Okay, here is the chapter I promised…thanks to all my reviewers!!
Nancy's POV
"You did?" Nancy asked, shocked. Callie and Frank had been so in love. How could they have possibly broken up?
"Yes, we did." Frank said calmly.
"Why? I know it really isn't any of my business, but what happened?" Nancy asked.
"We both wanted different things. Slowly, we began to drift apart. Eventually, I caught her cheating on me. We both knew we were over… It was a mutual agreement. As far as I know, she's still seeing the same man." Frank said, looking a little pained.
"I'm sorry Frank. I didn't know. You deserve better than that." Nancy tried to sooth him.
"It's okay. I'm
fine. But what about you and Ned?" Frank inquired, thinking he
already knew the answer.
"Ned and I are over too," Nancy
looked away as she spoke.
Frank's POV
"What happened, Nan?" Frank could tell there was some sort of hurt there. If Ned had hurt Nan, he would kill Ned.
"We umm…we just." Nancy faltered. Frank walked over to her and pulled her into his arms.
"What happened? Did he hurt you?" asked Frank solemnly.
"He didn't love me anymore. It just kind ended." Nancy said.
"I'm so sorry. He was an idiot." Frank stated. He couldn't believe anyone could treat Nancy that way.
Nancy's POV
"Thank you, but don't worry about it. We have investigating to do." Nancy wandered around the tent. She stumbled upon a trunk.
"Frank, come here! I found something!" Frank ran over. It was a brass trunk with six different buttons on the front.
"They must make some sort of combination lock for it," Nancy thought out loud. As a test, she pressed on of the buttons. It made an odd sound.
"BLEE!" The
machine went. Nancy sat up straight.
"Wait a minute! That
sounds exactly like the sounds on the tape recorder." She quickly
pulled it out of her pack, pressed rewind and then play. She listened
carefully. Sure enough, the sounds came out of the recorder. She
wrote down the order, and then made a chart of which sound was where.
Pressing the buttons in order from the tape recorder, the trunk
popped open.
"Yes!" Nancy cried in victory. She sorted through the trunk, and held up a silver hook-like thing.
"Frank, could this help us pull the jeep out of the ditch?" She inquired. Frank looked it over.
"Yeah, it could. We will need some kind of pulley machine to do it, though."
"I think I remember
seeing something like that outside," Nancy said thoughtfully. She
sorted through the remaining items in the trunk. She found a security
pass for the Hilihili Research center.
"Wow! I wonder how Dr.
Quigley got this," Nancy said, very surprised. She pulled out what
looked to be an old journal from the trunk. "I bet this will have
some good information. But we don't have time to read it right
now," she said while closing the trunk. "Let's go outside and
see if we can manage to find the pulley machine that I saw earlier."
They both walked outside the tent, Frank carrying the hook. Nancy put her backpack on the ground and stuck the security pass inside along with the journal. They finally found the pulley system, and hooking the car to it, they managed to pull the jeep out of the ditch. Then Nancy noticed something.
"Frank! Look at this machine. Why would Dr. Quigley have a machine like this around?" It was then she noticed the radio signal board lying on the ground. It was mostly intact except for a few plates missing. She ran inside the tent and looked around, until she spotted a radio on the desk.
"Frank!" She yelled excitedly. Attached to a folder sitting near the radio was a little yellow sticky note. She read it out loud.
'Nancy, welcome. Call me at frequency 18.305 – Dr. Quigley.'
"Yes!" cried Frank. "We might have found her. The only problem is, the radio doesn't work. Any idea where we could find some plates?" Frank questioned.
"I have no idea," said Nancy gloomily. "What I would like to do is take this all access pass to the Hilihili Research Center and try to find out some information that might help us find out who did this. Let's try that. Maybe Dr. Craven will have plates for us." Frank readily agreed, and they hopped into the jeep.
Fifteen minutes later they arrived at the Research Center, to be greeted by a large gate and a security box. Nancy swiped the pass in the pass slot, and was greeted by an automatic voice.
"INTRUDER!" Alarms went off through the building, and before they knew what was happening, Nancy and Frank were being roughly escorted into the Center.
Okay…well…you know the drill..new chapter on Saturday…if you review!!!
