Just an Ordinary Daisy

Chapter 9: Stepping Into The Unknown

"Where are we going?" I asked the crazy lady.

"Yeah," Gabe said, "where ARE we going?" The old lady looked at the remaining sidewalk ahead of her before the next turn.

"Anywhere but here," she replied. This made me very angry. She couldn't even tell us where we were going?!? The situation was she either knew where we were going and just didn't want to tell us, or she really just didn't have a clue about where we were going. The second one really worried me.

Then I thought about Michael and what he did to me earlier. I still didn't understand why he would do that to me. Does he like me or something? Cause he shouldn't. I'm Lindsey's BFF and he knows that. They're also still together. I figured it was a little too hopeful but maybe the crazy lady would know.

"Umm...." Then I realized I didn't even know her name.

"What were you gonna say li'l missy?" She asked.

"...I just realized I never asked you your name." It was silent for a little while.

"Oh that! That little missy is not important right now."

"But it is!!!!" I exclaimed, "I should at least know the name of the person who saved me from Lindsey's clutches back at the theatre." She laughed a low chuckle, which again sounded like Santa Claus.

"That is a good reason. Feel free to call me Susan."

"Ok, well...Susan...do you know why Michael did what he did? Or did you even see what happened at all?"

Susan sighed. "That boy always does happen to get himself into trouble doesn't he. Well, I just so happened to be there so...yes....I saw the whole thing." She paused for a while like she was getting to reveal something big, but then stopped in the middle of it. "Oh, here we are!" So she did know where we were going.

It was a little hill, a pretty ordinary size for a hill. On the hill were old stones shaped like semicircles. They were all uneven and some had fallen over with age. Tombstones, I thought. A cemetery.

I wondered why in the world we were here. I mean, I know it's important to honor and remember your loved ones that have passed, but why now. After escaping from all that craziness back at the movie theater. It was too quick and drastic of a change.

Anyways, we walked up the cemetery gate and entered. We walked in and me, still being confused, decided to say something about all this weirdness. I opened my mouth and was about to speak, but the crazy lady, actually Susan, interrupted me. Man it's gonna take me a while to get used to calling her Susan.

"Daisy...Gabe..." she said turning toward each of us as she called our names. "Here's the answers to both of your questions." Geez!! She read my mind! Man there is something unusual about this lady.

I looked up at her, and realized she was pointing to something. A tombstone? I looked at her questioningly. But she just kept pointing. I knelt down to the tombstone. The dirt was still fresh, so the person who was buried here must have died recently. I moved closer so I could read the name on the head stone. I ran my finger across the name, rereading it over and over again since the name still hadn't seemed to sink in. But once it did, I wish it never had.

Once my brain registered whose name it it was, I stood up slowly and started to pace. I began to feel dizzy and my whole world began to spin. It became eventually more dizzy and much much worse. Then, I began to fall, and it all went dark. For the name on the tombstone read Eleanor Meadow.....

....My grandmother.

Oh my... I bet ya didn't see this one coming. Actually, you probably did. Where do you think the crazy lady taking them? Please comment what you thought and keep reading! And don't worry, this is just the start of her journey. There's many more crazy happenings to come XD!