Eddie pov

I need to figure this out. Jerome is right behind me. Um how does the world turn backwards? If that happened wouldn't we go back in time? So a time machine? Those don't exist! I walked into my first class. Science. Eric's class. I sat in the back and pulled out my thinking notebook. Dad rattled on about something no one cared about. Someone closed my notebook. Eric.

"Please pay attention Mr. Miller" he said. I rolled my eyes.

"I know what we're talking about" I said.

"Really would you like to explain" he asked going back to his desk. I looked at him. Maybe he had something on his desk that would give me a clue. I saw a globe. A GLOBE! Earth revolves backwards. It can go both ways. Oh I feel accomplished. I grabbed my bag and got up.

"Where are you going?" Eric asked. I waved him off and went to the house. I went down to the celler. Victor wasn't down there which was good. I found a globe. It looked all old. Well time to break it. I pushed it off the table and it opened. It broke into single pieces. In the bottom part was the key. I shoved the key in the box. It opened.

A weird piece of glass was inside. It had a word on it. I shrugged. I closed the box and shoved the key in my bag. The clue was on the globe. The next clue is found in a place where looks are visable. I am lost. Looks are visable. I have no clue. I hope I can figure this out. I heard a noise.

"Who's down there?" Victor boomed. Shit. I went into the secret study and shut the door. I held my breath and looked through the hole. Victor was doing his experiments. He poured one out. "I knew I shouldn't have tested that on those kids" he said to himself. What?

"Now those girls are in a nightmare" he muttered. He did this to them! I feel like coming out and kicking his ass. I stayed in there though.

"Oh well if someone asked what happened I blame it on those boys. They are their boyfriends after all" he continued. He's framing this on us. He's lower than Rufus.

I can't believe this.

Jerome pov

Why did Sweetie Junior storm out of the class? Maybe he is figuring the mystery. He cannot be ahead of me. I left class too. I went to the library for research. Blah.

Ok ocean meets grass. Um. Beach. Zen garden. I opened up a book that had to do with geological stuff. I saw a map. Wait. Ocean meets grass. A MAP.

This book looked old so where is the clue. What's like a map? A globe. I looked around the library and found globes. I twisted them open. Nothing. Where is it? Sweetie can not be ahead of me. No way. I need Mara and will get her.

No matter what.

Patricia pov

Ok so my body feels as if it could collapse at any moment. This place is weaking me. My body feels like a blob. Worthless stupid blob. Just awful. It's not like I have a disease or and am going to die pain but it's just weakining. Like I can't really do anything. My wrist probably are red and fleshy underneath the cuffs. They feel tighter and tighter when I struggle.

The loud voice only gives us certain times we can get out of the bed a day. If we get out they get tighter and they chain us to the bed. Like a mental patient. Or someone who doesn't want to get a shot and is trying to punch out the doctor or try and escape. I hate it even more than before.

Then there are my dreams. They are usually of Eddie. Him in pain. It's like a nightmare. A dream in a dream. It hurts me. A lot. Seeing him in pain is pure horror. I know he can take care of himself but I still would never ever want to lose him. That would be awful. I would fall into a depression. When Rufus took him that scared me enough. Him dying is to bad to think of.

I really do care about him.