"So I'm a Schrodinger holder?" Aimi asked. "What's expected of me? What do I do now?"

"Simple, you will be given a task,and you will have to complete that task." Stephen said.

"What happens after that?" Aimi asked.

"I don't know, that's for you to figure out." Stephen said.

"What do yo-" 

Aimi was cut off in the middle of her sentence by the fact that Stephen had disappeared. She let out an exhasperated sigh and got up out of the bed. She hadn't recovered completely and her legs felt like jelly so Aimi leaned against the wall for support. Aimi looked out the window and saw that the night was really starting to set in. Once she was sure that she would be able to support  herself, Aimi slowly walked out of the nurse's office and into the hallway. This was the first time that she had been in school after hours and the emptiness and silence of the hallways give off an eerie feeling which sent a slight chill down Aimi's spine. Aimi walked out of the school and started to make her home. As she was walking home, Aimi realised  that her legs were getting heavier and heavier with each and every step. It was like someone was tying a cinder block to each of her ankles whenever she moved forward, and this made the walk feel like a journey. It didn't help that AImi had to stop every few moments to catch her breath. 

After what felt like an eternity, Aimi finally got home and as she stepped in through the front door,she kicked off her shoes and trudged up the stairs to her room. Once she was in her room, she collapsed straight onto her bed and buried herself in between the covers and just like that, she was out like a light. Aimi woke up to the sound of a phone ringing. Still half asleep, she looked at the digital clock that was on her bedside locker. Its blue glow said that it was 03:47 in the morning. Aimi mumbled to herself and wondered who it was that was calling at this time in the morning. She wandered out into the hallway and followed the sound of the ringing, it wasn't until Aimi reached the stairs that she realised that the ringtone was an instrumental version of Aimi's favourite song. Aimi was relieved when she heard the familiar melody, but that relief quickly vanished and was replaced with anixiety when Aimi remembered that her phone got smashed after the car accident. She lightly stepped down the stairs and slowly crept towards the ringing which was coming from the kitchen. Aimi peeked her head into the kitchen and saw that it was empty, and that her phone was lying on the kitchen table. She flicked on the light switch and the room was flooded with light which caused Aimi to cover her eyes until they adjusted. Afterwards, she stepped to the kitchen table and picked up the phone. The screen read 'unknown number', and Aimi wasn't sure if she should answer it or not. After debating with herself for a minute, Aimi decided to answer the phone and slid her finger across the broken screen to answer.

"Hello," Aimi said. "Who is calling?"

Aimi was greeted with a response of silence. She waited for a few seconds to see if anyone would talk back to her, but no one did. Just as she was about to hang up the call, Aimi heard the sound of someone gasp for breath and the sound of something being knocked over, and then the line went dead. Aimi stood in the kitchen  wondering what that sound was, or what it meant. She half expected the lights in the room to start flickering, or the phone to start ringing again, like something from a horror movie, but instead, Aimi was left in silence. Just as Aimi was about to turn and leave, Aimi felt her legs go from beneath her and her temperature was starting to rise. She started to pant and wheeze before she felt the room spinning and she passed out on the ground. 

Aimi was surrounded in darkness, a darkness that felt somewhat familiar. Comforting yet uncomfortable, close yet distant, new yet old. Aimi felt herself walking around in this darkness but wasn't sure if she was going anywhere or if she was going in circles. She wondered where she was and wasn't sure if she should be here or not. She wasn't sure what was going on. Suddenly a voice started to talking to Aimi.

"Aimi Rapp," The voice said. "The newest of the Schrodinger holders."

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"Who are you?" Aimi asked. "What is this place?"

"Fear not, for this place is home of the Schrodingers. This is Schrodinger's box." The voice explained. "As for who I am, you needn't concern yourself with that."

"What am I doing here?" Aimi asked.

"You are here to recieve your task, a task that will ultimetly decide the course of your future." The voice answered. 

"What is my task then?" Aimi asked.

"Your task is to save a life that is not your own." The voice said. "Once you have completed your task, you shall be brought here to the box again. Also, you should now also be in control of your eye, for your eye is the key of your Schrodinger power." 

"My Schrodinger power," Aimi said. "What does that mean?"

"Only you can figure that out, go now child. Go and carry out your task." The voice said.

As the voice finished his sentence, everything around Aimi started to glow and the darkness was soon whisked away as if it never existed in the first place. When Aimi came to, the first thing she was greeted with was the her mother standing over her. When Aimi asked what happened, her mother told her that she had heard something falling last night and went to check on what it was and that she saw her lying on the ground and that her father had to carry her up to her bed. When Aimi asked if her mother had heard her phone ringing last night and her mother just looked at her with a curious expression after a shake of her head. 

Aimi went to school later that morning. She had missed out on morning assembly and first period, so she hadn't heard anything of the news or announcements, but from what she saw in science it seemed that Jessica hadn't come into school. In between the teacher's instructions on how to do the experiment, someone had told Aimi that Jessica had been involved in some sort of accident and was going to be out of school for the next few days. At the end of the period, Stephen had stepped up behind her and dropped a scrap of paper onto her experiment book. On the little piece of paper, it said to meet up on the roof during lunch. The rest of the morning and afternoon passed by slowly, and as soon as lunch came, Aimi made her way straight up to the roof, and there she saw Stephen, waiting for her. Stephen greeted her by asking her about last night.

"So you were there then?" Stephen asked. "And you're task is to save someone else's life?"

"Yeah, that's about the gist of it." Aimi said. "But figuring out when someone is about to bite the bullet is the hard part." 

"The keeper also said that you are now  in control of your eye?" Stephen continued.

"The keeper?" Aimi questioned. "Anyways, yeah, he said something about it being the key to my power."

Stephen went quiet for a minute and began thinking. After a minute, he stepped towards Aimi and placed a hand on her head. Aimi stared at him and wondered what he was doing. Stephen asked Aimi to close her eyes and focus on the blackness that she saw. Aimi didn't know whether to call Stephen crazy, or stupid, or both. She decided not to say anything, but instead do what he asked her to do. While she was focusing, she started to feel cold, and her eye started to burn up again, and suddenly, she felt numb all over. Stephen told her to open her eyes and Aimi was shocked at what she saw. The colour in everything was gone. Everything was reduced to grey. Stephen asked her what she could see and she told him that everything was grey, but there was the occasional white flame appearing from the railing that was on the edge of the roof. When Aimi asked what it meant, Stephen didn't know what to say to her. He just told her that every Schrodinger holder's powers were different, and that they were designed to help them complete their task. Slowly Aimi's vision returned to normal and the colour in everything came back, and the white flame disappeared. 

The final school bell rung out and Aimi decided to go and check up on Jessica, to try and make up for all the times Jessica visited her in the hospital. When she got to the house, Aimi saw that the driveway was empty which meant that her dad had gone off to work most likely. Jessica's mother passed away after she gave birth to her, so she had lived with only her dad all her life, which meant that while he was working, Jessica was on her own. Aimi went up to the door and gave her usual pattern of knocking to let someone know that it was her that was there, but she got no answer. She knocked one more time and still, no answer. Aimi was stumped, she wondered where Jessica was, and then she remember that something had happened, but she didn't know what. Aimi decided to try out her power again, and when she did she saw a darkening grey flame that was slowly growing black coming from Jessica's room window. 

Aimi didn't know what these flames meant, but a flame turning black didn't seem like a good sign.