Oh my provolone. There- what... I recognise all of them, all the people... But I’ve never seen them.

‘SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!’ A tall girl yelled.

Her name was Laura Queen, and she was... Rude, arrogant, but she had a story. All of these people.. They had a story. MY story. A smaller boy, a small boy the size of a pixie, tried to reason with Laura.

His name was Aqua, and he was transgender. He was also the most affectionate of my characters, the nicest. The gentleman, basically. Hailey, another character of mine, swatted Aqua from the air, bearing her wolfish fangs. She was a wolf-human hybrid, and probably the most problematic. Rachel, a pretty redhead girl, who was the most diplomatic of everyone, stood on the nearest chair and tried getting everyone to be quiet. I cringed at her; she was amazing, but her authority wouldn’t work on any of these characters.

Callista, the one witchy character of mine, took out her wand from her plaid skirt and cast a spell on everyone. A bubble with silver lining appeared around everyone. Callie gave Rachel the go-ahead.

‘We don’t know how we got here...’ Rachel started.

I groaned. These were MY characters, so they were my responsibility. Realisation flicked inside me.

‘I do,’ I said.

Rachel looked at me. Her eyes were azure, the exact shade I wrote them as. I stared back. Then I started,’ You’re all stories. You’re not supposed to be real. But you are.’

‘Stories?’ Laura hollered, banging on the bubble; of course, Callista wasn’t the most adept witch of her age,’ I’ll show you STORIES! You’ll be a story when I get out of this f-‘

‘LAURA! Shush!’ Aqua squeaked.

‘Okay.. well, uh, I’m your creator, I guess...’ I tried to say.

Nova looked impressed; she’s the stargazer. Owen looked as if I was speaking crazy stuff; of course, he was the one who only trusted himself. Tiny Theo said nothing.

For the first time, I looked around the room. Great, it was doorless, windowless and the walls were extremely stiff-looking. Unless a million Laura’s were to smash the room in half, we’d be stuck here forever. Great.