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Chapter 4
Jealous of an Imaginary friend?
Later
that afternoon Corrine was trying to find her brother. She had looked
everywhere without sucess.
"Alec, where are you?" She
called
"Think Corrine where would he be? Not around people
that's for sure." Corrine thought to herself.
She accidently
found a secret door and entered.
"Amazing. Who would've
thought there were other corridors behind the walls?"
"Alec,
are you here?" She called into the semi darkness.
She stopped
in her tracks. She could hear her brother laughing and talking to
someone, but she couldn't hear the response. She followed the sound
around a corner. She saw her brother standing in middle of the
corridor looking down and equally dark corridor.
"There you
are, I've been looking all over for you. What are you doing here all
by yourself?"
"I was talking to my friend. It's all
right Erik it's only my sister," Alec shouted into the dark.
Corrine looked in the direction he shouted, but there was no one
there.
"So Alec, what kind of adventure do you want to go on
today?" Corrine asked as she squatted down to his level.
"Do
you want to look for buried treasure? Pretend we're lost in a wild
and dangerous jungle? Pretend we are the most fearsome pirates in the
world? Or do you want to pretend we're stranded on a deserted
island?"
Alec looked at Corrine thoughtfully and said
"I
just want to be with Erik."
Corrine's heart felt as though it
would break. This was the first time ever he turned down going on a
great adventure. Her little brother, who depended on her for
everything would rather spend his afternoon with someone who wasn't
even real.
"Ok Alec, if that's what you want to do, but if
you change your mind, I'll be in my room."
Corrine walked
away feeling quite jealous of this Erik.
"This is silly to be
jealous of an imaginary friend."
Erik had watched the
scene from his hiding place. He couldn't get the sad look the girl
had on her face out of his mind.
"She really does love that
little boy. I wonder how differently my life might have turned out if
I had an older sister that loved me. Just like she loves Alec."
Erik thought to himself.
His thoughts were interupted by the
sound of his name being called.
"Erik, it's ok. She's gone
now."
Erik came out of his hiding place.
"Alec, I
think you hurt your sister's feelings." Erik said gently.
"How
do you mean?"
"I think she really wanted to spend some
time with you."
"But I want to talk to you some
more."
"We'll talk tomorrow Alec. I really do have some
music to write."
"Okay Erik. I'll see you tomorrow."