Annie

They had made good progress along the footpath, it was winding its way along the edge of the forest but before long they made a turn leading to a field. Annie's feet where screaming in agony but she managed to shrug off the pain.

She looked at her brother who seemed to be coping extremely well considering the circumstances, she was very proud off him and glad he hadn't made the situation harder than it already was.

They crossed the field without talking and continued across yet another gravel path. Although she had put the idea of finding George out of her mind when they had left the forest she was slowly formulating a plan in her mind. She was planning on leaving Aidan with there grandparents so that she could find him without having to worry about Aidan.

Eventually they ended up on the outskirts of a small village, that looked similar to the Scarecrow village they had driven past earlier. Annie had been constantly checking to see whether they were being followed by Claire or her associates but she had seen no-one.

"OK Aidan all we have to do is find a phone booth." Annie said

"But we don't have any money, how are we going to call them?"

"We'll just reverse the call" Aidan looked at her with a puzzling expression. "It means that our Gran will pay for the call."

The village wasn't exactly deserted but neither was it thriving with life. They had passed an elderly woman and a group of children that looked Annie's age, no sign of any evil thugs sent to capture them.

Finding a pay phone wasn't hard, there where plenty scattered around the central area of the village and in no time they had looked up the number in the phone book and had dialed the operator for a reverse call.

"How may I help you?"  the operator was a woman who didn't seem to like her job very much.

"Hello Operator? I would like to make a reverse call. My name is Annie Irving" Annie said down the phone.

"Dial the number you would like to call, if the receiver accepts to pay the charge of a reverse call your call will be connected."

Annie dialed the number and waited. After a couple of minutes Annie's Grandmothers voice booming down the phone.

"Annie is that you? Are you OK, Annie talk to me please."  Hearing her Gran's friendly voice comforted her.

"Gran, Its me Annie I'm fine. Aidan's here with me he's OK as well."

"Thank heavens, when we heard about the crash we rushed to the hospital to find it destroyed and about a hundred policemen and cameramen surrounding it. You be so scared, honestly what on earth possessed you to leave the hospital, the staff told me that you had been there but had gone missing after the incident."

"Listen, Gran can you pick us up please, we are in a village called, "Clowfield" do you know where it is?" asked Annie

"Yes of course, stay right where you are, I'll drive down as fast as I can, try and find the town hall..." The line went dead, a hand was pressed down on the end call button. Annie turned around to see two burly men looming over them. One had a hold of Aidan and the other was in the phone box with Annie.

"Hello Annie, calling for help are we?"

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There are four main characters to my story each of which possesing thier own individual power there paths will at one time or another cross and they will have to face of from a threat to the human race

updated Jun 16 '09 by Marshy