This is weird. They must not be showing any events tonight. My dream is pitch black. They always have something to show and if they don't, which is extremely rare, they show old events. But right now they aren't giving me anything to dream about.
Suddenly a light flickers on and there is a table with one chair on a side and two chairs on the other side. A dim light is shining over. A door is pushed open and two men in what look like nurse outfits burst into the room dragging a boy with handcuffs keeping his arms behind his back. They sit him down at the table and he looks up at them as they sit down across from him. My mind is racing; it's Blake! He looks knocked out but only for a second because then he lifts his head and I can see dry blood on his lower lips. Why would the dream network people be showing me this?
"Where am I and why am I here?" Blake says then he clenches his teeth. "What do you want?"
"You are in the PNP or the Portsmouth Naval Prison and you know exactly why you are here. We want to know if you have more of these plans written down anywhere else and if your two friends know about them."
"M-my friends have nothing to do with this," He stutters. "I wouldn't put them in danger by telling them about the papers."
"Good. Are the ones we collected the only ones you wrote down?"
"How about you show them to me then. Then I can tell you."
The two men open a drawer in the table and pull out a pile of papers. Blake spreads them out to look at them. He looks as if he is counting them. Once he is done he smiles, but quickly so the men don't see and then says, "They're all here," and pretends to look upset.
He knows that one of the sheets is missing and he knows that it was Kalea and I who took it.
The men put the papers back and close the draw. They force Blake to stand and they drag him out of the room leaving to door swinging wide open. I look through the door wishing that this never happened and that Blake was back here, safe, with Kalea and me. Straight away I see someone and they are looking at me. It is the boy! The boy who has been in my dreams recently! I can't believe he is here. And looking at me too! After a few seconds he looks away, his face looks sad. He brings his hand up and turns off the light. I wake up. It must not have been the dream network people who showed me this. It must have some how been the boy!
I quickly get out of bed and decide to bring Romeo and Juliet, just incase I have time to read. I grab the cooked apple, and rush to the kitchen where the only window in the house is. It is still dark out but the sun has started to rise. Time to go meet Kalea. I grab two apples from the basket near the water pump and walk toward the front door and I see my note… Kalea and I are going to be gone for a couple days for a project for work. So don't worry when you find that we are not here!
The house is very quiet. The only things I can hear are my dad's snores and my brain thinking things over. I realize that I might not be back. I almost have second thoughts about leaving but then I think of Blake. No one should have to endure the things I saw last night. I rush out the door and run to the apple tree.
Kalea is already there, sitting down pulling at the grass and when she sees me coming she stands up and runs to me.
"I could only get a bite of bread that was my dinner from yesterday. We should take some apples and maybe some wheat."
I don't know when I should tell her about my dream. Maybe she had it too, but I don't think so because the boy was there and she has never seen him before so it wouldn't make sense for her to see the same as me. I decide to tell her later and just continue or conversation about food, "I agree because I don't have very much food either. I got my dinner, which is a cooked apple with wheat, and I brought two more apples from home."
Kalea and I begin to pick apples from the tree and I figure this is as good a time as any to bring up my dream so I ask, "What was your dream last night?"
"You mean they didn't show you the honeymoon? It was the same couple from the wedding. They went to an aquarium and swam with dolphins! It was really cool!"
"That sounds like lots of fun!" I can't help smiling. "I have always wanted to swim with sharks."
"That would be scary don't you think?"
"Well not the dangerous ones. Just the ones that are huge but really nice because they wont eat you since they eat krill." She looks at me like I'm crazy but then goes back to work.
"So my dream last night. I saw Blake." At hearing this Kalea stops and turns to me.
"You better not be joking with me!"
"No I'm not! I promise! These two men were interrogating him. They showed him the papers that were collected form his room and he noticed that one was missing. He knows it was us but he didn't tell the men that we knew anything. He was in the worst place I have ever seen Kalea! It was a small room with a table and three chairs. There was one light hanging over the table and it was very dim. The prison was called PNP or Portsmouth Naval Prison. That is where we have to go! Oh and one more thing. The boy was there! The one I have been seeing! When he turned off the light I woke up."
"Well at least we know now where Blake is. It is strange though that only you saw it and not me." She goes back to picking apples.
"Yeah. I don't know."
Soon we have enough apples. "Harper, do you have enough room in your bag to hold all of the apples?"
"Yes. I think so."
We put all of the apples we picked in the bag and are off. We collect some wheat as we navigate through the fields and once we finish putting it into my bag the bag is full.
"I guess this is all the food we can get." I say.
"Looks like it!"
We reach the forest and Kalea looks at the directions on the paper.
"It says we have to follow the path to an opening where an edge of the wall is. I guess this assumes that there is only one path." She points to the edge of the woods, "Look for a path or a sign of a way through the woods."
It took us longer than hoped but eventually Kalea found the path by trying to lean against a tree but totally missing and falling over a bush into a cleared area that formed a path.
"Good job!" I laugh.
She laughs too. "Thanks!" Then she puts her hands in the air, "I tried!"
We follow the path and no one says a word except for Kalea's "Omigod's" whenever she heard an owl or other animal.
Suddenly I run right into something and fall backwards. I look up and it is a giant wall.
"Didn't it say there was going to be a clearing? Now my nose kills!"
"Yeah but this is better isn't it! Now the guards can't see us!"
"I guess. So how are we getting over this?"
"Well the next step is to dig under the wall." Her mouth falls open.
"Did you just say under the wall? You can't be serious."
I walk away from the wall and start to pace back and forth. On my way back toward the wall I fall into a whole filled with grass. I look up to see if Kalea noticed. She didn't.
"Hey! Kalea, I think I found something."
I start to take all the grass out of the hole and soon enough there is a tunnel leading under the wall. Kalea and look at each other and head into it.
It takes about five minutes to get to the other side where there is a metal piece covering the exit. We stop and rest for a little while.
"They really did create a wall that was indestructible. That must be the thickest wall I have ever seen. Or not really seen since we didn't see how wide but you know what I mean." I say.
When we are ready to leave we push the metal up a little but we see a pair of feet so we quickly drop it down as quietly as we can. Right after we close it, it starts to open again but neither of us are touching it. We hear voices and the metal drops once again almost hitting Kalea in the head.
"Jack, what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be at work?"
"Yes but I am on my lunch break so I thought I would come and admire the beautiful wall that we created years ago." Replied a low put calming voice. So it is already lunch? Wow that was quick.
"Umm… ok just make sure you are back before you break is over. We don't want you to receive another infraction."
"Got it."
We could here footsteps leaving the area but the guy called Jack was still there. Who admires a wall, even if it is this amazing?
Before Kalea and I can run and hide or do anything for that matter, the metal is lifted and we are caught.
"You guys were almost seen! You really should be more careful from now on," says the boy, Jack. "Don't worry though you guys are safe for now."
I turn around and he is already helping Kalea out of the tunnel. He turns back and holds his hand out waiting for me to grab on so he can pull me up. But all I can do is stare. It is Jack. He is the boy from my dreams!