Chapter 4: Day 2: the ladder (dun dun dun)
Friday – Day 2
Noah's apartment
"Numbers are all screwed up…" Noah muttered as he fussed over his big fancy copy thingy.
"I know you hated math, but…" Rachel was cut off.
"No…" Noah said, concentrating harder "On the tape recorder."
The lines on the tape recorder are spelling out '6 days'
Noah started useless babbling about the unique codes of the recorded tape.
They watch the tape again.
"What's that?" Rachel asked, pointing to a reflection of a girl in the mirror on the tape.
"It looks like she's walking away…" Noah said, squinting his eyes at the fuzzy flickering screen.
"No – up there at the top." Rachel said, pointing to a thin black band at the top of the screen.
"That's the tracking." Noah said, looking at it. "I'll fix it by pressing my big sausage fingers onto the reel, like so…"
He proceeded to do so.
"Wait…no…goback." Rachel muttered, looking at the screen. The tracking was getting bigger and stretchier at the top.
Noah went back as she had told him.
"No, faster." She said. "So I can do this…"
She pressed her fingers on top of his until he burned his fingers on the reel.
"Ow!" He shouted, pulling his finger away and sucking it.
Noah's 'assistant' entered, and looked at them suspiciously.
"Hey Noah…I picked up the cameras…they're in really good shape." Shesaid, looking up at Rachel and Noah again.
Noah introduced them.
"This is Beth." He muttered.
"I'm his ex." Rachel hissed at Beth.
"I prefer the name 'artner in crime' to 'assistant'" She said, giggling.
"Was that supposed to be funny?" The audience asked.
"Coz it sooo wasn't." Rachel said sarcastically, string at Beth.
There was an awkward silence.
"You know beth," Noah started. "Rachel's doing a stupid story on a stupid video tape…come watch it!"
Beth walked over to the screen.
Rachekl grabbed the tape and jogged to the door.
"I reallt must go…" She muttered.
She glared at beth as she left. Noah spoke up.
"Why are you taking the…"
"Uh…men…" Rachel said.
"Urg…Blondes…" Beth spat.
"My finger hurts…" Noah whined, sucking it again.
Rachel walked down the street below Noah's apartment. She passed a ladder. It was very tall and leaning against the wall. It looked strangley familiar. It was the ladder from the tape…or was it?
"Where have I seen this ladder before?" achel asked herself, studying it. "Oh yeah." She remembered. "I need a ladder to see how high I can jump…"
"She's starting to annoy me." The audience muttered to one another, as Rachel took the ladder and walked away with it, not struggling although it's several feet tall. A builder stops her and talks to her.
"Watch out there missy – bad luck – don't need that."
The 'don't need that' part sounds strangely like "you might die"