Mind Over Matter

Chapter 2

Sorry it has been so long since I've updated... Most people have probably forgotten all about this story. You would not believe how hard it was to write this. I only get a certain amount of screen time a day, add that to homework, school, chores, family obligations, and recent Wattpad problems and you get a tired Eagle with lots of ideas and no way to put them to words. Sorry again. Anyhoot, I hope you will enjoy this short development in characters and plot! Over and out Eaglettes

------EagleWrites

Emmalandra's POV

Six hours later I'm driving. After about two whole hours of arguing Raichu had snuggled up in my arms and said the whole thing was a waste of time, proving that Kaleb had won the argument. Jameson is sleeping with his face scrunched up on the glass, Kaleb next to him doing the same in a more comfortable fashion. Maylei sits beside me with her earbuds in. Now the skyline of the great city comes into view.

I poke Maylei on the shoulder and she jumps. I point to the city and she silently squeals. "Should we wake the boys?" I ask in a whisper. Maylei nods.

Raichu, who had been on my lap the entire time perked his robotic ears and sat up. He slinks to the back seat and hits Kaleb on the head. Hard. Kaleb yelps, sitting straight up, and hits him back. They continue to hit each other back and forth, for several minutes, before Jameson broke it up and shut Raichu down.

"Thank you." I sighed and stare back at the road. I turn into a hotel parking-lot close to the exhibit not long after. Everyone groans and stretches their limbs while I sign in for our two hotel rooms. The others meet me with our luggage at the elevator.

"What floor?" Jameson asks, "I wanna press the button!" Maylei giggles and playfully shoves him.

"What are you? Six?" She asks. He shakes his head looking hurt. He is thirteen turning fourteen soon, in September.

"Ten, Jamey." I reply holding up both of my hands with fingers splayed out. We all laugh and get onto the elevator. Jameson promptly pushes every button ten to thirty and pulls a device from his pocket. He places it on the wall and twists a dial. The quiet, content elevator music turns to an OURtrue song.

"How did you hack it so fast?" I ask, not mad at all, I kind of like this song. I'm just wondering. OURtrue is a popular band right now and was originally called Fallout Boy in the 2000's.

Jameson smiles like the little punk he is, happy to be acknowledged. "Oh, well I figured out how to automatically set this little thing," he points to the device on the wall, "To any frequency. I could hack a club!" Jameson says the last part a bit too excitedly and gets a glare from his older sister.

The elevator dings and we step off. They follow me to the rooms, they're connected. Once Jameson and Maylei have their things set up and Kaleb and I have something figured out we go back to the car.

"Okay people." Kaleb says rubbing his hands together."We've got the rest of the day to do whatever we want. Who wants to go sightseeing?!"

We all cheered and began the sightseeing tour that Jameson narrated in his best announcing voice.

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Maylei drove us back to the hotel. It was around eleven o'clock and Jameson was falling asleep. Kaleb half-dragged-half-helped Jamey into bed. Maylei went to bed soon after and Kaleb and I were left in our room. I was working on my journal entry.

There was a lot to say: The Empire State building, Lady Liberty ruins, and Perucho, the tallest skyscraper in the country. I was just about to finish when I noticed it was midnight. I saved the journal entry in my perPhone and turned off the lamp.

"Going to sleep already?" Kaleb asked with mock shock in his voice. His face was illuminated by the screen of his perPhone.

"It's midnight Kaleb. We have a big day tomorrow, it is important to get a good night's sleep." I answered.

"We aren't leaving for the museum until nine, what's the point? Besides, every night's sleep is a good one without that cat to annoy me. Also, I got a lot of sleep in the car." He flipped at the screen and it went black. Then he reached over me to put it on the bedside table. "Fine. Good night, Emmalandra."

"Good night Kaleb." I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

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I had a very strange dream about four people who were deleted off the face of the earth. An enemy in the place they were trapped threatened to kill them. They worked for months to get out but in the end they were too late. The enemy destroyed them.

I woke up and laid in silence. I felt a strange connection to the characters in my dream. Shaking my head I rolled over and went to sleep. The dream was just one of my brain's crazy creations. It didn't mean anything.

I closed my eyes and slowed my breathing. For what felt like hours I tried to force myself to sleep. My mind would not stop brooding over the dream.

Dreams are dreams, that's all there is to it. I told myself. I tossed and turned until finally I found sleep.