feels more like a sign for something. "Huh ya of course don't worry yourself thinking about all of this in fact I had dreams like this when I was your age" he assured. You.. did ?? I say with my face scrunched up , were they as vivid as mine ? I ask with a spike of curiosity. "Of course that's how I know this all is normal ! " he says laughing while adding the word "normal " after every other laugh or "very normal" like he's trying to sell me a lie or something. Are you sure ? I say with an eyebrow raised , his face morphs to create a serious look before he tells me "there will be a time and place to talk about that , after school to be exact but now your running the risk of being late so hurry and get ready so I can drop you off" he turns his back before telling me he'll be waiting in the car with my brother Eliaz and disappears into the hallway.
I throw on my uniform in a hurry and head to the car outside. As I open the back door and get seated My uncle is rambling on about how he feels like our new neighbor has a crush on him, he's always been like that. If every one of our teachers were young like him he'd be trying to get every one of their numbers with no care in the world about how it would affect us , how do I know this you ask? Because he's already dated most of our elementary school teachers not to mention our ex principal! She's just an assistant now but at least she takes the heartbreak better than anyone else has , after they've broken up she treats me and my brother like angels sent from god himself. It's like in her eyes we can't do any wrong but in elementary school after our uncle broke up with our teachers it would be the opposite. If we so much as sneezed without covering our mouth we'd get sent to the office with some lame excuse like "they did it on purpose!" Or "they know what they're doing they're just trying to disrupt my class!". I've seen the nicest of ladies turn into crazy psychotic mental patients because of him. "Yeah well let's not drive this one crazy" I say as the car takes off leaving the driveway behind us. My brother adds a "yea like Danielle or Denise or evie or talia or Natasha or Corinna or Sierra" with an uncontrollable laugh. "You really have a track record uncle Aylward I don't think you'll ever find love" he says with a smile. "C'mon 'E I told you this already , Love is overrated like twitter and Facebook and Instagram you guys can get stuck in those traps I'm happy living life free from the chains of love and responsibility " uncle replied and boy was he not lying. Uncle Aylward is known to be spotted with a new girl every other hour so much that he's known at every city we move to wether we've been there before or not. Uncle Aylward's reply makes us all laugh as we arrive at the entrance of school , "alright you guys take it easy" he says with a chuckle before we both exit the vehicle to walk on school campus. My brothers name is called the minute we get on campus which is no surprise considering how popular he was "ya I'll be right there" he replied with his voice raised. He turns to me and raises his fist pointing at me "I'll see you around lil bro" he says before we fist bump. I can't help but smile at how cool he is as he disappears into a crowd of people in the opposite direction. While making my way to an empty bench by the entrance door my smile begins to fade , I can revert back to my true self now. The truth is I'm tired of feeling empty , when people are feeling down they tend to look at their accomplishments in life to lift them up into higher spirits but the problem is I feel I have none. I've failed at everything I've ever wanted to do in life , I've reached and reached but I've failed and fell flat on my face every time. I've noticed this pattern and it makes it harder to even like myself , what else would be the problem BUT me!? My brother has reached for the same things and over excels in everything he does , he's popular, fun to be around and the best on every sports team while I can't even make the team. His accomplishments serve as a reminder of how much of a failure I am. I don't know what do anymore but accept the fact that I'm a failure and that things won't ever change......
"AZEILLLLLLLL!!!!" Interrupts my train of thought and rings in my head for a good minute before I look over to see who made my ears bleed. Of course I wasn't surprised to see my best friend Felix standing a few inches shorter than me glaring at me with his ocean blue eyes and hands cupped around his mouth probably so he could yell in my ear. He gives off this suspicious look as if he'd just witness me rob a bank before me telling him I had nothing to do with it "what gives man?" He says while throwing his hands in the air "you didn't hear me calling your name?" He adds. "Um" I begin to say before getting cut off instantly "it doesn't matter buddy I've found some certified hotties for us yesterday that are new to town and are relying on US to show them around" he says with over whelming excitement. As he rambles on about them I disconnect his voice from my hearing to think about past relationships and friendships . Failed relationships and friendships , and when I say failed relationships and friendships I mean one very very bad plane wreck of a friendship that ended were a relationship should have started. Before I could go deeper in thought Felix interrupts me by pointing his finger in a direction while saying "look there they are" pulling me with his hand wrapped around my wrist walking towards them. Two girls stood next to each other by the entrance looking like complete opposites. Neither of them were too fat or too skinny or anything like that it's just that you could tell their personalities through their appearances all too easily. One girl was shorter with extremely dark brown mid to long hair that complimented her big brown eyes and glowing skin that was really white , I'm putting my money on her being the shy one . As for her taller friend , she was the exact opposite from her having dyed shiny red hair , dark brown eyes , tanned skin , dimples and pearly whites with a tattoo on her forearm that's just screaming out "I'm the wild one " . Before I know it I'm standing before both of them and as I thought the shorter girl is avoiding eye contact and the taller one is giving me eye contact directly along with a look that says she's passed pissed off . "Hey jackass say something would ya " she growls before I could ask what's wrong . I , you ? Uh , what ? I say while stuttering sounding like a computer that just got water poured on short circuiting . "You -" the tall girl begins to say before getting interrupted by Felix " I'm sorry my friend was just spacing out "he says before adding "this is Miriam " while gesturing towards the tall girl "and this is Lillianna " he says transitioning to point towards the shorter one . "But you could call me Lili for short if you'd like " she adds while trying to make eye contact darting her eyes back and forth from me to the right or left of me . This instantly makes me feel like the worst piece of garbage you could find and makes me stumble on my words while trying to respond "I'm so sorry for that I'm Miriam and i - I mean I'm azeil she's Miriam but she already knows that but uh " "geez man don't try so hard " Felix says making everybody laugh out loud for a minute . "Let me see your schedules to see if we have first period together " Felix says before looking over both their schedules to find out that miriam has Felix's first period and lillianna has my first period . The bell rings as the courtyard becomes less and less populated Felix tells me he's headed off to walk Miriam to her first period before leaving me and Lillianna by our selves . She looked kind of uncomfortable so I asked where she was from to get to know her or what school she went to , but she only gave me one word reply's like up north and hills borough high school until I asked if she liked it there . She paused before saying "although I lived up north all my life I didn't have many friends because of lack of confidence . . . But I want to change all of that here " she says with determination . There was something about what she said that made me smile and root for her succession in making friends here , "I'm sure you'll make friends here easily Lili everybody has their own group and their own type of friends but because of that nobody is left alone ya know " I say with encouragement . "What group are you in ? " she asks with curiousity. " eh let's just say I'm the only exception " I say before she asks "well . .will you be my first friend ? " she asked as if I would say no to that innocent face and tone if hers . " Of course I will Lili , you can always count on me " I say with a smile to match hers which disappeared after the late bell rung "what's wrong ? " I ask in response . "Um I think we are late to class " she says with uncertainty . I got so lost in talking to Lillianna I totally forget we were even at school , "don't worry we can be late as long as it's not too late I'll make up something on the way " I tell her while leading the way to class . It wasn't long before me and Lillianna were standing in front of the door of our first period class , I told her this is it before opening the door for her to stiffly walk through with me following in after . Mr davey looks confused but seems to catch on a bit after he sees me follow behind her "this must be the new student and reason why your late . . . right azeil ? " he says trying to scold me more than ask me "you can go ahead and take your seat than thank you " he adds to get me out of his face and with no complaints , that's exactly what I do . As if I'd want to talk to that old geezer more than I have to . Before I make my way to my seat on the left side of the room all the way to the back by the window I notice Lillianna hasn't dropped her eyes from me since we've walked in the room , I've also noticed the whole room has been staring at Lillianna since than as well . I take my seat hoping she'll be okay , mr davey tells her to introduce herself to the class before taking a seat and even then she never takes her eyes off me . "Hello everybody . . . My name is Lillianna . . And it's nice to meet you " she says nervously before a dead silence engulfs the room . The whole class says in sync "hi Lillianna it's nice to meet you " in response with a few boys calling her hot and agreeing with each other in the background . Before she looked nervous and even a bit frightened but after that she wore the cutest smile like she just triumphed over an enemy she had been trying to beat for a long time . As she walked down the aisle of desks everybody offered to give their seat up for her , but she insisted to sit in the already empty desk , the already empty desk next to me . Soon after she sits down and gets comfortable mr davey tells me to share my notes with her so she can get somewhat caught up , after hearing that I turn my head to see Lillianna scramble in her bag for a notebook and flip through the pages of it looking for a blank page . While flipping through pages I saw drawings of mountains that showed her incredible artistic talent I was going to compliment her on until I saw one of the pages of landscape that looked all too familiar . "HEY wait flip back to that last page " I say with haste and desperation " " uh okay " she responds frantically in a low tone of voice . "I'm sorry but it's just I seen that place before I just know it " I say before looking at the page with the palm trees colored red and the sky colored purple "see I knew it ! I've been seeing this place every since I can remember in my dreams exactly like how it's drawn here where'd you see this from to draw it like this ? " " I've been dreaming this same thing in my dreams too I don't know where it's from to be honest bu -" Lillianna 's response gets cut off by our grumpy old teacher telling us to stay on task or else somebody would get moved , I tell her not to worry because we'd just talk about it after she caught up with the notes . This is so much more than a freak accident , it has to be .
