• Jonathan and Melissa continued driving all night, and reached the small town they had been driving towards by about noon. It had taken them less time than they had planned, but they had spent the entire night driving, not stopping, and hardly talking at all. Melissa was glad they were early; it would give them a chance to check out the town they would be spending the next twelve or so hours in, get some gas, and find somewhere to sleep. She had taken over the second half of driving, and was dead tired. “All right, Flyboy, where should we go first?” Melissa asked. “Probably a gas station would be a good place to find first, we’re almost out,” Jonathan replied, glancing at towards the gas gauge, where the bar was getting dangerously close to the ‘E’. “Sounds good to me. Then we can find somewhere to park the car, and maybe sleep for a while.” “Yeah…not in a hotel though; we wouldn’t be able to check out tomorrow.” “Right. We should just stay in the car today, but when we get to one of the places with the special coordinates that Dess gave us, I think it might be worth our while to stay there a couple days.” Melissa was looking forward to these places. It made her senses tingle thinking of the possibility of more midnighters…more people like her, Jonathan, and the others…maybe even another mindcaster. Jonathan suddenly spotted what appeared to be a run down old gas station, and they turned off the road into its parking lot. Jonathan pulled up alongside one of the two gas pumps, got out of the car, and jogged over to the tiny shack to check and see if there was actually a person there. Sure enough, there was a slightly balding old man slumped behind a cash register. Not that there was really anything to buy in the store. From what Jonathan could see, there was only a rack of some sort of chips, a small cooler of what appeared to be soda, and some cigarettes on a shelf. Besides that, the employee, or owner, or whatever he was seemed to be asleep. Jonathan decided the station was probably open, even though there wasn’t a sign or anything, and headed back to the car to fill it up. Back inside the car, Melissa was mindcasting. She really doubted there would be other midnighters out here, only a few hundred miles from Bixby, and with no particular coordinates or anything, but hey, it was worth a shot. This, like Bixby, was a very small town where you’d never think anything would happen, and look what had happened in Bixby. This town was even smaller and less populated than Bixby, though. They were only on the outskirts, it was true, but Melissa could tell this wasn’t exactly the sort of place where everyone had mansions and loft apartments. She sighed in frustration; she still wasn’t getting anything. Ah well, it’s not as if she had been expecting anything. When Jonathan got back in the car a few minutes later, they began driving around the town some more, searching for a park or somewhere quiet where they could park their car. Soon they found the perfect place. It was a small park a little ways off the side of the road, and it looked relatively quiet, with no playgrounds to attract young children. “Well,” said Melissa, who was growing more tired by the minute, and didn’t much care where she slept, “you can have the back seat, and I’ll just stay in my seat.” “No, it’s fine,” Jonathan replied. “You’re shorter, you should take it, I’ll be fine here.” “Thanks, Flyboy,” said Melissa tiredly as she opened her door and stepped out. “I’ll set my watch to wake us up at seven thirty; we’ll probably want to find some food.” “Yeah,” said Melissa, just now realizing she hadn’t eaten anything in over twelve hours. And with that she fell asleep. When they awoke groggily about seven and a half hours later, they went to go find some food, and then, as they had nothing else to do, snuck into a movie, past the sleeping employee who was supposed to be taking tickets- what was up with all the workers in this town? As the time wore on, and midnight got closer, Jonathan became increasingly more twitchy, and Melissa knew he was excited to see Jessica again. As much as it made her roll her eyes, she felt a small pang of jealousy. If only she could still see Rex every day. The sensible part of her knew that her and Rex’s situation was probably more ideal than Jonathan and Jessica’s. After all, Rex could always join them someday, and Jessica might be stuck in blue time forever. Although Rex had mentioned…but Melissa hadn’t given his idea much thought; she hadn’t thought it would work. But maybe…just maybe, she was wrong. She and Jonathan were now standing by their car in the park, waiting for Jessica. Once midnight hit, they planned for Melissa to find Jessica using her mind, and have Jonathan fly them to wherever she was. Melissa wondered if it would be a good idea to tell Flyboy or Jessica about Rex’s plan, but Rex had sounded pretty sure. Just a few minutes after midnight, they found Jessica, and Melissa was now watching Jessica and Jonathan’s reunion with a mixture of disgust and amusement. They look happy, she thought. Maybe it would be a good idea to tell them...not that it's a sure thing of course, but that it's a possibility. "Hey," she called to them, once she was absolutely positive she wouldn't interrupt anything. "I need to tell you something." They walked over, and looked expectantly at her. "All right, maybe I should have told you to this before, but up until not that long ago, I had forgotten about it, 'cause I didn't really think it would work. But well, I've been thinking, and who knows? Rex might be able to figure it out." Jessica and Jonathan exchanged confused looks. "Ok," Melissa said. "Now, don't get too excited, because I don't want to be the one to crush your dreams if this doesn't work. But Rex...well, he thinks he might be able to find a way to get Jessica back into normal time. Using the lore, you know." She watched as Jessica and Jonathan's expressions changed from confused, to hopeful, and finally to excited. "Really?" Jessica breathed. "That would be...I mean..." She seemed to be unable to find words to describe this. Jonathan was just as happy as Jessica. "No way! But I thought, I thought she was stuck here- in the blue time forever! She really might be able to come back into daytime?" He looked at Melissa hopefully. "Well, Rex seems to think so. He says-" Melissa was cut off by the sound of Jonathan's phone ringing. It was the only communication device they had brought with them, and they had only brought it in case of an emergency from Rex, Dess, or Maddie. Jonathan pulled it out of his pocket to see who was calling, and threw it at Melissa once he had checked. "Rex," he mouthed at her. Melissa nodded caught the phone, and answered it. "Hello?" "Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I think I found a cure. You know, for Jessica," Rex told her. Melissa's mouth dropped open. Sorry guys, I know it took me so long to post that, but I hope it was long enough:). Also, I know it probably seemed a little rushed, but I kinda wanted to get to that last part in this chapter. Anyways, hope you liked it!

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