Chapter 1
"No, dummy, not different planets, parallel universes." Aura's pencil stopped moving but she didn't turn her head. The classroom had 18 desks, but each desk was wide enough to sit two kids at a time. Tommy and Jane were one desk over and one desk behind Aura. They were twins and their birthday was in June, so they were already eleven. Jane was the expert on science and Tommy was the expert on using the nuggets of knowledge he gained from Jane to conduct experiments that usually resulted in black smoke billowing out of their garage. They lived across the street from Aura which meant that she had a good view of the frequent carnage. The twins talked constantly, but Mrs. Malone had given up on reprimanding them halfway through the first semester. The other kids had learned to tune them out. Aura had too, but her subconscious must have picked up on something because her earlobes were itching. She stared blankly at her half-finished math problem and listened. &qu