WONDER WORLD

CHAPTER TWO

"Aren't you taking too long of a break, Anna?"

Anna looked at her watch and replied, "Actually, I have four more minutes left of my fifteen minutes, Jack."

Jack slammed his fist down onto a table. "I know how to tell time lady! You took too long of a break!" Anna's stomach tightened in pain. Jack continued, "I need you to grab a file I left on your desk and bring it up to Loralei LeMond on the sixteenth floor. And hurry, she's expecting it!" Jack smashed his shoes down hard as he stormed off. "I can't wait til she's not in my way anymore." Anna whispered, "I better get going, Loralei LeMond is the CEO of this magazine." Anna tilted her head back to capture the last drop of her coffee, and tossed the cup towards the trash can, only taking eleven of her fifteen minute break. On her way out of the break room, she stooped down and picked up her cup as it laid on the floor next to the trash can. "Of course I missed, what else can happen to me today?"

After grabbing the file off her desk, Anna entered the elevator and pressed sixteen. There was an older man standing in the corner of the elevator, wearing a black suit with long silver hair, well covering his ears, flowing over the back of the collar of his white dress shirt. "Hello," Anna politely said. "I'm Anna. I work in advertising on the eighth floor. Do you work here?" The man looked at Anna with his light blue eyes, wise eyes, with a few strands of white eyebrow hairs hanging over them. The man grinned as Anna stared into his beautiful eyes, set into a wrinkled, aged face. "No, I don't work here. I'm a friend."

"A friend of whose?" Anna asked as the elevator started to move.

"A friend of yours Anna, a friend of yours."

Anna narrowed her eyebrows as her brain raced. Anna thought to herself, "Is this a friend of my dad?"

The man smiled and looked Anna in the eye. "I don't know your dad Anna. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting him." Anna's skin showed goosebumps. "How did this strange man know what I was just thinking? I must have mentioned my dad out loud."

The elevator stopped. "This is your floor, Anna," the man said, as he held a wrinkled hand open outstretched, pointing towards the door.

She searched the man's face for clues. "I have to ask you, how did you know I was thinking silently if you were a friend of my dad?"

The man smiled. "This is your floor, Anna." Anna shook her head as she turned away from the man and started towards the door. Right before she exited the elevator she looked above the door, and noticed the floor read number seventeen. Anna thought, "That's odd. This is only a sixteen floor building. Oh well, I better get going."

While looking at the folder to see what was so important that it had to be raced up to Ms. LeMond, she stepped out of the elevator. She looked up from the folder, intending on walking the long hallway to Ms. LeMond's office. The goosebumps raced back as she looked around. Her mouth hung open.

While her mouth hung open, her eyes widened as her heart raced. "No way!"

She closed her eyes tight for a few seconds then re-opened them. "What the..."

Anna felt the cool of grass underfoot. She looked at her feet, standing in a grass field, more vibrantly green than any grass she has ever seen. "Where did my shoes go?" "Wow!" She whispered as she looked out at purple and orange mountains with cascading deep blue waterfalls that fell into pristine turquoise ponds. "Wow!"

Six inch tall winged fairies flew about, bright white unicorns grazed on the bright green grass, a chomping of teeth could be heard as the chewed.

"Good day, miss," said a little rat as he passed by, walking upright, wearing pants and short sleeved plaid shirt. Anna shook her head and closed her eyes again. She opened them as she turned around. She saw no elevator, only bright green grass extending for miles and miles. A beautiful Willow tree stood in the spot where the elevator should have been. "Where am I?" Anna moved forward, her light pink sundress swayed side to side as she walked.