Music to My Ears by TadpoleKat (free novel 24 TXT) 📖

I never thought of that!" he said to himself.
He grabbed the paper they wrote that had the most and made a second copy of it. He gave one to TadpoleKat and gave one to himself as they tried to decode the message. They worked for hours upon hours trying to find some kind of pattern.
"You got anything Sky?" She said looking at him hopefully.
"Nothing" he replied.
TadpoleKat was starting to lose hope. They weren't getting anywheres. What were they going to do?!?! Maybe it was just a prank pulled by some teenager. Or maybe there was something in the box to help them decode it!!!
TadpoleKat jumped up and ran to the box. She pulled everything out tryiong to see if there was something, anything, to help them make sinse of this whole thing. And then she saw it, a map at the bottom of the box taped down.
"Skyler look at this!"
"What is it baby!?"
"It's a map! It was taped to the bottom of the box! Maybe it will help us decode the music!"
"Let me see it!" He said as she handed him the map.
As he looked at the map, his face lit up. He knew what to do...
Skyler was just sitting there studying the map. TadpoleKat petted TacoKat as she waited for Skyler to finish studying the map. After about fourt five minutes he finally put it down and walked upstairs to get something. When he finally came back downstairs, he had more books and papers. He set them on the table and started setting them out. The papers he got were actually more maps.
"What's all this for?" Asked TadpoleKat.
"This map is from 57 years ago, so I'm pretty sure most of it is inaccurate." He said in reply.
"Oh." She said, "Okay"
As Skyler was trying to get the map up to date TadpoleKat plugged in her earphones and started listening to the tapes again, writing down as much as she could. It was all hard to understand though. It seemed like to her each tape she put in just got more and more foreign sounding to her. It was really irritating to her. She just wanted to set the whole box on fire and just watch it burn.
It was as if this thing was mocking her. She hted whoever put these on her door. She wish they would die a slow, painful, fiery death. It pissed her off. Each tape she got less and less written down on the paper.
Knock Knock Knock.

Somebody was at the door. Who would be here? Probally some person trying to sell them something. TadpoleKat got up to get the door. When she opened it, there was nobody there. Probally some teenagers pulling a prank. Trying to get some kind of laugh. What they were going to get was a death wish. She thought to herself.
"Yall better stay away from here unless you have a death wish!" She yelled so that they knew she was serious. She took one last look around then went back to the table to help Skyler. As they continued working on making the map up to date, they made sure to write down the list of places that weren't on the map, incase maybe those would help them figure it out.
Knock. Knock. Knock.

Somebody was at the door again. TadpoleKat rushed to the door this time to see if she could catch who was at the door. When she opened the door, once again, nobody.
She was really irritated now.
"Who ever is doing this, next time I'm calling the cops!" She threatened as she slammed the door shut. Then she moved the curtains to see if they would come out again. Nothing.
Now she was really pissed off. She was serious about calling the cops too. She grabbed her phone incase they came back. After a few minutes waiting for them to come back she went back to helping Skyler again with the map and stuff. After a few minutes of helping Skyler she went back to the music to try to figure it out again. She popped in one of the cd's and pressed play.
"Skyler come listen to this!" She said as she pressed pause then rewinided it. She popped out the headphones and waited for it to play back to the beginning. Skyler rushed over to TadpoleKat.
"What's wrong baby?" He said as he got there.
"Listen to this!" She said, "It's in english! This tape is in English!"

A giant Step

"Really!? Let me here!" He said
TadpoleKat pulled a chair over for Skyler to sit in. She pressed the play button and they listened to the tape. It was in a very young sounding girl's voice. Probally about 16 years old. This is what it said:" Hi, by now you've probally figured out that most of these tapes are recordings of scratchy foreign music. Hopefully by now you haven't figured out the code to these yet. If you have I'm very sorry of what will become of you."

TadpoleKat and Skyler looked at eachother questionly Then went back to listening to it.
" I bet you're wondering what all this is about, well, you are one of the twelve people to receive this package. You are actually part of my little game. Here are the rules to our little game."

TadpoleKat and Skyler paused the tape and got a pen and paper to write them down. Then they pressed play. " Rule one, no matter what, you can not quit the game, if you do, well, let's just say you will not want to know. Rule two, Inside the box are the tapes and cd's, each has it's own special code to it, you must decode them all correctly. Rule three, After you decode them all you must find out the order in which it all goes. Rule four, you can not tell anybody about the game except for whoever is listening right now. Rule five, if you do not figure out the codes, and the orders within 12 months, you lose. Rule six, If you lose, you die. Rule seven, you can not stop playing the game for a break for more than twelve days. Rule eight, You can not cheat at this in any way shape or form. Rule nine, after you decode the messages and the order, you will find at the last one of the tapes, you will find your name and other names in it. The person after your name is the one who you must send it to next. Rule ten, once you decode them and find the order, you must send it to the address you will also find at the end of the last tape. Rule eleven, if you win, you live. And last rule is rule twelve, if you break any of these rules you die. So, good luck in the game. Oh yeah and I forgot, once you start decoding, you will have things happen to you some good...and some bad. Good bye."

Silence it ws over. TadpoleKat and Skyler were speechless.
They just didn't know how to react. How could you react to this. But all they knew was, they were in great danger....
"So we're just part of a game?" Said Skyler trying to make sure he didn't process that whole thing wrong.
"Yeah, I think so." She said. Her voice showing no emotion, but her eyes were filled with just plain, raw, horror.
"So what do we do now?" He said
"We win this game and we survive." She said.
"Sounds good to me." He said
"Well, let's hurry up and figure this thing out."
"Ok"
TadpoleKat and Skyler walked over to the table and started listening to the tapes. They would both listen to one and write down what they could make out, then at the end they switched tapes and tried to see if they could make out something that the other one couldn’t. Then they would get a separate sheet of paper then put what they both had together, then make another copy so they could try to see if they could figure out the code.
They were so sick and tired of theis thing.

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Publication Date: 01-18-2012

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