No Ordinary Time Novels & Stories

“Do you know the laws of the Tidal Waves Pack? All who enter without permission will have their legs broken.” “Even so, I’m going.” Leonard’s voice was hoarse. “I’ll meet her even if it means losing my legs.” The oracle shook her head, accepted the money, and told Leonard how to find the Tidal Waves Pack. Leonard was now penniless but ecstatic. He set out to find me with only some rations in his backpack. At the same time, I was starting a new relationship in my new pack.

“When, if, we find them, what next? Do we stop them? We find a way to reverse whatever they did to us and become normal again?” “Normal,” he repeated. “Whatever that even is,” I said, shaking my head with a laugh. “I really don’t know a time in my life where I ever felt normal.” “I don’t either,” he said, turning his whole body to face mine. “But, normal is ordinary. The world could use a few extraordinary people like you and me." I raised my eyebrows, seeing the smirk on his face. “And so humble, too.” We stood facing one another, not speaking, suspending ourselves in this small moment of levity. This felt normal, and I knew he was thinking the same thing.

Standing in the center of the living room, Alex found it difficult to breathe for the first time. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. It was a delivery person with a postcard mailed from Aspurg ten years ago. I had written it in my elegant handwriting. "To us ten years from now, may our love remain as it was in the beginning." Alex rushed out of the villa and called his assistant frantically. "Where's my wife? She's been missing for a month, and none of you noticed?" His assistant, Caleb Grover, trembled on the other end. "Mr. Carter, Mrs. Carter said she wanted to go on a retreat for meditation and didn't want anyone to disturb her... We thought—"

Elias left the office with his awareness humming low and steady, the system rearranging itself around him in subtle ways. He understood now that fracture did not always announce itself as chaos. Sometimes, it arrived as order, claimed by the wrong hands.

mask up and running. That was why the connection could be fractured the moment I messed with my image. That was the real logic behind my so-called downward spiral. Regardless, it was now time to cut the parasite off completely. I launched a reverse-tracing program I'd written myself. I then followed the faint energy fluctuations and quickly isolated an anomalous subspace frequency. "Got you," I hissed in victory. The world went quiet. I knew it was over. The system was finally gone. … The next morning, I could hear people beating down my dorm room door.

His curse: If you hadn't insisted on marrying me. "No!" I shoved him off, hard. I scrambled out of the study and locked the door from the outside. Leaning against the wood, I dialed Camilla’s number. "Cassian's in the study. The Ortegas spiked his drink tonight. Get over here now." "What? Aurora, what are you talking about—" "Ten minutes. You're the one he needs." I hung up. I heard a vase shatter inside the room. I went to the bathroom and splashed cold water on my face, on my neck, washing away the last of the heat.

I go downstairs and eat breakfast and sit across from Mom and Landon and listen to Landon explain a modification to the watchtower design and I let the morning be ordinary. Ordinary is available to me today in a way it has not been for twenty-five days. I take it.

I wandered around the place which strangely seemed like Olympus, but it wasn't Olympus. Have I travelled backwards in time? Shut up mind! You always say the worst possible things. The people around me looked at me weirdly. I said that out loud didn’t I? Stupid, stupid me. These people were still staring. It was creepy and they were all wearing clothes which was outdated in fashion world. That’s exactly how Luke says it. I bothered to cross check the quantity of Novanium. How could I be so stupid and impulsive? I rushed

I could only find an an answer, with the sight of Reece having fallen asleep on both Ava and I, during the movie, so maybe that, was a slightly strange thing to witness. In my time spent, getting to know Reece, it wasn't hard to pin point the fact that He was a workaholic, so he rarely took time off. It felt nice, to know that I gave him a reason, to take a break every now and then, because he needed it. I didn't want him to overwork himself. Being around me, he never showed that I was wasting his time or that I was being a distraction, but that he wanted me around. He values our time together and I do too.

Tessa kept refreshing my results page, muttering to herself the whole time. "No way. This must be a system glitch!" The principal and a few reporters came over, staring straight at my score screen. My score was blank. Below it was a line in bold: "Total score: You are ranked in the top 50. Please check back on the 27th for more details." Everyone in the room was stunned. Even the comments section froze for several seconds before it exploded again.