Chapter 1: The Unexpected Trip

My name is William Dodd, but I go by my middle name Chase. I'm 15 years old and I live with the most dysfunctional family ever.

I just so happen to be the middle child that no one ever notices unless I do something wrong. My older sister is 20 years old and does everything she can to get on my nerves and my little brother is 10 years old and does everything he can to get me in trouble. My mother favors my sister and believes whatever she has to say. My father favors my brother and lets him get away with everything with me as the scapegoat. Moving on to the present day, I was on my way back home from school. (Even though I live 15 miles away from the school I attend, my parents still make me walk to and from school.) Just walking down the sidewalk minding my own business, when this flash of light comes out of nowhere and causes me to faint. Someone must've abducted me and left me alone in the woods to die, because when I woke up I was leaning against a huge tree in the middle of a dense forest. I attempted to stand up but fell back down due to my entire body being in pain. Then I tried to scream for help but my throat was too sore to make a single noise.

After what seemed like hours of repeated attempts I was finally able to stand up and walk. I was still unable to speak, but at least I was able to move around. After a while of walking around aimlessly, I began to notice that everything looked really big. I was just about to call it quits and just lay down to die,

I heard someone scream, it sounded like a little kid. So out of curiosity and because I was lonely I went to inspect the scream. Sure enough when I arrived there was a little boy who looked about 6 years old screaming at the top of his lungs. Whenever he noticed that I was standing there he screamed again and bolted into the bushes. Because I'm an idiot and lack common sense I ran after him.

Whenever I found him, he was curled up in a ball behind a tree. I was about to ask what was wrong and why he ran away, but then remembered that I couldn't talk. So I threw a pebble at the back of his head to get his attention. The little boy quickly turned around and screamed again. He was about to run away again before I put my hand up to tell to stay. He seemed to relax a little then asked "Who are you and where are we?" I tapped my neck and then made a X with fingers (which looked really small, but I passed it off as "still waking up") to signal that I can't talk. I guess he understood because he just said "Ohhhhh". After a moment of silence he introduced himself and but when I heard his name I fainted out of suprise.

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