Were back to my part of the story. Its named How I Met the Curate. While I was reading the book, I didn't know what curate meant so I looked it up. Curate- a person authorized to conduct religious worship. It never said it had to be a boy, so I made it a girl. But she isn't authorized to give religious worship. Her dad was.
I was floating down a river in a boat with a little five year old girl I didn't even know the name of. I was thinking. How in the world did I get here? I use to be living in a nice house and now I'm floating on a river watching people move by foot to get away from the Reginites. I looked at the girl on the opposite side of the boat. She was sleeping. I leaned over the side of the boat and paddled to the right to get back on land. I picked her up gently and got her backpack and walked off the boat. I walked to a house and peered inside. No one was there. I entered.
I found a bedroom next to a kitchen and placed the girl on the bed. Then I went to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat. There were materials to make sandwhiches and cereal. I made a sandwhich and sat at the table. Soon, the girl came in rubbing her eyes. "Where are we?" she saw I was eating. "What are you eating?"
"A sandwhich. You want one?" She nodded. While I was making a sandwhich, I asked, "I never got your name."
"Zoe."
"My name's Jean." I gave her her sandwhich and she started to eat. We finished our meal and the girl got back into the bed but I stayed by the window in case the Reginites came back. I accidently fell asleep.
I woke up to the sound of creeking. Someone is in here, I thought after seeing that Zoe was still in bed. I grabbed one of two baseball bats I found in the closet and followed the footsteps. They led me first into the kitchen but no one was there. They led me upstairs (wait. There were stairs?) in a hall, through a bedroom, in a different hall, down stairs, and through the kitchen. Then they entered the bedroom Zoe was in. I approached the open door but stepped on a loose floor board that creeked under my weight. I heard the footsteps stop and then approach the closet where the other bat was. Then the footsteps came to the door. I heard someone's breath on the other side of the wall and knew it wasn't mine because I wasn't breathing at all. I'll go at three, I thought. One, two, THREE!
I turned through the entrance and swung the bat. It collided with the other that was mimiking mine. The collision woke up Zoe and she sat up. We kept the bats together so I got a mental picture of me as Luke against Darth Vader with the movie paused. I loward my lightsaber (sorry, baseball bat) so a could see the person behind the mask (sorry again, bat). On the other side was a girl my age but shorter. I couldn't tell any descriptive details but I could see she was thin with long hair. I finally reacted. "What are you doing here?"
"I need someplace to stay." She loward her bat.
"You gave her a scare." I pointed to Zoe.
"The girl wasn't awake." I could tell she was smiling.
"What's your name?"
"Alexa Kendra Alka."
"A.K.A." She thought I was asking As Known As.
"Alex." She looked around the room. "So can I stay?"
"I'm okay with it. But then I'd be the only boy around two girls."
"Thanks. I'm going to clean up." She went to the bathroom.
"I don't think the water will work or I would have taken a shower." I heard running water. "I always have to be proven false!"
I was lucky to finish this chapter before I left for my Great Grandma's 100 Birthday. Tune in next chapter where it will be back with friends!