Day Five
(Rocky) It amazes me to this day how much stuff Colt thinks he can get away with and how easily he drags other people into the things he's doing. I didn't believe that little dinner scene for a second tonight, but the question on my lips was why? What is Colt up to that he needs to be doing all of this lying? Nothing made sense, we're he and 'Lissa doing things together and wanted some alone time? I guess that would explain the not wanting to go shopping the other day and this little trip they've planned out of nowhere...but still.....
I rolled over in my bed looking over at the empty one next to me and sighed heavily. "Colt, what ever you're doing....you'd better be careful." I let the words pass my lips and I closed my eyes calling it a night.
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"Colt," I heard a female voice and felt a hand shaking my shoulder. "Colt wake up, we're here." I heard 'Lissa saying to me. I couldn't pull myself away from the dream, not now this woman was finally going to show herself to me and-...."Colt?" I groaned at the last call and opened my eyes. "Hmm?" I asked and looked at her blank face. "I don't know where we're going." She said to me pulling off to the side of the road.
"Well where are we so far?" I asked rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. "We just hit Arizona, but I don't know where we're going from here." I looked at the map that I marked on and sighed when I saw the sign. "We're a good distance away but not really far....Are you hungry at all?"
"What kind of question is that?" Neilissa asked.
"I mean if there's any part of you that's hungry we could get something to eat." I replied loosening my seat belt strap.
"No. I'm not hungry thank you for the offer but we should really get on track, now which way?" I glanced down again and pointed out the way. "Make a right when you get to the first turn off," She waited for the traffic to clear a little before wheeling the car back into it. It was 'Lissa's idea to drive because she said I had enough to think about right now and it was safer if she did it- who am I to complain, I am pretty exhausted from all this worrying and thinking and praying that my suspicions aren't true.
4:20 a.m. I snuggled back into my seat and looked at 'Lissa, she didn't look tired but I couldn't tell from a side view. ".....If your tired or anything I could drive." She instantly started laughing then adjusted her glasses and shook her head. "I'm sorry, that was immature of me."
"What was?" I asked stupidly and what I said hit me too then I laughed.
"Okay, that was a good one, but I'm serious you want me to take over, I'm not tired anymore and you haven't slept since we started sooo," I felt the car pulling over again and she opened her door.
"No you don't have to get out just scoot past me and I'll scoot past you." I stated and she shrugged getting out anyway. Woman, I really wasn't hitting on her this time it just saves the trouble of truck whip lash from my side. Sliding over, the door opened and she climbed in.
"Ready?" I asked then pulled out without a care in the world to who was on the side of us and we sped off down the road. "You get some rest we should be there by seven." With a nod 'Lissa made herself comfortable side ways against the seat.
"Sleep peacefully." I said and she gave me a toothy grin that looked adorable with her eyes closed. "Good night." I said.
"Good night." She replied.
"Sweet dreams." I said and she just laughed. "I'm gonna turn on some peaceful music, okay?" Spinning the dail on the radio I popped a tape in with out looking and the next thing we heard was the loudest Chester Bennington- "Come ooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and 'Lissa jumped clear out of her skin dropping her mouth looking at me as I turned the radio off and smiled saying lamely. "LP forever." She punched me in the shoulder and turned right ways in her seat crossing her arms.
"Aaaw are you mad?" I asked. "I'm not talking to you." She said but I could tell she was trying not to smile. "Hahaha."
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It turned out that I guessed wrong about what time we'd get there but I was just about an hour off. Mostly because we stopped for an Egg McMuffin at McDonalds. As we ate in the car we staked out the house while parked three down ourselves and across the street. "Could we be more obvious?" 'Lissa said sarcastically while picking the egg from her muffin. "You got a better idea in broad daylight?" I commented and returned my gaze at the house.
Someone's got to come out of there, I can see kids lined up for the school bus. Neilissa glanced over her shoulder to the kids at the bus stop. "Maybe they're already waiting over there?" She remarked.
"No, none of them look like the people from my dreams...." I said so sure of myself, but thinking about it those people were children, who knows what they look like now. "Wait, the door is opening." She turned around to look and we saw three kids come out of the house, two boys and a girl.
From the distance I couldn't really make anything out but they're basic shapes, but then when they walked by that's when I felt sick to my stomach and I put my breakfast down and held my throat as though I were trying to choke down the hurl building up in it. I could tell 'Lissa felt something too because she just kind of stared at them as well; they walked by joking and pushing each other all dirty blonde haired, brown or hazel eyed, tanned skinned, me's.
The girl looked a year or so younger than the boys and she had nearly shoulder length hair, the two boys had near crew cuts and looked almost like twins to me. The three of them were dressed in uniforms with tie's and pressed pants and a skirt for the girl done in dark green with a white shirt and stripped tie.
"My God....There's a perfect likeness." She nearly whispered as they reached the bus stop. One of the boys grabbed the girls ponytail and she turned around slapping his arm shouting. "Knock it off John!" Jonathan Before I could feel my own movements the car started to move and we tore down the street to where ever I could take us that was away from there.
When we reached some destination my breath suddenly caught in my wind pipe and I was freaking out, breathing harder than usual and I needed to go. "Colt ar-...?" 'Lissa couldn't even get the words out completely before I swung the door opened and started throwing up on the side of the road.
Neilissa's door opened seconds after mine and she joined me at the side of the car and patted my back. "Deep breaths okay honey?" She couched me but it wasn't working, the more I tried slowing my breathing down the harder it got to stop throwing up. "Look we can- we can just forget what we saw and go back home." Neilissa was saying but I pushed her aside gently and coughed to a slow stop. "What home, 'Lissa?!" I asked her straightening up. "To them?"
She just started shaking her head frantically as if she didn't really know what to say and I personally didn't blame her, because I didn't know what to say myself. "You saw the way they look....for Gods sake they look like me...How am I supposed to react to that?" I waited for her answer knowing she didn't have one and she approached me cautiously as though I had a gun and she were about to try and take it. "I don't know...I just-...just come back to your house with me, we really- we just shouldn't be here right now."
I stood there quietly looking at the silent plea on her face and sighed giving in. "You're right, we should get out of here." 'Lissa nodded glad that I agreed with her and she walked me to the car but reached in for a bottle of water handing it to me. "..-To rinse your mouth." She answered my un-asked question and I took it. "Thanks."
Rinsing the water around my mouth I spit it out in the grass and made sure I had my second wind back before climbing into the passenger side of the car. "You better get in back incase you don't feel so good later on, it's better you lay down anyway it'll settle your stomach quicker." I nodded climbing in back and resting myself side ways for comfort. "We're out of here." She said, and we sped off.
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"Colt!" Was the first word out of Grandpa's mouth when we got to the house, it is 6:27 p.m. "Grandpa?" I thought he wasn't able to make it this year, I was actually glad to see him too, because I had some questions built up inside that right now only he could answer. "Your Mother told me you went on a little trip with your pretty little friend here did you have fun?" He asked as we walked into the living room.
"Yeah, it was a blast." I lied.
"Good!" Grandpa said slapping me on the shoulder. "And what's your name?" He asked 'Lissa.
"Neilissa Paularus. Nice to meet you."
"You too." Course I'm just giving you the gist of it they both suddenly started speaking Japanese so I just left the conversation, I didn't know she knew another language and I didn't need anymore surprises from anyone today or any other day, but just when I thought maybe I could ignore it and things could go back to normal Rocky gave me a weird eye.
"Where were you really?" He walked over to me and whispered. He's acting strange, does he know something? Rocky has this weird thing about him almost like a third eye but I could never prove it. "Like she said, Arizona." That was the truth.
"Why did you really go there, then?" He asked after a thought. "To see her family. What's with the third degree?" "Nothing. I just don't think your telling the whole truth that's all....you two just seem...overly chummy lately, it kind of seems suspicious."
I just looked at him, then blinked away. "I don't need this." I remarked and went into our room, closing the door behind me, and collapsed on the bed. What am I gonna do? My family isn't my family....they can't be...and if they are than- who are they and why did hey take me? I have to talk to Grandpa....I just hope he can give me the answers I'm looking for.
(Rocky) It amazes me to this day how much stuff Colt thinks he can get away with and how easily he drags other people into the things he's doing. I didn't believe that little dinner scene for a second tonight, but the question on my lips was why? What is Colt up to that he needs to be doing all of this lying? Nothing made sense, we're he and 'Lissa doing things together and wanted some alone time? I guess that would explain the not wanting to go shopping the other day and this little trip they've planned out of nowhere...but still.....
I rolled over in my bed looking over at the empty one next to me and sighed heavily. "Colt, what ever you're doing....you'd better be careful." I let the words pass my lips and I closed my eyes calling it a night.
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"Colt," I heard a female voice and felt a hand shaking my shoulder. "Colt wake up, we're here." I heard 'Lissa saying to me. I couldn't pull myself away from the dream, not now this woman was finally going to show herself to me and-...."Colt?" I groaned at the last call and opened my eyes. "Hmm?" I asked and looked at her blank face. "I don't know where we're going." She said to me pulling off to the side of the road.
"Well where are we so far?" I asked rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. "We just hit Arizona, but I don't know where we're going from here." I looked at the map that I marked on and sighed when I saw the sign. "We're a good distance away but not really far....Are you hungry at all?"
"What kind of question is that?" Neilissa asked.
"I mean if there's any part of you that's hungry we could get something to eat." I replied loosening my seat belt strap.
"No. I'm not hungry thank you for the offer but we should really get on track, now which way?" I glanced down again and pointed out the way. "Make a right when you get to the first turn off," She waited for the traffic to clear a little before wheeling the car back into it. It was 'Lissa's idea to drive because she said I had enough to think about right now and it was safer if she did it- who am I to complain, I am pretty exhausted from all this worrying and thinking and praying that my suspicions aren't true.
4:20 a.m. I snuggled back into my seat and looked at 'Lissa, she didn't look tired but I couldn't tell from a side view. ".....If your tired or anything I could drive." She instantly started laughing then adjusted her glasses and shook her head. "I'm sorry, that was immature of me."
"What was?" I asked stupidly and what I said hit me too then I laughed.
"Okay, that was a good one, but I'm serious you want me to take over, I'm not tired anymore and you haven't slept since we started sooo," I felt the car pulling over again and she opened her door.
"No you don't have to get out just scoot past me and I'll scoot past you." I stated and she shrugged getting out anyway. Woman, I really wasn't hitting on her this time it just saves the trouble of truck whip lash from my side. Sliding over, the door opened and she climbed in.
"Ready?" I asked then pulled out without a care in the world to who was on the side of us and we sped off down the road. "You get some rest we should be there by seven." With a nod 'Lissa made herself comfortable side ways against the seat.
"Sleep peacefully." I said and she gave me a toothy grin that looked adorable with her eyes closed. "Good night." I said.
"Good night." She replied.
"Sweet dreams." I said and she just laughed. "I'm gonna turn on some peaceful music, okay?" Spinning the dail on the radio I popped a tape in with out looking and the next thing we heard was the loudest Chester Bennington- "Come ooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and 'Lissa jumped clear out of her skin dropping her mouth looking at me as I turned the radio off and smiled saying lamely. "LP forever." She punched me in the shoulder and turned right ways in her seat crossing her arms.
"Aaaw are you mad?" I asked. "I'm not talking to you." She said but I could tell she was trying not to smile. "Hahaha."
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It turned out that I guessed wrong about what time we'd get there but I was just about an hour off. Mostly because we stopped for an Egg McMuffin at McDonalds. As we ate in the car we staked out the house while parked three down ourselves and across the street. "Could we be more obvious?" 'Lissa said sarcastically while picking the egg from her muffin. "You got a better idea in broad daylight?" I commented and returned my gaze at the house.
Someone's got to come out of there, I can see kids lined up for the school bus. Neilissa glanced over her shoulder to the kids at the bus stop. "Maybe they're already waiting over there?" She remarked.
"No, none of them look like the people from my dreams...." I said so sure of myself, but thinking about it those people were children, who knows what they look like now. "Wait, the door is opening." She turned around to look and we saw three kids come out of the house, two boys and a girl.
From the distance I couldn't really make anything out but they're basic shapes, but then when they walked by that's when I felt sick to my stomach and I put my breakfast down and held my throat as though I were trying to choke down the hurl building up in it. I could tell 'Lissa felt something too because she just kind of stared at them as well; they walked by joking and pushing each other all dirty blonde haired, brown or hazel eyed, tanned skinned, me's.
The girl looked a year or so younger than the boys and she had nearly shoulder length hair, the two boys had near crew cuts and looked almost like twins to me. The three of them were dressed in uniforms with tie's and pressed pants and a skirt for the girl done in dark green with a white shirt and stripped tie.
"My God....There's a perfect likeness." She nearly whispered as they reached the bus stop. One of the boys grabbed the girls ponytail and she turned around slapping his arm shouting. "Knock it off John!" Jonathan Before I could feel my own movements the car started to move and we tore down the street to where ever I could take us that was away from there.
When we reached some destination my breath suddenly caught in my wind pipe and I was freaking out, breathing harder than usual and I needed to go. "Colt ar-...?" 'Lissa couldn't even get the words out completely before I swung the door opened and started throwing up on the side of the road.
Neilissa's door opened seconds after mine and she joined me at the side of the car and patted my back. "Deep breaths okay honey?" She couched me but it wasn't working, the more I tried slowing my breathing down the harder it got to stop throwing up. "Look we can- we can just forget what we saw and go back home." Neilissa was saying but I pushed her aside gently and coughed to a slow stop. "What home, 'Lissa?!" I asked her straightening up. "To them?"
She just started shaking her head frantically as if she didn't really know what to say and I personally didn't blame her, because I didn't know what to say myself. "You saw the way they look....for Gods sake they look like me...How am I supposed to react to that?" I waited for her answer knowing she didn't have one and she approached me cautiously as though I had a gun and she were about to try and take it. "I don't know...I just-...just come back to your house with me, we really- we just shouldn't be here right now."
I stood there quietly looking at the silent plea on her face and sighed giving in. "You're right, we should get out of here." 'Lissa nodded glad that I agreed with her and she walked me to the car but reached in for a bottle of water handing it to me. "..-To rinse your mouth." She answered my un-asked question and I took it. "Thanks."
Rinsing the water around my mouth I spit it out in the grass and made sure I had my second wind back before climbing into the passenger side of the car. "You better get in back incase you don't feel so good later on, it's better you lay down anyway it'll settle your stomach quicker." I nodded climbing in back and resting myself side ways for comfort. "We're out of here." She said, and we sped off.
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"Colt!" Was the first word out of Grandpa's mouth when we got to the house, it is 6:27 p.m. "Grandpa?" I thought he wasn't able to make it this year, I was actually glad to see him too, because I had some questions built up inside that right now only he could answer. "Your Mother told me you went on a little trip with your pretty little friend here did you have fun?" He asked as we walked into the living room.
"Yeah, it was a blast." I lied.
"Good!" Grandpa said slapping me on the shoulder. "And what's your name?" He asked 'Lissa.
"Neilissa Paularus. Nice to meet you."
"You too." Course I'm just giving you the gist of it they both suddenly started speaking Japanese so I just left the conversation, I didn't know she knew another language and I didn't need anymore surprises from anyone today or any other day, but just when I thought maybe I could ignore it and things could go back to normal Rocky gave me a weird eye.
"Where were you really?" He walked over to me and whispered. He's acting strange, does he know something? Rocky has this weird thing about him almost like a third eye but I could never prove it. "Like she said, Arizona." That was the truth.
"Why did you really go there, then?" He asked after a thought. "To see her family. What's with the third degree?" "Nothing. I just don't think your telling the whole truth that's all....you two just seem...overly chummy lately, it kind of seems suspicious."
I just looked at him, then blinked away. "I don't need this." I remarked and went into our room, closing the door behind me, and collapsed on the bed. What am I gonna do? My family isn't my family....they can't be...and if they are than- who are they and why did hey take me? I have to talk to Grandpa....I just hope he can give me the answers I'm looking for.