Mytaht (moo-tante) by Quinn & Katie (read out loud books txt) 📖

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We arrive at school, and as I hoped, all the windows are dark. We go around the corner of the building and I find the door. As I expected, the door was locked with a keypad that required a code. I look at the buttons closely. The paint had come off on the numbers, 1764. I pushed those buttons and the doors opened on silent hinges. Lorne was staring at the inside of the school like something was going to jump out of the darkness. I pulled him in. We climb the stairs to the third floor and by the time we reach the Medicine lab, I am out of breath. Usually I take the elevator, but all the power is off in the school. We open the door to the lab, I scan my finger on the light switch, and the lights flash on. We walk over to the place where we keep the iPad 10 ™ and I take one out of the shelf. I go to the dictionary and I search “Cholera”. It reads, "Also called Asiatic cholera. Pathology. An acute, infectious disease, endemic in India and China and occasionally epidemic elsewhere, characterized by profuse diarrhea, vomiting, cramps, etc." I said. " Do you remember if you saw anything that looked like that on the bottom of the domes?"
" I think so, pass me the iPad." he says " I playfully toss the iPad at him, he quickly turns around at the last minute and catches it.
"Wow…um… nice catch." I said nervously."Um, thanks." he said. He starts reading the iPad aloud. "Cholera has been around for hundreds of years; since 1854. Though, due to the Epidemic, Cholera seems to be growing increasingly fatal, caused by drinking polluted water."
" The test. The elements. The water coming down to test you, is it polluted?" I ask him.
" Well, it doesn't smell the best, so yeah, I guess, but wouldn't all of the Mytahts get Cholera then?" He ponders.
" Maybe it was mixed with another disease? When we went to see Anya it looked like she had the flu, a really bad case of the flu, maybe, that’s why? She's weaker, so she is more vulnerable to get Cholera then all of the other Mytahts." I think about what we just discovered, but something doesn't add up. I ask Lorne " Why would Harry send Anya to the school, if he knew she was sick?"
" I don't think he does know." He said.
" But, she will get worse, and just crumble to the floor." I shouldn't have said that, I look at Lorne, and his eyes started to turn glossy. " Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that." after an awkward silence, he takes a deep breath in, and starts walking towards the door.

Chapter 3

I come up with an idea. "Lorne! I know how to save Anya,” I explain my plan to him. He slowly starts nodding his head. "This could work you know. But when will this happen?”
“Tonight, when Harry leaves from the lab.” I tell him.
“ Well, it’s worth a shot.”
I grab all of the things we needed and the iPad, and put it in my backpack, we start walking down, a never-ending hallway.
“ Come on, we have to get you back to your dome before Harry finds out your gone. I’ll call him again, he’s probably worried sick about me.” I pick up my phone and said into it, “ Call Harry.” I stand there and wait while it rings, Finally, Harry picks up.
“Where are you?” He said in a deep, angry voice.
“I’m at the school, I forgot my iBook, and I thought that because I had to wait for so long, that I might as well get some homework done.” I said in a hurry. “ Why didn’t you call?” he screamed into the phone.
“I did! You didn’t pick up!”
“No voicemail?”
“I was in a hurry to get my iBook, I’m sorry.”
“Oh, I’m sorry too, I’m taking all of my anger out on you.”
“Why are you angry?”
“One of my Mytahts... um I mean my pet got out of its cage.” I look at Lorne with a worried face. I quickly said bye, and hang-up. We start sprinting down the hallway, and Lorne reaches the end, before I reach the middle of the hallway. But I didn’t stop, I just kept running, he opened the door for me and I called my Vespa, we hopped on and raced to the lab. We snuck in through the back entrance, and started to walk into the main area, Harry was examining Lorne’s dome. “ Go hide I will distract him!” I whisper to Lorne. I run and tap Harry on the shoulder.
“Hey Harry...err... Dad.” I said
“Oh, Addie, Hi! What are you doing here, I thought you would go home.”
“No, I wanted to ask you about ‘your pets’ Dad.”
“Um, I’m sorry Addie this is confidential, I’m afraid you can’t know anymore then you actually do.”
“Can you drop me off at home?” I ask him.
“Sure, okay let me just get my stuff.” He said, and strolled out the door. “Lorne!” I said in a soft voice. “You can come out now!” He peeks out from behind the same cabinet I hid behind. “Climb in your dome.” I said. “Won’t Harry be suspicious if he finds me back in the dome?”
“No, remember he’s going to take me home, I will be back though, don’t worry, I have a plan. Quick, get in!” Lorne climbs inside his dome and I put the card in the slot, and the glass slides back around him. “Bye.” I said. He waves, and I walk off, out into the sitting room, their Harry started glaring at me suspiciously, “ I forgot something in the lab, one second.”
“No! I’ll get it for you.” Pushing him away from the door. “What do you need?”
“My jacket.”
“Okay, be right back.”
I run inside and grab the slick black jacket and bring it to Harry.
“Thanks Addie.” I nod, and we hop on his navy blue Vespa, and zoom home.
I press a button on my phone to tell my Vespa to go home, and it passes right by us. I pray that Harry didn’t see that. He didn’t say anything and I was relieved. When we got home, I thanked him and reluctantly gave him a hug. I waited until he rod off then I got on my Vespa. I had to get there first. I knew a shortcut; I used to take it all the time to get to my school. I hop on, and ride through the passage way to the lab; Harry’s Vespa wasn’t parked outside. I got off mine and sent it home again. First I had to make a little phone call. When I was home, I grabbed my mom’s phone. So I called Harry. He picked up right away. “Hello?”
“Harry, Darling.” I said, mocking my mom’s voice. “ I need your help, please come to the hospital right away.”
“Okay, I’m on my way dear.”
“Okay, see you in a bit.” I hung up. I just bought me probably only 45 minutes. I run inside through the door to the main lab. “Hey Lorne.”
He waved. I opened his dome, and he stepped out. “ Let’s get going on the plan,” He said. We jogged into Anya’s room, and I took the supplies out of my backpack. “I got the IV drips of Ringer Lactate and, normal saline and oral rehydration salts.” I said to him.
We find Anya’s dome, and of course the door is locked, we don’t have a key. Then Lorne suggests “The vent, on top of the dome, if we find the tubes that connect to them, for the tests, we can use it for the medicine!” I tell him that we have to give her 420 ML of the rehydration salts, if Anya doesn’t change, then we use the IV drips, but those have to be inserted into her arm.” I say.
“I think I might know where the tubes are!” He walked me over to a small closet sized room, I touched it and it slid up. I unhooked the one tube and put the salts in. “I just realized that we needed the luminous wand to activate it!” I told Lorne. Apparently he knew were it was and took me to the main lab, and opened a drawer, and there it was, “I guess Harry must have put it back here. Perfect, thanks Lorne.”
“No problem, look at what you’re doing for me!” I smiled. “Any time. Ugh! I don’t know the motion in the air!” I turned to Lorne, hopefully. Lorne laughs, “ I do!”
“We have to tell Anya what’s going on first, and that she has to eat the salts.”
“Good idea.” Lorne went over to his sister and explained what was about to happen, she nodded.
Lorne started to do the motion in the air, down, right, down, left, up, right, up. I hear a big chug and the salts pour down from the top of the dome hitting Anya, and Anya catches some and pours them into her mouth. The colour started to appear in her cheeks, and she shook her arms and legs, feeling strong again. Lorne came over to me and gave me a hug, and whispered in my ear “Thank you.”

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Publication Date: 02-18-2012

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