Twinsanity by Courtney Sheinmel

Author:Courtney Sheinmel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2017-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

14

HISTORY LESSON

We’re twisting and turning and hurling superfast. The other genies and I are bumping into one another like we’re a pile of laundry in the dryer. When you’re traveling through a wormhole at the speed of light, bumping into other people hurts A LOT.

WHOOSH!

AHHHHH!

OWWWWWWWWWW!

It seems to go on forever, but finally I feel myself start to slow down. Soon all five of us are stuck at the top of Rhiannon’s bottle, competing to get out. (Six of us, if you count the mini bumblebee bat.) I’m being squeezed so tight, I swear my internal organs are getting smushed together. My lungs have been shoved into one. My stomach feels like it’s being squeezed up through my mouth. I suck in my breath and try to make myself even smaller. Squeeze squeeze squeeeeeeeeeeeeze. And I’m out. Phew. I’m panting, trying to catch my breath, as I float down toward . . . well, I don’t know what I’m floating toward, because it’s pitch-black. I can’t even tell if my eyes are open.

And I’m not floating, either. I’m in free fall. Zooming faster and faster through the nothingness, until I land with a thud.

Ouch. That hurt. Next time I go through a genie bottle, I will wear a helmet and elbow and knee pads. But for now, I need to find my friends.

“Hello?” I call.

My mouth is too small; my voice is too faint. No one answers me.

This is the blackest darkness I’ve ever seen in my life. I can’t make out the shapes of the other genies, or even myself. I hold my hand in front of my face. Nope, can’t see it.

My body is tingling again, and then the popping starts. Even if I can’t see it, I can feel it. My hands, my feet, my arms, my legs, my torso are all popping back to the regular size. There go my eyeballs, one right after the other, and my ears. My mouth is still itty-bitty, but Rhiannon must have hers back to the regular size, because she shouts out: “Is everyone okay? Oliver-David?”

“I am here,” comes the shaky reply of the bumblebee bat. “But I do not feel fine at all.”

“You’re the only one who can see in here,” Rhiannon tells him. “I need you to check on everyone else.”

“I’m too scared to open my eyes.”

“Do it!”

“Okay . . . yes, I see Moe. I see Athena. I see Rafael. And I see Zack.”

“All right, good,” Rhiannon says. “The gang is all here.”

“Where are we?” Moe asks as my own mouth goes pop. Finally.

I don’t need Rhiannon to answer that. “This is the thirteenth parallel, isn’t it?” I say.

“Yes.”

“And the gang is NOT all here yet.” I raise my voice to as loud as it will go and shout: “QUINN! WHERE ARE YOU?”

“Ow, that was right in my ear,” Athena says.

“Sorry, I didn’t see you.” I turn my head and shout again, though this time I’m not quite so loud: “Quinn!”

There’s no answer.

“Quinn!” I try again. “Say something! Say anything!”

I strain my genie ears, but there’s nothing.

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