The Road Goes Ever On And On
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Chapter Four: Confused
"Um, who are you?" asked Dolly, unsure what to say to this girl.
"I'm Becca, Tess's cousin," said the blonde 10 year old whose hair was pulled back in a fancy braid and she was wearing nice clothes.
"Oh, what are you doing here?"
"Well, Tess was dropping me at my friend's house when she disappeared. She was driving one minute and gone the next. It was like magic."
Dolly looked at Kate and Emily who seemed surprised. Then Dolly remembered that Tess had said something about having to drop her cousin off on her way to Dolly's. So that would explain that somewhat. But why had Tess disappeared?
"Where is Tess?" asked Becca.
"Well, um…" said Dolly, struggling for words.
"She's gone isn't she? She's not coming back?"
"What?"
"She's been telling me lately that she had a feeling that she might disappeared and never come back. And it's happened hasn't it?"
"Yes, she's gone."
"Where?"
"Middle-earth."
"Oh, I thought she might have gone to Hogwarts. But Middle-earth works too…"
"Yes…"
"Did you see her before she left?"
"Becca, your cousin took us to Middle-earth. She took us there accidentally and we were there for a while before coming back. We've just come back."
"That's not possible."
"Well, time is different and we were sent back to before we left, which is why Tess disappeared. Or at least I think so…"
"It seems to fit, with what we've figured out," said Kate, approvingly.
"What have you figured out?"
"That there is tunnel between the two worlds and that time is quite different…"
"And if you are dead in one world, it doesn't mean that you are dead in another one," added Emily. "Moo!"
"What?" asked Becca, confused.
"Emily was flattened in Middle-earth by an SUV, and she died. But she returned as a ghost and now she is clearly human," said Kate, pointing to Emily who had a cell phone out now and was talking to someone while playing with her flame thrower.
"I'm very confused now."
"Well, I'm going to go back to Middle-earth, so who wants to come?" asked Dolly, loading the SUV.
"I want to come!" cried Becca, grabbing her stuff out of Tess's truck and tossing it in Kate's SUV before climbing in.
Kate sighed and climbed in, as did Emily when her boyfriend, Jon showed up and tossed his stuff in the SUV. All of the friends, plus two new people were going to Middle-earth. And once everyone was in, Dolly raised a question.
"How are we going to get there?"
Author's Notes:
Here's chapter four! Chapters five and six are on their way for today, February 9th! Chapters seven and eight will be up tomorrow!