Here's chapter 2
He quickly glanced at Sydney. She was still unaware of him. This was his chance. He took a step and placed his hands on the hearts. The statue's eyes began to glow red. The cave and Sydney disappeared and suddenly everything went black.
"Ahhh" Nigel cried as his hand covered his eyes to protect them from the bright light that had suddenly appeared all around him. He slowly removed his hand and let his eyes adjust to the light. When the spots had disappeared and he could see again he realized that he was standing on a beach facing the ocean. He looked around and all you could see was sand, water and palm trees that seemed to go on for miles. Nigel looked out at the ocean and as he raised his hand to shade his eyes from the sun he cought a glimmer of something on his hand. A gold wedding band on his forth finger. He was married, but to who? He slipped the ring off his finger and look a closer look at it to see if it gave any clue as to who he was married to. "It was just a simple gold ring with no fancy designs on the outside of it", he said and looked at the inside of the ring, "or the insi... wait". He moved the ring to it caught the sun. With love, SB was engraved on the inside of the ring. "SB, Who was SB?" He took a minute to think. No, he didn't know anyone with the initials SB. His gaze turned toward the ocean again.
" Nigel, dinner's ready!" He quickley turned around and saw a beach house he hadn't noticed before. He looked for the owner of the voice, but whoever it was had already gone back into the house. He turned towards the house and had begun to walk when it hit him. That was her, his solemate, the SB and that voice. Why did it sound so familiar, as if he'd heard it say his name a thousand times before.
Nigel walked into the house and into the dining room. His body seemed to know where it was going but his mind had no recalection of the house or anything else he had seen. The dining room table was filled with food. "How many people were they feeding?" he wondered.
"Hey!" Nigel heard a woman say and quickly spun around. Walking down the hall towards him with a child in her arms was the one and only Sydney Fox. He glanced down at her hand and saw that she was wearing a ring identical to his only smaller. But wait he thought. The initials on his ring were SB and Sydney's initials are SF. She walked up to him and the child eagerly stretched her arms out to him. Sydney handed the child off to him and disappeared into the kitchen. The child, who he guessed was a girl because she was wearing a pink dress, couldn't have been more than a year old. He was in complete shock. He was married to Sydney and they had a child. Was this really happening?
"You can put her in her high chair, Nige you don't have to hold onto her all night." Sydney had poked her head out of the kitchen.
"Right." Nigel replied as he walked over to the table and sat the baby into the high chair. Sydney walked out of the kitchen holding yet another bowl of food.
"Are you okay?" She asked."You look like you saw a ghost."
"What?" Nigel said he still couldn't believe that it was Sydney that was standing in front of him. "oh, um, no, I'm fine. Can I see your ring?"
Sydney gave him a weird look but took off her ring and handed it to him. He looked at inside of her ring and just like his it was engraved only hers said With love, NB. Well that makes sense those were his initials but he still couldn't figure out why his said SB.
"Nigel, what's wrong?" Nigel looked up, he had been starring at his, yes his, daughter. "Why did you want to see my ring? It hasn't changed in the past year and a half."
"No, uh. If we're married, why does mine say SB instead of SF?"
"What? Nigel what are you talking about? My initials are SB. my name is Sydney Bailey now."
"You took my last name?"
"Yes, Nigel what is wrong with you? Is this about the baby?" Nigel looked back down to his daughter with a questioning look on his face. Sydney sat down at the table and Nigel followed suit and sat in the only other chair. "I mean, I know we agreed to wait a few years before we would try for another but are you sure you're okay with this?"
Nigel was wondered." What?" he asked.
"The baby Nigel. The baby." Sydney told him.
"What are you talking about?" Nigel was completely confused. He looked at his daughter again. She looked fine.
"Nigel, seriously what's up with you? I told you this morning that I'm pregnant and you're acting like it never happened."
"Your pregnant!" Nigel exclaimed, then realized what he had said. According to her he already knew that she was pregnant. " I mean, um, ya, I uh I remember. I'm just still in a bit surprised at the news."
" I know it wasn't planned and we wanted to wait but we didn't plan for Kate either, you know how freaked out we were but it turned out great."
"Kate? Who's Kate?"
"Nigel, your daughter, our duaghter." She said gesturing towards the baby in the high chair. "Nigel, now you're really freaking me out. What is going on with you?"
he was going to sound like an idiot but he had to say something. She was thinking there was something wrong with him. "Syd listen I woke up this morning and we were on a hunt for the idole creole."
"Nigel what are you talking about?"
"Just listen to me Syd. I woke up this morning on a hunt with you. We found the relic and I touched the hearts and showed up here."
"Nigel, we found that relic two years ago."
"No, Syd! We found it 20 minutes ago. I am holding onto the idol right now in the cave as we speak ."
"Nigel we found that relic 2 years ago. We don't even work at the university anymore. We haven't been on a hunt in the last 6 months."
"No Syd, I know this sound crazy but you have to believe me." When Sydent didn't respond to him he looked up at her. Her face had begun to fade and within seconds everything around him was black.
