’Adam, it’s only twenty minutes away. Now, do you want to go or not?’ I wanted to see how you would react to water.
’Why not?! Can you pick me up? Tricia’s car is in the shop, and I said that she could use mine tomorrow.’
’Say what?!’
’Can you pick me up? Tricia’s car is in the shop, and I said that she could use mine tomorrow.’ I looked over at Tricia and Laura. Laura had a look of disbelief on her face, and Tricia just sat there, expressionless.
’Bring Tricia too, Adam. I’m inviting both of you.’
’Oh, I thought just you and I were going!’ He said. In a whisper he asked me, ‘Why not leave them here? We can have a better time without those gabby girls around?’
’We’ll just leave them behind when we get there, how’s that?’
’Well, if we’re going to bring them along, might as well keep them along so we can showoff to them!’
’Yeah, good idea, but what about the other girls that are going to be there?’ I said, with a big grin.
’Well. . .maybe if there are a few hot ones in bikinis!’ I was stunned, truly shocked. When I told Laura this she couldn’t believe it either. The next day we all met outside my house. All four of us got into our cars and left.
Once we arrived at the beach I asked, ‘Hey Schoolfield, wanna play some V-Ball, or hit the water first?’
’Let’s hit the old H20!!’ Hit the old H2O?! But he can’t swim!! This is truly peculiar. Look at him, I thought, watching your clone swimming. He swims like an expert! Now something truly is wrong. I walked over to Laura.
’Laura, there’s something strange going on here. Either Adam had a brain transplant or there’s something seriously wrong.’
’Like what?’
’Like, we may have the completely wrong Adam!’
’And Tricia?’
’Her too. Keep them here, then take them to our house. I am going to Matt and Noelle’s house.’
’Why there?’
’I think that they are still there!’
’What should I tell them if they ask where you have went?’
’Come up with something.’
’Okay. Be careful.’ I went away from the beach and approached Matt and Noelle’s house. Being the sneaky guy that I am, I came up to the edge of the house and over heard Matt and Noelle’s conversation.
’They don’t suspect a thing!’ Noelle said.
’They think that they are out of the game, when they are really still in it.’
’But, I don’t know, that call from Noah may clue Adam in.’
’We’ll just have to be sneaky in Noah’s letter.’
’Good idea, let’s draft it now.’ I had heard enough. I explored the grounds and found the approximate location of the game and studied it’s wiring. Returning home I constructed a gadget that would allow me to interface with their computer. I linked it manually to the game, and introduced me as a new character.”
