Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris

Author:Elizabeth Norris
Language: pol
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-05-06T00:09:24+00:00

“Right,” Ben says. “So technicaly we could have doubles on some of the worlds, but it’s actualy pretty unlikely. And if we have doubles here, we’ve never met them.”

I take a deep breath. As much as I want to cal bulshit, I have seen what Ben can do, and I already know there’s a lot about the world—or worlds—out there that I don’t understand.

“Okay, so you’re from another world, what else?”

“So each world,” Ben says, his voice sounding strained.

“They’re supposed to be completely independent of one another, you know?”

Reid says, “Crossing over has il effects.”

“Il effects…,” I say, turning back to Ben. “Like turning into someone who can bring people back from the dead.” A bitter laugh comes from Elijah. “So you are more than just book smart.”

“But it’s more than just that,” Ben says. “Crossing over …

we were lucky. Lately, anyone who’s crossed over has ended up dead.”

Ended up dead. Crossed over. Unidentified people.

This shouldn’t make sense—it shouldn’t fit.

But it does.

“From radiation poisoning,” I whisper.

Ben nods and looks down at his feet. “Not a good way to go.”

“Wait,” I continue. My body feels cold and weak now that the adrenaline has fled. If I believe them—if—then I’m in even more over my head than I’d thought. I don’t know how I’l ever make sense of this case if it’s this far outside my scope of understanding. “How did you cross over?”

Al three of them look at me, and I’d be an idiot to not notice how much Elijah and Reid don’t want Ben to tel me.

But he wil.

I can see it in his eyes—he wants me to know.

Ben asks me to put down the gun. I don’t want to. I know it can’t protect me from anything I’m about to hear, and I feel light-headed and a little sick to my stomach. But I remind myself it’s not even loaded—my dad always said never to point a loaded gun at someone unless you plan on puling the trigger, and loaded gun at someone unless you plan on puling the trigger, and Elijah was right. No matter what happened, I wasn’t going to shoot anyone.

I put the gun on the table.

And Ben tels me everything.

08:18:34:51

This is how it happened:

Ben and Reid have birthdays less than a week apart. When they were turning ten, Ben’s mom and Reid’s dad, who both worked together in a government-funded lab, decided to throw them a joint birthday party.

Elijah came.

The party was at Reid’s house. They played games, ate cake, opened presents, and had a video-game tournament. It should have been perfect.

Only once Elijah got knocked out of the tournament, he was bored. He wanted to play something else, and Reid was pretty sure there were some old games down in the basement.

Ben and another boy went with them.

There were board games in the basement, but nothing exciting. But there was more than that. There was a locked door.

And once Elijah discovered the locked door, he had to know what was behind it.

It was Reid’s father’s home lab.

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