Shayla's+Group

//__---An unknown place in an unknown world---__ // The sun beamed through Toresha's window, in a beautiful place called New Jersey. She was dancing to her favorite song titled Superwoman, by Alicia Keys. "Toresha turn that T.V. down", yelled her mom. "Okay mom", Toresha yelled back, testing her mom knowing that she was very irascible. She turned down the T.V. and continued getting ready to go to Bob Evans when her phone rang. "Ring Ring Ring", sounded the phone. Toresha looked at the phone and rolled her eyes when she saw that it read Jerk. "Hello", she snapped. A deep voice bellowed across the line. “Hey it’s me.” " What do you want Johnny?" Toresha said with an attitude. “Look Resha I'm sorry for not calling you on your birthday”...”I was a little caught up an”-. “Johnny I don't need any excuses from you,” Toresha said cutting him off. "You’re always caught up in //something//", Toresha said exaggerating the word something. “Look now I'm trying to talk,” Johnny said trying to get her attention back. Meet me at the Flea Market at 12:00 today okay? Johnny said in a pleading tone. " Whatever Johnny." Click. The phone line went dead as Toresha hung up. "This boy is working my last nerve", huffed Toresha. She was going to go to the flea market to see Johnny because she really cared for him. She was just upset that he forgot to call her or even think to call her on her 21st birthday.
 * __Jibitss Island__**

Toresha took a shower, got dressed and headed to the Flea Market. She arrived 15 minutes late just to tick Johnny off and to show who had the upper hand. As she was walking into the flea market she felt a tug on her arm. Her instincts told her to sucker punch that person who she thought had cross the line, but her pride told her to remain calm. “Oh my gosh you scared me,” smiled Toresha. “You were about to be in an ambulance headed to the E.R.” Toresha’s smile faded away after she realized the frustration she had went through all day and yesterday. Johnny notices the look on her face and says, "Baby I am so sorry I was caught up in so much stuff yesterday that I couldn’t think about anything, I promise it won't happen again". "Why should I forgive you?" inquired Toresha as she stood in front of her pleading boyfriend. "I’m sorry baby, I should have remembered.” “I messed up, please forgive me." Even though all she really wanted to do was run into his arms, Toresha loved the attention she was getting. With a sigh she said "I don't know, it really hurt knowing that you couldn't remember a very important day of my life". "Come with me and I'll make it up to you, I'll take you shopping," Johnny said. "Alright I guess..." Toresha tried to appear calm and cool when deep inside she was gleaming because she had gotten exactly what she wanted.

As they were both walking, Johnny whispered something in Toresha's ear. They both shared a laugh before walking into the flea market. As they were browsing through the flea market's inventories, Toresha spotted this shirt in a secluded area. When she picked up the shirt she noticed that it read SSTIBIJ DNALSI and other words she couldn't pronounce. "New shirts, I made them this week, my own creation," says the salesman. “Only a limited amount here.” This didn't worry Toresha. She thought that this was the coolest shirt because of the neon colors splattered across it. Johnny didn't care, as long as it made Toresha happy. He bought the shirt for her and walked her to her car. " You know I'm sorry Resha said Johnny sympathetically. "Yeah you probably are but....oh my gosh just give me some thinking time okay? "Okay I understand", said Johnny, with a pouty look on his face. "Oh don't give me that look Johnny", smirked, “but you can have a high five.” “Awww man that's not right at all,” "but I guess I deserve the high five treatment huh?" Questioned Johnny. “You got that right,” Toresha said still laughing. “Well I guess that's what it'll be.” He highfived her and went on his way.

Toresha gets home in a rush with her colorful shirt. She puts it on and looks into her mirror to see how it looks. Toresha surprisingly notices that the words were English just backwards. She begins to recite the words as it reads, "Jibitss Island what a wonderful place to be, take me there so I may see!" As she finishes up the last words, Toresha sees herself going into a parallel world. Mean while, her boyfriend who is at home bored out of his mind, decides to call. When he doesn't get an answer he doesn’t worry. "Aww she's probably not home yet, I’ll give it another try later". Toresha is going crazy, as she is standing in her room spinning out of control. One minute later she is gone. Going into a world of total transition, Toresha falls asleep. As her body floats in the sync of waves, she is suddenly dropped on hard sand. Toresha wakes up, but it takes her a while to be able to see again. After she has regains her sight, Toresha looks around frightened. She screams,” HELLO, IS ANYONE THERE...WHERE AM I," as she finds herself on a dreadful island. Her main concern was now to find her way back home. The first thought that she had was to click her heels together three times like she had seen in the movie " The Wizard of Oz". When that didn't fix her problem, she then shrieked, "//abra-cadbra".// She finally came to the conclusion that this wasn't going to work either. Lying on the ground, a cold gust of wind sends chills up her spine. Toresha is startled by a sudden burst of thunder. In a panic, she franticly paces around. Not paying attention to where she is going, Toresha stumbles over a rock. She forgets what just happened to her, and gapes at the rock. As she captures the rock, it shocks her, then immediately jumps out of her hand. Startled, she takes off into another panic. Impelling really fast, Toresha begins to slow down. Her heart begins to beat really fast; a shortness of breath; darkness in her eyes, she falls to the ground. Toresha is passed out for many minutes.

She awakes and she immediately realized that she no longer had possession of shirt. Her only way back to the past was now missing. Toresha knew that she had to find that shirt, but she had no clue who did this or even what they looked like. The last thing that she could remember was seeing stars. Luckily, she’s wearing a tank top, so she didn't feel naked. As of now, Toresha is very scared. She hears noises behind her and notices four girls standing behind her. A soft scream comes from Toresha as she is shocked to see someone. She springs up to see the girls more vividly. To Toresha, they looked really pretty, but had a terrorizing look in their eyes that gave Toresha a knot in her throat. They had blue eyes, and pink hair. One of them were oddly tall, but all looked different in there own ways. One girl spoke in a tranquil voice and said, "My name is Stephanie". After another they all introduced themselves. Ja'nai, Beth, and Shayla. They all spoke in creepy, but serene voice saying, "Welcome to Jibitss Island". Toresha forces a grin upon her face, as she is fearful of the four girls. Toresha now tries to find an excuse for this. "//I must be dreaming”.// “THAT’S IT!” She exclaimed. “This is all a dream!” Toresha was set on this now. “If you’ll excuse me,” she says to the girls, "I should be waking up now”. Ja’nai, Stephanie, Shayla, and Beth stared at her puzzled as Toresha tried many tactics of waking up. From slapping herself; to purposely getting hurt, and so much more. The four girls giggled as Toresha made herself look like a fool. Conclusively, Toresha came to terms that she really wasn't dreaming about what was happening .They extend their hands toward Toresha, but she looked very hesitant and kindly withheld her hand. Strangely speaking jointly they say, "do not be afraid", "follow us". Toresha sees that it’s getting very dark, so she has no choice but to adhere to them.

Toresha came across some of the weirdest species during this time. She saw an animal that resembled a monkey, but it walked on two feet and stood almost five feet tall. She also observed a walking frog. This did freak her out, as it would have done to anyone. Suddenly, Toresha says, "Jibitss Island?" "Oh my God," "it's Jibitss Island!" Trailing behind them Toresha realizes that the shirt that she had just bought, said that exact island. Not wanting those weirdoes to hear her, she then says in her mind, //"Jibitss Island, could it be?". "I mean, how could I possible come here just from saying those words?" "I wonder if this is a magic trick or something". "Johnny are you playing with my head?" "Noooo this can't possibly be?" "Ok Toresha get yourself together, we have to get to the bottom of this."// Realizing that she is talking to herself, Toresha gets snapped out of her little world. The girls then said, "we are here." Ja'nai decided that the best thing to do in order to make Toresha feel at home was to invite her into their home. Once inside Toresha suddenly remembered that the key to her appearance back home was still missing. Toresha couldn't quite remember everything that happened so she kept her questions to herself. Ja'nai then decided to show Toresha around their home. To Toresha things in the house looked very common to her but she just didn't understand why this was. In the mean time, Beth, Stephanie, and shayla were talking about how they were the ones that stole toresha's shirt, and how they were going to get her mind off the situation. While on the tour of the house, Toresha noticed a room filled with pictures. In the room there was a camera. She easily strayed away away from Ja'nai without her minding and entered the room. Toresha picked up the camera, and once she put it to her face she went inside. The first picture that she was in was a picture she recognized, for it was a picture of her during high school at her senior prom. After 5 seconds the picture changed. It took her into the virtual world of the picture and showed her life before as a young girl; up to during the event; and after it transpired. The next picture showed was one that was token today, which showed the shirt that Johnny bought her. This instantly brought back memories of how stupid he was but also how much she loved a missed him. Then she was put back in the room after it was finished.

When she turned around they were all standing there eyeing her. In wrathful tone Beth said, "what were you doing?" As they were all gazing at her with unfavorable eyes, Toresha says in the most humane voice saying, "oh just looking around at the wonderful pictures", forcing another smile upon her face. The girls then said, "oh ok", with big smiles on their face as though nothing had happened. Toresha looked at them, then rolled her eyes in disgust. The girls led Toresha to her room, where she would be sleeping. The bed was very small and hung from the ceiling it was a very colorful room with almost every color she knew. Toresha thought it was pretty nice. Stephanie showed Toresha the closet. It was filled with clothes exactly like what they were wearing. Neon skirts; silver and black gogo looking boots; and plaid shirts. Toresha looked and said, "oh no, you are not going to get me to wear these." The girls looked and laughed saying,” you have nothing else to wear, this is the style." Toresha giggled, and the girls had a stern look on their faces. Toresha said fine, but in her mind she said, "i'm getting off this darn island tonight." As the girls walked away, one of them turned around as though she heard Toresha. This made her a little frightened.

The next morning a loud bell awakens Toresha. The girls scrambled to get dressed. Toresha sits up too quickly and falls off the bed. Toresha got up and hurried just like the rest of them. Shayla yells, "Hurrry toresha there is an island meeting, me must be there on time!" Toresha pulls out an outfit from the closet, and the clothes fit her perfectly. This was strangely odd to Toresha. The girls ran out the house, and Toresha hurried behind them. As soon as she got out of the house her head got covered with a black bag. As Toresha begins to scream, a gas begins to fill the bag and knock her out. She later wakes up, and discovers she is tied up in a lab with almost one hundred people looking at her. There are two doctors that overhung her. She is fearful and begins to cry. A roaring voice says," //as long as you do what you’re told we will not hurt you//." In a meek and humble voice Toresha utters, "ok." "//Now//", the loud voice says. "//We have been watching, you since you were first born." "Hundreds of years ago we have discovered a way to bring people like you from the past to the future." "Now we need to know how to get us to the past." "That shirt that you were wearing was sent there by a real life transmitter, created by our founder Martin Lawrence." "Once he died his machine was destroyed by his one enemy Will Smith." "He was ordered to be put to death but escaped in the transmitter." "It was never created to take humans to the past, that is how it was destroyed." If were are able to get to the past of your time we will be able to find Smith and his army, and destroy them all." "This is why we need your help with your blood we can-// "WAIT", Torehsa says frantically. "What do you mean my blood?" "First of all you take me away from my family and bring me to this stupid piece of land, now your trying to hurt me?" //"It will only hurt if you don’t cooperate," says the voice.// As everyone is standing around to watch the operation, toresha tries to remember the words to the riddle and see if it takes her back. Only then a mask is put over her face and she falls asleep. When she wakes up everyone is gone, though she is still strapped to the bed.

"HELP ME", Toresha screams. The man with the deep voice comes back, with food. //"I'm sorry I haven’t introduced myself correctly to you." "My name is Dr. Lawrence." "I am the son of Martin Lawrence." "We were not able to do the insertions with you sleep, we need you to pump your muscles for what we need."// "Wait I thought you just needed blood?" //"Well now we need more than just that." "I hope that is fine with you because you don’t have a choice."// Toresha was in a train of thought until the loud annoying voice once again boomed throughout the room. "Did you not here me lady?" questioned the rude man. Toresha shot him a look of disgust, and said " My name is Toresha, not lady. She then added sir to the end of her statement because she didn't know what this guy was capable of doing. " Why do I always have to be in the middle of crappy situations." Toresha whined." "Quit your whining lady, we have a world to save." "I bet you didn't even notice this disorientated miserable world when you teleported here ." said the still unidentified man. "If you didn't notice already, our world is under mass destruction." "We haven't seen the sun in the past 25 years, and the weather is always 95 degrees every single day!" "We, us, and the world need your help." "If we don't think fast, this future will be the present, in a matter of years." "Hhhow diiid the world turn out this way?" stuttered Toresha "." Global Warming." Toresha gasped. "I didn't actually think that Global Warming could destroy our world." " What did you think the news was lying?" questioned the voice "Well yeah I guess, it just all seemed fake to me. "Fake." Fake yelled the voice." It's because of you and your STUPID generation, and everyone who was living when you were living that we have this disgusting, insipid world." Maybe if you recycled something just once the voice squeaked. " We could be living in a world like yours. " One thing could make a difference lady, and you you, you were supposed to be the one to make a difference.

"I don't want to be the one!" "Why me?" //"No one chose to do this is was a necessity." "Now if I could just"-// "NO!" "I CANT LET YOU DO THIS TO ME", Toresha yells in pain. "I want to go home." //"You can't go home, now stay still,"// Doctor Lawrence says impatiently. As toresha gets inserted into, she yells. The doctor stops when the four girls come in. Ja'nai says, "Doctor, you promised us you wouldn't hurt her, how could you, you lied to us." Stephanie then yells, "let her go now!" //"I can't do that", Doctor Lawernce said. "//Can I just go for a quick walk to get air," Toresha asks in a humble and sweet voice. "//Ok"// he said, "//ten minutes//". Toresha is unlocked from the bed, and goes outside. Shayla then whispers in her ear, "Were going to get you out of here." Beth then adds, "Doctor Lawrence was lying about everything, none of those things happen here." "He lied to you, he needs blood from you because you’re from the past, and once her gets it it's going to create a new transmitter." "With this transmitter he will be able to go to your time and look for Smith, and while doing this he will destroy the world, which will leave us in the future without a life!" "We can't let this happen," Toresha says with braveness in her heart. "Come on, we have to find the shirt, it is the key to get you out of here for good," says Ja'nai. All five of the girls right then became a team to defeat the real enemy. They headed toward a building surrounded by guards. It looked like a campground. Two men were standing at the gate. Toresha was not allowed in but the clothes she was wearing helped her to blend in. Shayla faked an injury, so Toresha could get in. The others had ID's to get them in.

They met up with Toresha and headed for the secret chamber, where the shirt was. When they got there Stephanie fell through the trapped door. It was a black tile, so now the others knew what to look for. "Awww she'll be alright!" "She’s very smart and will have a great excuse,"Ja'nai exclaimed. Beth, the brave one sneaked into the chamber and grabbed the shirt slowly. That way the alarm wouldn't sound. Everyone ran out, and Toresha quickly put the shirt on. One of the guards spotted them. Shayla yelled, "run for it!" The girls ran till they were sure they had lost the guards. Toresha gave all of the girls a big hug of thanks. One thing went wrong, they had no mirror. Beth read the shirt for her as Toresha repeated the words. At the last word Toresha disappeared. Then at the very next moment she comes back. The girls are shocked and don't know what went wrong. Behind them Doctor Lawrence spoke. "Ah ha, you thought you could get away huh." Suddenly, all of the girls were captured, along with Toresha. Doctor Lawrence stood holding the real shirt. "What do you think I’m stupid?" "I am Dr.- He was cut off. Will Smith was standing right behind him with a deadly laser gun to his back. "I will shoot a hole through your back," he said in an angry voice. "You lied about me all these years and now you will pay." "You were the one who destroyed the machine, I had one of my own." "You were jealous of your own father, you knew you could never be like him; you killed him- "That’s not true," Dr. Lawrence said ashamed. The guards were shocked, they dropped the girls and Stephanie came running toward them. "Oh my God, Will Smith?" "Is it really you?" "You came back!" She said in a gasp of relief. "Guards take him away," Smith said happy to see the girls.

Toresha was ecstatic that what she had been through, had finally come to an end. She hugged the four girls and thanked them repeatedly. Without thinking twice, Toresha grabbed the shirt, threw it on her body, and quickly stated the words that she had been longing to say. Giving the girls a last goodbye, Toresha disappears. As, soon as she got home she kissed the floor of her bedroom; so happy that she was finally home. She takes the shirt off that had been the result of so many things, good and bad. She threw open her bedroom closet and placed the amazing shirt in a box where it would stay for as long as she could help it and in a safe place. Toresha was thankful of what the shirt had bought her, but she didn't want it to ever fall into the wrong hands, at one point she actually thought about. Seconds later Johnny calls her. She answers the phone, "Johnny?" "Is that you?" Toresha was so excited to hear his voice. "Toresha I’ve been calling you for a half hour, where have you been?" "Half hour?" Toresha says confused. "Yea, half hour, you had me worried sick!" Toresha knew she had been gone longer but spared the long conversation, so she could do something really important. "Johnny have to go somewhere, I’ll be back soon, ok?" "Where are you going?" Johnny asks worried. "I can't explain right now, just trust me." "Ok Toresha just hurry back." Johnny says. Click; Johnny hears the dial tone. Toresha grabs her wallet. She runs to the flea market to get there before it closes. When she arrives she sees all of the shirts. There were ten left, one less then the one she bought. Toresha begins to panic. She buys all of this shirts, spending 50 dollars. As she turns the corner to go home she sees a girl getting in a car with one of the shirts. She runs to catch her, but the car pulls off. Toresha's mind is filled with worry and confusion. Knowing in her heart she was the first, but wouldn't be the last; a moment of fear strikes in her heart.
 * To be continued…….. **