• Stone Dome Chapter 2

    “Yes?” I asked, spotting AddLin knocking at my window. I sighed, opening my window. “You know we have a perfectly functional door, right?” She just gave me a wide smile, holding something behind her back as she crawled through the window. “What is it?” The bruise on the back of my leg from yesterday had been throbbing uncontrollably, leaving me irritable.
    “Tell me Doe,” she began, still clutching the thing behind her back, “What’s black and white and red allover?”
    “A Dalmatian in a blender?” I guessed, uninterested.
    “You’re horrible! It’s a white piece of paper with red and black writing on it!” She cheered, holding up a piece of paper to me. I sighed taking it and reading over its contents. Dr. Reghs’ address: city A3 house 84 B. 1:30 pm Saturday.
    “What is this?” I asked, reading over the crumpled note a couple more times.
    “An appointment! I got it from JasLinAh! Apparently you need to go there by yourself tomorrow and talk to him to see if he can help your mother! Aren’t you thrilled?” she was leaping up and down enthusiastically. I just looked in shock at the paper. She paused and looked at me. “Why aren’t you jumping with me? Aren’t you excited?”
    “I’m just… amazed. Someone’s actually going to help my mom?” I looked up at my best friend, tears standing in my eyes. Happy tears. I went back to looking at the note, overflowing with joy. A3 was just the next town over. I could get there in time.
    AddLin giggled happily. “Isn’t it amazing? Jazzy said he was totally willing to help!” she looked down at her watch. “Oh! Gotta go! Bye Doe!” and she slipped out the window.
    I waved goodbye, still welling with joy.
    My mother snacked on some bread while I left. I smiled down at her, praying that the doctor could help. I estimated that it would take about an hour and a half to make it to the doctor’s house, but I left at 11’o clock just to be safe. Birds fluttered overhead, flapping loudly. I looked up, seeing the birds and, above them, the top of the dome. I’d heard rumors that one day a huge storm would come in and break the roof, killing us all, but it was stronger that people thought. Throbbing still pulsed through my leg, but it was small enough that I could walk alright.
    I walked a ways until I had finally left A2, my home town, and entered A3. Our towns all had names like that, with letters from A to F, numbers from 1 to 6. Pacing through the suburbs of the city, I began coming towards the city central. The farther I walked the more it looked like a city. The buildings got larger and plainer. Streets were filled with more people than before. I glanced at my watch. 1’ o clock already and I had no clue where I was. Frantically, I tried to flag someone down for directions. No one paid any mind to me. Finally a lady answered my worried questions. “Lookin’ fer Dr. R’s place, eh? Jus keep headin’ that way an’ trus’ me, you’ll find it.”
    “Thank you sooo much!” I gave a small nod of thankfulness and darted the direction she’d pointed. On my way, I’d somehow stumbled into an alley in an attempt to hide from two beefy men across the street. Nervously I walked through, praying that I was heading the right way. Suddenly, I tripped over something. Looking to where I tripped I saw someone laying face down on the ground. “AHH!” I screamed, terrified. “A DEAD BODY! I TRIPPED OVER A DEAD BODY!” I zoomed up, only to feel a hand on my ankle. Screaming bloody murder, I kicked the “dead” body’s head.
    He raised his head up off the ground and angrily mumbled “Shut up. Can’t a guy get any sleep in this town?” and sat up.
    “So you’re not dead?” I questioned timidly.
    “No, but I think you gave me a concussion when you kicked me.” He flicked his shaggy blond hair out of his brown eyes to show me his now bleeding forehead.
    “I’m so sorry,” I whispered, because I’d hurt my voice too much screaming to actually talk. “Here, I’ve got bandages in here somewhere.” I held a roll up out of my bag.
    “I think I’ll live,” he responded, making a small face at my pink bunny bandages. “Anyway, I’m LeiLei Reghs. And you are...” he prompted.
    “DoeMi Vlaque… wait. Did you just say Reghs?” he nodded slightly. “SO YOU’RE THE DOCTOR?!?!?” apparently I’d gotten my voice back. “I’M SO SORRY DOCTOR REGHS!!! I DIDN’T MEAN TO KICK YOU!!! HONESTLY!”
    “What is it with you and yelling?” he asked raising an eye brow, then calmly added, “And no. I’m not the doctor. He’s my dad.” He said this slowly, as if he were reasoning with a little kid.
    “Oh,” I blushed, worrying that I might’ve ruined my chances of saving my mother.
    “It’s alright,” he laughed, showing his perfect, white teeth. “So were you going to go see my dad?” I nodded, looking down at my lap, sitting on me knees. “Well then I’ll lead you! I was going there anyway. Come on.” I stood up, adjusting my blue skirt. He put an arm over my shoulder, leading me out of the alley.
    “Umm… the lady who gave me directions told me it was this way,” I said, nervously trying to pull away.
    “You can’t trust everyone you meet in this town,” he said bitterly. Looking down at me –he was about 6 inches taller- LeiLei asked “so are you going to go see him about your leg, because it looks pretty bad to me.”
    I couldn’t help but blush remembering my bruised leg. “No,” I began, but he’d already kneeled down to look over it.
    “You got this from the rain, didn’t you?” I blushed harder now and began worrying that he noticed I’d gone outside. It was kind of illegal.
    “Whatever. I’ll find the way on my own.” I walked off, blushing uncontrollably now.
    “Wait! Sorry. Just making sure it’s okay. You should really rest your leg if you want it to get better, because my dad can’t do much with that bruise.” He ran to catch up with me.
    “I told you, I’m not going because of my leg.”
    “Well you still need a guide because your going the wrong way again.” I sighed irritably as he put his arm back over and continued to lead me.