Once upon a time (Open)

[Onya Falch]

Onya walked into the book nook, glad to be out of the snow. She said waved to the store owner, thankfully he had hired her, even though she was one of the shyiest girls, and that she had never worked a day in her life. Maybe that’s why she wanted to start working, mostly because it’s a book store, and she could never be able to work at Barnes and Nobles. Because she couldn’t deal with that many people at once; she just couldn’t, one person was bad enough for her, she couldn’t handle twenty of them .



Moving behind the work counter, she placed her bag on the floor as closest to the counter as it could, then placed her jacket on top of her bag. It was the weekend, so she wasn’t sure how many people would be coming in today, it made her anxious just thinking about it. She took a deep breath; she had to get a hold of herself. She couldn’t keep doing this, she needed to relax, she drew in a deep breath, and then exhaled. What happens, happens, she had to stop over thinking everything, she needed to just let things happen and take things one step at a time.



Now, there were book shelves to restock, and maybe some sneaky reading to do. She went into the back and grabbed some books that needed to be restocked on the shelves. She went to the young adults section, putting up some hunger game books. She never got to getting the hunger games, with how popular it has gotten, it’s a surprise to her that she never thought of reading them. Once her hands were free of books, she picked up the first book of the series and started reading it. Like always, her powers kicked in when she started reading, the words of the book came to life around her, the characters looking like they did in the movie, because yeah she saw the movie.

[Daniel Taylor]

Daniel was walking by The Book Nook. Not that Daniel needed more books in his home, but books. He could never have too many books. Daniel looked through the window at what books were on display. He wasn't looking for anything in particular. Just something that he was going to enjoy reading. He entered the store.

And walked right into the Hunger Game. Daniel stood at the door really confused about what was happening. He was 100% sure that he had walked into The Book Nook. He had been at the store many times before, but this was new to him. He looked around at the characters. Daniel never had read the books nor seen the movie, but he was positive that these were the characters from the Hunger Game. It seemed like they were following what was happening in the beginning of the story line.

Daniel had no clue of what to do. Should he leave and come back another time? Or should he stay and browse the bookshelves? Katniss walked by. Daniel reached out to Katniss only to have her turned into dust. Daniel pulled back his hand. Katniss took back her form. This was not normal.

"Hello," Daniel called out into the book store. "If this is a bad time I can come back another time."