Hey guys! What's up? OMG I can't believe it! This chapter finally came! I mean, this event has been playing in my mind like, forever. Well, the ending part was in my mind. After I got that settled, I end up fast forwarding myself for the next sequel. Yep. There's gonna be a sequel. Well, ttyl at the end. See ya at the end!
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Tomorrow. Tomorrow it's going to happen. What's going to happen? I keep on staring at him again. Come on numbers! Increase! Push forward! Do something! Anything but count down! Ugh! Forget it! It's hopeless! Carlos' going to die and I can't do anything to help him. If only there's a way to see into the future.
I told the guys about my nightmare and it's not really what I expected. I expected comfort. Kendall gave me that, Logan gave me that... kinda. After I told them, Logan ran and hid all of the knives and any dangerous items in the apartment, then he came back to the room and join Kendall for my comfort. As for Carlos, he freaked, he actually thinks that it's really going to happen.
In the morning, I put my sweatshirt and sweatpants on and slip on my shoes. I grab my iPod and drop it in my pocket. I walk out the door.
When I step out of the Palmwoods, I put my ear buds on and jog around the block. I see people getting into their cars, about to go to work and school buses passing by. Other people are walking to their destination. Some even stop to say hi.
I stop and look at my playlist. I end up making playlists for different events in life, like a song list for exercise, relaxations, sad songs, happy songs, etc. Now, there's a new list. Songs for my job. Like songs about saving people. I press on that list and play.
There are lots of songs in that list. Songs that I barely listened to or songs that's not really my type. Songs in there, like 'Savin' Me' by Nickelback, 'Save You' and 'Gone Too Soon' by Simple Plan, and 'Never Too Late' by Three Days Grace. Wow, I'm a mess. I don't think that half the songs in my list are about saving people, it feels like half of them are about... not being able to. It's too late. Oh well. They help me though.
Now, about Carlos. He has about more than 24 hours left. Not sure. I could only see the date. It's not going to change into a timer until it hits that day. What will happen? Man, I can't stop thinking about that question. It keeps frantically playing over and over. Well, at least it's better than the nightmare that's playing over and over. Never happened before, but-oh no. It just did. Okay James. Calm down. It's not real. Don't robber is not the murderer. But what if he is? Carlos is going to die. I need a gun or something that can kill from afar. If I do, I can find the robber and kill him earlier. Even i I see him touch a bit of Carlos. Wait, how about Jasmine? Does she care? Well, I guess she does. Okay, maybe I will shoot somewhere, like a leg or an arm! Wait, can that kill? Did Logan mention to me something about embolism? If you shot someone, that could happen. I don't know. I should have payed attention to him.
I look around for someone to save. No one. Perfect! I smile.
A hear a faint whine. I yank my ear buds off and the whine gets louder. A small dog. I look around and see a puppy walking alone. It's crossing an empty street. It's walking slowly, like it's sick. I look into its eyes. Seconds. A hear a car horn. Time to run to the rescue. I sprint to the street, jump, catch the little dog, and roll off the street to the other side. I land on the grass, roll into a ball with the puppy in my arms. Usually when I see a pet on the street, about to get hit, I would grab it and run. I glance over my shoulder and see some cars passing by. I glance back at the puppy in my arms.
"You okay buddy?" I pet the puppy. "Are you lost? Who's your owner?" I look around for a collar. Nope. No collar. Now what? There's no animal shelter around here. It's like a mile or so away. It starts to whine. I feel its forehead. It's warm. "No vet here." I say. I stand up and decided to take it home, hoping Logan will know what to do.
Later when I walk to the Palmwoods, I have to hide the puppy under my sweatshirt to keep Bitters from seeing it. I look weird, but I gotta do something. I successfully made it to the elevator and went up. I get the puppy out of my sweatshirt. "Don't worry. My buddy Logan will take care of you." I coo to the puppy. The elevator opens and I was about to walk out when I see Camille and Lucy talking. They see me and look down at the puppy.
"Aw! How cute!" Camille says. " What's its name?"
I shrug my shoulders. "I don't know. I just found him."
"Wait," Lucy says, "I thought Bitters has a no-dogs-allowed policy."
"He does, but fortunately, he didn't see this little guy. But unfortunately, this little guy might have a fever."
"Well, maybe Logan can help." Lucy says. "Maybe be can help."
"Yeah, I hope so." I say and walk out of the elevator as the girls walk in. I turn around to see them and look into their eyes. Great.
"Later girls." I say as they wave goodbye to me.
When I open the door to 2J, I see everyone's having breakfast. They faces the door.
"Aw!" Carlos says. "A puppy!"
"He's red." Kendall says. "Maybe blue. Something is wrong."
"Who, the dog or James?"
"James." Katie says. "He can't see animal's aura."
"No, I can see animal's aura's too." Kendall says. He can? "Which is strange."
"He's sick." I say as Logan stand up. I place the small pet in his arms. "I just saved the little guy from the road."
"Uh, James." Mrs. Knight says. "How did you manage to bring that dog up here?"
"It's easy. It's called sneaking."
"Well," Logan says. "all we need right now is to give it a comforting bed and a wet cloth."
"I'll get the wet cloth." Kendall says pulling his seat out and walk to the bathroom. Logan carries the dog and gently set it on the couch.
"Are you going to join us for breakfast, James?" Katie ask. Sure, I'm pretty hungry.
I glance at Carlos to see how much time left. Even thought it only has numbers 2222013 over his head, I still-
"I think I just lost my appetite." I mumble.
"James, this is breakfast!" Kendall says walking out of the bathroom with a wet cloth.
I face Carlos again and see the numbers disappear.
"Hey James," Carlos says. "Why are you pale?"
"Uh... what day is it today?"
"The twenty-first." Logan answers.
That's what I'm afraid of. 'Cause I saw 2212013.
I look into his eyes again and look up.
This is a nightmare. This is horror. Now I see a timer. About fifteen hours left. Date and time of death: February 21,2013, 11:25pm.
"Uh... Carlos?" I say.
"Yeah?"
"Can I see you for a minute?"
He nods as he stands up, pushes his chair back and walk to me. I walk out to the halls with him behind me. I close the door and face my little friend.
"Yeah?"
"What's your plan for tonight?" I ask.
"Uh, I'm going over to the robber's house for dinner. Found out his name is Matthew. Yeah, his nephew is coming over tonight for dinner and maybe teach him how to swing a bat in a gym."
Okay, I'm not going to ask about the bat thing.
"Anything else?"
"No." Carlos shakes his head.
"Can I follow you?" To now where Matthew lives.
Carlos raises his eyebrows. "Something is going on here." He says suspiciously.
"Why do you think that?" I ask innocently.
"You said 'follow'. That means you just wanted to spy. Matt might catch you. You know, he despise spies."
I've heard.
"Okay then," I say. "How about this, but first off, is your dad in town?"
"Yeah."
"Can you borrow a gun from him and lend it to me?"
He stares at me and slowly backs away from me. "Why?" He ask slowly and cautiously.
Okay, I can't take it anymore. I need to tell him. "Because you're going to die tonight, Carlos!" I burst. Okay, now I regret saying that.
He keeps staring with his unblinking eyes.
"Carlos, it's not what you think!" I say quickly.
He shakes his head slowly and his eyes water. "I thought you were my friend." He whispers.
"Carlos, it's not what you think." I say again.
"You traitor!" He yells and open the door to the apartment and run in.
"Carlos, wait!" I run in behind him. He jumps in the swirly slide and climbs up. I see Kendall, Logan, Katie, and Mrs. Knight staring but i ignore them and jump in the slide and climb up, trying to get him. He got all the way up and I slide back down. I hear the door slam shut.
I look at the others. Logan stares up at the room. He walks upstairs and knock on the door. "Carlos, it's Logan. Open the door, please."
I look at Kendall. "What's going on?" He ask.
"Bedroom. Now." I say.
He nods and turns to the table. "Katie, Mom, watch the dog." He says and walk to me and we run upstairs to our bedrooms.
I push Kendall in first and run in and shut the door. I lean on the door.
"Okay, what's going on with you and Carlos?" Kendall ask sitting on the edge of the bed.
"Carlos misunderstood me. He thinks I'm going to murder him."
"What?" Kendall shoots up the bed. "Why does he think that?"
" I asked him if I can borrow a gun then I end up bursting out that he's going to die tonight."
"Whoa! Tonight!? But we have until tomorrow!"
"I know," I say. "But I just saw his death number and I didn't see digits anymore. I see a timer! I can't take it anymore Kendall, I just burst it out!"
Kendall groans. He pace back and forth. His hand going through his hair. "What are we going to do?"
"I don't know." I say. "I need a gun."
He stops pacing and stare at me with this disbelief, 'you are crazy' look.
"Okay. How about you go in their room and explain them that it's just a misunderstanding." I say.
"But if I do, I have to explain to them that you have a power to see numbers and Roy and Digit strictly forbids us to tell anyone. It will influence them and other people." Kendall says.
Okay? Now what am I gonna do?
Later...
Okay then. Maybe I should find a gun and secretly follow Carlos to Matt's house and no one will need to know.
In the afternoon after work, I walk home alone. Carlos and Logan ran home, Kendall found his magic door and went in to talk to Roy.
Suddenly, I hear a police siren blare from behind me. I glance over my shoulder and see two-no, three, four, police cars passing by and they're turning to head to the nearest bank.
I roll my eyes. If its Matt, I really need the gun now. I run to the bank and see that the police are there. Some are hiding behind their cars and some run in. I was about to go in to check it out until a police yells, "James, stay back!"
Okay, apparently all of LA knows me now.
"Who's in there?" I ask the cops. "Who's robbing the bank this time?"
"The man who has been robbing since two weeks ago." A female officer says. "We only got his first name, Matt"
Matt. I knew it. I run to the window.
"James, don't!" The officers yell but I ignore them and run in.
There I see Matt with his partner standing in the middle of the room with a gun and a bag of cash. Everyone in the room, adults and kids, stayed down in terror. I look into all of their eyes, seeing that they will live.
"Matt!" I call and the two turn around.
"James?"
His partner holds out a gun and points to me, about to pull the trigger.
"Don't" Matt says to his partner and he lowers the gun down.
"Give me the gun." I order the partner.
"What?"
"You heard me!"
"Why do you need the gun?" Matt ask me.
To kill you tonight if I see you touch Carlos I think then say, "For future purposes"
He nods at me and turn to his partner. "Give him the gun!" He yells and I walk over to them and snatch the weapon out of his partner's hand. I put it in my pocket.
"Why did you do it? We got Jasmine some help, so why are you still doing this?"
Matt stays silence, not saying a word, after about a few seconds, he give the bag to his partner and run out the other door, which is also crowded.
"You want to escape?" I ask. "Follow me."
He runs back to me and I lead to the front. I open the door and the cops back away. I glance over my shoulder at the adults and kid who help hostage. There numbers are still good. I turn back to the front and walk out.
"Don't worry." I say. "I know him. He's good, but you guys have to take care of his partner in there." I jerk my thump to the door and walk away with Matt behind me.
When we're far away from the scene, I stop and face Matt. He glares at me.
"Were you spying on me?" He ask coldly.
"No. I saw police there and see what's going on."
"Okay, well, thanks for saving my butt. I would've gone to prison." He says and turn around, about to walk away.
"Wait!" I snap and he turns back around. "Carlos is coming to your house, right?"
Matt nods.
"Why?"
"I invited him for dinner."
Okay, sounds, normal and safe enough but... "Okay, but if I see you-" Matt interrupts me.
"You know I hate spies and eavesdroppers!" He yells.
"I know, but still. If I know you harm him or see you have your hand of his little head, I will kill you."
"You will kill me? Ha! You meant that metaphorically. Okay, whatever." He says and walk away and I didn't stop him. I have no reason to follow. I'm going to follow Carlos tonight.
"Hey." I hear Kendall's voice from behind me. I turn around and smile at him.
"Just came back from your little trip to the magic door to nothingness huh?" I say.
"What did I miss?" He ask and look down then back up at me again. "And where did you get a gun?"
"I just got out of a robbed bank full of people held hostage." I say.
Kendall raise his eyebrow in confusing and look behind him and all around then he turn to me. "How long have I've been gone?"
"Around ten minutes or so." I answer.
"I thought so, and why do you have a gun?"
I look down at my pocket there the handle and then butt of the gun is shown. "For future purposes." I say.
Later that night, I sneakily follow Carlos to Matt's house. No one knew I went besides for Kendall. I got my gun in my pocket ready to go. As Carlos walk inside I stay outside and hide behind a big, thick tree. After about what feels like hours, I sneak behind the tree to see what's going on inside. I've been doing this the whole entire time and it feels like nothing dangerous or hazardous is going on in the house! All I see are the lights on all of downstairs and about three or four shadows moving, making it looks like silhouettes. I don't think it's normal.
Most of the time, I see them at dinner and shockingly, I see Carlos actually... calm. That's not normal either!
I poke my head out for maybe the fiftieth time and this time I see three shadow. The image of them seems a bit clearer but not enough. It's all a little blurry.
Then the image is clear. There is Carlos, Matt and a boy about in his preteen. The boy is clueless, looking away to the kitchen or TV. Carlos is standing on the right side near the couch as Matt stands. I see something in his hand. I see a baseball bat. He raise the bat as Carlos ducks! Oh no. I get out from behind the tree and grab the gun and point. Not sure who or where I'm going to shoot, I panic when I see mat takes another swing and I pull the trigger.
The bullet flies in lightning speed and crash to the windows, shattering it and it hits, all in a nanosecond.
I lean on the tree and sigh in relief. "Yes." I say quietly.
I look back at the house with a smile. I'm so glad at my achievement. Then my smile falls when I see the scene. I let out a loud gasp when I realized who I really hit.
I hide behind the tree again and drop the gun. And then I run away in panic.
It all makes sense now. His number decrease from 18 days, I thought it was Matt who caused it. Then it decrease in less than a week, meaning I'm close to the truth, then it changed to one day, meaning I'm planning and then change into a timer, meaning it's going to happen. All of that, I blame Matt, but really, all along, I've should've blame myself.
Done... uh... I don't think I could speak after that... uh... OKAY! Well, there's going to be a sequel. Yes, that means none of the BTR are dead :p. And yes, and if you realized the pattern, then okay, good. But just in case, who do you think has the power this time, who will he be saving, and do you know his power? Well, review!