| *Lovely Rita* By Rachel R. Brown Copyright 2000. May not be used without permission. |
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| Chapter 6 The Sea of Holes |
| Just then they heard a telephone ringing. �Maybe it�s a phone call from earth!� Rita exclaimed, looking excited. �I doubt that,� Paul said. �But I guess it could be.� Pam and JoJo raced off to try to find the phone and answer it, leaving Paul and Rita in the room with the TV screen. �Where do we begin?� Rita asked. Paul looked thoughtful for a moment and said, let�s just start looking around and see if we find any clues as to how we might get messages back to earth from here.� They walked down the hall and into another room. This one had a heart shaped TV screen on one wall and it was not covered with a curtain. �What�s this?� Paul asked as they walked in. �We may as well check it out. Where�s the remote control?� �I don�t see one,� Rita said, looking around. �Oh no,� Paul sighed. �There aren�t any buttons on the TV either. We may not be able to turn this thing on.� �Surely there�s someway,� Rita insisted. �How about this little manual. Maybe it tells how it works.� Rita opened the little booklet and read, �For directing signs, turn on the heart-shaped screen by pulling the string.� �String?� Paul began looking around. �This maybe?� He pulled a string which dangled from the ceiling and the screen came to life. �Sea of Holes, Sea of Holes, Sea of Holes,� a voice said repeatedly as the screen suddenly was filled with holes. �Sea of Holes?� Rita asked, puzzled. �I guess that means we need to find the Sea of Holes, whatever that is,� Paul said. Suddenly they heard a scream echoing from a room farther down the hall. They froze and looked at each other. "That sounded like Pam!� Rita cried. �I wonder if she�s hurt!� �Come on!� Paul said as he dashed down the hall. Rita followed right behind him. At the end of the hall was an open door where it seemed the scream had come from. They rushed in and stopped suddenly. �This must be the Sea of Holes,� Paul said. They were in a room which seemed to stretch endlessly in all directions and on the floor ceiling and on all sides were evenly spaced 2 foot holes. JoJo was standing a ways off and called out to them, �Pam fell through one of these holes and I can�t find her!� �I�m down here!� Pam�s voice called faintly from somewhere below them. Paul and Rita leaped over the holes until they were standing near JoJo. �Pam! Talk to us again!� JoJo called. Once again Pam called out. �Through here,� Paul said. �He jumped down through one of the holes. �Come on!� he called to JoJo and Rita. Both of them followed Paul and found that now they were in a room that looked identical to the one above them. It too, was filled with never-ending holes. Off in the distance standing in the Sea of Holes was Pam. �Over here!� she called, motioning for them with her hands. They hurried in her direction and she pointed to a hole above them with a trap door. �Let�s check this out,� she suggested. However, reaching up, she discovered she couldn�t get the door to budge. It took both Paul and JoJo to grab the handle and pull it open. All four were sucked up through the hole as if in a vacuum. |
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