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Chapter 1
Hi, my name is Ben, and I am a sophomore in Radon High school, in the Town of Millie, with average grades, and some pretty awesome friends.
 My friend Charlie is also a sophomore in my school, but he is a genius! He had A's in every class: Math, Science, English, and Global Studies. He is also good at inventing new things. Do you know those wireless ear buds? Well he invented those! My other friend, Lucy is also a sophomore average in every class; accept for English because she is very good at writing.  Someday, Lucy wants to be an Author. She is starting off with writing children books though. She says it is better to start off small then to just jump into writing big books.
 I had my life all planned out. I wanted to be an artist, and be famous some day for the paintings I would create.  When I was young, I painted a really great picture of my parents helping some dog in their clinic. Both my parents are Veterinarians. Everyone in our Town brings their injured pets or any injured animal to them so that they can heal them up good as new.
 My life is pretty normal, and simple, the way that a lot of kids like their life. Then, my life turned upside down, on that one fateful day. The day started out as any other normal day. I was dreaming about my paintings being in a famous art show, about to receive an award for the best painting in the world, when all of a sudden I hear my mom calling me. “Ben.” My mom says “Honey, time for school. You don’t want to be late for Picture day!”Well so much for receiving that award.
 I open my eyes and look around my room. My room is pretty big. I have two closets. One holds all of the clothes I have, and the other closet I converted in a painting studio. It has an easel, a lot of different types of paper, and paint for painting and drawing new things that I think of. The walls around my room are covered in famous paintings, and artists. My favorite paining out of them is Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. My bed is in the middle of the room, and it revolves so I can look around the room without having to move my head. Sometimes I would sit on my bed, trying to think of what to paint next. In a corner of my room I have a desk that has a state of the art laptop, which has many great programs that allow me to paint things on the computer too.
 I get up off my bed, which is not hard, since I am used to it revolving. I go to my clothing closet, and pick out a shirt and some jeans to wear for Picture day. I go over to my computer, and open up Facebook. I post a status saying “Can’t wait for picture day! Hope that it goes better than last year’s!” Last year’s picture day was horrible. When walking to school, all dressed up for my picture to be taken, a car drives through a puddle of water, that happened to be right next to me, and I got soaked. That picture day my hair was just a mess. And my clothes were stained from all of those chemicals that were in that puddle of water.
 This picture day I will take the bus, and not take the chance of getting wet.”Ben, are you up honey?” my mom says.”Yes mom!” I go to the bathroom in my room, and start preparing myself for today’s picture. I comb my hair till it looks presentable, and I straighten my cloths. I look in the mirror, and see a handsome 16 year old boy, with short black hair, and blue eyes staring back at me. After I see that I look presentable, I start to leave my room.
 On my way to go down stairs, I look at my brother’s closed door, with the usual big brother signs on it that says stuff like “Keep out!” and “No Little Brothers Aloud!” I can faintly hear my brother snoring on the other side of the door. My brother looks like me, accept he is 20, Out of high school, and he has brown eyes instead of blue. His name is Damian.
After I descend the stair to the living room, I walk into the kitchen, to find my dad sitting at the kitchen table, with the latest newspaper, and my mom cooking her famous Omelet. I ask my dad “Anything interesting going on in the newspaper dad?” He looks over the new paper and replies “Yeah, as a matter of fact. Last night when everyone was sleeping, there was a small earthquake, and the origin of it was the center of our little town.” My dad has my dark black hair, and he has brown eyes. Even though he is around 40, he still looks like he is in his prime. I say “But that makes no sense at all, the town is not over or near any faults in the earth.” I look at the story in the newspaper with him, and read the article. “Yeah.” My dad says “Even the scientists are scratching their heads.”I look at my mom and ask if one of the omelets she is making for me.”Yes of course, you need some protein in your system so you can be awake for your picture.” My mom has auburn hair, and blue eyes. She looks so young, even though she is also around 40.
 I sit down at the table, with one of the omelet my mom gave me. I take my fork, cut a piece of and take a bite.”Jeez mom, you really know how to make these!”The omelets are really good, with the eggs close to being too cooked, and the omelet filled with cheese, bacon, and some ham, topped with some salt, pepper, and some garlic.”Of course I am I have cooked these for so many years for your father.
 Once I finish the amazing omelet, I start getting ready for school. I get my backpack from my room, my laptop, and put that in my backpack, which has a safe apartment for laptops, which is padded, and insulated against water. Once I am ready to go to the school, I head to the kitchen and give my mom and dad a kiss on the cheek, and tell them”Have a good day at your clinic guys!” They both reply “Have a good day at school son.” I head out the door, and go to the end of my driveway and look at my house. It is a big 2 story light blue house. Our house is in the center of a huge yard, which is cleanly mowed. I turn back around, and wait for the bus.