1500 by Holly Hook

Author:Holly Hook [Hook, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1523442689
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Branch is still open. Only a few teenagers skate around on the floor and the DJ is playing some heavy metal now. All the younger kids are gone at this hour. We stop and I face the wall on the far side of the skate floor. Through my panic, I realize something.

We've got to pull Monica through before Isabel's father gets here. He might try to hurt her or torture her to get to us, even if she can't help him. And she won't help him. I know her too well.

“Monica,” I breathe. “You ready to see the Hub for real?"

“What?” She faces me, eyes huge. “See that in real life? That place looked freaky.”

“We need to go through the rift that's in that wall.” I point to it. I take the hair clip from my pocket and strap it on. I have to record these new memories or they'll be lost when we jump into a new time. I tap the butterfly and my scalp tingles. “Your other option is to get shot.”

Brakes screech outside. He's here. We didn't lose him after all.

The door to the Branch bursts open, and Isabel's father comes running through. He holds a pistol in one hand. With experience and confidence, I notice. I have a feeling he would have remembered that even without gaining his memories back.

I squeeze Simon's hand. “Now!”

The four of us bolt across the Branch and across the skate floor. “Duck!” I tell the two guys still skating around.

“What?” One calls after me. They're going to see us disappear into the wall, but I don't care. I'm making another escape with Simon

“ISABEL!” her father calls again. “Halt!”

A shot fires out and sparks fly next to my leg. He's shooting at us all. Actually shooting at his own daughter. Isabel screams and I push her forward towards the rift. She holds up her hands as if to block herself, but she goes through, vanishing into thin air.

“Now!” I yell at Monica.

“Are you serious?”

Another shot rings out, deafening. Something squeals and one of the guys curses.

“Now!” I repeat. Simon and I shove her forward at the same time.

Monica sails for the wall and screams. She vanishes as if some doorway has opened up in thin air and swallowed her. She's in the Hub now.

I grab Simon's hand and we make the leap. We're falling, falling through a world that blurs and screams. The last I hear of the Branch are footfalls racing towards us.

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