"JASON," came the cry of my sister's voice.
"What," I groan sleepily.
"Can we do something today. I want to go somewhere!"
"What do you have in mind."
"Ummm... the park!" she said a bit too enthusiastically.
"Mhm. There's something that you are not telling me."
"Ughh fine. I heard that Lily would be there and I haven seen her in forever."
"Oh really, I don't remember when yesterday became forever, but..." I replied. I thought about it for a moment before I said," okay let me get dressed."
"YEESSSSSS!" she squealed.
"Dont forget to tell Mom bye," I called out to her retreating figure.
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Ten minutes later I find myself sitting in my car with a hyperactive child setting beside me.
"Hurry up let's go already," she exclaimed excitedly.
"Hold your horses child, I just got in the car," I said.
"Okay i'll be quite before you change your mind."
"Good choi-," my sentence cut off as I watched a sleek black Cameron with dark tented windows slowly driving by my house. I could barely see the silhouette of the stranger, until he rolled the window down. He was pointing to my mailbox before he slipped a sheet of paper into it. He then sped off.
"Bubba are you okay?" my sister asked snapping me out of my daze.
"Yeah I'm fine," I replied, maybe a little to quickly.
"Okay whatever. I'll go back to being quite."
I pulled up slowly to the mailbox, eagerly opening it to find a package.
"Mhm, whatcha order this time," said my sister.
"You know good and well that I do not order online."
"Well that's kind of hard to say when clearly there is a package addressed to you in your hands."
"Let's just go."
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After arriving at the park and watching Heaven run off, I determine that I would open the package. Grasping it in my hand, I tore though the cardboard to find a compass and a piece of paper with coordinates and a poem. It read,
Go to the coordinates
Let the compass be your guide
X marks the spot
Where you must hide
For now is the time
For you four to meet
But remember this secret
Is one you MUST keep
Hurry now child
For you mustn't be late
And if harm follows you
Then it must be fate
Glancing up from the note, I rest my eyes on the dash of my car as I process what exactly I have read. Full of confusion, my facial expression probably showing it, I lift my gaze higher to meet the eyes of Lilly's mom. Her eyebrows raise, as if to challenge why I'm still in my car. I point back to the road; she nods understandingly.
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I park my car in from of a sign that reads "Park Here". Stepping out of my car, I gaze upon the vast house where I had arrived. I stare in astonishment at the four story 'house', and at the structural beauty of it.
"House, " I mentally scoff. "Yeah right. More like a mansion."
Recollecting what I was here for, I seize the compass from the pocket of my pants. I eye the compass for any guidance as to where I am to go, but it lingers as any typical compass. I take an uncertain step closer to the sidewalk, for hopes that something would change.
The pointer suddenly moved, and if a light was turned on. It stopped playing the role of a compass, and started to point as a guide.
"This is it. The poem said, 'Let the compass be your guide'," I thought to myself.
Anxious to find what was awaiting, I hastily made my way into the woods that circled around the house.
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