The Pocket Watch by Michael Shaw

Author:Michael Shaw
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-02-14T00:00:00+00:00

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“Jon.”

My eyelids fluttered.

Hunter was giving me a pat on the back. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” I mumbled, my mind still in the past.

“I was just asking you, do you know what’s making the watch cause your veins to get all red like that?”

I looked around. The pocket watch was firm in my hand. It happened again. I rubbed the back of my hand. What’s going on here? “No,” I finally said, “I have no idea what makes it do that.” I had to close my eyes for a moment, ashamed of some of the things my past self had said. I hated the way I had treated Alex, shoving my bitterness onto his situation. I didn’t know how to handle the past in light of the present, now that Alex himself had turned his back on me.

“By the way,” Hunter handed me a piece of paper; it had a phone number on it, “that’s my new cellphone number. Use that to contact me from now on.”

“One of your own guys threw my phone out the window, but sure, thanks.”

We made toward the door that led back to all the portals. I scanned the faces of some of the people in the main room, wondering if I would recognize any.

“You seriously don’t know where this place is?” I asked Hunter as we walked.

“I heard it’s somewhere underground. No one knows but the higher-ups.”

“Is Donald one of them?”

“Yeah.”

I flexed the fingers of my right hand. “So, who else is coming with us?”

Cooper emerged from a side door, approaching us as we walked to the portal room.

“There’s one of them,” Hunter said. “Cooper Weston.”

We stopped while he came up to us.

“Looks like we’re in this together for a little longer, Ashe.” He nodded his head toward me. His eyes shifted over to Hunter. “Calhoun.”

“Hey.” Hunter looked down at the paper. “Okay, the only other person is Cooper’s twin, Sam.”

“You have a brother?”

The other two were already turning and walking toward the next room. I hurried to catch up. We all entered back into the portal room, ready to return to Sacramento. However far away that actually was, none of us knew.

Cooper opened the portal back up. “My twin’s in the city. Get ready.” He peered at me. “Sam’s the loud one.”

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