Lost and Trapped

Lost and Trapped - Chapter Five - We Meet Again

Laurie wonders around calling someone by the name of Willow. A girl who is identical in looks as Laurie, probably around 7 runs up to Laurie.

"Laurie!" She shouts and jumps up into Laurie's arms.

"Willow, calm down." Laurie turns to look at me. Willow points at me, "This is my sister," Laurie sits down and Willow sits in her lap. "Her name is Lila."

I sit down next to Laurie. "Hello, kid." I mutter. The girl smiles at me and tugs on my hair. 

"Hello Lila!" She says happily. She jumps of Laurie's lap and sits on mine. She gets up after a while and pulls me to my feet, surprisingly strong. "Come on, you slow coach!" She runs of to a street with seems completely deserted.

"Um, Willow, shall we actually be here?" I ask. 

She nods, "It's fine, nothing is scary." She grabs my arm and sits down on a rusty bench that sits in the middle of the road. It's a strange place.

"This is the valley of stillness." Willow explains, "Everything but the supernatural races stay still. And humans are not aloud in the valley, there is a force field that the supernatural races go through."

"Then why am I here? I'm just a normal person?"

"Professor Dearlove said that Laurie's sister," She stops for a moment, "You are her sister, right?" I give a small nod and she continues, "Professor Dearlove said that Laurie's sister is a powerful witch, she just doesn't know."

I nod slowly, "So basically, I am a witch?" Willow nods, "What are you then?"

"A vampire," She mutters, "All my family are, they got lost in the valley of silence though." Her head droops and I scoop her up into my arms. "And my friends got lost in the cave of numbers," A single tear falls down her cheek which I wipe away for her.

"Don't worry, Willow. My family were taken away from me. My mother made me leave home and me and my father had nowhere to go, so we went to a forest. I'd prefer to live here if anything." I sigh, "All my friends from school were taken away from my life too."

Willow throws her small arms around my neck. I start to walk across the street, looking at all the crumbling houses which seem to be frozen and watching as a car sits in the middle of the street. It's very strange here.

"Maybe we shall go to the city of Rhyme?" Willow says, looking up at me, "Or the streets of Digit?" Willow comes up with many different places.

"Um.. The Streets of Digit?" I put Willow down on her feet and she turns to the left and continues to walk with me at her side. She grips my hand until she see's a sign saying 'Welcome to The Streets Of Digit!'

A huge man, probably around 7 foot tall, walks up to me and Willow. "Welcome people. Can you tell me what the answer to 4 + 9 - 2 x 16 + 1 ÷ 3 x 6 - 67 + 8 x 2 - 3 + 26 - 1 ÷ 34 + 3 ÷ 7 + 2 - 5 please?"

"Ooh! It comes up to nothing!" Willow cries while I still work out the answer.

"Yeah, the answer is 0." I mutter. How willow worked that so quickly, I'll never know.

"Good, sign in here." He thrusts us a piece of paper with a bunch of names on. Willow takes a pen out of the guys pocket and neatly writes her name, passing the paper and the pen to me after she has finished.

I quickly write down my name and enter the streets of Digit. We quickly rush down the street until an old lady stops us. "Hello dears." She chirps, "You new to The Streets of Digit?" Willow shakes her head.

"I know where I am going." Willow quickly walks past the lady and bustles down the street. Her bronze hair swings around her neck as she walks. She reminds me so much of Laurie when she was younger.