Identity

Chapter 5

FINALLY ANOTHER CHAPTER!  After about a month!  SOO sorry to all of my readers (since there aren't, like, any of you I really shouldn't bother with this but oh well)  Anyway, now I have posted another chapter and the chapter after this WILL come in less than a week.  I'm aiming on Saturday...  Anyway, I realllly hope you like it; the plot is turning from the beginning starting next chapter.  There are a few VERY subtle hints about the next chapter in here.  Hope you like it!  PLEASE vote, comment, and reccomend.  Give me any suggestions you've got, 'cause I know how to accept critcism.  Thanks again guys!!

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All three of the adults nodded, as if this was exactly what they had expected. I knew that there were some dangers involved, but this just wasn’t an offer I could turn down at the moment. I looked over at Corinne. She looked determined, but a bit scared, as if this might not have been the right choice for her. I was sure that she would be okay. She was always the strong one in our group of friends, always the one who stood up to the bullies and comforted us. She’d have to get over herself.

“So, when do we start?” I asked.

Mrs. DeForest informed me, quite unhappily, “Now. Sorry, but it has to be this way. I'm sure that you don't quite understand, but we have our reasons.  The Verdwennen Effect- but you don't have to know about that; at least you don't need to know about it just yet.  Don’t worry, you’ll be back to your for-" 

She stopped herself before she could finish the word.  I wondered what it was that she had been about to say.  I couldn't think of any plausible solutions to this pondering.

"You’ll be back before you know it.” She corrected herself.  It made me furious, when someone starts to say something of great importance and then stops halfway before you know what's going on.

So many questions.  Why did we have to go now?  Why couldn't we explain to our parents?  Were they afraid that our parents wouldn't let us?  And what was the hurry?  The Verdwennen Effect?  Why did she start to say something and then stop?  And why hadn't she explained the Verdwennen Effect, other than just mentioning it and then saying that she wasn't going to tell us what the hell the Verdwennen Effect was!?  That was even worse than never mentioning it at all.  Questions bounced around my head, one after another after another, like little ping pong balls that couldn't bring themselves to stop moving; to stop bouncing around my skull.  Maybe it was for the best though, how would I know?  Urgh.  I was going to get a headache if I didn't just cast all of this from my head and forus on what was going on at this very second.  So I did just that.

But my family!” Corinne burst out.

Mine too. Stephen… Dad… Even Mom… What would they do when they discovered that I was not returning, when I didn’t even say goodbye. What if they called the police? I hadn’t been kidnapped. I hadn’t died, and they wouldn’t find me wherever I was. If I couldn’t get back… Would they just forget that I had ever existed? Would they think that I had been kidnapped and murdered? Or would they think that I had run away; never to return?

No matter what they thought, these thoughts troubled me so much that I almost rethought my decision. But then I remembered what an unsure, unknowing person I had been. I remembered how upset I had been. And I remembered how I had passed the test with “flying colors.” It was remembering these things that really nailed in my decision- I would go through this process with Corinne at my side. Speaking of which…