Every Story Has a Beginning

Part 5 - Lead The Way, This Is The London Overground Train!

Day 2 - Saturday

Chapter 1 - A Strange Encounter

Jay

"We're finally out!" Dave exclaimed. "We're finally out!"

"Yeah, that's great...But we're still lost, and it's probably still a bit late..." Matilda murmured.

"Let me check the time," I insisted.

I didn't have a watch, but I could make my own. I stood facing the dim sun, and checked where my shadow was. This was a human sundial. Where had I learnt that from? Well... I honestly don't remember.

"It's about 3am," I stated.

"That must be why I'm so tired..." Matilda said. "Let's find some place that can show us directions, we need to get back!"

So we walked. By this time, we had no idea where we were. We were just walking. As for me, I was exhausted... Alfred seemed grumpy and gloomy, he didn't seem to like early morning wake ups. Matilda seemed alright, but occasionally I could hear her yawn. Dave? Well Dave was the opposite. I looked on as he skipped ahead of us. How was he not tired? It just made no sense...

Now it had been about half an hour walking, and we were drained. Well, all of us except Dave, who was still in very high spirits. Matilda decided to knock on the door of a house. It was a random house. They always say "stranger danger" but I think this should be counted as an exception. And besides, none of us could take it anymore, after all, we were all tired, and we needed a place to stay. Someone answered the door, despite it being 3:30 in the morning. She was a girl, and she seemed very awake.

"Hello..." she greeted.

"Hello...wait...Jessica is that you?" Matilda asked.

Well, I suppose that's quite a bit of luck. But who's Jessica?

"Yes, I didn't recognize you at first, Matilda. Are you here for tips to cause havoc? Maybe more training on how to kick people's shins?" she enquired.

She what...? Well, I'll certainly be keeping my distance from here, thank you very much. But I do suppose I could get some training here, I guess I do genuinely need it...

"You do that?" Alfred queried.

"Yeah, you can be a test subject," Matilda insisted.

"Try your luck," Alfred mocked.

Matilda kicked Alfred hard in the shin and I watched in horror as he started hopping around in pain. I expected as much. Someone as strong as Matilda surely packed a punch. Or maybe a kick in this case.

"Ouch...." Alfred muttered, surprised.

"You're fine!" Matilda shouted.

"It seems you've taken my strategies," Jessica said.

"Yes I have. Well anyways, I'm not here for advice Jessica, but before I ask, let me introduce you to my new friends. This is Dave, you know him already. This is Jay and this is Alfred," Matilda announced, indicating us as she said our names.

We all gave Jessica a wave. So I suppose Jessica was one of their old classmates? Well, good to know I suppose. And it's pretty good that I didn't go to their school, if everyone there had gotten this training, I'd have been dead meat by now...

"Nice to meet you, I'm sure you can be my new victims...I mean friends!" Jessica said.

We all stepped back awkwardly. Victims...?

"Well anyways, we need directions. We're completely lost," Matilda said.

"Oh sure. There's an Overground Station just round the corner, I'll lead you there," Jessica insisted, now locking her house door.