A Prince's Quest: Journey to a New Realm

Chapter Three

It takes a moment for me to realize Uncle Ames has stopped talking suddenly and is staring at the window he had opened before he had started speaking. Instead on finishing the story Uncle Ames quietly walks over to the window and reaches through the curtains, I hear a voice cried out in surprise as Uncle Ames drags someone through the window and onto the floor. To my distain and I admit some happiness it was Michael.

"What are you doing here, Michael?" Uncle Ames asks him firmly, but calmly, "And how much of what we were discussing did you hear?"

Now an intelligent person would have just answered my uncle's questions, especially so they could go home. Usually, I consider Michael an intelligent person, most of the time. Not at the particular moment. But usually, he was.

"You could have hurt me," Michael snaps at my uncle instead getting himself up off the floor and rubbing the arm that was used to drag him through, "If anything happens to me, you'll lose your job at the college. My father will make sure of that." Michael finishes and starts searching in the pockets of his tan leather jacket for what I knew was his phone. As I said, not very smart at that moment. What Michael hadn't noticed (and what I did) was that when Uncle Ames had pulled him through the window, he had also slipped his other hand in Michael's pocket and had taken his phone out.

However, it was funny to see Uncle Ames gently escort Michael to the couch where I was currently standing by.

"First thing you should know young man is that your father doesn't scare me, he's nothing but a bully who uses fear or money to get his way. I've dealt with people like him my whole life. Second and finally, it's hard to tell your father anything young man, when I have your phone." Uncle Ames informs Michael calmly and shows him the phone he had taken, before taking the battery out of it and locking both the battery and the outside of the phone in one of the drawers of a rosewood table near the window.

"Now I will ask you the same questions again and this time I would appreciate some answers, please. Honest answers. Now what are you doing here, and how much of what I was telling my nephew did you overhear?"

Michael had jumped up until he watched my uncle lock his phone in the drawer, then instantaneously sits back down when Uncle Ames walks back to where his chair is and then sits back down himself and gestured for me to do the same as well for, I had got up when Michael had. "We're not going to hurt you, Michael." Uncle Ames assures him, "But I need to know what you overheard not only for your safety but for the safety of my nephew and myself. There are people in this town that would kill for the information I was telling Tobias."

I see Michael finally come to terms that he would have to answer my uncle's questions if he ever wanted to get home. "Fine, you want the truth; I came to wreck or at least take something. It was because of you and your nephew, I got into trouble with my father again." Good! Maybe it will teach him not to treat people like he does.

Uncle Ames must've recognized the look in my eyes because he gave me a slight shake of his head, so I shut my mouth and don't comment, "We can discuss whose fault what happened at the school later. What about what I was telling Tobias? How much of that did you hear?"

I see Michael start to shift uncomfortably on the couch, "Please don't you lie to me, young man it won't work. You can ask Tobias; I have a gift that lets me know when people are lying to me." Michael looks over toward me and where I was sitting, and I just nod to confirm, "It's kind of annoying the way he knows." I comment.

Michael glances back and forth between Uncle Ames and me for a moment before replying, "I heard most of it. You don't believe all that, do you, Tobias?" Michael startles me by asking, "That whole you're a missing prince from another realm or world. That story is as old as time itself. The missing prince who must go back, save the day, and take the throne away from some crazy cruel maniac."