The Awake

The Library Visit

I jolted awake. I could feel my heart racing. I ran from my room and charged up the stairs.

"Zach!! Wake up!! I know what to do!!" I yelled running up to his room. In my excitement, I had woken everyone in the house. Everyone was upset because of my noise.

"What's wrong with you?" Emilie said from her doorway, with Elizabeth and Cailey behind her. Zach then stepped out of his room.

"What?!" Zach said rubbing his eyes.

"I need those files." I said shaking him.

"Why?"

"I had a dream"

"A dream.." Now he was mad. "You wake up the whole house because of a stupid dream?!" He yelled.

"Trust me. I know what i'm doing." I said putting my hand on his shoulder. He shook me off. He went to the desk and pulled out the papers.

"You went through all the papers, right?" I asked grabbing the papers. "Were there any papers that had a bunch of random stuff on it?"

"No, Drayton. I'm telling you, It was a dream." He said. I felt the hope leave my body like water going down the drain.

"You mean this paper?" Elizabeth said holding a piece of paper. I walked over to her and took the paper. It was just what Ty had told me. I smiled. Then, out of excitement, I picked up Elizabeth and twirled her around, laughing.

"Yes!!! This is it!! Thank you so much!!!" I yelled, setting her down. "Why did you have it?"

"When Zach was putting all the papers into your old computer, this paper fell on the floor. I picked it up and I felt something in my gut that told me to hang onto it." She said. I put the paper on the desk and looked at it. There was a bold text on the paper. The paper read,"043C84Um7mi6364NG043To98468Ni8462Te93" That was the only thing on the paper. There was a message in this somewhere, I thought to myself.

"Well..." Zach said looking at the page.

" I guess you were right.." Ben said from the left of me. Then he started laughing. I didn't get why he was laughing.

"What, Ben?" Cailey asked.

"Cummingtonite." He answered. Emilie gasped and then slapped him. Ben just kept laughing. Then I saw it. If you removed all the numbers, cummingtonite was the only thing left. I didn't get it. How was this going to help us at all? Maybe it meant something besides what we all thought it did. After everyone settled down, it was only 6:00 in the morning. We all did our daily meeting and I decided to tell everyone about us sneaking out. I told them of the tracker on the truck.

"What should we do? Get rid of the truck?" Aaron asked.

"No!! Not my baby." Ben said back.

"We just need to get the tracker off the truck and put it somewhere far away. And I was wondering if we could go to the library." I said to the group.

"Now isn't a good time to read, Drayton." Elizabeth said shaking her head.

"When we're there we can get rid of the tracker and look up the word "Cummingtonite". The library is a pretty long way from here." I said laying back on the couch. The group agreed and we split into two teams. The runners and the guards. The Guards included Emilie, Cailey, and Zach. The runners included Me, Aaron, Ben, and Elizabeth. The runners would drive the new truck to the library, which was far away, and get information on cummingtonite, AND get rid of the tracker. The guards would protect the house at all costs. We all went over the plan until we knew our jobs almost perfectly. Then we moved out.

The runners all got in the truck and checked our weapons. Aaron had brought his new staff, Ben had his sniper rifle, I had an assault rifle, I had taken from a dead soldier the previous night, and Elizabeth had the revolver I killed the man at the construction site with. Ben was driving, Elizabeth was shotgun because she was looking at the tracker device we had taken from the head soldier last night, and me and Aaron were in the backseat. Above the backseat, was a hatch. The hatch lifted up to reveal the turret. You would have to stand up on the back seat to be able to fire the turret. When we were about five minutes from being there, there was a blip on the Tracking device. Other trucks were following us.