"How Can I not notice you, Jeremy?" The three exchanged pleasant words, catching up with each other. Hussayn said goodbye to the two as he went to the coffee machine to get his morning doze of caffeine. He noticed that the girl behind the register was Jessica, now wandering towards the coffee machine. They were not familiar though, the girl rarely can be seen in class, so Hussayn never had the chance to have a conversation with her. Taking a plastic cup of coffee, Hussayn looked through the Mini Mart, he noticed another girl from HS, Debbie, he defended her from a senior bully many many times, it was a long time ago. Hussayn couldn't see anybody got bullied, may it be male or female. For him, bullying is a bad example of how society alienate minorities or those who are slightly different, and worse, it's keeps on being practiced, even today.<br/><br/>He took a sip of the coffee and went to the register when a lightning struck outside, blinding him just a few seconds. In shock, he rushed outside to find out what is happening, followed by the two girls. He saw Derek and Jeremy in front of the Mini Mart, looking at a charred tree where the lightning struck. Before he could ask anything, another one struck. He could feel his limb getting numb, and his consciousness gone. He woke on what seems to be a gravely road, he could not identify anything in his surrounding, everything changed.<br/><br/>He stood and saw the two girls also fell to the ground and were just regaining their consciousness. He offered his hands to both of them, asking "Are you two okay?", attempting to calm them down. Hussayn was far from calm, though. He was shaken, having just awaken from being struck by an odd lightning with an odd color to somewhere he couldn't recognize.<br/><br/>Hussayn looked around, finding that Derek and Jeremy was talking to someone. The man looked Mexican, with a cowboy hat on his head, and Hussayn could tell from his face that the man was confused. Hussayn walked towards the three men, he could hear Jeremy talking about Toronto, it was all he could hear. He gets further closer, and the man with the cowboy hat started to explain that they're in Mesa Verde, Arizona province.<br/><br/>Before he could say anything, Hussayn was handed a newspaper by Jeremy that looked even more confused than the man was. He was told to find anything strange in it and quickly grabbed it. It was all in Spanish, Hussayn have a very basic Spanish, but he could translate the front page as:<span style="font-weight: bold">'Celebration of the 161th Annual Festival of Santa Ana.'</span>There was an image too, a picture of Mexican flag and American flag with a 'VS' between them. Strangely, the American flag only has 36 stars on it. "Well, this is something strage." Hussayn said. He further examined the article, from his limited grasp of Spanish, he could tell that Santa Ana was a Mexican hero in the Mexican American War in 1853 caused by the USA aggressive expansion towards Mexican land. At the end, there is another image of the current North America with the borders of it's sovereign nations. Hussayn was shocked, the borders weren't like anything he ever studied in school. USA has only the original territories when they won against the Great Britain, the Louisiana purchase, plus Florida, and minus Louisiana. Mexico's territory stretched all the way and it looked like that Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California is a part of Mexico, while the map showed 'France' on top of Louisiana. Canada looked significantly bigger, too. Hussayn noticed that Oregon, Wyoming, and Idaho are now part of Canada, while Alaska remains Russian. "What the hell this is suppose to be?!" Hussayn said, shocked.