CHAPTER ONE
Acalancia slowly slipped of her silky skirt to reveal the bottom half of a bikini. She then unbuttoned her shirt slowly to reveal the top half. Her bare feet felt hot from the heat of the white, gold sand, her dirty face shone with sweat. She bent down and and put her hands into the carribean ocean, scooping up water to wash her face with. She had put her hands towards her face when she heard a crack, she turned on the spot and caught a glimpse of bushy, fiery red hair before she felt her body paralyse. She listened as the red haired persons running footsteps faded into the distance. Although unless she was mistaken it was in a mix with someone else's footsteps as well, heavy stumpy footsteps at that.
Acalancia lay on the hot sand for what seemed to be hours until she heard footsteps that seemed to come closer and get faster. She then heard voices, worried anxious ones, she listened to what they said with interest:
"Another one, are you sure?" Said the anxious male voice,
"I am certain Mr Taylor, what we feared has indeed happened-" The worried females voice trailed at the end,
"Then we must act as soon as possible, first by taking this body back to the van then by looking for others"
Acalancia felt her body be lifted from the ground roughly and then felt something sharp going into her arm, she started to feel dizzy and light headed... How she would love to go to sleep.
Acalancia woke up on a hard, uncomfortable bed. She could hear voices they were getting louder, it was the same two voices she had heard when she was paralysed. But this time they were muttering as if scared she would hear them, Acalancia opened one eye daringly and saw that surrounding her were many more of the uncomfortable beds with other people in. The only difference was that they were all sitting up enjoying a steaming mug of cocoa and two slices of toast. She tried to sit up but felt a cold, hard hand push her down.
"You must rest lady, you will be OK soon." Said the owner of the cold, hard hand.
"But why, what happened to me?"
"It will all be explained later in the first time center." Said a kind voice which came from a pretty fair-haired nurse that had just bustled over from talking to another patient.
Acalancia suddenly realised that she was not wearing her bathing suit and that instead she was only wearing a strange sort of nightie.
"Wait who changed my clothes?" Asked Acalancia curiously.
"Don't worry pet it was me!" Said the kind nurse.
"Right now you need to rest though," Said the man next to the nurse.
Acalancia closed her eyes and slowly drifted to sleep.