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Chapter Twenty

. Val's PoV .

Brandon nodded and left the treehouse with the others, and then Clay sighed.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I don't know, that's the thing," he said, leaning in the doorway of the veranda.

"Well, what do you think is wrong?"

"I'm in love."

Okay... that was... a bit of a shock.

"With who?" I asked (even though I already knew the answer).

Clay said nothing, so I walked up and saw him watching everyone in the pool.

"Ronie," he said. "But I don't wanna piss BJ off or anything. I dunno... I just liked it when it was me and her the other night."

"Well, she has the right to know," I said, coaxing him a bit.

"Val, BJ would kick the crap out of me."

"Who said he had to know?"

"Ronie'd tell him.

I sighed. Dilema, dilema, dilema...

"Still, just tell her," I said.

"What if it backfires?"

"It's a risk worth taking if you like her that much."

Clay nodded as I watched Ronie push Will in the pool.

"She's worth every bit of it," he said. "and don't say a word to her, ok?"

"You betcha," I said. "Come on, you Office Depot terrorist. It's almost six and I'm starving."

"Yeah, let's get some food, overactive Care Bear."

"Office Depot terrorist..."

"Care Bear!"

"Terrorist!"

. Ronie's PoV .

"Jack couldn't be in Tortuga," Will said, climbing out of the pool. "How?"

"My point exactly," I said.

"Maybe he accidently went back," Brandon said. "Without even knowing it."

"We could only be so lucky..." I muttered.

"CARE BEAR!"

"TERRORIST!"

And so the Moron Cousins make their entrance...

"Shut up!" I bellowed.

"But he-"

"Shut up! you two are gonna put me in a pyscho ward!"

"I'll come visit you," brandon said, patting my shoulder.

I elbowed him. Hard.

"You're no fun, Ronie," he moaned, sitting on the pool's edge.

"I can't believe that he's gone," Val said.

"We're looking for a guy that's fiction!" I yelled. "Made up! Not real! This isn't happening!"

"Yeah, it is..."

"Shut up, Val."

I stormed off to the house.

"Where are you going?" Will asked as they came after me.

"I am going to prove to you that some non-existant guy is in this house instead of a non-existant town! And then I'm gorging myself because I'm starving!"

I went inside sliding through the kitchen and screaming.

"JACK! Jack, get down here!"

"He's in Tortuga..."

"He is not, Val!"

"He is, and I'm going after him!"

"Val, don't be stupid..."

"I already am, so... so... I'm going after him!"

"Have fun, Val..."

"I will!"

Val ran down into the basement slamming the door behind her.

"She's out there," Will said. "Way out."

"More than you know," Brandon said.

"Can we get some food now?" I asked.

"All there is is hamburgers, but we'd have to make them," Clay said.

"It's worth it. I'm starving," I moaned.

. Val's PoV .

. 30 min later .

I lifted my welding mask. Good. Only seven more hours.

I heard the door open and someone came downstairs.

"Val, we've got hamburgers if you're hungry," I heard Ronie say.

"Hamburgers for breakfast?" I asked.

"Yeah, and whatthe hell is that... thing?"

"Time machine," I said. "That is, unless you found Jack..."

Ronie sighed.

"Brandon and I searched everywhere, but he wasn't there."

"Because he's in Tortuga!"

"He is not, Val!"

"Is too!"

"Oh, come get your damn burger!"

She stomped up the stairs all angry at me, and I threw my off welding mask and gloves to go eat. I trudged up the stairs, my stomach rumbling.

"Yeah! Burgers!" I said.

"Val, when are you gonna loose the Glinda gown?" BJ asked.

"I dunno... I like it!"

"But you've had it on for days!" Ronie said. "Go raid your aunt's room... plenty of stuff in there... except lace... and... p-p-pink... bleck..."

"Pink isn't so bad!" I argued, biting my burger.

"It is..."

"Shut up, Ronie."

"How's... uh... whatever you're working on coming?" Will asked.

"The time machine is doing fine," I said. "I'll have Jack back before midnight!"

Ronie slammed her burger down, and it splattered all over everyone. She got up and started yelling.

"It's not a time machine, it's a hunk of JUNK!" she yelled. "Jack, who isn't even a real person like Will sitting rightnext to me, is probably down the street terrorizing someone else, thank God, because he's afraid of a stupid DOG!"

She sat back down. grabbed BJ's burger, and started eating it. We were covered in her burger, and Clay took a picle off my forehead.

"If Will isn't real, how is he-?"

Ronie threw Will's burger at my face.

"Missed-!"

SPLAT

Oh, another burger.

"...me."

"Val, you're a demented little freak!" Ronie yelled. "I don't even know why we're friends, but we are! And if it weren't for that, I would be packed for Michigan. You are my best friend, but YOU - ARE - CRAZY!"

"So... best friend... you'll help me?"

"No!" she laughed.

"But-"

"Oh, let's just get it over with," BJ said, standing next to me.

"Brandon!" Ronie said.

"I'll help, too."

"Will!"

"Same."

"Clay! You're all nuts!"

"Oh, shut up and let's go," I said.

We all ran down into the basement, and I heard Ronie scream. She slammed the door and stayed upstairs.

. Ronie's PoV .

I ran up to the fluffly pink room and slammed that door, too.

"JACK!" I bellowed. "I'm going to kill you!"

I kicked what I could til my foot hurt enough, and then I flopped onto the bed and turned on the television.

Yay. News.

"And one of our top stories tonight," the dude said. "Four missing teenagers are missing from a small Connecticut town."

I sat up with my eyes widening.

"Veronica Stoneshep, Valerie Paineter, Brandon Edwards, and Clayton Emberton went missing Saturday night from the town of Bueford Bay."

"VAL!"

"They all reportedly atteneded a Halloween party that night given by Edwards before vanishing."

"VAL!"

Footsteps stampeded up the stairs as they piled around me.

"Ronie! What happened?"

I pointed at the television as the guy kept going.

"Some attendees of the party recall a fight, and Stoneshep was arrested while the others tended to her victim at nearby Porter Hospital. The victim was known to no one."

"How could no body know Jack!" Clay asked.

"Shh..." I said.

"Also, Bueford Bay were not able to contain Veronica Stoneshep who was arrested for attempted murder that night. She escaped with the help of ablonde with short hair in a pink gown. This suspect is believed to be Valerie Painter after matching the police videoswith photographs provided by the family.

The showed the video clip and Val's picture.

"Oh, that picture of me sucks!" Val said.

"Police say to consider these two dangerous, and if you have any information at all concerning these four missing persons, contact your local police department."

"Oh my god! We're convicts!" Val yelled.

"Seems that way, doesn't it?" Will asked.

"We should've stayed with Caroline," I said. "Then they wouldn't find us, and she probably wouldn't turn us in..."

"Let's hope she didn't just see that," Clay said.

"So now what?" Brandon asked.

"We hide!" I said.

"Where?" Will asked.

"Jack!" Val said.

"What?" I asked. "Val, forget him for two freakin'-"

"No, Ronie!" she said. "Don't you see?"

"I don't see him anywhere..." Clay said.

"NO! If we use the time machine to go back to Tortuga..."

"...they wouldn't find us," I whispered slowly.

Then it hit me.

"They wouldn't find us!" I shouted. "They can't if we're in a different time period!"

"Exactly!" Val said. "So what do ya say, me buckos?"

"It sounds good to me," Will said.

"So what are we waiting for?" I asked. "Let's finish that time machine!"

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