NOTE: This is the next chapter. I want to finish the first half of this story. Please review…..oh yeah this day happens 2 days after the talk with Quigley (Chapter 3).
Chapter 6: Unexpected Meeting
Isadora…
I blindly grabbed at the things on my side table. I finally found what I'm looking for and threw it across the room. I was surprised to hear a cry rather than a loud crash.
"I just came in here to wake you up and wish you a good morning. I wasn't expecting an alarm clock thrown to me in this time of day."
Duncan's annoyed voice reached me. I gave a loud groan and threw the covers down. I sat up and stretched. I grabbed Duncan's hand and looked at his wrist watch, since I just annihilated my 3rd alarm clock that week.
"It's just 7:00 and it's Saturday!" I told him with wide eyes.
"Did you completely forget what is going on in town today?" He stuffed a piece of paper in my bathrobe and threw the robe to me. I took the paper out and scan it through.
"I thought the fair is next week," I said, putting on the robe.
"No, it's today. So dress up quickly before Ms. Um comes up here again."
After a few minutes I rushed out of my room to the kitchen table where I found my brothers talking to a brown haired girl. The girl's name's Diane. She practically grew up in the orphanage. She shared the floor with us, so we see her everyday. When she saw me, she flashed me a smile.
"Isadora, good morning, are you going to the fair today?" she asked me. Even if we are room mates, we are not very close friends. We were just normal friends since she usually hangs out with the cool girls. She's the nicest of them all though; in fact she's very nice.
"I wasn't planning to," I answered. "But since it's compulsory and Duncan already ruined my back up plan of staying in bed, I guess there's no choice."
She laughed and stood up. She placed her empty cereal bowl on the sink.
"I have to go down early. I'm taking care of the younger kids while they're on the fun fair, so I have to go and get my instructions first. See you all there," she told us.
We gave her goodbyes. I gave a loud sigh and started eating the oat meal on my bowl.
"What can you see in the fair except the immense crowd anyway?" I demanded.
"Well, maybe you'll see something you'd like there. Last year you bought that poetry book," Quigley said.
"That was last year and it was really crowded and hot," I told him. "I think it's going to be a bit less interesting."
Boy was I wrong…and how glad I was for it.
The fun fair started out as a mistake like I imagined. We were not allowed to go off alone. We have to be at least a pair to look around the noisy fair. It was true that there was a lot to see and buy, but because of the sea of people, you could barely move. My brothers and I spent more than 10 minutes waiting at a booth, waiting for the chance when theamount of people becomes lesser so we can move. It was completely terrible.
A few hot and stuffy hours later, my brothers started lingering around a book booth. They were arguing about a certain book for about half an hour already. It was really boring me to death. Even if it was against the rules, I decided to look around alone for a bit. I went away for a bit just to see a bit more of this so called fun fair. So far, I got stuck in the crowd and got carried away in the ocean of people. Duncan and Quigley are going to kill me, no doubt about it, I thought glumly.
Suddenly, a wave of screaming people started coming. Everything was so out of control and I was pushed away from the book booth. Oh I was a dead meat. Finally, the nightmare stopped, causing me to stumble using my hands to catch my fall. My near fall caused me to bump into someone…hard.
"Sorry," I mumbled and turned around to meet the victim of my clumsiness. He wasn't looking at me though. His head was turned to the side, yet he looked very familiar to me. He looked strangelyfamiliar yet I never saw him in the orphanage before. He was young, from what I presumed, had brown hair and a clever face. Then a word escaped from my lips; a word which, until that very moment, I never knew. The word that would start bringing things back which were long forgotten.
"Klaus," I said…and the boy heard me. The crowd started pushing again, causing me to move backwards. The boy turned to me and our eyes met. His blue eyes wore expression of great surprise. I wished I knew why. Before I knew it, I was so far from him because of the great pressure of the crowd. He started moving towards me with difficulty but…
"Isadora!!" I looked back to see my brothers waving to me. I started moving towards them but couldn't resist a look at the familiar stranger I bumped into. I could only see half of his face but by the look of it, he was trying to get through the crowd with difficulty. I gasped loudly as someone grabbed my arm. It was Duncan.
"Come on, we are the only ones left. Where did you wonder off to?"
I gave him a nod and started moving, not bothering to answer his question.
As I was steered by my other triplets towards the orphanage, my mind wasn't as bored as it was this morning. Who was that boy? Why was he looking at me like I was a ghost? Questions bombarded my head, and it took more than words to answer them…believe me.
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