Broadwire

15: Trades: Sarah & Trenton

We jumped out of the window, Trenton and I, and escaped the mental hospital. Landing on the ground was painful, but worth it. Pain radiated through my legs, and I assumed Trenton's also.

"Where are we gonna go?" we both ask at the same time.

"Well anywhere with an internet connection and something to get on the internet with," he said, dusting the dirt off of his pants with quick hand movements.

"I mean, there's the library. That can be pretty easily found," I told him and he nodded, and without speaking another word, we left the mental hospital through the vacant woods.

After walking for thirty minutes, we already were in the library. Broadwire was a small town, so they had the hospital pretty far away, but not more than ten or so miles.

"What do you need to look up on the internet?" He asked me, and I thought back to when I was going crazy, trying to remember any websites or subreddits about Emeril, and I remembered a few, just not all of them.

"Well, pull up reddit and tumblr and type Emeril into both of them, it'll be the first on both," I told him, sitting at my own computer to check other small sites.

"Found one," he said, surprisingly fast. I looked over his shoulder and saw the subreddit. It hadn't grown much since the last time I had seen it, which was almost ten years before. It was almost definitely the same one though.

"There's only one or two posts about leaving his grasp. At least, that's how many there were last time I saw it," I said, scrolling through the posts, some of which were ten years old. I found it though. The post I had made almost ten years ago. It was saying about how my friend had gone missing and I knew it was this monster. I passed out cold.

Trenton

While Sarah was looking over my shoulder, she saw a post by a user. User: sarahiscool03. It was almost definitely her because of the reaction she gave. She passed out and hit the ground.

"Sarah?" I asked, catching her from hitting the ground. I started shaking her, because we had a limited time before they figured out we were gone and we were found and Dakota, Jasmine, and I would be stuck in a board for a few thousand years. Not my ideal life if I'm being honest.

"Wake up!" I quietly whispered, not to alarm the other four people in the library. I still got a "shhh" from a librarian though. She started coming to, her eyes slightly open, and then she was awake.

"What happened?" I asked her, and she started to look around. Her eyes were full of confusion, and she spotted the post on the monitor.

"That's mine, I made it. I think's it's the solution, at least I'm pretty sure it is," she said, going to the same subreddit my computer was on.

"Yea, I made this after lots of research. Originally to get Dakota out only, now you and Jasmine too I guess," she said, alarming me.

"I can get out the rest of them, right?" I asked, remembering the police officers and Jasmine's family.

"No, just two of them, the rest will have to stay until they can leave normally. Sorry," she said, and the wave of sadness fell over me the second time in a day. I could bring Jasmine and Dakota, but Jasmine's family and the police officers would be forced to stay. I couldn't think about it, so I just started reading, not using emotion.

"So, we just have to say it aloud, and use my name instead?" I asked, after reading for a few hours.

"Yea, if I'm being honest, I don't know how I knew this, but I have a feeling this works. I was so obsessed," she said, re-reading the words we had to say over and over again. "And you can't just say it anywhere, we have to go to the woods again,"