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CHAPTER 5
"Nothing, absolutely nothing!" said a very frustrated Maria. "A
week of searching your house and mine, and we come up with nada!"
"Are there any other possible places you guys can think of? Any
storage buildings your parents rent, any other places we might have
overlooked?" asked Kyle, opening the front door of West Roswell High.
Alex had searched all over the web, hacking into all sorts
of data bases, and there was no place called Hogwarts. There were no last
names, no businesses, nothing. Kyle, Maria, and Liz had spent every hour
after school and after work snooping around all the places they could think of,
and still no sign of letters or a trunk.
Out of ideas, the teens turned towards the only person who could find out what
they wanted to know.
Isabel.
Maria sat down at the lunch table waiting for everyone else to arrive.
Liz came in the cafeteria and spotted her. It was pretty easy, as the gang
usually sat at this same table everyday.
"So did you ask her yet?" inquired Liz taking a bite out of her
grilled
cheese sandwich.
Her best friend shook her head. "Do you think she'll keep the
secret?"
Liz looked at her. Her insides were eating at her. She really
wanted
to tell Max. Maybe he could help, but she'd promised Maria that she'd
keep her mouth shut.
"I guess we'll find out now". Isabel took the seat
next to Liz. She glanced at the two humans who had become her friends,
but were keeping something from her.
"Izzy, you know we trust you right?" asked Maria. Isabel gave
her an
awkward look.
"Yea."
"We need you to do something for us. But you can't
let Max,
Micheal, or Tess in on it."
Maria proceeded to tell Isabel everything that had happened over the past week.
"So what do you want me to do?" asked Isabel not very sure about what
they wanted from her.
"We need you to dreamwalk my mom and Liz's parents, too." answered Maria,
"This thing is killing me. Why would my mom hide letters? I
mean what if it's something life changing? And even if it isn't, I still
have the right to know".
Isabel was intrigued. "Alright, I'll do but the first thing that
goes wrong, or if I find out anyone is in danger, I'm going straight to Max."
Maria and Liz looked at each other and agreed mentally.
They both nodded.
"Ok, tonight then. Be at my house at twelve," ordered Isabel.
"Wait, Max would be in the room next door. What if he walks in or
something?" asked Maria going along with logic.
"I'll get Alex and Kyle to invite Max and Micheal to go bowling or to play
pool or whatever it is guys do." said Isabel.
"So we've got a plan." smiled Liz, picking up her purse as the bell
rang and everyone began heading back to their fifth period classes.
***
Liz and Maria sat on the floor of Isabel's room that night. They had
told their parents that they were doing a history project and would probably
end up spending the night, giving them the time they needed to do the
dreamwalk.
"I need a picture of your mom, Maria."
Maria opened her purse and extracted a picture of her mother at a picnic they
had taken when Maria was 12. That was one of the best days of her life.
Maria's mom had taken Liz and her to the local park that day, and they had hung
out and talked and had a blast.
Back then they didn't have this cloud of suspicion hovering
over them.
Isabel touched two perfectly manicured fingers to the photo and began tensing
and relaxing her body. She drifted into a place between reality and
sleep. She focused on the image of Ms. DeLuca and the fuzziness around
her transformed into a beach. Maria's mom was running but not because of
fear. She was happy.
Isabel could feel Ms. Deluca's emotions surrounding her.
A
young man caught up with the younger looking version of Maria's mom. He
bent down on one knee and slipped a ring onto her left hand. He picked
her up and spun her around.
It was perfect.
Suddenly the scenery changed. They were still at the beach,
but the waves of fear, sorrow, and grief that were coming from Ms. DeLuca took
Isabel of guard. Again, the same man was there, but the warmth in his
eyes was gone, and all that was left were cold dark pupils staring at the
woman.
"How can you do this to us?" Maria's mom shouted over the crashing of
the waves. A little girl was resting on her hips, clutching her shoulder.
The man said nothing and stood still as a statue. Suddenly a large
figure appeared behind him. Isabel couldn't see a face as it was hidden
underneath a hood, but she could see eyes. Red glowing eyes. The creature
was wearing a dark blood red robe that reminded her of the grim reaper. A
gloved hand reached out and touched the man's shoulder.
In an instant they were gone and Ms. DeLuca was left
standing alone on the shore.
It was cold. The waves were pounding the sand, and the wind was howling.
"Mommy? W-Where did daddy go?" asked little Maria as tears streamed
down her face. She was blaming herself, she figured she must have done
something wrong to make the most important man in her life leave.
Ms. DeLuca knelt down and tried to pick the little girl up. Maria
wriggled out of her mother's grasp and ran down the beach to the pier.
Her mother
chased after her. Reaching the end of the pier, Maria knelt down and
touched the old wood she was standing on. She looked up at the gray sky
and pointed a finger out. A burst of electricity burst out of tip of her tiny
index finger. It shot up and lit the sky ablaze.
Maria's mom lifted the girl up and began running. Just running.
She didn't know where and she didn't care as long as it was away from this place.
Isabel was woken up by a scream. She leaned over the side of her bed.
Maria was laying curled up in a ball convulsing with shakes.
"Oh my god what happened?!" she cried kneeling down next to her
friend, not knowing what to do.
Liz was frantic. "I don't know, she just suddenly fell on the floor and
started shaking."
Isabel tried to connect to her. The second she did, she saw them. The red
snake-like eyes. That same eyes that belonged to the creature in Maria's mom's
dream.
