Chapter Nineteen part one

(Hey, y'all!

So far, the story is almost done.

I know that's not always what you're looking for but The Birchwood Twin(s) series will continue to have adventures of Beatrice, Tommy, the Toon Patrol, and many other characters.

So…here is the first part of the nineteenth chapter and enjoy the story and life as it goes! ;-)

-imaginarytoon1)

Beatrice:

After I picked up the knife, my heart was beating so fast and I felt like I couldn't breathe. I almost had a heart attack after Wheezy told me to take off the blindfold.

I opened my eyes after the blindfold was untied. I gasped at the sight of the knife and I looked at the knives on the table.

I did it. I thought. I passed the challenge. Now I can wake up and live my life as it goes!

"Well, Birchwood," Smarty said, "you 'vast' the challenge."

"You and your cousin can go home." Wheezy said.

"No catch?" I asked.

"No catch." Flasher replied.

I gave the weasels a suspicious look and I said, "All right."

Then, I said to Lexi,

Let's go, Lexi. We're going home.

"Sleazy will show you the way out of the woods." Greasy said.

I gave Greasy a confused look and he points at the weasel who was new to the group.

What kind of a name is that?! I exclaimed in my head.

"C'mon, Birchwood. Let's go." Sleazy said with a mild New York accent. "You and your cousin, come with me."

As I walked towards Sleazy with Lexi, I would glance at Smarty to see if he was going to do anything behind my back. So far, Smarty just stared at me with a small angry look on his face. After looking back at him for the final time, Smarty exclaimed,

"You won the challenge and I'm not going to do anything!"

"Whatever you say." I mumbled and disappeared into the darkness of the woods with Lexi and Sleazy.

I didn't really say anything else while I walked with Lexi and Sleazy. When it got too dark to see, Sleazy took out an old-fashioned flashlight and aimed it at everything that was in front of us.

Lexi tapped her fingers on my left arm and asked me,

Are the weasels going to see us again?

I replied,

No, Lexi. The weasels won't bother us ever again. Once we get home, you get yourself cleaned up and ready for bed. You've been through a lot.

With a mischievous smile on her face, Lexi asked,

Who was that weasel in the green shirt, pants, and hat? You were talking to him the most.

I said,

That's Greasy.

Is he your boyfriend?

I scoffed.

No. He's a friend…like FRIEND-friend, not boyfriend.

Sure, he is. Lexi said with her mischievous smile.

I shook my head and chuckled.

Despite of what Lexi had to go through, she still has her sense of humor. I don't know how Lexi handled all of the tough times but she's made it. Now that I've won the challenge, I can take Lexi to the house and wake up in the real world…where the weasels won't bother us every again.

"Well, this is as far as I can go, you two." Sleazy said as we got close to the edge of the woods. "If you know your way back, then go on ahead. Be careful, Birchwood, and have a nice night."

"You, too." I replied.

Then, Sleazy snuck back in to the darkness of the woods and I whistled for Ray.

All of the sudden, a bright yellow light popped out from the top of the trees. Wow, that was really fast!

"Hey, chere!" Ray exclaimed.

"Hey, Ray! It's nice to see you again!" I said.

"I see you got your cousin. You won the challenge, right?"

"Yes, sir. I won the challenge."

"Can you see where you're going?"

"Will it be all right if you give us a little light, Ray?"

"Sure, chere!" Ray said.

Ray began to glow a really bright light. In fact he was so bright that it looked like it was in the middle of the day.

As Ray flew in front of me and Lexi, showing us the way as we walked, another thought bubble appeared before my eyes and another image began to display itself inside. I was walking around in a room where there are cushions for walls and Tommy was standing outside of the room with a doctor, I believe.

Beatrice is doing okay. The doctor's voice echoed in my head. She just asked this guy called…um, Ray…to give her and somebody else some light.

But where did you put Beatrice? Tommy's voice also echoed.

She's in a room where she can't hurt herself during her random acts of action. Doctor Olsen won't even go near Beatrice because in her sleep, Beatrice acted like she was defending herself from something and she whacked Doctor Olsen with her pillow. She said that Beatrice is really strong and hard with her defensive hits.

That was probably when I whacked Armageddon on the back of his head in the bathroom. I don't want to talk about that once I wake up.

Anyway, the bubble and image faded as Lexi, Ray, and I arrived on the edge of the woods.

We're almost home, Lexi. I said. Just a couple more—

Then, from my right side, a bright light flashes in my eyes before I can finish on what I was going to say to Lexi.

I looked to my right and ten feet away from me, Ray, and Lexi, a 1940s black police car began to drive towards us.

The TOON PATROL! I thought.

"Lexi, we have to run! Ray, come with us!" I exclaimed.

I crouched down and Lexi climbed on to my back. Immediately, I took off running and the siren from the police car was blaring like crazy.

"STOP IN THE NAME OF THE LAW!" Smarty called out to me.

NEVER! I thought.

Turning on corners, knocking down trash cans, and jumping over the curves was certainly no picnic. The Toon Patrol was gaining on me and Lexi and they weren't doing a good job on slowing down while turning on sharp corners. Almost every time that the Toon Patrol would turn on a corner, the car would hit a mail box.

As I got closer to my house, I decided to do a loop-di-loop around a small neighborhood so that the Toon Patrol can lose track of me, Lexi, and Ray.

I was getting a little tired because of how I have to stop every few minutes and let Lexi climb back on my back, due to slipping little by little.

Then, with Lexi still on my back, I took off running and the Toon Patrol's car suddenly stopped working after running into another mailbox.

Thankfully, when I arrived at my house, the front door was unlocked. Lexi slipped off my back and I opened the door.

Ray had followed us throughout the crazy chase and he was still glowing a bright color.

"Ray, turn down your light." I said after closing the door and locking it.

Ray's light goes from really bright to slightly dim as I turned off the other lights around the house.

"Chere, why are you turning off the lights?" Ray asked.

"I'm making myself and Lexi hard to find." I replied. "Thanks to a drill at my school, I'll make myself and Lexi hard to find by turning off the lights around the house and hiding in a specific bedroom where the Toon Patrol won't find us."

I took Lexi to my parents' bedroom and I opened the closet door. I found a big laundry basket that was big enough to hold a person as small as Lexi and I figured that Lexi would have to hide in that.

Lexi, I want you to stay in this basket. I said to Lexi. Don't ever come out until I come back for you. Stay hidden and quiet.

Then, I heard a loud crashing noise. I'm talking about a window getting smashed to bits…

(To be continued.)