Is it reality? A dream? There are times when 15 year old Maria Mackenzie Blu gets this pounding headache and has a 'vision' of a girl dressed in all black wearing a strange helmet of some sort and hearing the beeping of what seemed to be a heart monitor. She doesn't know why or if it's just a hallucination, but recently it has happened more and more frequently. And then one time, she sees a tears slid down the girl's face and a single word... "Help..." Uttered so weakly, almost inaudible, but it was said. But what can Maria do? Isn't she just a normal high schooler like everyone else? Story also known as: The Beating of her Heart