The Rope

Chapter 4

"I found Mrs. Fitz." Roxy said limping over to me.
"What,where is she? And what did you do?" I asked helping her get support.
"Well I found her behind the refrigerator in the teacher's lounge."
"The teacher's lounge?"
"I know right! And I was trying to get her from behind it, and then the refrigerator fell to the side, and it knocked me off balance then I fell and twisted my ankle. I'm surprised I even got out of there."
"Well, I'm glad you did. Do you want me to help you get her?"
"Yes, please!"
"I'll come help in a second... I'm going to help Jeffrey, Sam, and Shawn get my aunt."
"Oh, he agreed?"
"Yea, but I didn't exactly tell him where she was." I said giggling. She joined me.
"Hey, Roxy!" Jeffrey said, "Are you coming with us to get Ashley's aunt?"
"Yea, but I may slow you all down." Roxy replied.
"No problem, why don't you put your arm around Sam and my shoulder?"
"Sure!" She said wrapping her arm around their shoulders. "Thanks alot!"
"Now what are we waiting for?" I said leading the way... to the lady's room.

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Once we arrived, Jeffrey and his friends looked at me strangely.
"Surprise!?" I said smiling.
"The lady's room?" Sam exclaimed.
"Yea." Roxy said laughing.
"Please?" I said looking straight at Jeffrey.
"Why not? I mean it's the least we could do." Jeffrey said persuasively to his friends.
They looked at each other, shrugged, and agreed.
"Yea, let's go." Shawn said.
As they walked in I whispered thanks to Jeffrey, and he replied with a wink.
"Wow, she must have got hurt pretty bad to be knocked unconscious! " Sam nearly screamed.
"Yea, she must have been beat up pretty bad." Shawn agreed.
"Yea..." I said looking down.
Roxy slipped her arm around me, I'm not sure if it was for her support or mine, but it helped.
"Thanks" I whispered to Roxy.
"Hey, that's what friends are for." She whispered back.
I noticed Jeffrey was looking right at me. Shawn and Sam were trying to find a way to pick my aunt up.
"Ash..." Jeffrey said.
"What is it this time, J?" I said walking towards him. Roxy quickly grabbed the wall.
"Oh, sorry Roxy." I said apologizing.
"You're good." She replied with a smile.
"Look at this." Jeffrey said pointing to a small piece of paper.
"Where's you get that?" Shawn asked taking it from his hand.
"I was.. well I.. umm... I found it!" He floundered.
"I know you found it, but where did you find it?" Sam pressed.
"It's was behind Ashley." Jeffrey replied.
"It's was?" I replied taking a 180° turn.
And there we found yet another piece of rope, but this time it had the words BEWARE OF THE ROPES on it.
"Oh...." I said.
"My..." Roxy added.
"Word!" Jeffrey finished.
"Shawn, what does that paper say?" Sam asked.
"It's says, The ropes hold a pattern that no one can find, but it's so close, yet so far. The only way to find the ropes, you must find the treasure that are so very divine." Shawn spoke as of he were a poet, but this did seem like a riddle, a poem, a code.
"What in the world does that mean?" Sam said.
"I have no clue." Roxy replied.
"Hey, you know Timothy, right?" Jeffrey asked.
"Yea, the guy who speaks like he's some perfessional poetry author." I replied.
"Maybe he knows what this means!" Jeffery and I said in unison.
"Let's go and find him. I think he has language arts first, I bet he's happy." Sam laughed.
"Yea." Jeffrey replied.
All of us laughed.
"But first, we have to get your aunt out of here." Shawn said before we started heading out.
"Oh yea, almost forgot." Sam said.
"Thanks, Sam." I said sarcastically.
"Your so welcome." He replied.
"Ugh, we need to get my aunt down to the nurse, and fast. I don't want anything else to happen, and Elizabeth hasn't showed up yet and it's 15 minutes past 2:15... I hope she's alright. We also have to find Timothy and Mrs. Fitz. Oh, so much to do, in so little time!" I thought.
"Hey guys, let's hustle!" I said clapping my hands taking order.
"Alright, let's go!" Shawn said grabbing my aunt's arm.

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Once we finally got down to the nurse's office, there was a weird feeling in the room. It was as if there was an eerie glow. We looked to see if we could find Dr. Drew, but it looked like he'd left earlier. But it wasn't like him to leave the his office unlocked. I wasn't really sure where he went, but we laid my aunt down on the cot, and we started to search the room. We didn't really find anything except for medicines and other medical utensils.
But that eerie feeling got got stronger on each we walked toward the door, it felt as if someone was watching our every move.
"Does anyone else feel like we're being watched?" Roxy whispered nervously.
We all nodded.
Then we all turned around to see Dr. Drew washing his hands.
"Hi Dr. Drew!" We all exclaimed.
"We thought you had left." Sam added.
Dr. Drew didn't respond.
"Dr. Drew?" I said taking a step closers to him.
No response.
"Guys, I think we'd better get out of here." Jeffrey insisted.
We started running out then all of a sudden we heard a scream. I turned around to see Jeffrey on the floor, his leg dripping blood, and his eyes closed. Dr. Drew was washing his hands still. It was dark. Just in time, I hit the light switch on to find Dr. Drew on the floor too. But the other one was still washing his hands, or was that even Dr. Drew. I couldn't tell the difference. All I could let out was a scream. Roxy stand with me because she couldn't run herself with her ankle. We just clung to each other for emotional support, and for Roxy physical support.
"Do you think he knows we turned on the light?" Roxy asked.
I shrugged, unable to speak.
Then Dr. Drew, the one by the sink, turned off the water. He turned around and looked straight into our eyes. His eyes were just as haunting.
Then he said, "The ropes hold a pattern that no one can find, but it's so close, yet so far. The only way to find the ropes, you must find the treasure that are so very divine."
"Isn't that what that paper said?" I whispered to myself.
"Yea, I think so." Roxy replied.
"This is crazy." I whispered back.
"And creepy." Roxy replied.
"You will never find the teachers, you must find the treasures before you can ever get your precious teachers back. You must give the treasure to me within the next 76 hours... or else." The evil Dr. Drew said.
"Well, umm what is this treasure you speak of?" Roxy asked.
"It's is close, but yet so far." He replied simply.
"How will we know it's the treasure?" I asked.
"You will know, trust me." He said with one if those evil smirks you see in movies.
"But-" I started. Then he disappeared leaving a cloud of dust behind him.
"Let's check on Jeffrey." Roxy said, but I was already by his side.
"Jeffrey," I whispered in his ear. "Can you hear me?"
No answer.
"Dr. Drew can you hear me?" I said.
All he replied was grunt.
"Roxy, you go call the ambulance!"
"I- I can't." She said looking down at her ankle.
"Oh right, I'll go do it, you keep and eye on them."
"I will."