Mist And Motorbikes

The rest of that day was spent with Maddie moping around the house and trying to put up a smile for Olive and her dad when they looked her way. The last thing she wanted was for them to suspect that anything out of the ordinary had happened. She knew deep down that them knowing about her other world would do them more harm than good. It had certainly led to her father's kidnap.

Olive had tried to engage her in different activities throughout the day, including gardening. They had a huge garden at the back of the house, where her best friend tended to beautiful flowers and shrubs. She had said that the smell of manure and wet soil would push away all gloomy thoughts from Maddie's mind.

But all Maddie could do as she sluggishly applied manure to the roots of a shrub full of sunflowers, was think about Cassie. The sunflowers had reminded her so much of the pigtailed twin that she had chuckled to herself.

Was she going nuts? How the hell did a sunflower remind her of a human being?

Then