Suspended in Time

Chapter 7 - The Final Masterpiece, and a Sweet Talk Alone in a Pink Bedroom

Annabelle lived in Austin, Texas, and she was newly married with a baby on the way. I couldn't believe my ears when Darina told me this the following afternoon. She had called Annabelle during her lunch break, and the two young women talked for the whole hour. And they talked again after Darina returned home from work. Violet, Mr. Edding and I heard the whole conversation as it went on in the living room and we were in the den working on the film.

"I think there's some more you need to change in what you filmed there at the house," said Violet. "And this time, I want to go with you and see the house myself."

"I think I would like to see it, too," said Mr. Edding. "We can make a family trip of it."

This was so thrilling! By Sunday, everything was done—the reshooting, the article was out in the paper, the film was finally put together... The article said that the film would be shown at the community center theater. We would be using an actual reel camera from a movie theater to show the film on a large screen. This was like a dream after just showing my explorations on YouTube. Given, YouTube allowed everyone around the world to see my explorations, it was just, on a big screen? It was insane!

My fourteenth day came in 1957, and that was the day that my "Frank House Exploration" would be shown. Some friends of the Edding family, the family itself and I, showed up to prep everything. This was a theater, so there was seating, we just had to make sure the camera was all set up. I ogled at it as it sat in the very back of the room on a table.

"This thing is amazing, seriously," I gushed as Mr. Edding was there, along with a friend of his, Gary, a man around his age, and Darina was there as well.

"Totally dope, right?" she said, and the men looked at her with confused looks, and I just laughed.

"That it is, Darina," I said, and we walked away from the men and went down the aisle in between the seats. "I think you confused the both of them."

"I think the way people speak where you're from is rather fun."

"Not all people speak like me. Or... I mainly speak like that when I'm with my friends or people I know better."

"Like me?"

She flashed me an amazing smile. "Yes, like you. You're totally..."

Hot. Sexy. Capable to infiltrate my mind at any moment.

"Dope?" she asked, and I had to retrack my mind.

"Yes, totally dope, dude."

She laughed at that, and I did as well. I was glad that we got passed the awkwardness of that little kiss that I still couldn't get out of my head. In fact, every time I saw her, my gaze would go to those rosy red lips that stood out on her fair skin, and I would want to feel them again. It was the guy in me. Or... Violet would argue that I "liked Darina." She was right. Only I would say that I totally had the hots for her, that she drew me to her like a magnet. She did that when I first found out about her story back home.