Power Off

Chapter Two

When I regained consciousness, I found myself lying next to the man, unconscious as well. Before anything else happened, I tied his hands behind his back and stuffed him in the closet in the hallway with a lock. Then, I remembered that he had the power of teleportation and had the idea of pulling out an old pair of handcuffs my parents gave me one day. They had said that nobody would ever feel the desire to escape with them, plus they would never escape them unless they had the key and knew the exact way of using it. I had thought the present strange, but I never questioned it because at the time, it just seemed like a fun toy I could use when I was using my imagination. After I was done with the handcuffs and stuffed him in my closet. I entered my parents room.

The last time I had entered their room was before the accident. Blinking back tears, I entered their room. Everything was just the way it was. I never expected myself to ever enter it, but now I had to if I hoped to find some sort of clue.

The room, upon first glance, did look like a regular room, but as I walked around the perimeter of the room, turning things over and shifting them around, I mean, that's when weird things started happening in movies. The first thing I had approached was the bookcase, I mean it was the most stereotypical hiding spot in movies I think. I had just turned over our family picture when the bookcase started caving in a little. When nothing happened, I continued moving and shifting things around. Only after the 3rd thing I moved did the bookcase spring back out. I realized then that opening this bookcase required a series of exact steps or else it would spring back. The first I had moved was our family picture, next being my younger sister's favorite stuffed animal. Judging when each thing was and the kind of stuff on the bookcase, it looked like this was based on the order of things that happened in their life from most recent to earlier. So, I had moved the picture and the kids stuffed animals quite easily. Then, a few things that were left were a picture of my parents posing in front of a mountain, a souvenir of the Great Wall of China, their engagement rings, a concert program, a little rock, a key and sonogram of the kids. Judging the fact all three of us were in the picture frame, I moved that one, the bookcase moved back to confirm my step. The last five were hard. I did not recall any of their trips before us because I normally never asked about their love life. Trying to think, I decided to go to my older sister's room because she had been the romantic one of the three of us and probably kept a diary somewhere in her room.

Before I even entered her room, out of habit, I knocked on her door. Remembering she was no longer going to give the green light of entering, tears began to prick my eyes yet again. Blinking them away, I entered her room. The familiar smell of her room still lingered and brought about even more tears. I wasn't sure how much longer it would be until I would just stop trying to blink back tears. Looking around her room, I tried to think about where she would possibly hide a diary in. Seeing her bookcase, I started out there. Knowing the secrets a diary, or even a journal could hold, I started looking for a relatively normal looking bind. After careful analyzing, all the spines had books titles, nothing that was blank or sounded diary like. The only weird spine that seemed to have stood out, was a Twilight book placed right beside her Harry Potter books. I didn't know if she actually liked or even read Twilight, but she was a pretty hardcore Harry Potter fan. I had just pulled out the book when a journal dropped to the ground. Looking back at the paper cover of Twilight, I noticed two more journals hidden in the cover. Picking up the one that dropped on the floor, I walked over to her bed. I decided to look for the most recent one and go backwards.

April 5, 2014

The day before the incident.

Sunny

Homecoming is slowly approaching. I guess I'm ready now. Ryan asked me to go to homecoming with him and I agreed. I've already picked and bought my dress!! Didn't tell my family though, I want it to be a surprise. To be honest, didn't tell anybody at all. It's a nice light blue dress with sequins across the top. I've hidden it in the closet. Luckily my parents don't clean it, because it's a wreck... and my dress is in there. Anyways, can't wait until the day is finally here!! Oh, got to remember to ask Chase if I could borrow his pet lizard tomorrow.