Dragonlance Fan Fiction ❯ TIme and Tale ❯ Just Another Day ( Chapter 1 )

 

Just Another Day

 

Attention: I do not own the rights to the DragonLance characters. Wish I did, but I don't. I do however own Lauren and other said characters of my own creation.

 

Lauren ran her hands through her strawberry blond hair as she drove down Tanker Avenue. The speedometer on her dashboard read 50mph. As she sped down the road, she soon became aware of the red and blue flashing lights trailing close behind her. She slowly pulled over to the side of the road and uttered a curse under her breath. A man in a dark blue uniform stepped out of the car and walked over to her side of the car. When he came to her window, she quickly rolled it down and waited for him to speak.

 

“You have any idea how fast you were going ma'am?” he asked in a stern and unamused voice.

 

“No officer” she replied weakly. “Was I speeding?”

 

The officer's lips twitched, “No. You were just going 50 mph in a 20 mph zone is all.” He slowly withdrew a pad and a pen from his front shirt pocket and began to scribble something down on the pad. He then tore the piece of paper off the pad and handed it to Lauren. “Next time maybe you'll pay a little more attention while you're driving.”

 

Lauren took the ticket from the officer. “Yes sir.” The officer nodded to her then calmly walked back to his car, opened the door, and drove away. “Damn it” Lauren cursed beneath her breath. This was really shaping into a wonderful day, she thought sarcastically. Swallowing her angst over her rotten luck, Lauren restarted her car and began to drive home.

 

As Lauren began to turn the corner leading to her street, her cell phone rang. She hit the speaker button, and was greeted by her friend Aleis.

 

“Hey Lauren, what are you up to right now?”

 

“Nothing much” Lauren answered absent mindedly. “Just on my way home. Why?”

 

Aleis sighed. “There's a party going on at Josh Anderson's house. You wanna come?”

 

Lauren grinned. It had been a while since she had been out. Maybe this was just what she needed. “Sure sounds like fun. Tell Josh I'm on my way down there now.”

 

Lauren hung up the phone and began driving in the direction of Josh's house. It took her about thirty minutes to get down there, so by the time that she arrived almost everyone was already there. She could see the lights were on inside the house and that there did not seem to be any shortage of partygoers there. Heaving a sigh, Lauren stepped out of her car and walked up the paved way to the front door.

 

She stopped before ringing the doorbell to critique her appearance, and finding nothing out of place she pressed the white button in. It took about five minute for some one to answer the door. When she heard the clicking of the doorknob, Lauren pressed her lips together in anticipation. When the door opened, Lauren was greeted to the sight of her crush Josh McLanders wearing a lampshade upon his head.

 

Josh was about 5'10, with brown hair, blue eyes and much tanned skin. “Hey Lauren” Josh slurred giddily. “Come on in and join the party.” Josh was not a very big drinker by nature, but from the sound of his voice and his choice in head gear it would appear that he had been enjoying the party for a while now.

 

When Lauren walked into the house, she saw that most of her friends were indeed there. Bobby, Jane, Max, and Alies. “Hey what's going on?” asked Lauren.

 

Jane, a short yet very voluptuous blond, turned to answer her. “Nothing much yet” she sighed disappointedly. “Oh!” she grinned. “We were just about to play spin the bottle.”

She walked up beside Lauren and elbowed her is the ribs playfully. “Bobby goes first you know.”

 

Lauren grimaced. Jane was always trying to play matchmaker.

Six of them sat down in a circle: Jane, Max, Alies, Josh, Bobby and Lauren. “Alright Bobby remember its your turn.” Jane teased playfully.

 

Josh blushed but took the empty bottle out of Jane's teasing hands, then spun it on the floor in the middle of their makeshift circle. It landed on Lauren. A secretive smile spread across Josh's face. He lifted himself up onto his knees in front of Lauren, then slowly moved in to plant a long searing kiss on her pink lips. Bobby's lips moved eagerly against Lauren's, his tounge slowly grazing across her lips. The kiss was long and soft, soon Lauren found that a warm burning feeling was slowly growing in her belly and that she was quickly in need of breath. She reflexively opened her mouth to gasp for air. As soon as her lips parted, Bobby slowly slid his tounge into her hot mouth.

 

As their mouths moved together, Lauren found herself losing balance. Without thinking she braced herself up by placing her palms upon Bobby's shoulders. His muscles quickly tensed at the sudden contact, and a sharp soft gasp escaped his lips. When they could no longer continue with their heated exchange, the two broke apart and gazed at each other though half lidded eyes.

 

The party lasted for another four hours before it was time for it to be over. Most of the people who had attended the party had decided to spend the night. The idea of sleeping on Josh's hide-a-bed was not exactly the most appealing thing that Lauren had thought of in the past few hours. She quickly made her goodbyes, and made her way out of the party.

 

As Lauren dove down the road, she kept noticing a strange green mist that was slowly blanketing the black concrete. She was beginning to regret her decision to take the short-cut through the wooded area that lead to her home. This path had been practically abandoned since Lauren could remember. It had always been the subject of many local ghost stories, and in truth Lauren had always done her best to avoid the route, even though she had never truly believed those stories.

 

Though she must admit that on this particular night, the path was just a little bit more unsettling and just that much more foreboding than it had appeared in nights past. Lauren continued to drive along, carefully keeping her eyes open for any unexpected movements. Suddenly, Lauren saw a bright flash of light right in front of her. The light moved past her windshield and into some of the overgrowth off the beaten path.

 

Lauren sat in her car stunned. She could not explain what had just happened. She sat there in stunned silence trying to discern what she had just seen. After lolling over the possible explanations as to what it was that she had just seen, her curiosity finally got the best of her, and she exited her car to walk to the direction that the light had traveled.

 

When she got there, she found a pool of sparkling green liquid centered between clusters of bushes. It seemed too beautiful; Lauren just had to touch it. She slowly put her hand in the liquid, and found it to be pleasantly warm. As Lauren stirred her hand around in the pool, the mist began to slowly envelope her. She did not notice it though, because she was so transfixed by the sparkling water.

Soon she began to tire. Her eyelids began to flutter, and her head began to drop. As she closed her eyes, a distant thought began to enter her mind. "I'm fading away.”

 

 

 

Authors Note: Ok I that's not a lot. I'll write more later. Please give me reviews, so I can post more of my story.