Time with Leo by John Bliss

Author:John Bliss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781936846429
Publisher: Gemma Open Door

EIGHT

The Door

And there it was.

Not right away. There was more marking and measuring, climbing through weeds and crossing streams. Leo plotted a course based on his observations, and bush or briar, they followed along. Leo taught Sam to feel the vibrations in the air, to pick out the faint metallic smell along the course the portal had traveled. Sam wondered why he hadn’t noticed it before. As they walked, he noticed it more and more. It became stronger. His pulse quickened and his heart beat faster as he realized that they were close to his passage home.

And there it was. Sam could not only sense it, he could see it. A faint shimmering. A disturbance in the air. The Door.

“Leo.”

“I see it.”

They stood still, quiet, as if they were stalking a deer, as if the gap in time and space would run away if it sensed them.

“People are gonna freak when I show up in these clothes,” Sam thought. Now he really wished he had his backpack with him. At least he had his phone. His books, his notebooks, even his clothes could be replaced. But his life was in his phone.

“Hey Leo, say cheese.”

“What about cheese?” Leo scowled and raised an eyebrow.

CLICK

The light flashed as Sam took Leo’s picture. Leo screamed.

“I’m blind! Monster, demon, what have you done to me!”

“It’s just the flash, Leo! You’ll be fine,” Sam assured him.

“Oh,” Leo said as his sight returned. “Sorry. You surprised me.”

“See?” said Sam, as he showed Leo the picture.

“I don’t like it. Too clear. No mystery. I’m not ready for your technology.”

“Then this is goodbye.” Sam hugged the old man, hard. “I don’t know what I would have done without you.”

And he was off. The door shimmered, calling him home. “Sam, wait!” Leo called after him. But Sam was thirty-five years younger and five hundred years faster.

The door grew closer.

Sam ran harder. He closed his eyes.

Until—SLAM—he was through. And still running.

“Samuele!” Sam could still hear Leo’s voice. But that was impossible. Unless . . .

Unless it hadn’t worked. How? How could it not have worked? It was his door. It was the way back. Leo explained it, and Leo knew everything.

Leo stood in the distance, his shoulders slumped. Sam felt like someone had punched him in the stomach.

“What happened? Why didn’t it work?” Sam had been right. He would never get home.

“We need to open the door.” Leo’s voice was quiet.

“How do we do that?” Sam groaned.

There was a pause. A long pause. “I don’t know.”

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