1937

Chapter

Matt sat in his friend's living room waiting anxiously for the reports on his best friend's father. Matt was watching Football, the NFL, with Jake because Jake's father routed for the Bears. Matt couldn't understand why they were watching football, but he did it anyway. Subs had come and they were watching football! Matt just didn't get it.

They decided to play outside with Sophie, Jake's older sister. Jake hated her at times but when it comes to times when your father is shot, that's one of the least of your worries. They played for hours and hours until it was dinner. They pretty much slept on the dining table. It was late when a telegraph came. The Bauks still didn't have a telephone, but it was on order. The telegraph was about the Bauks' father was serverely injured, but he'll live.

Jake was relieved when he heard the news, but he still felt sad. Jake heard that his father might be disabled for a decade, but Jake would be happy to see his father living a good but hard life. Although Jake was young himself, he knew more about this special scene than anybody else. He'd seen not only the death of the comrade of his father, but he saw something very important. He saw something about the ship that was very, very unusual. Jake saw that the captain himself looked like his father. And as soon as his father and comrade fell squealing in pain, so did the captain. Jake thought this might be the past, but he shook his head and said to himself "get real" while crying out loud.

Apparently Matt saw this also. Matt stood there frozen for a couple of seconds the moment of pain, then fell, like a stone statue. Even though Jake sat in the room with Matt, played with him, and made jokes with him, something was different. Jake thought it tought as if this Matt was a different person. He said stupid jokes and wasn't ticklish anymore. Jake thought as if Matt was cloned.Things were shaking and made gave a toothy evil smile as screaming occurred. Then everything was black...