Sarah had pulled on a black jacket. She stuffed a note for groceries into her jean pocket and walked onto the porch.A hoot made her slightly jump. A white owl seemed to be staring at her as she had looked around for the source of the hoot. Her insides twisted.
No, it can't be the same owl. She thought and walked to her car. The owl flew on top of the car. Sarah stopped walking and stared at it's large amber eyes.
Is that normal? She pondered in her head. Sarah opened the car door, deciding on the owl would fly away when she drove off. She put the keys into her car and tried to start it. The car engine gave a rolling rumble, then it died. Sarah tried again and failed.
Sarah moaned. Why right now? She refused to walk in the dark, she would not simply do it. Toby could live with pizza tonight.
She opened the car door, got out and slammed it shut. Sarah glared at the white owl now perched on the porch. It stared back with large, round amber eyes. "It's not him, it's not!" She said furiously at herself. Sarah sighed, she was just stressed that's all. She walked past the owl and into the house. Slamming that door too.
Sarah picked up her cellphone and called Amanda. She let it ring for awhile then hung up. She sighed. I'm just stressed.
Her cellphone rang and Sarah flipped it open. She didn't even look at it, just assuming it was Amanda. "Hello?" She said into it.
"Hello, Sarah." Said a familiar voice.
"W-who's this?"
"You know very well who I am, Sar-" A mental picture had flashed in her head of Jareth's face. She quickly hung up and grasped the lock on the front door. She flipped the lock and threw her phone down on a table near the door. Her hands gripped her bare arms and she sat down in a chair.
It couldn't be true. No, she just freaked out. Sarah was just paranoid. She took deep breaths. Sarah got up and walked over to her radio. She pushed the ON button just as Toby zoomed into the room and embraced Sarah in a hug.
"Hello, Toby. The car won't start so we'll just have pizza tonight." She said as she picked up the five-year-old. Toby just laughed and smiled.
"K. K." He said. Sarah sat him down and he walked over to the kitchen table and sat in the chair that his feet couldn't reach the floor.
Sarah grabbed her cellphone from the table by the door and decided to call and order a plain pizza because Toby was going through a cheese phase of his. This was a common thing, the kind of pizza he'd like would change in a week or two.
A knock on the front door alerted Sarah. She walked over to the door and opened it. However, it wasn't the pizza guy, but her dear friend Amanda.
"Hey- er I tried to call you, ya know." Sarah said letting her walk inside.
"I know, my phone died before I could answer. But anyway I'd thought I would come by and say hello." She walked into the kitchen. Behind her still on the porch was the white owl now perched on a lawn chair. Sarah shut the door and went to grab a DVD that laid on the kitchen table.
"Here." She said putting it in a black bag and giving it to Amanda.
"Gee- Thanks. I forgot about this! My mum was ticked." She tied the bag and sat it by the front door. Toby ran into Amanda and hugged her around her legs. Amanda was a tall woman and she had to bend down to hug him back.
"How've ya been Toby?" She asked ruffling his hair.
"Mum said I was five years old yesterday!" He exclaimed holding up five fingers in Amanda's face. Sarah laughed and Amanda gave him a pat on the back.
"Congrats!" She said.