Chapter 4
We ran as fast as we could, well as fast as Johnny could waddle, to the dining hall where Reed and Sue were. "Hey! You guys are never gonna believe what just happened to us." Johnny told them, but they looked at him funny. "What?" he asked, trying to catch his breath? Then he looked down. "Well, we can explain this."
We all got up and went to go get Ben, to see if he was having these 'symptoms' too. Sue and Reed argued back and forth about what happened to us. Sue said the cloud changed our DNA, but Reed kept telling her no. But then Johnny managed to keep a flame light on his finger, and then he told them how the flame was everywhere, and proceeded to tell them about my 'symptom'. "We got to find Ben." Reed said in a serious tone. And of course, there just had to have a sibling fight right in the middle of all this.
"Cut it out, Johnny." But he kept turn the flame on and off. "Johnny." Her voice get more angered by the minute. Then she turned around and yelled at him, but he still did it.
I was finally at my breaking point. "Enough!" I marched over to Johnny angrily and licked my thumb and forefinger in snuffed out his small flame. "Now stop fighting, this isn't helping anything!" As I turned around to go help Reed get the door open, Johnny made some comment about how he wished I was his girlfriend, because I was so feisty. That should have put a smile on my face, because in all honesty, I really did love Johnny, he's been my best friend for years. Just the way he is made my heart beat faster and the nickname he gave me, Blue, the way he says it makes my heart melt. But now was not the time to be thinking about that. But he was still acting weird.
Reed slowly put his hand down to the bottom of the door and his hand went all liquidy-ish and went under the door. His hand slowly made it's been up the door, unlocked the door from the inside, and slowly made its decent down. He plucked his hand from underneath the door, stood up, and looked at us. "That's gross." Johnny said nonchalantly.
BOOM!
Reed tried to open the door but it was jammed. "Its stuck!" he cried.
"Move!" I shoved him out of the way. "He- yah!" With one swift kick to the door, it came tumbling down. Everyone looked at me with confusion. "What? I'm a third degree black belt. But now is not the time for my life story." I quickly moved into the room and gasped at the gaping hole in the wall. Johnny quickly followed and came waddling in still holding on to my pink parka.
"Look. Look, look, look, look." He said quickly. "What is that thing?" pointing to the large, dark figure moving through the thick forest.
Everyone was so enamored by the figure, we were all shocked to hear Victor's voice come from behind, "What's going on here? What happened in here?" Sue immediately went to make sure that he was all right. But I was too concerned for Ben's well being to pay attention. I felt so useless standing there looking out the large hole.
"Hey." Johnny said, wiping a tear away. "Don't cry, Blue. It'll all be okay." I was crying, I guess I never felt the tears run down my cheeks. He wrapped me into a hug, which I quickly rejected.
"Both hands on the parka, Johnny." I reprimanded.
"Fine." He groaned in defeat, which brought up a little chuckle. Just what I needed. There were something's that I enjoyed about Johnny's new attitude. "Any ideas where the big guy going?" He asked, leaning up against the wall.
I looked down at my feet and noticed a picture, of Ben and Debbie? Slowly I reached down to grab it and showed Reed. "He's going home."
