Raven

        Have you ever had that feeling in your gut that something was wrong, terribly wrong? Like the world had been flipped upside down, and that it’ll never be the same. That’s what happened the first time I saw Raven, amazingly it was a guy, you know Raven does sound like a girl name but I guess just this once this guys mom decided to be different. And it did suit him, his thick head of shining black hair and his beautiful deep mysterious hazel eyes and those dark lashes. But I guess I should tell you this the right way… I guess… I don’t really want to but I will…  

      Raven

           “Taylor I told you earlier I don’t want to go!” for the hundredth time I told her this and for the hundredth time she told me, “you’ll enjoy it trust me, this place is SO cool I mean you’ll love it it’s So you.” And for the hundredth time I let it go. I couldn’t explain this horrible feeling in my stomach like I was heading for straight down to hell about to meet the devil himself. But I was NOT going to tell Taylor that. She’d just say I was nervous because I was going somewhere new. The reason I know this is because I had already tried to tell her this tell her that this feeling should NOT be ignored. And what did she say, she said I was being childish, “It’s just because you’re going somewhere new and you’re nervous.” Okay I’ll admit it, I do not like change that much, who does, yes I Like doing fun things and I Love going and doing something spontaneous every now and then… but I don’t like doing something without thinking about it, even the spontaneous things I do I at least give it ten minutes thought, not really but you get the point.
            Today I didn’t even have time to argue because I had no idea where we were going. Taylor just decided to suddenly appear at my door and tell me to get dressed into something hot because she was taking me somewhere new. So I said ok as Stupid as that was I did, and now I have this feeling that I am going to go and meet my future killer.
           Well I decided no more fretting about it any more. I’d already said I would so I’m going to. Now if I die tonight it is ALL Taylor’s fault. Not really but that was how I was feeling at the moment.
            Anyway we were pulling into this parking lot that was ABSOLUTELY amazing. I mean I didn’t know a parking lot could look cool, but this one proved me wrong. The cement was totally black like night black, like the color of a raven’s feather black. And the parking lines, well they were a beautiful red, like the color of blood, such a beautiful color. Taylor thought I was crazy for that being my favorite color. I couldn’t care less, it was beautiful and she knows it. We walked up to the building which was painted black and had a pointed roof, well that’s not a good description of it, hmm… have you ever seen fosters home for imaginary friends, well you know their roof, make it bigger and real looking AND make it solid black with shiny blackened shingles. The tops had spires kind of and they looked sharp. While I was looking up at the roof I wondered how old the building was.
             Taylor and I walked up, but there was this line and I wanted to KILL Taylor to bringing me to a place that had a LINE, especially a line THIS long, I mean yea I’d been to places with lines, we’ve been to REALLY nice places with evil looking bouncers at the door, but NEVER had I EVER seen a place with this long a line.
            “Taylor WHAT in the WORLD were you thinking? Huh? I mean COME on. I am NOT waiting in that, YOU must be out of your mind,” I stopped there only because she gave me that –are you finished yet- look. “You have an idea don’t you?” “I have more than an idea,” she told me with a smirk I wasn’t sure would ever come off, “I have a straight up grantee that we are going to get in, the bonus of this grantee is the fact that we don’t have to wait in that fricken line even for ONE second.” “This is why I love you tater.” I said to her as we walked past the line getting dirty looks from the people waiting, Taylor  walked up to the “gatekeepers” as I’ll call them she nodded to one and as he walked over she reached into her purse and grabbed this piece of paper. He took one look at her and started staring at me. I guess the look I gave him made him get a grip on reality because he looked back at Taylor and took the paper in her hand. He glanced at it for a second and opened the gate that blocked us from the one entrance and exit from this building that seemed to feel like home some how. Taylor and I walked through the gate with quiet thanks to the guard and little as I knew I was walking into a world that I had not known existed. Into something that was going to shatter my world and turn everything I knew inside out…. Turn my life into shards of reality and fiction, all clashed together in my heart. How I wish that I had listened to that feeling in my gut before I came, maybe then my life would still be normal.