I struggled trying to get the door open. "RINA! RINA, ANSWER ME!"
I was beginning to panic. What the hell was going on in there! I felt the ground shake once more with a tremor. That's when I thought I heard her speak. "Come one I'm out Gwen. You can leave" It didn't sound like she was yelling but like she was inside my head. At that point I could hear somebody start to shift the beam in front of the door. Uh oh, I don't know who that is but I wasn't about to stay and find out. I Ran as fast as I could out of the school. I was the last one out, and saw Rina waiting for me. I ran up and blurted out the question plaguing my mind.
"Rina? How did you do that?"
" What the earthquakes? I didn't do that!"
" No, I mean you spoke in my head. How?"
" I did?"
" Yes, you did. You said 'Come on, Gwen. I'm out.
You can leave now.'"
At this Rina looked
really confused. Her eyes went all buggies
and she just shook her shoulders.
Weird. I glanced over by the gym
as we left for home and notice somebody pulling a rather big head back in the
window. What's happening to me…..? I
thought. That was when Rina looked at me
funny. Wait she hadn't heard that had
she. Well, let's just say the rest of
the walk home was in an award silence.
When we got home Rina was the first to break the silence.
"Gwen, what's going on?"
"Wh What do you mean?" I stumbled out.
"You know what I mean. Weird things have been happening. To both of us" she added softer.
"So why don't you tell me what has happened to you and we'll work it out together. Wait don't tell me. Think it. I want to check something." Rina said excitedly. Well, What the HECK! I tried it. Let's see. First, on my way to school the other day I slipped and fell on some….
Gwen! I heard you! I think I've figured out part of this! Gwen! We've got a telepathic link! But I didn't think there was any such thing! Rina interrupted my thought pattern.
Neither did I, I thought back, As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I slipped and fell on some ice on the way to school a few days ago. It was really weird. I was running to the bus stop, when all of a sudden, there was an icy patch in front of me. I couldn't stop, and I just fell
But it's in the middle of June! How could you have fallen on ice? Are you sure it wasn't loose pebbles or
something?
YES I'm sure! I replied a little too waspishly. It
was ice. I think I would know after all
I did fall on it. Besides how about how
you were able to be in your burning house for TEN minutes with out being
burned?
I thought it was luck, but I'm beginning to doubt it. I mean, what with what happened in the gym
and all.
What did happen in the gym, Rina?
Well. It's a long story.
Rina, if you don't tell me, we can't figure this out.
Okay. here goes.
All of a sudden I was seeing what happened in the gym in vivid detail. I saw a group of people, but it was all too
fast I couldn't focus on what they looked like individually. It was like watching a drama through Rina's
eyes. They wanted something from
her. She had used the gymnastic equipment
to get away….Well, that explained my thought earlier….It ended with her
climbing out the window. A large kid
(the fattest of the bunch) had tried to climb out after her and gotten
stuck. That's when Rina stuck a business
card in his teeth….her personal trainer.
After it ended I was speechless for a while.
Wow! Do you have any
idea who those guys were?
Not a clue.
Any idea what they wanted?
Come on, Gwen! How should I know who
they were or what they wanted? Did you
honestly expect me to stick around long enough to find out?
Okay, okay, Rina! Chill! I was just asking! Relax.
Now let's take a deep breath, and we both
inhaled slowly until our lungs couldn't hold any more air, and let it out
gradually. We did the same thing a few
more times, and then resumed the conversation.
Okay. And we need to keep our heads. We've determined that we're not dreaming, so
this is real, and very, very weird, so we'll need to be open-minded. Okay. I
slipped on ice in the middle of June. You
weren't even singed when you came out of your house the other day. We've suddenly developed this telepathic link. Well, there's a very logical explanation for
all this.
And that would be?
Hey! I said there was a logical
explanation. I never said I knew what
that logical explanation was! Cut me a
break! I'm as new at this as you are!
Gwen?
Yeah?
Let's keep this between us, okay?
Why?
Well, you heard what I was thinking about a scientific explanation, right?
Yeah.
Well, we can't think of a scientific explanation, and I seriously doubt the
doctors are going to have one either. And
when the scientists can't think of a complete explanation for something.
They do experiments, I finished for her, You're right. We have to keep this a secret. Deal?
Deal! And with that, we shook hands and agreed that
no one needed to know about the ice patch, or the incident in the gym, or the
telepathic link. The whole town already
knew about the fire, which might complicate things, but we'd still try to keeps
this whole thing quiet. We didn't even
tell our family.
