4: Who?
When the bell signifying the end of lunch rang, Will made his way to class in a daze, trying to comprehend what had just happened. He was so preoccupied by his thoughts that Ariel's mysterious absence had completely slipped his mind. It only came back to him when he sat down at his desk in History and looked across to find the seat next to him totally vacant. They were currently working in groups and Will did not want to suffer through the class with his irritating group if Ariel wasn't there to balance out the scale of annoying person-awesome friend, so he faked sick and excused himself from the class, something he was very accomplished at.
Walking home, he tried to work out where Ariel had mysteriously vanished to when that question was answered for him in the form of an excitable figure attack hugging him from behind. Whirling around, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the figure was Ariel, which was good on two counts. One, he now knew where she was, and two, it wasn't some insane random person.
"You don't know how glad I am I found you, I have the most incredible news-", they spluttered simultaneously before stopping and looking at the other, not sure who should speak first.
"Ladies first."
"Okay, you know how I have been mysteriously absent for the last couple of hours?"
"It had crossed my mind."
"Well, it's because I was doing some investigating-"
"Of course."
"Don't interrupt. I discovered the most incredible thing, you're not the first person to see something blue that disappears out of the corner of your eye. Lady I talked to says she saw something standing in her backyard but when she went outside, it had disappeared, and she said it was a-"
"1950s Police Box, I know."
"You… know?"
"Yeah, this is what I was gonna tell you…."
Ariel stood wide-eyed and open-mouthed as Will recounted his lunchtime adventure. When he finished she immediately grabbed him and they started walking in the direction of his house.
"Where are we going?"
"Your house."
"Well, I kinda guessed, but why?"
"So we can talk more about this. Plus you have food."
"Right."
They arrived at Will's house and sat cross-legged on his bed, eating corn chips and discussing these strange events.
"It was actually the weirdest thing, I can't explain it at all." Will said after a while.
"That's what's so brilliant about it! Still I can't believe that you actually saw him…." Ariel replied, trailing off ponderously.
"Who?"
"Well, that's just the point. Who is he?"
As they talked, that question lingered in Will's mind.
Who?