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“Wake up!” Kevin shouted. Startled, Jonathan and I leapt up and shouted, “What?”(I jumped about all the way up to the ceiling of the elevator when I said this. This was pretty high.)
“We’re on the 4th floor!!!!” he yelled. “Yeah!” we cheered. (Jonathan even did a few high jumps!).
We went into the kitchen and I made us breakfast. The menu was scrambled eggs and French toast. Jonathan and Kevin wanted French toast and I wanted scrambled eggs.
After we were done eating, I pressed the “open” button, and the door moved aside and let us out. We were greeted heartily by Bob, the butler. He laughed and said, “You should have pressed the ’fast’ button.”
“There’s a ‘fast forward’ button?!” All three of us gasped together, unexpectedly.
“Yes, yes the new youngsters always don’t know,” he bellowed merrily with his English accent.
“So, where is it?” Kevin challenged.
“Now, now,” Jonathan said in a mock soothing tone of voice. “Don’t upset poor Butler Bob.”
“Who made you my mother?” Kevin said in a raised tone, whipping around. “And are you ready for a fight?”
“I’m ready!” Jonathan said, showing his muscles.
Never liking being forgotten, I said carefully, “Ahem, am I invisible?” Jonathan and Kevin were too busy glaring at each other to hear me. I tried again in a more raised tone. “Oh, no, not again!” I said in fake terror. Finally, I got their attention. “Ok, now that I’ve gotten this far, where’s Butler Bob?”
The three of us were silent. We looked around but could see nothing.
“Here I am!” a merry but muffled voice sounded from below us. All three of us said at once.
I said, “Is that you, Butler Bob?”
Kevin said, “How do we get in to there?”
Jonathan said,” Cool, an underground room!”
“Now, hold your horses, youngsters,” Butler Bob said. “Let me move this.”
There was a grunting and creaking sound, and five inches away from us stood an open trap door, its gloomy darkness staring at us. From inside somewhere in the dark, a voice shouted, “Come on in!” Kevin and Jonathan plunged in. I followed and let the darkness envelope my body, as I stepped into the looming darkness….
