The Lord of Middleton:

The Twin Towers

Chapter 6: The Top of the Tower

Kim tossed and turned in her sleeping bag, still sleeping.

*Flashback*

Kim and Ron are in eighth grade, school is almost over, almost summer. Ron sat as usual next to Kim in history class, feeling weird as normal for some reason when he sat by Kim. He knew that he liked her, and he liked her a lot, but for the last couple of months he started to love her.

"So Ron, what are you doing tonight?" Kim said as she smiled at him. That smile made Ron feel warm inside, seeing Kim happy made him happy as well.

"Umm." he might as well take a shot at it, "hoping to do something with you KP." he said to her, expecting a comedic look on her face, and a smart remark as usual. But she didn't, Kim actually started to feel all mushy inside and turned to him still smiling, looking deep into those beautiful brown eyes.

"Wanna go see a movie maybe?" Kim asked him.

Ron gave a sudden sigh of relief after Kim's answer, he was relieved he got through it, without thinking, he started to speak again, "Kim.I.I.", no not now Ron! Not now!! He told himself as he tried to stop the three sacred words from escaping his mouth.

"What is it Ron?" Kim said as she leaned in.

"I.I.just wanted to tell you.how nice your hair looked today!" pulling something from the air to tell her.

"You really think so?" Kim said as she stroked her hair. "I tried a new shampoo this week, and I liked it too." She said as she smiled at him.

Ron gave a small smile, "So, I'll pick you up at seven?"

"Alright Ron, it's a date." Kim said. As they both smiled and returned to their homework.

*End Flashback*

Kim finally opened her eyes from her happy dream, but something was amiss, Kim felt cold, very cold. She got up and stretched, then she started to shiver, "It was so warm yesterday." she said to herself. She went into her backpack and got out her red jacket and zipped it on, then she went outside her tent, snow, that's all that was around, snow. She looked around for her partners, finding Wade by his tent working on his computer, Wally and Will throwing snowballs at each other, and Ron lying in the snow looking up into the sky. She walked over to him and laid down. "What time did you get up today?" Kim asked him. Ron turned to look at his love and showed her his watch. It was stopped for some reason. "Did your watch run out of batteries?"

Ron shook his head. "Look at yours." Kim looked at her wrist and found that her watch had stopped as well. "That's weird." Said Kim as she took it off and put it in her pocket.

"I got it!" Wade yelled as he ran out of the tent. "I've opened the door to the roof." He said as they all hear a clanking sound as a set of stairwells appeared about two hundred yards away.

"Let's go!" Kim said as they all ran for the stairs. They started their climb, and for about the first fifteen minutes they were fine, but after that they began to tire.

"How long does this thing go?" asked Ron who was sweating heavily.

"Just a few more flights." said Wade who was also sweating. They finally made it to the top and looked around. Dead silence was in the air.

"HAHA!" yelled an unfamiliar voice, and before them stood a man with a long white beard, and a tall, pointed hat. "You must be the fellowship! I've been waiting for you." he said with a snicker.

"What do you want old man?" Will said to him.

"It's not what I want," he said. "It's what the Lord wants!!!" he yelled. "AND HE WANTS YOU TO LEAVE!!!" he screamed as he brought up his wand and fired a blackish substance at them all. They couldn't get out of the way in time and were all plunged into darkness.