Chapter 1

Disclaimer: This story is for NaNoWriMo ‘08. You may distribute it, but entirely under the permission of me. Please leave a comment or send an email to jamie.spurs@gmail.com with the subject of NaNoWriMo for permission. Enjoy!

It was a dark misty night, and Alan was leaving his house for a party. He did not know what the party was about, but his friends Johhny and Alex had invited him, so he went along.

He arrived at 8:30pm, 10 minutes late. he gave his apologies to the doorman, took off his coat, and hung it on the dusty, old coat rack. He choked as a small abundance of dust flew across the room, and made his way to the main room. This was going to be a boring party, as he could see but four people in the room. A man with a beard, apparently called Tod, Johhny, Alex, and a man who had a nearly bold head but was obviously un-comfortable with it, called Charlie. They were playing scrabble, and Tod had just made the word ‘Awesome’.

“Yes! That really is awesome”, he said with and ear to ear grin across his face.

Charlie wasn’t listening, and was doing something on his iPhone, probably a game. So far, however, none of them had noticed him. he knocked on the door, and Tod came over to greet him.

“Hey there, you must be Alan”, he said. he was obviously the oldest, with an un-shaven beard. 

“Yeah, that’s me.” He said. He was feeling out of place. All the others were like magnets, but he was the piece of plastic in the way

“D’you wanna come and play?” asked Johnny. Phew. Johnny still regarded him as a friend, but Alex was ignoring him. His iPod was playing a song he’d never heard of, but he was enjoying it. 

“Dinner’s Ready!” Shouted Charlie. 

“How did you know that?” Asked Alex, obviously keen to find out

“Had the video chat app on my iPhone open” He said. And thus, the five of them collected their pepperoni pizzas and sat down to eat…..