Chapter Eleven: Memory Gaps

"It's a shame that I didn't know you earlier, because I'm sure we could have been great friends." -Anonymous

The person left the room through a small door and when he opened it, I knew that it was night because the moon shone only a little light into the room. I was able to see my surroundings for a few moments. The room was a lot larger than I had originally thought and the floor was made of dark, black dirt. From what I could tell, I was sitting right in the middle of the room. The door shut again and I was plunged into darkness once more.

Eddie woke up with a start the next morning; he had just come out of a vision. It was a strange vision too. He had seen Patricia's face and then a map came up and a trail was highlighted. He then understood: he knew where Patricia was and how to get there. He jumped out of bed and pulled on a pair of blue jeans that were lying on the floor. He looked at the clock: 6:25. He didn't care; he woke Fabian up anyway. As Fabian was getting ready, Eddie texted all of the other Sibunas: Know where Patricia is. Meet at bottom of stairs.

Ten minutes later Alfie, Eddie, Fabian, KT and Nina were all at the bottom of the stairs. They were about to walk out the door when a huge booming voice said, "Where do you five think you are going this early in the morning?"

They looked up at Victor as Nina said, "We need to start out early to work on a science project. It's going to take a while so we wanted to get underway early." Victor looked skeptical, but waved them on and told them to be back by dinner.

Eddie led them through a heavily wooded area to a shack about six miles off from Anubis House. "Eddie," Nina said, "you should have told us that it was pretty far. We could have gotten a ride."

"Sorry guys," he said, "I didn't realize that it was this far away." No one argued much with him and they started to develop a plan to get in there.

"Are you sure this is it, man?" Alfie asked. "This whole place looks pretty deserted."

"I'm positive. I can feel it," Eddie responded. Alfie hid a laugh at the idea that he could "feel" Patricia.

Nina gave a look at Aflie and he straightened out. "I can feel it too," Nina said. This was definitely the place; the other part of their trio was in the seemingly deserted hut.

Sibuna didn't have much of a plan: everyone run into the shack at the same time hoping that whoever was holding Patricia hostage would be too freaked out to fight, but it had worked. Well, it had worked because the only person that was in there was Patricia. The girl was unconscious and tied to a pole. Her feet were also tied together and her face appeared a little beat up. Eddie didn't remember much after that; he was too concerned with making sure that Patricia would be alright. They had called an ambulance to come pick Patricia up and Mr. Sweet, Victor and Trudy were on their way to the hospital.

The doctors had done test after test, and could find nothing wrong with Patricia. She had woken up and appeared to be fine, just a few bumps and bruises is what the physicians said. It was around noon when Joy went in to see Patricia. She came out a few minutes later saying that Patricia seemed okay and invited the rest of Anubis House in.

It started with Trudy fawning all over the girl and asking what had happened. Patricia's doctors soon asked Trudy to leave because she was causing their patient too much stress. Victor and Mr. Sweet followed so they could file an accident report. Jerome, Alfie, Joy and Willow left to get some lunch in the cafeteria. It was just Patricia, Nina, KT, Fabian, and Eddie left in the room.

"You didn't tell them anything right Patricia?" KT asked.

"I don't know what I'd tell them," she responded.

"You mean, they didn't ask anything about the Knowledgeable One?" Eddie asked.

"If they had, I wouldn't know what to tell them," she responded again.

"You're being too vague," Nina complained.

"I'm sorry if I don't want to answer a whole bunch of questions that complete strangers are asking me!" she shouted.

"What do you mean complete strangers?" KT asked.

"Out of you four, I only recognize Fabian," Patricia said.

"What do you know about school?" Eddie asked with worry creeping into his voice.

"School has been pretty uneventful while I've been there," she responded.

Nina, Fabian, KT and Eddie circled up. "This is great," Eddie said. "The girl who knows everything, remembers nothing."