Am I Alone by Jose Vasquez (moboreader txt) 📕

8pm august 22nd 1982 today i had a birthday i went out with my parents to an amusement park it was fun.now i'm home pondering the events of the day and aware that on fridays my parents go out to eat.as usual i'll be alone but i'm ok with that cause i'm 12 now and next year i'll be a teenager so i can handle it ...so i thought.my parents tell me dont stay up late and that they should be home by 11pm or so i said fine.they would find me in the living room fast asleep and the tv on which was always on the sci-fi channel.i'm ready to crash in front of the tv and watch some scary sci-fi movie and eat as much junk food before bed as i can.my parents kiss me goodnight and out they go i follow and lock the door behind them.sit on the sofa and tune in to my usual friday night routine it doesn't take long for stuff to begin happening.my tv goes black.i change the channel but it's the same on all channels.my night is ruined so i click the tv off and head upstairs to my room and turn on my computer i figured well i guess i'll chat for awhile but to my surprise the computer screen is black as well so i'm like what's going on here this is getting bad no tv no computer so i decide to call my friend up so i pick up the phone but get nothing not a dial tone nothing so now i need to think about what am i going to do to take up my time.all of a sudden the lights go out there i stand in total darkness i reach for my computer table where i have a flash light.it wont turn on now i'm starting to freak so i start heading for the kitchen where i know there are some candles i make my way downstairs as im going down the stairs i hear scratching sound by the front door i pause for a second the scratching gets louder and louder i think to myself should i say something or stay quiet.i weigh my options and think if i say something then someone would know that im here and it could be someone that is trying to break in but i also consider the fact that if i say nothing he may then try to come in if it is someone trying to break in.i decide to stay quiet tip toe to the kitchen and reach for the candles in the draw i see a lighter as well so i light a candle as i turn around to head back towards the living room.i notice the front door slowly starting to open at this point i hide under the kitchen table i sit under the table with this lit candle so i blow it out.i hear footsteps coming closer and closer then stop.i know that who ever or whatever it is is right next to the kitchen table.i wonder does it know im here then i hear the footsteps seem to get more distant it sounds like they are going up the stairs.should i head out the front door slowly and quietly i leave the candle under the table and poke my head out look around i see nothing in the distance i see the front door wide open as i focus my eyes all i see is black i see nothing outside not a light reflection or anything i figure it's just late now and the lights did go out maybe they are out all over town.i slowly move out from underneath the table i make it halfway the footsteps get louder again they are getting close i figure it's now or never so i dart for the front door.i make it out the front door i see nothing nothing at all no cars,no light post,no houses,nothing just total blackness.i hear a voice behind me saying theres nothing out there so i suggest coming back inside with terror i slowly start to turn around as i look upon the voice i notice it's a girl a blond girl deep blue eyes just standing there so i ask who are you? and what is going on? she said that she has been here for a long time i ask here here where? your in my house.she saids here in this place of darkness she begins to tell me that on her 12th birthday she experienced the same thing that had happened to me she asks what year is it what year? she says yes what year i say 1982 she lowers her head and says i have been here since 1942.i think she's joking but soon realize she isn't she really has been here 40 years and hasn't aged i ask her where are we she tells me her name is emily barrows she tells me that she used to live in my house 40 years ago i ask her whats out there looking towards the darkness she saids nothing i ask what you mean nothing she said thats what i mean nothing.i was walking through the darkness i saw a dim light and that dim of light was coming from your house she told me that when she first appeared here she was in her house or i should say my house too and when she stepped outside her house it vanished.i made my way inside the house she asked my name i said steven somehow we have to find a way out of this nightmare i began asking her questions trying to find out anything i can think of i did find out that her father worked for the same company my dad works for now her dad was a scientist studying theories on the existence of black holes time warps and parallel dimensions and that kind of stuff.i said wait...maybe your dad did something she said that it happened exactly this same day 40 years ago maybe whatever happened then happened again 40 years later causing me to get stuck here.she asked what my father did i said he was a nuclear scientist she didnt know how it related neither did i but all i knew was we have to find a way home.i headed to the kitchen and reached for the candle took the lighter out my pocket and lit the candle finally some light but what do we do now? where do we start for a long time she kept asking herself am i alone for 40 years she was till i arrived but now we both ask are we alone will we ever be able to get home

continued in book 2 "emily we're going home"

Publication Date: 11-11-2009

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