going,” he replied.
“That’s different,” said Belinda.
“Linny, please, I have to leave with them.”
She knelt down next to him again. “Bobby…”
His eyes took on an intelligence that shocked her. “Belinda,” he said evenly. “You don’t understand. We are running out of time. All of us.”
Chapter Two
Allie and Kylie
“Did you hear that?”
“No,” whispered Allie in the cold, musty darkness.
“I think someone’s coming.”
It had been a few hours since the girls had been taken to an old house somewhere in Minneapolis by Billie. There, they’d been welcomed by a small group of people, who were now holding them prisoner in a bedroom up in the attic.
Allie sat with her back against the wall, staring down at the quiet baby in her arms, who surprisingly, hadn’t slept or fussed for hours. In fact, Adria gazed up at her intently, and she almost felt like the baby was trying to somehow console her .
“Don’t worry,” she whispered down at her. “I’m scared too, but I haven’t given up yet. Neither should you.”
“Hey, did you hear me?”
Allie sighed. “Yes,” she replied, trying to remain calm. As much as she wanted to remain positive, the truth was that they were being held prisoner by a bunch of psychopaths, and nobody knew where to find them. Not Cassie, Kristie, or even Bryce. “Well, maybe they’ll bring us some food, I’m starving.”
The noises out in the hallway drifted away and Kylie crawled over to them. “I wouldn’t trust eating their food. They might poison us or something. Anyway, we have to try and escape, before they hurt Adria.”
She held the baby closer. “I’m surprised they haven’t tried taking her from us.”
“I think they’re afraid to touch her.”
“ Good. Crazy whackos. Do you really think that Adria is what they say she is?”
Kylie lay on her back and stared up at the ceiling. “The ‘Chosen On’?”
“Yeah.”
She paused for a few seconds. “Oh, I don’t know. Heck, I don’t even know what being the ‘Chosen One’ really means.”
“What about the ‘End of Days’ thing you were talking about before. The signs of the apocalypse and all that?”
Kylie sighed. “I don’t know. I mean, they never mentioned anything about a baby or any other kind of person saving the world. This just doesn’t fit in to what it is supposed to say in the bible.”
“Have you read it?”
“No. I’m just going by what I saw on cable.”
“I haven’t read the bible either. It just looked so long and confusing. What else did it say on that documentary show?”
Kylie sat back up. “Well, from what I remember, there would be a lot of bad things happening, like the seas turning red, earthquakes, volcanoes, and then complete darkness. There were also supposed to be two evil men who would join forces. One of them gets possessed by Satan, making him the Antichrist. They referred to all three of them as the ‘Unholy Trinity’.”
“ Now that’s confusing,” said Allie, wishing she would have went to church more. To her, church had always made her sleepy and even a little bored.
“I know. You’ve heard of the ‘Holy Trinity’, right? Father, Son, Holy Spirit?”
“Yeah.”
“Well, this ‘Unholy Trinity’ is supposed to be Satan’s mockery of that. So, it’s Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.”
“Is the Antichrist supposed to be Satan’s son or something?”
“Not sure. I think that Satan takes over his body though, or something later.”
“ Oh, well what about the False Prophet? Where does he fit in to all of this?” she asked, now really getting the chills. All of this talk about the Devil was freaky.
Kylie thought back to what they’d said. “Um… oh yeah, I think the other dude is supposed to try and turn people away from God or something. That’s why they called him a ‘False Prophet’.”
“Oh.”
“This just doesn’t seem right, though. This isn’t happening the way
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