Heere At The Wall
Impatiently the three of us waited for Ben, as he went off on his own little adventure once again.
I sighed loudly, and looked around the old signing room. I couldn't help but imagine that the last time the declaration was in here, it was being signed by those brave men who help create our country oh so long ago.
"Whacha thinking?" Riley questioned in a drawn out manor, making me lift up an eyebrow and look over at him, from my spot next to the window ledge.
Riley smiled widely at me in encouragement, while Abigail impatiently continued to pace around the room.
"Just thinking about the last time the Declaration of Independence was in here it was being signed." I mused, trying not to be too loud and alert them of our status.
"Oh," Riley lost his smile, obviously not finding my thoughts to his liking.
Then Ben pranced into the room.
"Hey!" Riley quickly ran up to Ben, with Abigail and me right behind him," What'd you score?"
"I found this." Ben then smoothly pulled out a set of ancient looking spectacles, and held them for us to see. "Some kind of ocular device."
I couldn't help but muse, as I continued to curiously study the device with my eyes," The vision to see the treasured past."
Ben then passed the glasses over to Abigail, and took the Declaration from her arm.
Abigail starred at them for a second, before passing them over to me.
Riley hovered right next to me, and commented," Aw, they're like early American X-ray specs."
I rolled my eyes, and countered to Riley's comment," Benjamin Franklin invented something like these."
"Uh…"Suddenly Ben interrupted," I think he invented these."
I looked over at Ben, who had begun to pull out the Declaration.
I gently unfolded the spectacles, while Riley questioned again," So, what do we do with them?"
"We look through it." I looked up at Riley, sending him a stare, trying to show him my distaste of his moronic question-because would do you do with spectacles.
Riley rolled his eyes back me, while I went back to my examination of the spectacles, and held them up in front of my eyes.
They looked seemingly normal, but color tinted, like 3-D glasses.
"Riley, help!" Abigail grunted, instantly making Riley snap out of his daze, and look at the spectacles and began helping Abigail hold the Declaration, and open it up.
As soon as it was completely unraveled, Ben paused and let out a deep breath.
"What?" Riley questioned him with an anxious tone.
Ben then answered with a deep breath," It's just that the last time this was here, it was being signed."
Riley groaned, and murmured," Ben, there's another tour coming, and your sister had already enlightened us with this piece of information."
"Turn it over," Ben sighed in defeat, while I continued to examine the glasses.
"Careful!" Abigail warned.
Put once it was completely turned over, Ben held out his hand," Spectacles."
I carefully handed them over to Ben, and took it edges of holding onto the paper.
I watched Ben gently push them onto his face, before he centered his eye line onto the back of the paper.
Then he loudly gasped. Then he gasped again and again.
"What?" I questioned.
"What do you see?" Abigail pressed.
"What is it?" Riley anxiously questioned," Is it a treasure map?"
Ben then took a deep breath," It says, 'Here at the wall,' spelled with two E's."
Ben the peeled off the spectacles, and held them out. "Take a look."
Instantly I reached out and grabbed them before anyone else could. I pushed them up onto my noise, and looked down at the paper.
"Oh my god." I gasped, as I saw the hidden message.
I took them off of my noise, and looked over at Ben. "My god, do you realize how amazing this is?"
Ben nodded back to me, with an "I told you so" smile.
I then took them off of my noise, and held them out for someone to take-which was Abigail, who let out her own share of 'oo's and 'ah's."
Riley sighed in a disgruntled manor," Why can't they just say,' Go to this place, and here's the treasure, spend it wisely.'?"
I just giggled at Riley, and teased," That's not a real treasure hunt, then, Riley."
"Oh, no."
"What?" I questioned looking at Ben, who was starring out at the window.
"Oh, no." Abigail gasped, when I saw the skin head and Ian standing outside.
"Oh, no." I seconded.
Riley ran up to the window, and pulled back the curtains to get a better look. "How'd they find us?"
In a rush Abigail and I began rolling up the paper, while Ben explained, holding onto the glasses," Well, Ian has nearly unlimited resources. And he's smart."
"I don't think we can get out of here without being spotted." Abigail confided loudly.
"Well, we don't want them to have the Declaration, or the glasses." Ben began, and I knew what he was thinking.
I then finished for him," But we especially don't want them to have then both together."
"So what do we do?" Riley questioned looking at Abigail, Ben, then me.
I then explained, for Ben," We separate the lock from the key."
"We're splitting up." Ben announced.
"Good idea." I smirked, while Riley questioned yet again," Really?"
"You take this," Ben passed me the empty document container. "I'll take this," Ben put the glasses inside of his coat pocket. Ben then motioned to Abigail," You keep the map."
Ben then announced, I slung the container over my arm," Meet me at the car and call me if you have any problems."
"Like if we get caught and killed?" Riley nervously stammered.
"Yeah. That would be a big problem." Ben starred at Riley blankly.
He then looked at Abigail, Riley, and me," Take care of her."
"I will." We all answered in unison, as Ben began walking away.
Then in a moment of rare stupidity we all starred at one another, before realizing we had all said "I will".
I sighed first, and began walking out behind Ben," I'll see ya guys around."
"You're going by yourself?" Riley question behind me.
I nodded, as I walked backwards looking back at Riley and Abigail. "Stay safe you two!"
Riley starred at me in shock, while Abigail began making her way towards another exit, pulling onto Riley.
I sent both of them one last wave, before I began to nonchalantly walking away.