//------------------------------// // Chapter 1, Nowhere Oregon // Story: Life Change, in 127.8 Seconds // by Cool writer //------------------------------// You say to yourself, "why is life never interesting in the real world?" Well, the answer is because you're on the one timeline without the world-threatening evil. I am too (at least I hope I am,) and I'm glad for that. Sure life can be boring, but you can just make up an adventure. I am Diana Zediker, and I'm a short brown haired, palish skinned, caucasian girl 17-year-old. I live in "Nowhere Oregon," in a log cabin in the middle of the woods. I'm not alone here, I've got my uncle. Don't get me wrong, Uncs is a great uncle (not a "gruncle" for those of you who watch "gravity falls")... but he tends to get lost in his fantasy worlds. You know how you can get lost in a good book? He gets into this "reading hibernation" where he can go for DAYS without eating or drinking, so long as he's reading the whole time. It's weird, but at least he's happy. Me on the other hand, I want to LIVE adventure. Wich is kind of lucky I live in a forest. It's a great canvas for your imagination to paint a BEAUTIFUL adventure for a bored 17-year-old. Hey- Don't look at me like that! This place is so desolate, we need to drive 2 miles to the GAS STATION for groceries! I don't have any friends here! Well... I do have a few friends from town (wich is 10 miles away) though, but I see them rarely. Tonight, as a cloudless Friday night. I've finished studying (I'm home schooled, go figure) and I'm heading to a clearing to watch the Lunar Eclipse. It is one of the mot exciting thing to happen in a while. Uncs (as I call my uncle), is in one of his "reading hibernations" so I'll probably see him around Tuesday. As I walk the clearing, I pass by "my" cave. It's just a shallow cave I found one time while hiking. I use it as a landmark when I come this way. I heard a loud "PLOP!" when my boot stepped in a fresh mud puddle. I continued walking, un-phased by it. What can I say? When you hike, this stuff happens. I eventually reached the clearing and set my lawn chair down. I sat down in the chair and looked up at the sky. The moon was still it's usual milky white. I looked at my watch. 10:05, I hadn't missed it. But, I was five minutes early. I could see a few constellations up there. Sometimes I dream about flying away, off into the sky. I smiled at those dreams, and how I sometimes childishly believed that they could actually happen. "Yeah right," I say to myself sarcastically. "That's gonna happen." I glance at my watch again- 10:08. I look at the moon and see the orange glow is starting to creep it's way over the face of the moon. I notice that the orange has a redness to it. I had read about that. It's called a blood moon, a rare type of lunar eclipse. It's really cool. I watched as (over the course of 5 minutes) the moon was engulfed by the eclipse and then turned a crimson, blood-red. It was a pretty sight. I'm not a "girly girl," so I don't say things are "pretty" often. But little did I know, that me sitting in that clearing, on that night... was going to change my life. And It was going to do it fast.