Rockerbaby: What did his eyes look like?
Annie: He was too far, couldn't see them.
Rockerbaby: Keep your distance if you see him again. Definitely tell Jack.
Annie: Why tell Jack?
Rockerbaby: Too much to explain. Gotta go now, getting in trouble, school night. Talk to you again soon.
Annie: Night, Fi.
As the girls shut down their computers, each was dwelling on what this meant. Fi knew Annie wouldn't take long to give her the necessary information, because if it was indeed who Fi thought it could be, he would show up again.
Annie was just waiting for her computer to finish shutting down when the silence was broken by a knock at the door connecting their rooms.
"Coming," she said almost too quietly to echo through the door. She closed her laptop and shoved it back in it's case. Stashed it back under the table and jumped over to the door to unlock it.
"Hey," Jack said, standing in the small space between the doors, scratching his head. "Hope I didn't wake you."
"No, I was on my computer," Annie said, gesturing to her laptop with her thumb above her shoulder, waiting for a response from Jack.
"Oh, cool. Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to go get some food from the restaurant next door, they're open till midnight," he said hopefully, shoving his hands in his pockets. Not exactly the response she expected after hearing his sister's name mentioned. A stomach growled and Annie almost didn't realize it was her own.
"Sure, let me get ready," she said, shutting the door. She figured now would be as good a time as ever to tell him about what Fi had said.
Annie and Jack finished ordering their food and were waiting for the waitress to bring it when Annie decided to try to talk to Jack about this mysterious man.
"I talked to Fi tonight," Annie tried to be casual.
"Really? Cool, you should have told me, I would have said hi to her," Jack took a drink of his soda.
"Well, I told her about the guy we saw, and she said—" She tried to hurry but sure enough, Jack cut her off.
"Whoa whoa, we? You were the one who saw him."
"Well, I told her I saw him, and she said I should tell you."
"Why me? She knows I don't believe in all that weird junk," Jack said as the waitress came over with their food.
"That's what I was wondering. She asked me what he looked like, and I told her that he was tall, thin, black hair, mustache, and a long brown coat." Annie started into her food and was beginning to feel stupid about all this, but the more she thought about it, the more it worried her.
"Well, that describes a lot of people, Annie." Leave it to Jack to try to reason it out.
"She asked me what color eyes he had, but I told her I couldn't see them, and she told me to tell you." Annie took another bite of her food.
"You girls and your conspiracy theories. Listen, I'm sure it's nothing to worry about. Probably was going the same way as us, and--" This time Annie cut him off.
"He followed us before lunch, and he was still behind us afterwards. How is that possible if he wasn't following us?" She wished for once he'd just believe her, even if it seemed a little weird.
"Well if he shows up again, maybe you can point him out to me and I'll be convinced. But for now, just try and forget about it, okay?" Annie had no choice but to agree. They went back to the hotel and she put on her pajamas, put some lotion on for her sunburn and crawled into bed. She tried to sleep, but she kept wondering what Fi had meant, and why Jack wouldn't understand. When Molly and Carey came back she barely heard them come in, and she drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
The next morning, Molly presented the three kids with a choice for their activities for the day.
"This brochure says there's an "artisan village" called Tepoztlan, and some ancient pyramids Xochicalco. You guys decide, I'll go either place." Molly handed the brochure to Jack, who looked it over and passed it to Annie. Annie passed it to Carey, and after a little arguing, they decided the pyramids would be much cooler.
Molly got them bus tickets for a reasonable price, because it was much too far to walk to. Annie was surprised they were the only people on the bus.
"Molly, how come there's no other passengers on here?"
Annie turned right to look at Molly sitting next to her.
"Yeah that does seem kinda weird, Mrs. P," Carey chimed in.
"Probably just not the right season for many tourists," Molly said with a shrug.
In about twenty minutes they were there. As the bus came to a half in front of a fence about a mile away from what were barely visible pyramids in the distance, a man who was standing at the gate started walking up to them as they got off.
"Hello folks, I'm terribly sorry but we are closed for the day, they're doing a little bit of excavating inside, there were a couple of unstable places they had to fix, I'm afraid we'll be closed till next week." Annie heard this as she took the last step off the bus, and then looked up at the man who was talking to them. Seeing who it was, she immediately stepped back up on the step.
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