Victorie plus N

Chapter 26: Someone Came

(A/N: Okay, so this is terribly late, like, a week late, but here it is. Hope you enjoy!)

Well. "Tomorrow" wasn't the end of the world. But today might be. Two weeks have gone by with us just searching Lolita's library. We've found nothing. I've gone through three bookcases (not that much compared to Teddy's six) and 200 journals and historic books about Mayberry History. There's nothing in the history books. Not just time curves, but nothing else is in them, either. They're all about the founder, someone named Jerry whoever. Nothing about the infrastructure of the town. Only one photo of the mayor's home, and tons of photos of Jerry. It's so strange. Ha. Everything's strange here, what did I expect to be in the history books? Stuff about time loops?! As if!

And Lolita's been totally slacking on her work pile. She's only finished one bookcase. One! I mean, the bookcases are like 15 feet high but come on. One? Seriously? Moving away from that, lately, I've been wondering about what happened to the governesses. They've disappeared completely. It turns out they "ran away" to Paris for a "college project". Well, it's not hard to figure out what really happened. They really don't like us. Before they left, they also didn't realize that Ann was missing. She was gone for a week before they left. It's been almost a month now. It's already the end of July. Teddy and I tell the servants she's been sleeping over at Lolita's for a dare. They didn't seem too convinced but didn't question it either, so... And in the meanwhile, while searching for something that tells us where Ann might be in Lolita's library, I've tried to recap everything about time traveling.

There was some famous guy named Nicholas who studied time. He discovered time curves which are a period in time (and in our case, Teddy explained later) of 10 days of the same day where you can change something to alter the current timeline. Okay. To get into one, you repeat for 7 days the day you want to get into and change. If you don't get out of the time curve in 10 days you get stuck in a time loop, where any period of time is repeated over, and over, again. Nicholas needed help to control all this new information and traveling. So he got a group of men and nicknamed them the Manipulators because they manipulated time? Kind of? But when he died, they all became a bit evil and started trapping people in time loops and regulating everything that they shouldn't and basically abusing their powers. And now you have to be really specialized to be a Manipulator. Oh, and you can only go back in time at exactly 130 years in the past, which makes sense why a lot of people (really just the servants and that crazy worker at the dress shop- guess she's not so crazy now) act like it's still the Victorian Era. And that pretty much wraps it all up.

"Did you find anything yet?" Lolita asks me walking up to where I'm at. She's been taking more and more frequent breaks since last week. She's just slacking on her work, what did I tell you?

"No. What about you?"

"Nothing yet."

The library doors below us suddenly band open and we all jump. No one else from the group has joined us, none of the servants check in on us, there are no pets roaming around the house, and Lolita's parents are always traveling -which makes me feel a bit guilty for her, but she shouldn't act the way she is just because her parents are gone half the time, I'm sorry- so who could it possibly be?

"Umm, anyone here? Guys?" a timid voice that I recognize as Kelly calls out into the vast, circular room.

"We're up here!" Teddy calls down to here, not looking up from the book he's flipping through.

"Oh, okay!" she says and starts climbing up the spiral staircase.

Well. Someone arrived. We have a lot of questions for her.