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Two Birds on a wire...

writer: Anne Reints Editors: Lyla Hoemke, Tricia Proffitt, Jil Reints Illustrations:Air huber, Miklah Newman

Note

this is a draft of the first chapter of the book so it is not finished with it yet,and we are still working on some of the pictures.

1.The Nightmare

I was hiding in a closet, when the lights went out. All I could see was the silhouette of a small girl standing in the window. I could hear the floor boards creaking, like someone was coming up the stairs. I heard the little girl laugh and then she jumped out the window. I tried to get up ,but to my horror someone was holding my leg. I turned back to see a man, holding my leg with a ghoulish grin. He slowly scooted closer to me, and he was saying some sort of language I couldn't understand. All of a sudden I was in another room, it was all lit up with candles and the carpets were blood red.The girl I saw jump out the window, she was alive again. I thought to myself, maybe this is the past? But she was in the same dress, and looked the same age. How is this possible? She was playing with a red bouncy ball. When she started to look at me, the same lullaby from my old music box started playing. I noticed the floor turn into blood, and the next thing I knew I was drowning! As if it was real I started panicking until I blacked out. It felt so cold to be alone. I woke up in an instant, or it felt like it. I was In a little girl's bedroom. I looked around until I saw the little girl hiding under her bed. She looked slightly older. She looked at me and said "Shhh they're coming". She had a blank face. Two men came into the room. They started bickering in a different language, it sounded like Russian, but it was different. I know they were not speaking Russian. When they looked under the bed they dragged the girl out from under her bed by her hair. The girl was screaming as they did this. Before they took her out of sight, I heard her say " leave me alone!" My question was, why did she hide under the bed? I followed her and they took her to the basement. They locked her in a chair with handcuffs attached to the arms. She looks scared. "Why did you tell Joanna! Tell me what you said!" The man said angrily. "I didn't say anything!" she cried "I know you're lying!" the other man said in an even louder voice." I assure you, I didn't say anything!" the girl said. "Mary Margaret, I know you told Johanna what we have been working on! That's why you'll be locked in here from now on!" the woman said. "Why are you doing this!" Mary Margaret said. I'm guessing that Mary Margaret is the girl. "It's for your own good! If you can live forever then you can make a fortune for us." the woman said. "But why are you hurting me? I've done nothing wrong. "Mary Margaret said. "Because, you told Johanna our secret," the first man said. no, I didn't, I was talking to her about the milkman "Mary Margaret said. I'm not sure what to do now. In between their sentences you can hear Mary Margaret screaming in pain from the electrocution chair, Well they're interrogating her. I see out of the corner of my eye a strange object that was under the stairs. It was glowing. I started walking over to the object, but when I got closer it started glowing red. My first instinct was to run but I couldn't. It was as if he wanted me there but to be careful. It was just a moment after I saw the red light that the whole room started catching fire, I ran up the stairs trying to escape. Until I saw Mary Margaret go up the stairs I didn't realize that I wasn't actually moving! I started to panic, but not long after, the room went black. I started hearing more screams but this time it was more of a Screech. It sounded like it was coming from a baby. Then, as if in Clockwork, I regained my sight and saw a baby strapped down to a table. There were two younger men and a middle-aged woman in scrubs and they were holding syringes filled with dark red liquid. I would have thought it was blood, but it was even darker than that. I could see the baby's skin turning into a rash. The baby then started crying and a few seconds later I thought they'd given the baby a pacifier but the most horrifying thing happened. I saw them picking up the baby with a pair of prongs by the feet. At that point I knew they had killed the child. But what made it even worse was that for the next hour they killed over 70 babies with their experiments. I didn't understand what this had to do with Mary Margaret, until the three people took off their masks. I saw that they were the same people who were interrogating Mary-Margaret. Suddenly everything clicked! They were testing and anti-aging or some sort of living forever potion or something on babies! And it worked on Mary Margaret, but I don't understand, she looks like she was 8 or 9 but the date on their birth certificate said 1903 the current date was 2023 that means she's over a hundred years old. Unless she is dead now I can understand what they were doing. Why would they make someone not be able to die but not give it to themselves. I'm not sure how I'll find the answers to all my questions but I had about 20 seconds, then I woke up to the sound of my alarm.

My mom ran into the room "honey, it's okay! It was just a dream" it was just a dream? I mean I knew that it was odd, but I couldn't make all of that up, right? "Come on, you're going to be late for the bus, and you know I don't have time to drive you there myself.” she yelled from the bathroom. "I'll be down soon!" I can't just pretend nothing's wrong, unlike my mother. I've been getting nightmares ever since my sister's accident. My sister's name was Jane. Jane was a straight-A student, she was only two years older than me. I was a freshman and she was a Junior, when the school shooting happened. She passed away and she was in math class during the shooting. She always said math would kill her, turns out she was right.

Once I was ready, I waited by the bus stop till Jenna came. “Hey, you wanna stop by the ice cream shop after school tomorrow?” Jenna said with a smile on her face. I Responded with “ I can't, mom wants me home at 4 o'clock, and I have a lot of homework to catch up on.” I knew she was just trying to cheer me up, but I put all my effort into a fake smile. When the bus arrived me and Jenna sat next to each other in the back. The bus ride was long, but we talked to each other the whole way so it felt like 5 minutes. When we went to the home room Mrs Lacy was sitting at her desk looking over the attendance sheet. Mrs. Lacy was one of the most stuck up teachers I had ever met. She always held this red bag and wore a green jacket every day, but her shirts varied from blouses to turtle necks. “How was everybody's weekend? Are you all handling the situation well?” Mrs. Lacy said to the whole class. I couldn't believe that she would ask that… Now, and why so soon? No one in the class answered her, they were all appalled at why she would ask now. I wondered how they all felt, now that it was over. As far as i knew they had not missed a day of school, but i couldn't know for sure. Jenna was doing her impression of mickey mouse to try and cheer people up, was my guess. I was trying to catch up on some note taking from science class that I had missed. Then the teacher came up to me and said “ Are you feeling ok, I haven't seen you since …. Um …. The Accident happened. Do you need to talk to your counselor?” I wanted to say No, please don't send me to that place, I will go crazy if you do. But instead I Said. “ Sure, maybe I do need a break.” I was so stupid, but yet again I was walking to the counselors office. Jenna wasn't really paying much attention, but I knew she would figure it out at some point. When I got to the counselor's office, she was on the phone with someone, so I had some time to think of an excuse that would explain why I was there. When she was finally off the phone I stepped inside. “ so, how are you Annabeth? Do you have anything in particular that you wanted to talk about, or are you just feeling funky?” Mrs. Reepa said. “ Nothing in particular, I was just feeling off.” That was All I could come up with. We spent about 20 minutes talking about pointless things like how I felt about coming back to school, and when I think things will go back to normal. She wrote me a handwritten note about how feelings are a good thing, even if they aren't good feelings. She said it means I'm a normal human being. After she wrote me a hall pass, I walked to my next class, Math. In math I sit by Jayln and Annie. They're pretty cool, but Jayln just got into a car accident so she had stitches, which I didn't know about until now. Annie is realy funny, she likes acting and has seen almost every musical. I had a couple questions in math about the topic, but I caught on after a while. My next class was Art. I had Art with gabby. Gabby was a good friend of mine, yes she was sometimes a little much. But we keep her around because she's fun to hang around with. Art was kind of a drag today, we kind of just listened to mrs. phancy’s pop music and watch her paint the Mona lisa. After I survived that class I finally got to Science. Science was my favorite because I got to see some of my good friends. In science I sat next to Olivia, Jenna and Angalina. They are three of my best friends. All four of us like to hang out after school, but ever since the shooting happened, i don't feel like going outside of my house much. My mom has completely moved on, which is so not fair. She doesn't understand that just because she has moved on, doesn't mean that I have. My friends seem to be cool about only hanging out with me at my house or at school, but I know it can't be like that forever. In science class we just went over basic vocabulary and did a study guide. Olivia wouldn't stop talking about this guy she liked, but she wouldn't talk to me about him. She would only talk to Angelina about him. Which isn't fair but whatever. I caught little tidbits about what they said and his name is eli. What kind of a name is that? Someone's parents didn't like them as a child. Olivia and Gabby are alike. They both like talking about stuff like that. By “stuff like that” I mean BOYS! Next I had lunch and then I had my electives and gym, which was pretty uneventful. The only thing that was worth being there for was when Ben got a carrot stuck up his nose. On the way home from school, me and Jenna sat next to each other on the bus. She was on the phone with Jalyn, they were talking about gabby. Gabby was acting kind of weird lately. At least that's what they said. They said that Gabby was obsessing over this guy way too much. Like more than gabby level. Which is a lot, if you havet noticed. Once I got off the bus Jenna said bye and went to get Ice cream with Jayln. As I expected, she asked Jayln next. The truth was, I was really good Friends with Jenna. We went to a mountain together with Gabby and Jayln. Me, Jenna And her dad drove in a car together. I don't know if I'm just going crazy, but I think I like her. Like I “Like, Like” her. But I don't want to tell her that because it will ruin our friendship, and I don't want to risk that. Plus she likes guys anyway. I don't know what i was thinking, i should just drop it. But I can't! “Hey, Jenna, I was thinking about what you said, and I'll meet you guys at the Ice cream place.” She just turned around and said “ Ok, I'll see you there! Also, I invited Jayln, I hope that's ok?” Oh my gosh, I completely forgot she invited Jayln! “No problem. I enjoy her company!” Well there goes plans of telling her how I feel. I shoulnt anyway. Like I said, she likes guys. And on top of that my dad is a catholic. He would send me straight to hell if I even spoke of liking the same sex. My mom seems cool with it. She has a brother who is married to this guy named mike. She said that they were best friends when they were younger, and nothing has changed so it can't be bad. I never thought it meant anything special. I just figured it was a different type of love. Once I got home I just sat on the couch and did some of my homework before mom got home from work. I thought about the whole "liking girls thing" and I guess it wouldn't be that bad, I just always had a crush on boys. But I might not like her, maybe it's just because we're good friends, or maybe I just like her style. I thought my friends would be fine with it, but I wasn't really sure. But it didn't matter, because I was determined to get over her. If I didn't have a crush on her or something like that, then I wouldn't be worrying about it. “hey hunny, how was school? Did you see all your friends?” My mom said as she walked into the kitchen. “Yeah, I sat next to Jenna on the bus. And I had art with Gabby.” I yelled back from the living room. “good, i'm glad you had such an easy day back.” she said After a few moments of silence she left to go to the laundromat. I took this time to email my dad the dates that I was free to visit him. I also emailed Jenna about ice cream. I asked her how much money I would need to get it. If you can't tell already, I don't own a phone. Which is the last thing I need right now. I ended up sleeping on the couch, my mom doesn't like when I do that. But I don't think it's that importante.

When I went to school the next day I met up with Jenna, she was just chilling on her phone by the bleachers. She was laughing about a youtube video Gabby sent her. ¨ Hey, whatcha doing?¨ I said, trying to break the ice. ¨nothing much, just watching a youtube video from gabby. How about you?¨ she said slightly looking up from her phone. ¨ not much, just school work, are we still going for ice cream?¨ I responded. ¨ yeah, do you still want to go to the park after?¨ she said as she put her phone away. ¨yeah i think that would be a good idea, is Jayln still coming with?¨ I said, trying to see if she would care. ¨ yup, she said she might be a little late, but she thinks she'll make it.¨ jenna said as we started walking to chemistry I was thinking about the nightmare, who was the little girl, and why was she in my dream? I don't understand, is she there to help me, or is she just someone I made up? It had to be importante, I couldn't make that up, it's too much to just come up with in the middle of the night, I think? Who is Mary Margaret? Is she like a demon that is supposed to scare me? Or is she my brain's way of dealing with the shooting. When school was over we went to the ice cream place. I tried to talk about other things other than the shooting. I didn't have much else to talk to her about. We talked about music and she scored 2 metallica tickets. She said she and a friend are going, but I think that she is bringing a person she likes. When Jalyn got there she started talking about the car accident that she was in last week. I'm surprised she even came to school. She only skipped one day of school, but she got stitches in her mouth, so I figured the ice cream might help. I have nothing against Jalyn, we're friends, I just dont always know how to talk to her. She likes going on a lot of high adventure trips and so do I, but she just has more time than I do. So she goes on double the amount of trips I do, but we still have some things to talk about. Like we have the same classes together, and we both went exploring in a cave together.

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