Free Wrong Time by Mitchel Grace Page A

entered.
    “Okay. Let’s get you that meal,” the
guard said while shooting Trish a hard look.
    The guard and David walked out and made
their way down the hall until they were out of sight. Then Trish and the others
heard a gunshot. The three of them and a few more guards ran toward the source
of the shot. There on the ground, David lay dead with the guard standing above
him.
    “He tried to escape,” the guard
explained.
    Trish could tell that was a lie.
    “This man is a traitor, too,” Trish
announced.
    “Arrest him,” Jason said to a couple of
more guards who had come to see the source of the shot.
    After the man was taken away, Burt
looked at Trish.
    “Are you sure that the guard was a
traitor, and if so how?” Burt asked her.
    “He just lied to us, and think about it
for a minute. David was about to give us everything that we needed, and then he
ends up dead. How suspicious is that?” Trish asked and walked away.
    She was going home. There was no way
that she could stay in this place for another minute. She popped her head into
Jess’s office.
    “You and Lee will need to get a ride with
Jason. I’m leaving.”
    Before she received an answer, Trish
quickly walked away. As she walked, she felt tears starting to form in her
eyes. David, the best man she had ever known, was dead, and in her mind, that
was her fault. Why did I have to say that I knew him? If I had only just let
him go, Trish thought behind those tears.
    * * * * *
    That evening, Nathan and Sam went back
to her house. As she opened the door, and they stepped inside, one thing became
apparent. The place was really empty.
    “There are no pictures, and there’s no
furniture. Is there even a television? Oh, God! Please tell me there’s a
television,” Nathan said in desperation.
    Sam only laughed at his desperate
expression.
    “Relax. We can get some furniture and a
television if it’s that important to you,” Sam said.
    “Okay, but why don’t you already have
that stuff?”  
    “I told you that I’ve only been here
once before.”
      “I get it. So when are we going to go get
some stuff because I have no idea what we’re going to do here with nothing but
a bed and ourselves,” Nathan said before realizing how strange his comment sounded.
    Sam looked at him with suspicious eyes
as he appeared to have some type of daydream. I don’t think I like the way that
one is thinking, she thought while examining the look on Nathan’s face.
    “You know what? I think that we’ll be just
fine here with no furniture or entertainment,” Nathan said while showing a hint
of a smile.
    “I think that we should go get some
furniture and your precious television. Come on,” Sam said as she walked to the
door and motioned for Nathan to follow her.
    Me and my big mouth, Nathan thought.
When the two of them got back, they had a television and some fold out chairs.
    “It’s too bad that all the furniture
stores were closed,” Sam said.
    “Well, at least we have something to
watch now while we’re here.”
    “True. I have a question for you,
though.”
      “What is it?”
    “You were really eager to accept our
new assignment. Why is that? You know that you shouldn’t contact your family,
right?”
    “I just wanted to go home for a while,
and why can’t I contact them while we’re there?”
    “Well, everything that you know is
classified. How are you going to explain why you’ve been gone?”
    “I don’t know, but I could think of
something to say.”
    “Look, I want you to be able to talk to
them more than anyone, but the less they know, the better.”
    Nathan only nodded and looked off into
nothingness with sad eyes. Sam felt terrible, so she gave him the only hope
that she could think of.
    “When we do get out of this life . . . you
know, when this is all over, we can go talk to them and tell them everything.
We just can’t go right now,” Sam said.
    “Can we at least ride by the place so I
can see if they’re okay?”
    “Yeah, I