Ch. 3

Some Weird Happenings

I couldn't believe someone was following us! And if so, what would they want with six teens and a history teacher? I wondered about this as we turned down a road, away from N.Y.C, when we had only been there four hours! "We'll come back to N.Y.C next summer guys, right now I say we go to Disney Land, they must've heard us talking, so we can lose 'em in California", Mrs. Phillips said, trying to get us to look on the bright side.

We sighed and answered in unison, "Okay." Personally, I was happy we were taking a different detour. I wanted to get as far away as possible from the person who was stalking us! And because I knew the others felt the same way about it, because they kept shifting in their seats uneasily. Drew was squeezing my hand as I mentally crossed my fingers that the stalker had given up and left us alone. Of course I was wrong. The black SUV was right behind us, it had a cover up that looked like a yellow Hummer.

"Target's in sight", the man reported to his computerized phone.

"Uh, boss, you still sure about this", one of his assistants who was in the car with him asked.

"Yeah, I mean they're just kids, what'dya need them so badly for", another man agreed in the backseat.

"I need them because of her", the mystery villain said as the computer snapped my school picture along with some info of me on the screen above them.

"Heather Marie Beery, 16 years old, pursuing a career as an author, and a Disney expert", one of the men asked, looking at my picture uncertaintly.

"Yes, she's a Disney expert, she knows about every single thing about Disney they ever made, plus she's even worked there before on one of the shows and knows All the backstage passages , has all the secrets on what the companies going to come out with, she's an EXPERT", the man exclaimed.

"Boss, uh, why can't you just get someone who works at the park", one of the assistants asked.

"Because, when they're children or teenagers, they're vulnerable, but when they're adults they know everything you're trying to do to them, they would probably even know who was stalking them the moment they left!"

"And we need others why", one of the men asked.

"Because, if we catch them before we catch Heather, we will be able to use them to get to her", the villain explained.

"Oh", the men in the SUV chorused in unison.

"Idiots", the villain muttered as he continued following us. Meanwhile when we were on our way to California I started thinking about our situation. I had never had anyone follow or stalk me before!

Drew finally spoke up, "Mrs. P, uh, why would somebody stalk us?"

"Honestly, I don't know Drew, but if we find out who it is, we'll call the police", Mrs. P answered. It would take us two weeks to get there, so it was going to be a long road trip! That night we pulled out to a camping site by the highway,

"So, anyone see the laptop, I've been looking for it everywhere", Kalea asked us while we were playing cards.

"How're we supposed to know, you're the one who had it last", I said, a little annoyed that Kalea had interrupted me from winning.

"Yeah I know I had it last, but I looked where I put it and it wasn't there", Kalea said.

"Okay, guys, split up and look for it", Alley sighed as all six of us started looking for the missing laptop.

After about two hours of looking I whispered to the group, "Look, don't tell Mrs. Phillips that we…"

"Guys, I heard you were looking for this", Mrs. P said, popping her head in the room and revealing the laptop in her hands.

"Kalea", we growled as Kalea grabbed the laptop and ran out of the room at the speed of light.

"Kalea, come on out", I said an hour later. Kalea had locked herself in the broom closet for about an hour and we were trying to get her to come out. Finally she came out, looking a little pale. "What's with the face paint", I asked, as it looked like she painted her face white.

"I've been on Yahoo Messanger for about five minutes and there's this guy, Mystery Villian, he keeps wanting to know where I am and who I am", Kalea said, showing us the laptop screen. Here's what it looked like;

windy girl468-Anybody there?

Mystery Villian-Just me it looks like.

Windy girl468-Are you sure there isn't anyone else.

Mystery Villian-Pretty sure. I'm in Tokyo right now. Where are you?

windy girl468-Me?

Mystery Villian-Yes, you.

windy girl468-Why do you want to know?

Mystery Villain-Just wondering. Where are you?

Windy girl468-I'm not saying.

Mystery Villain-Why not? Well, can I at least know your name?

Windy girl468-No! Why do you want to know this stuff?

Mystery Villain-My name's Jevon Campbell. Who are you?

Windy girl468-Jevon? Are you really in Tokyo?

Mystery Villain-That depends, who wants to know?

I was kinda spooked by what was on the screen. That didn't sound like Jevon, a kid in our class that Kalea knew.

"You better answer it", Drew said, starting to type, "Kalea Brown".

Kalea slapped his hand away from the keyboard and yelled, "Are you crazy, that's not Jevon, he knows my username's windy girl468, why would he need to know my name!"

"Maybe he forgot", Drew said. Jevon had a short term memory problem and sometimes forgot important things.

"Maybe, I better tell him who I am and where we are", Kalea said after she thought about it.

I kept myself from screaming, "NO!" Besides, what if it was Jevon, it was hard to tell.

Kalea continued typing;

Windy girl468- It's Kalea Brown. We're a little outside the California border. Does that answer your question?

Mystery Villain- It sure does……oh, and by the way, I'm not Jevon Campbell, (laughs maniacally)

Okay, if I wasn't scared out of my wits before, I was now! What did this guy want with us!

Kalea started typing violently;

Windy girl468-Who are you! What do you want with us! Tell me now!

Mystery Villain-Don't worry, you'll soon find out! (laughs maniacally)

Kalea and the rest of us started screaming like crazy as the computer screen shut off automatically.

"Guys, guys, you okay, what's wrong", Mrs. Phillips called, rushing into the room like a speed boat.

"Uh, yeah, we-we're okay, we just, were telling ghost stories, yeah, and Jerimiah just told a really spooky one and the light flicked off for a minute", I stuttered nervously.

I am not a good liar, but amazingly Mrs. P believed it and shrugged saying, "Okay, get ready for bed." That night I could barely get to sleep, knowing definantley that someone was following us.

"His notions must be very dark", I thought. For one wild second I thought it was some kind of cruel sick joke but I thought better of it. I soon drifted off to sleep. Meanwhile, not far away from our camper, was a disguised SUV. The mystery villain had a camera hooked to the security camera in our camper!

"Well, we have them spooked enough now, if that didn't spook them, nothing will", the mystery villain chuckled.

"Boss, I think this has gone on long enough", one of his assistants told him defiantly.

"Oh no, I won't stop until I see that girl in this SUV, tied up and forced to join us!"

"Whatever you say boss", the assistant said, slumping down in his chair.