Chapter 2

Jimmy woke to his alarm clock at the usual Saturday time of 6:30. He performed his usual routine and ate his usual cereal for breakfast, then started to get into his usual cloths.

"Today just might be the relaxing day I needed", the genius said to Goddard whose eyes were just starting to light up as he powered on.

What he didn't know was that he was only partially correct. The day would be just that for some, but not for others.

"I wonder if the Garry has been here yet?" he asked himself as he put his socks on. Garry was their mailman and jimmy decided to look out the window to answer his own question.

As he turned to the right to look out the window, he caught site of a blond head finish going down under the window across the street. He quickly turned away, not wanting Cindy to pop back up and catch him staring completely forgetting about the mail.

He pulled his shirt on and made his way down the turned to the kitchen to get a purple flurp from the fridge.

As he walked into the kitchen he noticed that the person at the table seen him yet.

"BOO", he yelled after sneaking up behind the occupied chair.

"AHHH" was yelled in response," you scared me" yelled Hailey, jimmy's little sister, as she turned around in her seat. Her spoon waving as she screamed.

The six year old girl punched her brother only half sincerely. Jimmy clutched his arm where the hit had landed. He then turned away laughing and felt a cool breeze as he opened the fridge.

"I'm heading out, love ya" he called as he ran out the front door, still holding his unopened soda.

As he neared the sidewalk, he remembered the mailman and saw that the flag was up on the mailbox.

"Finally" he cried as he pulled out a small brown cardboard box. He turned around and headed for his clubhouse, the box rattling as he ran.

DNA match confirmed, read the lock as it finished the scan on the hair he had pulled from his head.

He entered and dived down the tunnel to his lab. The tunnel came to a curve and spat him out on an old mattress. After dusting himself off, he ran down a corridor with flashing lights, to a room with even more lights.

In the room was Goddard who had seen the flag on the mail box and had concluded that Jimmy would come here.

Besides Goddard, the only other things in the room was the hover car and a table.

The box again rattled as jimmy set it down and opened it. He pulled out a plastic box of hose connectors. Pulling one out he walked over to the hover car and began to work.

As he worked, he thought back to that morning "why had Cindy dropped to the floor, maybe dropped something, maybe she was playing with Humphrey" he tried to come up with answers for his question

"Maybe she didn't want to be caught staring just like you", Goddard put his two cents in, seeing as how he had seen the whole thing.

Jimmy just stared at his companion realizing that he had been vocalizing his thoughts. His cheeks blushed with embarrassment, not wanting even Goddard to know that he had been thinking of Cindy. After regaining his composer he dismissed the thought that Goddard had put in his head and continued working.

With the cut hose now fixed, jimmy started up the hover car and pushed a button that opened the roof to the outside world.

Goddard and him headed in the direction of the park to meat 2 people.