A World Just Out of Reach

Chapter Four

During school, my mind kept getting sidetrack from whatever my teachers were saying. There's something more and I can't push it aside anymore. Therefore I have decided to communicate with the poster tonight, and possibly text that number back...though that is definitely not on the top of my list.

When I got home I immediately ran to my room, not in the mood to socialize with family. I now stood right in front of the poster. Eyes trained on it, searching for any sign of change. I blinked and when I opened my eyes I saw something that nearly gave me a heart attack. His left pointer finger was in my face, well as far as paper can get to that.

"Um," I began, breathing out slowly, "Hi again. Cassie here! Haha, yeah I'm not sure where you're seeing me from, but I wanted to let you know that, where I am, you're a poster." I finish, looking straight into...I'm calling the poster Chris, so Chris's eyes. He had a blank expression, almost confused. "How do you see me?" I never thought about that, I mean if a poster is talking, is it talking from where it stands on the paper, or from somewhere else...that I can't see?

"You are in a screen." His words make my eyes widen.

"Haha, no. No I'm not." I'm not inside a screen! Think I would've noticed that by now!

"Yes. You. Are." He says in an almost smart-alecky tone, his arm moved back to his side.

"Don't you think I would know it if I were?" I shoot back. Man his connection must be better or something, cause he's not choppy in his speech at all.

"Well, Cassie, you're wrong. For one, I am not on a poster. Second, from my point of view, you are in fact on a screen."

"But that can't be possible..."

"Cassie, stop calling this impossible. You are having a conversation with someone from a different universe, that is why you see me so strangely." Chris looked like he was telling the truth...hopefully, anyway.

"What about the connection? It was crap yesterday, how did it get better?"
I ask, deciding to push away the fact that I was supposedly asking someone from a different universe.

"I got it working more efficiently."

"You're a scientist, then?" That'd be funny, I'm talking to Chris Hemsworth and he's a scientist in a different universe. Wow, I should probably get his real name before I alert the Chris Hemsworth fandom. "Um another quick question." I say before he can answer my first. "What's your name?"

"Darien Samuels." Well his answer was the total opposite from what I thought it would be. But Darien does suit him well. "Also, what is a scientist?" I burst out laughing as he asks this.

"How do you not know what a scientist is? Oh right. Different universe." I realize, shaking my head. "A scientist is someone who works with discovering, creating, and learning about different things in the world."

"Oh, then yes. I am a scientist. Though here I am called an akili. A name in which means wisdom." He replies, a smile on his face. "And I'm in need if your assistance."

"My assistance?" I begin laughing loudly then realize he's being serious. Why the heck would somebody purposefully enlist my aid?

"This is quite serious, Miss Cassie. My world is in danger." The words that come from his mouth render me speechless. What could be wrong with his world?