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sure
if she found her way back to her own time though. It was, at least,
close enough I’d say.”
    “Well I am ready to get back.” Sasha
stated, feet firmly planted in front of her.
    “Look for the windows then.”
    “Okay.” Sasha said, her voice just above a
whisper as she looked around her surroundings.

CHAPTER 10

    As Sasha moved through the house, careful to
not disturb any lit candles, she heard sliding sounds, very similar
to the ones that made the door behind her disappear as she first
entered the house out of time. She walked tentatively on the wooden
floors of the house, reaching out when the darkness consumed her,
trying to find any semblance of the trim of a door or window.
    “So I’ve got to be careful about which door I
go through. Hmm.” Sasha said, to herself, but audibly. A few doors
and windows appeared for her, some windows looked through to the
other side, but the other side was brick. In what seemed like an
instant, the room lit up and she was able to see a window appear.
The window was responsible for the sudden cast of light.
    “Okay, there’s a window. Hey! That’s my
school. It’s so weird how it’s surrounded by fields. I don’t see
any houses.” Sasha said, looking through. The building was old,
maybe 1930s, before they started building the houses around there.
Much of what Sasha recognized was missing and she realized, just
before it “slid” away, that it must have been the original school,
before they demolished most of it to expand to what she attended.
“There it goes. I wonder how long it will take to find
another.”
    Sasha moved around the room again, trying to
find a way across into another room, when she heard a sliding
sound. As she turned, she noticed the school again, and the sun was
shining brightly through. “It looks right. The houses are there and
the additions are in place. Looks like my stop! Now I’ve got to
find a door.” It didn’t take her long to find one, as the doors and
windows had a tendency to appear together.
    Sasha opened the door and was greeted with
the warm glow of the sun. “I so hope I’m in the right time now.”
she said, breathless. In truth, she should have been more careful.
She might have realized that the sun should have been going down
instead of glowing so brightly in the sky. As the door shut behind
her, she turned and noticed the house was completely gone.
    “Shouldn’t you be in school?” she heard a man
say behind her. She turned back and saw a uniformed police officer
standing in front of her on the sidewalk she was also apparently
standing on. She only came up to the middle of his chest and
wondered how tall he was. Maybe eight feet? That didn’t make
much sense, but she shrugged it off. Nothing was making much sense
lately and Sasha wanted to almost pinch herself to make sure she
wasn’t dreaming, as if it would even work.
    “Huh?” Sasha asked, puzzled.
    The police officer looked down at his watch
and stretched his arm out so she could see it. “It’s ten in the
morning. Classes have started, haven’t they?”
    “Oh. Yea.” Sasha said to him, calmly, not
wanting to make trouble. In the back of her mind she was terrified. It couldn’t have been later than six or seven at night when I
entered Mankus’ house. How could it be ten in the morning?
    “I’ll escort you.” the officer said to her.
“Who is your teacher?”
    “What do you mean? I have several teachers.
I’m a junior. You mean my homeroom teacher?” she wondered. At ten,
they would definitely not be in homeroom. It didn’t make much
sense, if she was tardy why not send her to the principal’s
office?
    “You look rather young to be in high
school.”
    “I what?” Sasha asked, taking a step back.
The police officer looked her over and raised an eyebrow.
    “Seventh grade, maybe.” he said, rubbing his
chin. “I’m learning towards sixth.”
    “Seriously? I’m a...” Sasha trailed off, and
then reality hit her for a second. She was