3: The Spirit's Call

The Baudelaires were treated greatly at Terabithia. Sunny cooked delectable meals for everyone. Klaus spent most of his time taking care of Beatrice, but occasionally went to the library to teach her and select others how to read. Violet sat right outside view of the gate, and worked on an alarm system to alert when somebody enters Terabithia.

One night, Jess invited them to a party at the room above the restaurant. "It's my birthday tomorro," he said. "You don't need to get me presents. Just work harder than ever on your jobs and I'll be happy."

They agreed. As planned, they met up in the room, ate the great marble cake Sunny had made, and talked about all the troubles they faced along their jouneys.

"Dang," Jess said. "You should all be gaurding the entrance with the things you've faced."

"Yeah, we've been through a lot, have'nt we?" Violet asked her siblings. They agreed.

"What with being almost dropped from the top of a building in a cage, almost wed, almost eaten by leeches, almost captured by the police, losing our best friends, finding and losing our friends' brother, being stranded on a strange island, and sailing across the ocean in a storm without a map, I'd agree." Klaus said.

"And Olaf, too." Sunny added.

After a while the party cleared out, and just the 5 people were left in the room.

"Well, see ya!" said Jess, and he headed toward the door.

"Yup," replied the Baudelaires. "See ya!"

Suddenly, a quiet, eerie whisper rang out through the room.

"Jess"

Jess halted acutely, a word which here means "very quick and sharply as soon as he heard it." He looked around to see if the others had heard it. Sure enough, they had.

"Jesssss"

"Leslie?" Jess called out.

"Hellp- meeeee"

The voice died out, and the Baudelaires sat down on the bed. Jess, however, hadn't moved a bit since he had first heard it. He was still standing there, listening and thinking. After about 1 more minute, he walked out of the room very slowly.

The Baudelaires were still thinking about the voice the next day. They remembered Jess had told them something about his Queen Leslie dying. Maybe he hadn't told the whole story. They tried to find him to talk with him about it, but he was in his room all day thinking.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!

Violet looked at her alarm indicator and ran down to her post behind the gate. Her sensor had been set off. Somebody had entered Terabithia.

This chapter is kinda short, but this seemed like a good place to end the chapter. I've noticed that in books and movies the chapter ends or a commercial starts at a cliffhanger, so I took a leaf out of their book, a phrase which here means "I copied what they did."