...so begins the time we'd got weirded out by crazy people over, well, you know.
Sandra felt a bit proud the next day after that. Her mom has agreed on the phone that Ken will stay put in the house, for she had contacted Ken's mom about it and had given her the consent. She also told her only daughter to remained behaved and "if you can, honey, tell your friend to help you out on your project".
She agrees with her mom's words, now glad that she did, but the incident yesterday still gloomed her with questions.
That didn't even mattered today, for it's eerily quiet in the house. Lucy just left to visit someplace, not even telling to Sandra about it. And the genius girl was down on the couch, snoozing with boredom.
Even a nap can't stop her on thinking; was the computer being hacked for an untold reason? Did someone manipulate the weather to do it? Or something she hadn't known yet?
It's the truth we seek, but it's all rabbit holes around, she thought. All questions leading to answers that lead to another set of questions to answer... It's like falling into a bottomless pit you can't get out of.
Maybe I'll try to forget it. It's all some weird coincidence anyway.
Sunlight suddenly went to her slothed body as Ken opened the door from outside and saw her as she was.
"Hey, Sandra. Got bored again, eh?"
"95 percent," she replied. Bored, she really was, but not by a bit. "How's your uncle?"
"Still asleep," he said, removing both his shoes and socks off. "At least Bessie the waitress came to watch him out."
"All for just 12 bottles of beer, I assume?" She had researched that part herself.
Ken shook his head no. No way his uncle will get drunk on a dozen bottles. "Uh, should you do something else? You don't have to just lay down on the couch all day."
"Gotcha..."
She then stretched up her arms awake and stood up to do the same on her legs.
Just as she did, Ken was in the kitchen, now munching on a bowl of strawberries he found near the fridge, getting up to turn the LED screen TV on. Thought it'll amuse me now, she thought.
She paused first to look at her surroundings. Sure enough, it's a beautiful sunny morning, at least to her.
"Hey," Ken called her from the fridge. "I'm checking; would you rather have blueberry jam sandwiches or some leftover pizza?"
"What are you–"
Knock knock knock knock knock knock knock.
Sandra paused again, cutting her words off. Who's knocking right at her door?
"That's not normal... Wait a minute!" She then went to look around for something. "Ken! Check the wall clock! What's the time?"
"Nine a.m. Why did you ask?"
She suddenly remembered what had happened yesterday. Could that be something related to the broken computer?
You peanut-head, that can't be the person who hacked my compie, she thought. Not in a hundred percent!
Still shaking yet unbelieved, she shuffled a few steps forward, not looking at Ken walking towards her, to try and answer the door.
Stopping a few inches near the doorknob, she then whispered to her friend: "You think I'll open this door?"
"I don't know, but we should," he whispered back. "Either way."
Sandra then sighed hard, her hand slowly turning the knob and opening the door...
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Heroes of My Universe, United! (an MW Fantasy Adventure Story)
AdventureIT TAKES TWO KIDS AND AN IMAGINATION TO MAKE THEIR STORY AN ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME. Sandra Lee Hudson has been known to be the underrated smartest girl in her whole class, and since her recent move to a new home away from her own, she hadn't had an...
