"That is just sooo sweet," said Andrea. "Know what, though? We need to get back to the present, and pronto."
"Okay," said Hermione. "And just how are we going to do that? And what are we going to do when Edward comes back here, expecting to see us and tell us all about his date, and we're not here?"
"Oh, yeah," said Andrea. She pulled out her cellphone and took it out. "I'm going to send him a text message telling him where we went. We'll probably never see each other again, since we're going forward in time, but he should at least know we got to, shouldn't he? You're right, Hermione."
"Of course," Hermione said. "Hurry up! Type the message! Then we can figure out how to get out of here."
"Okay," said Andrea. She typed:
APbabe1: Hey, Edward. It's me, Andrea Potter. You won't find Hermione and I at the pool when you get back from your date with Stephanie, since we're going back to the future. Don't worry, though: I'm going to leave something for you to remember me by. So is Hermione. Bye! Love ya, Edward, and Hermione loves ya too! Hope you had a fabulously awesome time with Stephanie!
"All right, did you send him the message?" asked Hermione. "In the book I read, it said that the two girls disappeared down a slide they built after that and that they were never seen again."
"Hmm," said Andrea. "Wait a minute. Who wrote the book?"
"Umm," Hermione said, trying very hard to remember. "It was…it was some guy whose name was Edward Delingo! It must have been that same Edward, Andrea! It's just too much of a coincidence!"
"Oh, that was sooo sweet!" Andrea cried. "He wrote a book about us! Well, I hope he lived a nice good life. In our time, he'll be 63…so he could still be alive when we get back to the present! That'd be great!"
"Well, come on," said Hermione, smiling. "Let's build that slide, Andrea."
