After Ridge and I both went into our rooms I couldn't help but think about what or who was Ruski? I was up for another hour thinking about it and so many other things. There were so many questions running through my head all at once and not an answer to a single one of them...
I got up and went out of my room and knocked on Ridge's door. He didn't answer so he must have fallen asleep. I went into the bathroom and splashed some water on my face. I looked up into the mirror and studied my blonde hair. It was just past my shoulders and naturally straight. Then I looked under my eyes and across my nose. Some older folks refer to me as a Hitler baby, whatever that means.
I just started feeling like it wasn't really me looking back. Don't get me wrong I am very confident in my appearance, I don't wear makeup either. I've never been one to think I had to plaster it on my face to feel like I am beautiful... I mean if other girls want to that's fine it's their decision not mine.
I finally felt tired and made my way back to my room. I laid down in bed, covered up. I put my fan on low and fell asleep.
When I awoke the next morning I saw that I had overslept my alarm by twenty minutes. This wasn't the first time I've overslept my alarm but usually my mom wakes me up by now. I hurried to the shower and ran back to my room and got dressed. I came out and saw that Ridge wasn't up yet either. I pounded on his door. "Ridge wake up!"
He answered it sleepily, "What?" he asked.
"You overslept your alarm!"
His eyes got really wide and he shut the door. Five minutes later he was coming downstairs dressed. "Where's mom? She usually wakes us up if we sleep in."
"I don't know. I went to check if she was still sleeping and she was gone, and so was her car."
He shrugged and made a bowl of cereal and we ate quietly for a couple of minutes. I decide to be the first to talk about Mom and Dad's overheard conversation last night.
"Who or what do you think they were talking about last night?" I asked.
"I don't know exactly Allie, but after we both went into our rooms I got on my laptop to see if I could find anything... It took awhile but I finally found something that might fit."
"Well what is it?"
"Hold on let me go grab my laptop... I saved the website to show you." Ridge said. He came back with his laptop in his hands.
"He was a scientist.... Leonard Ruski was famous for many things, but the most notable accomplishment of his was his discovery in 2018 on how to travel in space effectively, I continued to read on pointless information until I got to the end of the article and it said Ruski was very ill by his early fifties, by which time he had disappeared from his home and lab. No one knows what happened to him, or so they claim."
I just looked at Ridge as he looked at me. I knew we were thinking the same thing... what exactly happened to Ruski and why was it so important to our parents?
