Chapter Four
Nine
We got back okay. Well, if okay means tying Six up and dragging her across the woods. It's been a week since "The Incident". Six has not talked to me and nobody knows about what happened. We should be leaving on our quest to find Five but we all agreed to take a break for a little while. We were all eating dinner at the table. We had ordered Chinese food.
"See John, the takeout wasn't that bad. And the delivery guy was not trying to kill us." Seven said.
John was clearly not convinced. He put his head down and ate his soup. There was an awkward silence. I knew we were all hiding something. So I decided to break the ice.
"Spill, what is everyone hiding?"
No answers.
"Come on. We will all be together for a long time." I said.
Six shot me an evil look. Now everyone at the table was uncomfortable.
"Fine," I said, "How are we going to find Five?"
Suddenly, everyone chirped in. John was at the back looking a bit disorientated. Sarah was holding him. They got up and walked into John's room. I was curious. I got up, went to John's room and put my ear to the door.
"Did it happen again?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah" John said.
"Get some sleep and we will figure this out in an hour." Sarah said.
"What are you doing?" Six screamed in my ear.
She grabbed me and took me to the room opposite.
"What were you thinking?" She screamed. "Look, if anyone finds out what happened I will take you and hand you over to the Mogs myself."
"Six," I said "Just tell me, do you like me?"
She stopped, thought the ignored the question.
"You need to stop dropping hints. Someone might figure-
I kissed her and stopped her midway in her sentence. She looked at me with compassion and then a soft anger.
"We will never be together." She said
She stormed out of the room. And as she closed the door a smile grew on her face.
A big lump was in my throat. I can't believe I just did that. Then I went out of the room. I heard John and Sarah in the room opposite. I leaned my ear to the door.
"Sarah, this time was different. Instead of that we were just on the plane coming to Earth, this time I looked around. I counted. There were only eight of us." John explained.
"John, what are you talking about?" Sarah asked.
" I had a vision. I was in the Lorien ship. But there was only eight of us. Five was never came to Earth with us…"
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