Chapter Three: A Mind of Its Own
"Stop! Stop! What was that?! You're making it sound like you didn't want to meet me!"
Will sighed impatiently, throwing himself down on the couch. "Is complaining all you ever do lately?" he asked angrily.
"Put yourself in my position. You just spent nearly $700 furnishing a room for a baby that doesn't even exist!"
"That's your fault. You should have taken my advice along with Lissie's! And speaking of her, she had to type this thing up for me since I still don't understand computers… why can't you just go with it?!"
"Wait… a woman wrote the best man speech for my wedding?!"
"No, I told her what I wanted to be in here, and she typed everything I said. So it's my speech."
"But it's my wedding."
"All right then, let's hear your best man speech for my wedding."
Jack just stared at him, and Will smiled triumphantly.
"You're right, Will, it's perfect."
"Thank you."
Just then, the heard the front door open, then slam shut, then Lissie's and Beth's voices met their ears as they heard them running to the kitchen.
"Jack!"
"Will!" They both yelled at the same time.
"Woah! What's the rush?" asked Jack.
"Yeah, I'd like to know the same—" began Will, but he immediately stopped. The girls looked scared stiff.
"What is it?" they asked together.
"There was a crash—"
"The box on the floor—"
"Nothing in the secret compartment—"
"Wind—"
"Woah! Slow down!" exclaimed Jack.
"Yeah, one at a time," added Will.
They explained everything that went on, and the guys looked at each other and marched out the door, Lissie and Beth right behind them.
All four of them walked up the stairs in silence. Once they got to the bedroom, Jack and Will walked immediately to the desk, where the box lay on the floor, the chain of the medallion was hanging out from underneath it. Will cautiously picked it up, but dropped it immediately.
"What is it?" asked a concerned Lissie.
Will's fingers were red. "It burned me…"
"How could a medallion do that?" asked Beth.
"I have no idea," replied Jack.
"Maybe it's trying to tell us something?" suggested Lissie.
"That might be it," said Jack.
"This is freaking me out," said Lissie and Beth together.
"Why don't you two stay at our place tonight," said Jack.
"Yeah, you really should, I don't trust that thing," said Beth.
"Okay, thanks," said Will.
Lissie and himself grabbed a change of clothes, and Lissie's guinea pig, and Beth went back down stairs to get Taffy.
"Come here, girl!" Taffy came running over to Beth, and she saw fear in her eyes.
"I know, I'm scared too," Beth whispered.