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Dilana's mind had been scrambled beyond rearrangement. Never in the thirteen years of her life had she ever been so befuddled.
"The strange thing is no one could have possibly known so much about Lewis." She though as she treaded back to the displays where Carolynn remained standing.
"Where did you run off to?" Carolynn inquired immediately, tapping her foot impatiently on the tile floor.
"I took a detour," Dilana merely responded, "and I bumped into the strangest dude I have ever met in my LIFE!"
"A strange dude?" Carolynn echoed, bamboozled. "Could you define strange for me?"
"Well, he looks around like this is his first day in a building and then he comes up and says he's some agent from the future."
"Future?" Carolynn was taken aback. "Are you sure you heard that guy right?"
"Well…..he didn't directly say he was from the future, but the name of the "agency" implied time travel."
"Huh." Carolynn folded her arms across her chest. "Anything else?"
"Oh yeah! And he asked about Lewis."
"Why?"
"I don't know. He said something about protecting him."
"That's a sure sign of a stalker!!!" Carolynn exclaimed with alarm. "We'd better warn Lewis." With that, Carolynn scampered away, scanning the fair for Lewis.
"Carolynn!" Dilana called, desperately trying to keep in pace with her friend. Dilana finally caught up with Carolynn in front of Franny's display.
"Nothing." Carolynn stated, dismayed. "I didn't see Lewis's station."
"Well, we only checked half the gym…." Dilana pointed out. "Besides, Lewis may not be here."
"Isn't that his wagon over there?" the 18-year-old inquired, pointing to a table with a bulky something resting on it, covered by a brown blanket.
"Yep. That's his stuff all right." Dilana stated. "Let's get moving!" She took one step forward.
"BOWLER HAT GUY!!!!!!" The exclamation came seemingly out of nowhere. Before Dilana could fully comprehend what was happening, a black and blue blur skidded down the aisle, diving for Bobby Silverstone, who was masked by the starry cloth draped over his body.
"You won't get away with this!" The blur shouted as it grabbed the boy's ankles and caused poor Bobby to practically trip. Unfortunately, he crashed into Carolynn, sending her to the ground. Her head collided with the folding table, upsetting it and sending Franny's assembly of frogs catapulting through the air.
"My frogs!" Franny cried in horror.
"CAROLYNN!" Dilana screeched, rushing over to her fallen friend. Carolynn lay there, unconscious. Felling her pulse, Dilana determined it normal. Since there was no weld on her head, she didn't think Carolynn would suffer from a concussion, despite the fall.
The boy who had made the disturbance, Dilana discovered, was none other than Wilbur "Phony"son. He scrambled over to the scene and looked appalled. "I'm SO sorry!" he exclaimed, stuttering.
"You'd better be!" Dilana growled through gritted teeth. "You could've caused a serious injury!"
Wilbur stood there, frozen in horror, as if he truly wished he hadn't done the deed.
Suddenly, Carolynn stirred and her eyes fluttered open.
Wilbur saw it with his own eyes.
He couldn't deny that the cloaked figure strolling amongst the science displays was none other than the Bowler Hat Guy. Of course, Wilbur didn't recall any stars on his cape, but the despicable gentleman could be using another cloak to deceive the adolescent.
"Bowler Hat Guy!" He cried before he began his immediate pursuit of the figure. Sliding expertly down one isle, he sprinted straight down another, right to the Bowler Hat Guy. He dove onto his stomach and clutched the male's ankles in an attempt to trip the man. Unfortunately the starry blanket flopped over his body, obstructing his view and confusing him. A series of crashing sounds were heard, convincing Wilbur that he had successfully stopped the criminal in his tracks. 'You'll never get away with this-"he began a triumphantly as he wriggled out from under the blanket.
Instead of a filth-ridden man dressed in black rags, Wilbur was shocked to see and blonde haired boy wearing a baseball cap and holding a cardboard box of assorted planets. "-kid with science project." Wilbur finish his victorious sentence half-heartedly, his face heated with embarrassment.
"Dude," the kid said, seeming to attempt to be a gangster, "you almost ruined my solar system and that girl was hurt!"
Wilbur's eyes widened. He had injured someone? Rapidly, he peered over past the boy and to an upset table. The Dilana chick was crouched beside another girl who appeared to be unconscious. "I'm SO sorry!" Wilbur apologized, feeling a large amount of resentment and guilt flood his emotions.
"You'd better be!" Dilana whipped around, her face red in rage. "You could've caused a serious injury."
Wilbur was taken aback at Dilana's chastisement. Her words augmented his horror at his actions and he found himself paralyzed.
At that moment, the other girl opened her eyes a crack and moaned in pain. "D-Dilana?" she rasped, her eyes darting for her friend.
"Carolynn!" the fourteen-year-old cried, embracing the girl named Carolynn. "Are you okay?"
Carolynn responded, but Wilbur only saw her lips move. Wilbur felt himself surprised at how pretty Carolynn was. The girl had shoulder length auburn hair that rested neatly on her shoulders. Her peach skin was as smooth as porcelain and her eyes were two pieces of sea glass, similar to the pieces Wilbur retrieved each year at the beach. Wilbur at last lingered on her lips. They seemed as soft as cotton candy, only less sticky and smoother. Absently, he wondering if they'd taste like cotton candy as well…..
Now, Carolynn stood up on unsteady feet and began to walk towards him…….Wait! To him?????? Wilbur suddenly felt a knot form in his stomach. Was she going to introduce herself to him? He smiled dreamily, a tiny bit of drool escaping from a corner of his mouth.
Soon, it occurred to him that Carolynn had lost her balance. Nimbly, Wilbur extended his arms and caught Carolynn before she fell once again.
Carolynn looked up to Wilbur to thank him and Wilbur felt his heart beat against his ribs like a caged bird begging to be freed. The girl gazed, dumbfounded at Wilbur, although Wilbur was too dumbfounded himself to see her expression of astonishment. A second of silence passed between them, before Dilana grabbed Carolynn by the wrist and pulled her away from Wilbur's grasp.
As Carolynn was yanked away from him, her hand did not immediately come off his arm. Instead, it slid from his elbow to his wrist. Her fingers grazed the palm of Wilbur's sweaty hand and lingered on his fingertips before she was pulled too far to reach.
All of this occurred faster than Wilbur could register: he wasn't positive it had been real at all, but even so, he had felt a tingle race down his spine. After a few seconds of blank expression, he realized that the stream of drool now lingered on his chin. Embarrassed, he swiped the back of his mouth across the saliva to remove it from his face and turned to gaze in the direction of Carolynn's forced exit.
As he watched the girl disappear down another isle, Wilbur's heart ballooned with a new emotion….one he may not want to welcome.
"I'm SO sorry."
"You'd better be! You could've caused a serious injury!"
Carolynn furrowed her eyebrows. Those voices seemed sort of familiar…….at least one did, anyway. The voice that tickled her memory held a feminine sound to it. Carolynn somehow felt she had known someone that was a female, just like her….long ago…..
Sweat poured down her forehead as she tried to recall the girl…… Elaine? Lucy? Wendy? "No……." Carolynn thought. "It started with a D……"
From this thought, more names poured into her head: Danielle, Dora, Dolores, Diana, Dilana, Deborah….
Carolynn's brain paused and backtracked to the second-to-last name. That word brought with it a stream of memories. As her eyelids parted, she called the girls name. "Dilana?"
Carolynn's vision was composed of vague shapes when she opened them. One shape hung over her field of view while the other stood farther ahead, more blurred than the other.
'Carolynn!" The first blurry figure cried, engulfing her in its arms. Her vision slowly improving, she returned the embrace once she had realized the figure had been Dilana.
"Are you okay?' This question could've been predicting within 2 minutes prior to the interrogation. Carolynn sat up, propping her back against the folding table.
"I-I'm fine." Carolynn stuttered, felling a wave a wave of nausea sweeping over her. Carolynn, out of reflex, placed a hand gingerly on her forehead and tried to stifle a groan.
Dilana frowned, folding her arms. "I don't think so, Carolynn." Dilana remarked, seeming not to believe Carolynn.
Carolynn rested her other hand on the floor. "I'll be fine, Dilana. Could help me get up?" she asked, removing her hand from her forehead.
Dilana opened her mouth to protest, but she shut it again, reaching down to pick Carolynn off the floor.
Carolynn fixed her shirt before taking an uncertain step forward. At once, her leg muscles gave in and found herself plummeting to the tile once again. She stuck her hands out, desperate to save herself from another bump.
Something unexpected broke her fall, Carolynn soon discovered. Shaking her head, she came to the realization that a person had done the deed, for two arms grasped onto hers. Still bewildered, she gazed up at her rescuer and opened her mouth to thank him/her.
Carolynn's heart froze for a millisecond, and then began to work uncontrollably fast. It seemed to her as if she had been plucked from the science fair and placing into the arms of a hero in a romantic novel. The teenager wasn't as old as her, thirteen at most. He wore casual clothing- the standard jeans and T-shirt getup. His thin, pale arms matched his slender body. His jet-black hair sported a cowlick, pointed high into the sky. He eyes, though, his deep chocolate eyes, were two pieces of candy. Carolynn found herself immersed in the boy's gaze, imagining swimming through his iris as if it were a sea of brown sweets. Her eyes eventually left his eyes, zigzagged down his nose and flew to his lips. Carolynn felt laughter bubble in the core of her chest. Was that a tendril of drool trickling out of the corner of him mouth?
Before Carolynn could vocalize her thoughts, another hand grasped her and yanked her out of the boy's arms. "Let get going, Carolynn." She grumbled.
Carolynn tried to resist, but Dilana's strength over powered. She, for some reason, didn't want to leave the boy. She attempted to hold on for dear life, never wishing to let go, but eventually her fingers reluctantly let go of the boy's hand.
She kept her eyes locked on him, savoring his sight until the two girls turning around a table. Carolynn wrenched herself from Dilana's grasp and glared at her friend with anger. "Why did you do that?" she cried, her face red with fury.
Dilana whirled around and faced Carolynn. "That was the crazy dude, I was talking about earlier." She stated simply.
"HIM?" Carolynn though, astonished, that boy was way too cute to be some mess-up child would claimed to be the future. Carolynn didn't feel such a charming boy could be a mental case.
"Look, Carolynn." Dilana continued, seeming to understand that Carolynn wasn't convinced."He's suspicious. Plus, he almost gave you a concussion. It's best if we stayed FARRR away from him."
Carolynn wished to rebuke, but she felt Dilana wouldn't change her mind. Carolynn sullenly followed Dilana to Lewis's table, her mind thinking about the teenage boy. She smiled dreamily as she remember his face, especially his eyes- hoping that someday she would meet with him again and convince Dilana he wasn't an insane person that couldn't be trusted.
