Chapter 2 - Chapter two

Chapter two
I woke up thinking that I had better get up and get to school before was late. My alarm clock must not have gone off yet. I needed to get up and finish the math homework that I had put off last night. But I really didn’t want to get out of bed. I was so warm and comfortable...
My eyes flew open and I sat up quickly, remembering everything. My head ached and I clutched my head in my hands.
“Cecilia?” I called tentatively through my fingers.
“She is currently showing another person their death. Call me Buzz!”
“Buzz?” I said turning around looking for the person who was talking but seeing noone. I was sitting in a room that was painted white and had a white throw rug on the white painted floor and a white, wooden chair that sat a few feet away from the white bed that I was sitting on. Someone had removed my jeans and t-shirt and replaced them with a short, unpatterned, sleeveless dress like the one Cecilia had been wearing.
I jumped out of the bed quickly but immediately regretted it. I sat down again holding my head.
“Well its because when I was in the 3rd grade, and alive there were four other people with the same old boring name as mine in my class. The teacher was always getting the four of us mixed up. I hated that. I was a rather independent child.” she added chuckling. “I asked my classmates to call me something else. This one kid yelled out, ‘How about Buzz? Because she is so hyper all of the time!’ So from then on I was known as Buzz!”
“Wow,” I really didn’t need to know that. “Where are you? Why can’t I see you?”
“Oh right sorry.” A young girl appeared on the chair beside my bed. She tossed her shockingly neon green hip-length hair out of her hazel eyes and straightened the same kind of short, white dress that I was wearing. She smiled at me slyly.
“Oh,” I gasped at the sudden entrance.
“Can you walk, Allison?”
“How do you know my name?”
“Oh that’s not important,” she paused, “Well, it is but we will get to that later. Can you walk?”
“Well, probab-”
“Great!” she interrupted and bounced to her feet, grabbing my arm. I swayed slightly and she steadied me with her hand.
“You okay?”
“Yeah, I thi-”
“Great!” she said again. “We have to go! It’s the second day you’ve been here! The council is so excited!”
Council? What was she talking about?
“Second day?”
“Yep!” she said and grasped my wrist with both hands. Turning to face me she whispered,
“I never thought I would be in this position when you came here...” Her eyes searched my features and a strange looked crossed over her face. What was it? Pride? I couldn’t be sure. Why would she be proud of me? All I was doing was standing up. This was all very weird.
“Anyway, let’s go!” She cried, and pulled me across the room and to the door. She opened the door and led me out into a town.
There were buildings from various time periods and different countries. A Japanese house, complete with square, swooping roofs, an ancient Roman building stood, supported by columns. There were people too, all of different ethnicities, shapes, sizes. The women all wore the same short white dresses and the men all wore long white pants and a short-sleeved shirt. For a second I wondered if they got uncomfortable during the heat or the cold but then realized that the temperature was and had been the same all throughout my stay here. Not too hot to be uncomfortable in long pants, but not cold enough to freeze to death in the short white dresses. Strange.
Speaking of strange things, besides me being dead, they all seemed to be heading in one direction as if they had the same destination.
“Well, gotta go, bye!” Buzz shouted and ran a few feet in the direction all of the people were going in before vanishing in a swirl of green hair.
“Wait! No, Buzz come back!” I screamed after her. Why did everybody keep leaving me? I started running after her.
After running a few feet, I realized that all of the people had parted, making a path for me to run through. Some of them had even stopped and were staring at me in awe. Others whispered behind their hands to their companions. I decided to ignore them and concentrated on running as fast as I could after Buzz. I ran until I could see the place where all of the people were going. A huge white building was standing in the middle of a wide patch of land without other houses. It looked kind of like a larger parliament house.
“Wow...” I breathed. I started running again and ran right through the huge marble doors that were standing open. It was very dark inside, with a few lights attached to the walls turned on very low. When my eyes adjusted to the dim light I saw lots of people standing beside the walls. They made a semi-circle around...me. To my surprise I was standing all alone in the middle of the room. I felt very uncomfortable and tried my best to search for Buzz. Everybody was staring openly at me. My eyes wandered to the wall opposite of the huge double doors. There were those same 7 cloaked figures that I had met when I first came here. They still had those hoods over their heads and were once again staring at me.
I stood there rooted to the spot, looking at each of the cloaked creatures staring back from under their hoods.
“Welcome Allison,” Deep Blue Robe Guy said, standing up. He seamed to be the leader of this group.
“Welcome,” the other members of the Let’s-All-Wear-A-Scary-Dark-Cloak-To-Freak-Allison-Out-When-She-Is-Already-Unstable-Because-She-Is-Still-Adjusting-To-The-Fact-That-She-Is-Dead Club echoed and stood up as well.
“We are proud to have you among us today when we are in such great peril,” Deep Blue Robe Guy spoke for the group again.
I stared at him wondering if I was allowed to talk. When I couldn’t take the uncomfortable silence anymore I spoke. “Peril? Surely you can’t be in peril! I mean this is HEAVEN right?! Heaven can’t be in peril!”
“Well, um actually...” D.B.R.G. muttered, sounding embarrassed.
“Wow, what did you DO?” I asked rather rudely.
“I-I-It wasn’t my-T-that is not important right now!” Boomed D.B.R.G. losing his cool. He wasn’t sounding too high and mighty right now.
“Wow it must have been something really bad...”
“It was and is,” he sighed. “That is why we need your help.”
“Wait. My help? Me?!” I started laughing. “I am just a lowly 15 year old! What could I possibly do to help you?” I chuckled to myself somewhat hysterically for a few more seconds. Another awkward silence fell. I straightened up and looked around. “Me?” I said again.
“Yes,” D.B.R.G. stated, “We need you to lead us in war against the army of Hell.”

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