The Popcorn Colonel by Toni Anderson

Author:Toni Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2018-11-12T15:53:12+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

The Back Door

William waited on the front porch for Marie. He pulled the glasses partially out of his jacket pocket to show her he had them, then zipped them in for safe keeping. He wasn’t taking any more chances on losing them. He pointed over to the car parked at the Zuckerwatte’s, then put a finger over his mouth to indicate that they needed to be very quiet. Her eyes widened as she looked the scene over.

“That car has been here for about 10 minutes, and there are two men walking around Mr. Z.’s backyard,” William whispered.

“Who do you think they are?” she said.

William shrugged his shoulders. “Let’s go,” he said to Marie quietly, not wanting to attract the attention of the men.

William and Marie headed down the porch steps, then down the sidewalk. They turned to the left in the direction of Marie’s house and away from the Zuckerwatte’s house and walked rapidly. The night air whipped at their faces as they began to jog. As soon as they were out of sight of William’s house, they took a short cut down a side street in the opposite direction of Marie’s house toward the movie theater. Then they ran as fast as they could, staying out of the street lights just in case William’s father was already headed back. About five minutes later, the movie theater came into view. They slowed to a walk to catch their breath and come up with their plan.

William’s dad and Mrs. Zuckerwatte had their faces pressed against the revolving glass doors looking inside. William’s dad was talking to someone on his cell phone.

By now, the one thing William had figured out in certainty was that the glasses were the key to all of this, and so they put them on.

“We’re going to have to stop time Marie,” reasoned William, “because we are running out of it. We need to use the glasses.”

“I don’t know, William, it seems like we shouldn’t,” said Marie, “we don’t even understand what is going on. We’ve got to talk to Mr. Z.,” she urged.

“We don’t know where he is, no one does, so what other choice do we have? Tell my dad and your Granny? They’ll never believe us.” William responded as he headed into the alleyway.

They snuck around the back of the theater looking for a way in. They saw a faint golden glow floating out from behind an old theater sign leaning up against the back wall; William moved the sign. Another golden door knob greeted them.

“Oh great!” said Marie “another mysterious doorknob in a dark alley. Fantastic... now let’s go get your dad.”

“This has to be it, Marie!” William said. They began to hear muffled POP POP POP sounds.

William was just about to put his hand on the doorknob when all of a sudden, the door opened on its own. It was just an empty doorway and carried the overwhelming smell of freshly popped popcorn. William and Marie looked at one another.

“Hey, you two with the glasses!” said the little voice.

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