As promised I finally finished the next chapter in my blog story.
To any new visitors...
This is what it is about.
This is what happened last time.
This chapter is dedicated to my mother, Betsie. She said: "One of the others is a talking cat... I love talking animals...." Well, I do too. And I really like bringing whackyness into this story.
Anyway... Here it is the next chapter in the BLOG STORY...
Chapter 2- Timer:
185 hours, 25 minutes
Jake felt like he had been walking for days, but in
reality it hadn’t been much more than 12 hours. He hated how quiet everything
was. It felt as though he was walking in a soup. So far he’d encountered seventeen
cars; all of them had their drivers frozen in mid action, like his mother and
father. He hated the feeling of knowing that their fate was depending on him.
Jake’s GPS
started vibrating in his hand. When he looked at the screen he saw a red dot
had appeared on the screen. He checked his dot and figured out whoever was the
other dot was two blocks away.
New energy surged
through his veins. Jake took off running toward the other red dot. As soon as
he reached the street the red dot was supposed to be on he spotted her. She was
the first moving person he had seen all day, and by the look on her face he was
hers.
“Are you one of
the others?” Jake asked her when he reached her.
“Yes!” She was
nearly in tears. “Are you Jake?” she asked.
Jake was
startled, as far as he was aware he’d never seen this girl before. How does she know me?
“Yes, and you are…”
he asked the girl.
“Sarah, but I don’t
think we’ve ever met. I just know I needed to find you.” The girl said.
“Me?” Jake asked
Sarah handed him
a stopwatch, like the one Jake had, and handed it to him. Its screen read 46
hours, 17 minutes. Jake looked up at Sarah with alarm in his eyes.
“You have less
time left than me!”
Sarah nodded.
“My letter said I
needed to find you. It said we needed to fuse our stopwatches together and then I
would be safe.”
“Fuse the stopwaches
together?” Jake was very confused.
Sarah handed him
a USB cable from her bag. “It said we needed to connect them with this cable.”
Jake nodded, he
took the cable and plugged it into the port on his stopwatch and took the other
end of the cable and got ready to plug it into Sarah’s stopwatch.
“Wait, wait. Are
you sure we should do it this way?” He asked.
“Yup, the letter
said we needed to do it exactly this way.” Sarah answered.
Jake took a deep
breath and inserted the cable. Both screens lid up and Sarah’s timer started
counting down very fast.
“No! Don’t do
that!” They both yelled. Jake tried to remove the cable but it was stuck. Sarah
started to cry.
The timer kept
going until it reached zero. Sarah screamed.
“TRANSFER COMPLETE.” Jake’s stopwatch announced. “TIME
LEFT: TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-ONE HOURS, THIRTY-FIVE MINUTES.”
Sarah and Jake
looked at each other with wide eyes. Slowly Jake let out his breath.
“I think it
worked.” He said.
“But what about
my watch?” Sarah asked, holding out the now blank stopwatch.
Jake took a deep
breath and tried to think of an explanation.
“I really don’t
know.” He said.
“I think I could
answer that for you.” A voice said behind them. They both turned and stood face
to face with a tabby cat. They stared at it for a moment then realized the cat
had been the one to speak.
“Well, don’t you
want to know?” the cat asked.
“You, you’re a,
cat!” Jake said.
“Why of course I’m
a cat, do I look like a dog?” The cat looked at them as though they were mad.
“But you can talk.” Sarah said.
“We cats have always talked.” The cat replied. “You
humans just never listen.”
The three stared
at each other for a while.
“Well, are you
going to stand there watching me like mindless carrots, or are you going to
follow me?” The cat pointed his tail down the street.
“I guess.” Jake
said.
“Good then try
and keep up!” the cat darted down the street. Jake and Sarah looked at each
other, they burst out laughing.
“Mindless
carrots!” They said in unison.
They looked back
at the cat; he was almost at the end of the street now.
“I think we
better get going before he gets cross at us." Jake said.
---X---
“Here we are.”
The cat said to them. He had led them through a maze of yards and streets, and
was now sitting on top of a box.
“Hey, I got one
like that earlier.” Sarah said.
“Me too.” Jake
said as he approached the box, the cat jumped off and revealed Jake’s name on the
box. Jake carefully lifted the lid and examined the contents. He took out two
lunch packs and an envelope. He tore it open and read it out loud.
Dear Jake.
Good, you have
found Sarah and Mittens. I trust you and Sarah have transferred her time to
your stopwatch. You should now have a bit more than 230 hours left. As you find
the others you will need to add their time to your watch. Trust me, you will
need it.
You also need to
stick together as a team. If any one of you leaves the group they will die and
the time you transferred from them will be forever lost. You MUST stay
together.
The four others
should be on their way to you by now. Remember to keep an eye out for them. As
soon as everyone is gathered I will reveal myself and tell you and your team
where you need to go.
There are two
bicycles at the end of the street waiting for you. Use them well.
Stay alert.
Stay safe.
Keep together.
Remember to rest.
I will write to you
again soon.
Mr. X
PS: I know you must
be hungry. Please enjoy your dinner.
“Dinner?” Sarah
asked.
“Yes, you’ve been
on the road all day now.” Mittens said. “To your bodies it is about nine thirty
at night, even though it looks like its seven in the morning.”
“I hadn’t thought
about that yet.” Jake said. “That sure explains why I’m so hungry. I didn’t eat
lunch!”
“Well then you
had better eat.” Mittens said to the kids.
“What about you?”
Sarah asked as she opened her pack.
“Oh, I’ve already
eaten. You have no idea how easy it is to catch mice when they are frozen.”
Mittens said licking his lips.
After they
finished their dinner Jake and Sarah stretched out in the shade of a tree and yawned.
“Good night.”
Sarah said.
“Good night.”
Jake said. He started thinking how strange his day had been, and hoped with all
his might that this was only some weird bad dream.
There it is!
Comment below what must happen next, because I don't know about you, but I really want to know!
See you next time.
~DFTBA
