Meredith

Chapter 2

Partially, Meredith didn't want to go to school.And partially, she wanted to stay home and play outdoors.

"Mother," she had said that morning. "Mother I don't think you understand my liking for outdoors and my disliking for school."

"Yes, I think that I understand everything, my child," her mother had said while tying a bright green ribbon in Meredith's tan-blond hair.

Meredith was a perfect impression of the young Queen Victoria who was now in her young reign of England.With her small brown eyes, french-braided tan-blond hair tied back in a bun with soft little ringlets around the face, frilly dresses and petticoats, and her silk gloves that reached almost to the elbow, it was very hard to tell the difference between the two, except that Queen Victoria was only eleven and Meredith thirteen.

Later, her mother walked her to school, said goodbye, and took a carriage home.

At recess, Meredith sat by the fence, staring very strangely at the sky. Her face looked so queer, yet like she was concentrating on something. The bell rang sooner than she expected, and all of the children ran inside to eat their lunches.

'Well,' she thought. 'At least I have somewhere to go next...' Her thoughts trailed off as she suddenly saw something appearing, something that represented a spiral with green and blue stripes running around and around it. She thought that it was a trick, so she went to check the other side. Nothing there, she went to where she had seen it last and decided to touch it, if it were safe of course. She touched it, and the next thing that she knew, she was spinning so fast that everything was a blur and her stomach hurt. Just then, she realized that she was inside the spiral and spinning about two-hundred miles per hour.

She screamed for help, but her voice just echoed. She tried to grab the green and blue walls for support, but she found herself yet in another spiral that was yellow and pink, so she grabbed the walls and found herself what she thought was the middle of the universe.