Playground

            “Beep, beep, beep, the number you are trying to reach…” Emily slammed her thumb against the off button. She wanted to throw the phone on the ground and step on it. She wanted to throw back her head and scream. She wanted to get rid of this worry in the pit of her stomach.

            She had been trying to get ahold of Levi for the past hour. At first she just got his mailbox but now she didn’t get anything. The tension had been building inside of her as soon as the Librarian and she had arrived home after school. They had started to unload the boxes of books and Emily was certain that any moment the Librarian would ask her where the Prophesies of the Volva was at.

            Finally she couldn’t take it anymore she had quickly made some excuse and slipped outside into the cool night air. Breathed a huge sigh of relief that she couldn’t quit keep in. Emily pulled out her cell phone and tried calling Levi. It rang for a while until his answering machine picked it up.

            “Hey this is Levi. Leave me a message after the tone. Toooooooooooooooone, just kidding it’s a beep.” Levi’s answering machine said with Levi’s voice growling out the tone. The phone beeped and Emily quickly left her message.

            “Levi I need to know if Brett gave you anything today.” She said turning around to make sure the librarian wasn’t there. Emily knew it was silly but she did those things because when you don’t they happen.

 Not wanting to go back to the house and chance Levi calling her back and having to talk in front of her guardian Emily headed down to the park. It was getting dark the sun kissing the tree tops. Emily sat down on the steps to a slide and waited. Finally impatience won over and she called Levi again. She left another message and then called him one more time for good measure. When he still didn’t pick up she decided to call Brett.

“Hey this is Brett, who’s this?”

“Brett this is Emily have you given Levi the book?” there was quit on the other end of the line. Then she head footsteps and a door swinging open then shut.

“How did you get my number?” Brett demanded from the other end. “You know what I don’t care. I gave your darn book to Levi. Stay out of my business. I’m not going to talk to you about it. I’m sure Levi already told you enough as it is. I can deal with the wolves and goblins on my own. And if any more wolves show up today I’ll handle it. I don’t need your help. Or his help! I can’t trust any of you anyway.” with that Brett hung up the phone.

Emily stared in shock at her phone. She had some inclination that Brett was more then what he appeared. He had about him an area of power. She had tried to keep her distance because along with the power she had felt conflict. It was like he drew conflict, just as a bee was drawn to the flower. While most people couldn’t feel that somewhere in there subconscious they knew it and stayed away. Along with the fact that Brett fit your typical jock mold, almost to a T. this among other things wouldn’t allow him to make too many friends with non-jocks. Levi on the other hand seemed immune to this. It was one of the reasons why Brett and Levi where such good friends, Emily speculate. Levi stuck around when others would leave.

Emily kept calling Levi’s phone. After about 20 minutes she began to get worried. After an hour she was frustrated worried and scared. She could feel it, something was not quite right. It felt like goose bumps over your arms. The stone the librarian had given Levi was both a blessing and a curse and she doubted very much that the librarian had told Levi about it.