Meredith

Chapter 2

Partially, Meredith didn't want to go to school.And partially, she wanted to stay home and play outdoors.

"Mother," she had said that morning. "Mother I don't think you understand my liking for outdoors and my disliking for school."

"Yes, I think that I understand everything, my child," her mother had said while tying a bright green ribbon in Meredith's tan-blond hair.

Meredith was a perfect impression of the young Queen Victoria who was now in her young reign of England.With her small brown eyes, french-braided tan-blond hair tied back in a bun with soft little ringlets around the face, frilly dresses and petticoats, and her silk gloves that reached almost to the elbow, it was very hard to tell the difference between the two, except that Queen Victoria was only eleven and Meredith thirteen.

Later, her mother walked her to school, said goodbye, and took a carriage home.

At recess, Meredith sat by the fence, staring very strangely at the sky. Her face looked so queer, yet like she was concentrating on something. The bell rang sooner than she expected, and all of the children ran inside to eat their lunches.

'Well,' she thought. 'At least I have somewhere to go next...' Her thoughts trailed off as she suddenly saw something appearing, something that represented a spiral with green and blue stripes running around and around it. She thought that it was a trick, so she went to check the other side. Nothing there, she went to where she had seen it last and decided to touch it, if it were safe of course. She touched it, and the next thing that she knew, she was spinning so fast that everything was a blur and her stomach hurt. Just then, she realized that she was inside the spiral and spinning about two-hundred miles per hour.

She screamed for help, but her voice just echoed. She tried to grab the green and blue walls for support, but she found herself yet in another spiral that was yellow and pink, so she grabbed the walls and found herself what she thought was the middle of the universe.

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Well, it didn't stop raining and she fell asleep watching Doctor Who. But, at least the mystery was solved and done and now she had plenty of time to relax. At least she thought. What she didn't know, was that she was on the beginning of the biggest adventure in her life.

The next day at about two o' clock in the afternoon, when she got finished with her tea and toast, she heard the doorbell ring. She went to open it and was surprised to see, a robot?!

"What!" Charlotte exclaimed. "No way is this happening!"

The robot was the exact height of Charlotte, five foot two, but, it wasn't a human, it was a robot, droid voiced, thing!

"What are you?" Was all that Charlotte could get out of her mouth.

"The-question-is, who-are-you?" The robot answered with a droid tone.

"I am Charlotte S. Cole, now, what are you?"

"I-am-a-Kon-Star-droid." The droid answered.

"And, who are you?" Asked Charlotte again.

"That-is-classified-information-that-you-will-not-know-at-this-time." The droid answered rudely even though that it was very hard to tell if the droid had any expressions at all.

"Well then," said Charlotte. "I think that means that you must leave now."

"No, first-you-will-die!" Ordered the droid.

"Well then," said Charlotte again. "You must leave someday." So, with that said and done, she pushed the droid backwards off the porch so that it landed loudly on the ground with a crash. Pieces flew everywhere, and Charlotte went inside quickly.

Later, she found outside but another droid standing on her porch steps.

"Oh no!" she exclaimed and went inside to get her ax. When she went back outside with the ax in her hand, she only saw a normal person standing in the exact place of the droid.

"Get out!" she yelled at the person and swung her ax at it but it shredded into pieces of cloth and cotton. What she had really attacked was a cloth dummy.

She ran inside terrified and shut the door behind her.

'How,' she thought. 'Can a cloth dummy move when there are no robotic parts in it?' Charlotte pondered this question for about three minutes before she knew the answer, the answer that would change her life forever.