Hey, guys! I hope you liked the first chapter...sorry it was so short. This is the second chapter, and Simon and Janis are finally introduced! Hooray! Please rate and review! -McKinley
"Sam? Are you sure that that's what you saw? It sounds a little weird…" Karen looked at me funny.
"Karen! I know what I saw!" I stood up quickly. "I need to find someone. Someone to help me find out what the hell just happened."
"Sam…" Karen said, but the principal came on the announcements.
"Attention, teachers and students. School is dismissed. We will resume classes in two weeks. Thank you."
As everyone cheered the spontaneous school let-out, I just stayed silent. "Aim, Karen, Abby, I have to find out what the hell was going on in my vision. Join me or leave me. I don't care. But I'm finding out what was going on."
"I'm coming." Abby agreed immediately.
"Me too." Aimee stood up and by my side.
"Karen? Are you coming?" I asked impatiently.
Karen sighed. "Fine. But only because you're my best friend."
"Thanks." I gave everyone a small squeeze.
"Sam? SAM!!!!" I heard someone screaming down the hallway, running towards me.
"James! James!" I choked up as my twin brother came sprinting my way.
We were definitely not identical. James was over a foot taller than me, and very strong. He was a quarterback on the football team, and played basketball, soccer and ran track as well. We were both in band though, and made high grades. We had been close since birth and we still were.
James finally spotted me in front of the band hall and swooped me up into a giant hug. "Thank God you're okay." James was six minutes older than me, and was very protective.
I buried my head into his shoulder. "I'm fine. I'm fine."
"Sam…what did you see?" James asked cautiously.
"Someone, no, something was chasing me, and, James, I have to find it. Whatever it was. I have to find it. Will you come with me? Please?"
"Of course." James whispered. "You're my baby sister. I'll always stay with you."
"James, we have to go home. We have to get money. We have to figure this shit out."
James chuckled at my cussing, as I usually never do. "We will. We sure as hell will."
"Mom? Dad?" James and I cautiously entered the house. It was quiet. Deadly silent. It was around eleven o'clock in the morning, so Mom and Dad should've been home. Our dogs were silent. All three of them. They were huge labs, siblings, and were never quiet.
I peeked in Mom and Dad's bedroom to find two lumps in their bed. "Mom? Dad?" I choked up.
"James?" I yelled. "I found Mom and Dad." James appeared in the doorway. I looked at him with big eyes, searching his piercing blue eyes, the same color as mine. His eyes were wide with shock and fear, and he was rigid. "James, look under the sheet. Please."
James carefully walked up to the bed. He put his hand on the sheet, and paused for a moment. He yanked the sheet off the bed. As it fell on the floor, I gasped. Mom and Dad lay in the bed, a time bomb tying them together with three minutes left.
Mom and Dad were knocked out. I burst into tears. There was no way that we were going to be able to turn off the bomb before it went off. "I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad." I whispered to them, before I ran to my room. I threw clothes into a bag, and found James waiting at the door. "Did you find the money?" I asked, choking up again.
"Yeah." There were tears streaming down his cheeks. "I found all of the papers, and a bunch of money, like $10,000, and I found the password for the bank account with even more money. Here are the car keys." James tossed the car keys into my hand, because I knew how to drive way better than he did.
We climbed in the car, throwing our bags in the backseat. We took one last look at our house. We were halfway down the street, when we heard a giant explosion. I looked in the rearview mirror, and where our house and our parents were was nothing but flames and ashes. "I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad." Tears streamed down my cheeks, but I kept driving.
Finally, we arrived at Aimee's house. Karen and Abby were already there. "Get in." I said.
"Where are we going?" Karen asked.
"We're going to the FBI agency."
"The one near my grandma's house?" Abby questioned.
"Yeah. That's the only one around here…" James said.
We drove to the agency, and found my neighbor, Janis's, car parked outside. Janis and I had been close ever since she moved in, and she told me that whenever I needed her, I could come to the agency. I needed her now more than ever.
"Janis?" I called as I walked inside.
"Sam! What are you doing here?!" Janis gave me a quick hug.
"Janis, my parents and my house just blew up, and in my vision, or whatever, something was chasing me. I need you to help me find out what it is. Please." I began crying.
"Your FlashForward is different. Of course I'll help you. We actually found a scientist who may be of some help who says he caused the blackout, Simon. I'm apparently in charge of him, so if I go, he has to come, too."
"Okay. Just please, please help me find this thing." I began crying. "Mom and Dad are dead. Our house is gone. Please."
"Okay, Sam. Okay. Simon!" Janis yelled for this mysterious scientist.
As a young man with spiked blonde hair, who looked like he hadn't shaved in a couple of days walked out, I quickly wiped my tears away from my cheeks. I fixed my hair to look good. James glanced at Simon and then at me. "Oh, God," he muttered. "Please don't tell me my baby sister likes some random scientist." He glanced at Simon again. "This is going to be a long, long trip. I'm exhausted already."
"James, shut up!" I whispered.
"Do you like him?" James asked giving me "the look".
"Do you believe in love at first sight?" I asked.
"Oh my God. This is definitely going to be a long trip." James sighed.
"Janis? What the hell are you doing here with a bunch of kids?" Simon asked in THE hottest British accent that I had ever heard.
"Yep. Definitely love at first sight." I mumbled to myself.
Simon looked over the five of us, and then he glanced at me, his eyes about to glaze right over me to James, but he stopped right before he turned.
He immediately took his hands out of his pockets and smoothed his suit, wiping his hands on his pants. He stuck out his hand to me. "I'm Simon. And you are…"
"I'm Samantha, but nobody calls me that. It's just Sam." I realized I was rambling and shook his hand. I felt the instant connection between us, electricity.
James rolled his eyes. I smacked him hard. "There's a little love electricity isn't there?" James asked making it very awkward.
Simon pulled his hand away, but he kept glancing back again at me as he talked calmly to Janis. "What are these five doing here?"
"We're going to help them find the thing that Sam saw in her vision. What exactly was it, Sam?"
"I don't know exactly, but it was chasing me. I felt so afraid, that if this thing caught me, then it would kill me. It sounded like it was half snake, half human. It was laughing at me, telling me not to run, to be afraid. It managed to get me, to capture me. Its arms were slimy and scaly, and then the FlashForward ended. I was so scared." I began to cry again, and fell onto my knees. James and Simon both rushed to me.
"Sam, it's going to be okay. It's going to be okay." Simon assured me.
"No! It's not going to be okay! My parents are dead, my house is gone, something is going to kill me! It's not going to be okay…" I sobbed.