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Lil sat bolt upright in her bed, shaking uncontrollably. She had just had the wildest, scariest dream about her brother. That he'd been hurt...
Lil put her hands to her head, slowly shaking it. She needed to see her brother, just to make sure.
She put her head back down on her bed, remembering that Phil had gone on that stupid camping trip with Tommy and Chuckie. She remembered the last camping trip he'd been on. Her mom said he almost got sucked into rapids.
Lil shook her head again, mentally trying to get rid of the image. She hugged her legs to her chest and stared straight ahead, thinking.
Her phone rang. She picked it up before it could ring again, wondering vaguely who was calling her at one in the morning. It was Kimi. "Lil?" she nodded, remembered that Kimi couldn't see her, and let out a sleepy, "Yeah?" she heard Kimi take a breath.
"I think...I think that my brother's in danger. I know that sounds weird but-" Lil cut her off.
"I had the exact same feeling, Kimi. Do you think we should tell someone. To me, it was like Phil was hurt." She heard an intake of breath on the other side of the line.
"I don't think Chuckie was hurt." Kimi said slowly. "Just scared. Really scared."
Lil couldn't help teasing. "What else is new? But listen. Tomorrow they're supposed to be back. Really early, too, like, ten. If they don't come back, we'll alert the army." She got a giggle out of Kimi, exactly what she'd hoped for.
She hung up, but just as she was about to go to sleep, her phone rang again. "Dil?" she said, curiously. Tommy's younger brother rarely called her.
"Yeah. Listen, Lil, I think something's up with Tommy."
Now this was freakishly scary. Two people can get weird feeling anf that would be a coincidence. Three was, like, a premonition. "Yeah, what was it like?" she asked carefully.
"Like, he was confused, he didn't know what to do. And he was worried about someone, or about something." The younger boy's voice turned pleading. "I', sorry I woke you up, but what do you think it means?"
Lil tried to reassure him. "Listen, you didn't wake me up. I woke up after a strange dream I had about Phil. Then Kimi called me, she thinks something's up with Chucke. But we just have to wait. They'll be back tomorrow, and if they aren't, we'll call in the cavalry."
Dil's reply was hesitant, unsure, "If you say so." They both hung up.
But Lil found that getting to sleep after that was extremely difficult. She lay in bed, wondering if she'd see Philip again, and if she did, what kind of condition he'd be in.
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