Beyond: Snillotia Trilogy Book One by Donna Wagner (books you have to read TXT) 📕

the key a few months after we were here, right after you stopped talking to me. He thought maybe I’d want to be able to look through their things. I haven’t wanted to. I still don’t.”

“I don’t think we have a choice. We need to go see if your mom’s laptop is there.”

Tim nodded, sadly. He looked down. Somehow, he and Anna were holding hands again. He hadn’t even realized they were. He also realized he didn’t want to let go. He looked at Anna. She looked back at him but didn’t acknowledge anything about their joined hands. “Should we go now?” she asked.

Tim glanced at Evan, remembering he was in the room. He gave Tim a small smile, which surprised him. Evan was Jason’s best friend, so Tim had thought he’d be mad Tim was holding Anna’s hand. Then he remembered Anna’s question. He didn’t know exactly where the storage facility was. Adam had told him, but all he remembered thinking was that it wasn’t somewhere he could walk to from here. “We need to drive there. It’s too far to walk.”

Anna sighed. It annoyed her that although they had both gotten their licenses the month before, they did not have a car. Adam let them borrow his car though, if they really needed to go somewhere. They would have to wait till he got home from work. Anna looked at her cell phone. “Wow.”

“What?”

“It’s later than I thought. Adam will be home in about an hour.”

Before Tim could reply, they heard a click.

“Hey! Are you guys hiding in here?”

They heard Peter before they saw him. As he entered the room, he nodded, as though he was proud of himself. “I figured this is where you’d go! I told Monsieur Laurent that you got sick and went home. He said you can make the test up after school…” Peter’s voice trailed off and his eyes narrowed.

Tim followed his cousin’s line of sight straight to his and Anna’s hands. “I see,” Tim said softly.

Anna looked at Tim, confused. Tim shook his head slightly and pulled his hand from Anna’s. Anna, who had actually been aware they’d been holding hands again, let go reluctantly. Read him, Anna. He knows you have a boyfriend. Now he thinks because he saw us holding hands you’re not being fair to Jason, which means you’re not the kind of girl he thought you were.

Why would he care?

Tim raised an eyebrow at her. “I was showing Tim one of my new powers I discovered. Want to see?”

Tim saw hope flash across his cousin’s face as he nodded, then left just as quickly as he realized what Anna had said, with Evan in the room. “Evan knows everything, now,” Tim told him.

Before Peter could respond, Anna disappeared again. Peter looked around, confused at first, and then he smiled. Anna reappeared. “Now watch Tim.”

Peter looked at Tim, as Tim took Anna’s hand again. He saw the expression on Peter’s face when they both disappeared. Anna brought them back a few seconds later. “That is so neat! You can make anyone disappear with you?”

Anna nodded, happy Peter seemed like himself again. “Children? Are you home?”

They all turned toward the secret door. Grandma An was calling for them. “We better see what’s going on. They usually don’t come looking for us unless something’s happened,” Tim said.

They left the secret room and found Grandma An near the staircase. “Oh! You better come to my rooms,” she exclaimed, when she saw them, “Something is very wrong!”

CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN

After saying goodbye to Evan and promising to let him know if they found anything in the storage unit, Tim and Anna went to see what Grandma An was upset about. As soon as Tim reached the kitchen, he knew something was wrong. The door to Grandma An’s rooms had changed. Instead of matching the house, like Goldie had made it, it looked like the doors back in Storage. Grandma An opened the door and ushered them inside. Once in the room, Tim also noticed the spiral staircase Goldie had included so she didn’t have to leave the rooms connected to Storage was completely gone. “Did Goldie come back?” he asked, hopefully.

Grandma An shook her head. Grandpa Leumas was napping in a recliner in the center of the room and Grandma Eilime and Grandpa Siul were sitting at a small table in the corner playing cards. “The stairs are gone!” Peter exclaimed, loudly, waking Grandpa Leumas.

“Children! Something is happening!” he said immediately, upon seeing them standing in front of him, “Things are disappearing, sometimes staying gone and sometimes coming back. We can’t figure it out and our attempts to contact the gup have been unsuccessful.”

“Where are my grandparents?” Tim asked.

“Upstairs.”

“Peter, please go get everyone.”

“When did this start happening?” Anna questioned.

“This morning, sweetheart,” Tre said as he and Einna joined them.

Tim let out a frustrated sigh. “It’s just like Goldie’s medallion. That disappeared too. Something must be wrong with her. We need to get her to come back.”

“We’ve tried calling for her, Tim,” Einna stated.

“Well, maybe if all of us try together, she’ll be able to hear us.” Anna suggested.

Tim nodded in agreement, willing to try anything. They couldn’t lose their connection to Snillotia through these rooms, as slight as it was. They all joined hands in a circle. “Okay, on three, we’ll all say her name at once. Ready? One, two, three-“

“Goldie!”

For a moment they just stood there in silence, hoping for something to happen. Then they heard a voice. It was a voice that sounded both young and old at the same time, however it wasn’t Goldie. “The royal rooms will be returned to Storage where they belong. Please remove any belongings and people from the rooms immediately.”

“This is Queen Anna of Snillotia. I demand my rooms stay where I choose.”

“As do I, King Mit of Snillotia.” Grandpa Mit said in a loud voice, as he entered the room, “I heard him speaking upstairs, as well,” he explained.

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