LAST CHAPTERRRR! Like I told you guys, this was based on a dream, and there wasn't much more I could do to keep this going XD Enjoy!
I tore down the streets of Santa Martina, trying to figure out how I would get out of here unnoticed. Sammy and the others would notice, for sure, but I couldn't tell them that I was leaving. Casey would find out, and try to stop me. Or something else would happen. I just had a gut feeling. I had so much fun meeting my favorite characters in person, but now I had to-
"Woah!" cried Sammy as I smacked right into her. "Watch where you're going, Kate!"
"Oh!" I said. "Sorry!"
I kept walking, and Sammy followed me. "Do you even know where you're going?"
"No. But I don't care. I'll get home eventually."
Sammy chuckled. "We've been through this already. Walking's not gonna get you anywhere."
"Whatever. I'll figure out the stupid book thing. But I have to get out of your life while I still can."
"What?! Why would you want to do that?"
"Because you're book characters!" I finally shouted. "Because I'm not in the story!"
"So what?"
"There isn't just one book about you," I tried to explain. "There are seventeen. And there's another one about to happen at any moment. Which means I need to high-tale it out of here before it happens. Because I'm going to mess up the story."
Sammy cut me off at the corner of the street. "Look. I told Grams I was heading to Marissa's for dinner, but if you want, we can head to the library and keep looking."
I shook my head. "No. I need to do this alone!"
"No you don't! I'm going to help you! And you can't stop me!"
I sighed. "Fine. Come on. Where's the library?"
"Other way."
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"Sammy, I told you, there's nothing here!" I said as quietly as I could.
"There has to be!" she whispered. "Those books about me? What genre are they in?"
"Mystery." I shot back quickly.
"We haven't looked there yet," Sammy tried hopefully.
Thumbing through the shelves quickly and carelessly, I just wanted to get Sammy out of here. But the annoying thing was, she was just like me. There was no getting rid of her until we figured this out. Suddenly, I stopped at a row of black books I hadn't seen before.
"What?" I murmured. "Sammy Keyes books?"
Sammy was over next to me in an instant. "What?! What'd you find?!"
"I... I found the books about you! But they only go up to the one I just read...!"
Sammy pulled out the last book. "Sammy Keyes and the Clones?" she read the cover. "I don't think I've spent time with any clones..."
I snatched the book from her. "What? This isn't even in the series!"
I flipped to the prologue.
"Grams always tells me to stay away from strangers. But I couldn't have helped myself! This girl was so much like me. Between me, Holly, and her, we were like some force of nosy musketeers!" I read softly.
Sammy's eyes bugged out and she gasped. "Kate! This is your way home!"
I looked down at the cover of the book. On the front of it were three similar drawings beside each other: Me, Holly, and Sammy. The three musketeers. I smiled and laughed quietly.
"Well, Sammy, it looks like I have some reading to do." I said.
Sammy smiled. "So when you finish it and go to sleep, you'll be home?"
"I guess so," I replied. "So this is goodbye?"
Sammy nodded forlornly. "I guess it is."
I scooped her up into a warm hug. "Goodbye, Sammy Keyes."
I sat in the beanbag chair in the Children's section, and I began to read the story, which was like most Sammy Keyes books, but about my adventure in Santa Martina. Sammy stood by, sighing sadly as I read the pages. It felt like only minutes, but it was almost three or four hours later when I finished the last page.
I couldn't believe she was really leaving. I smiled at her reassuringly, and watched her sit down in the beanbag chair. I stood there for the entire time she read the book, and a few hours later, I went to look at these mysterious books about me. But they were gone. All of them. In their place was an empty shelf, not even a forgotten bookmark was there. I ran back to Kate to share the news with her, but she had disappeared, too.
"What the...?" I murmured.
Suddenly, it dawned on me.
She was home.
I was starting to get sleepy, and my eyes only closed for a second, but I jumped them open quickly. But it was too late. I was on an air mattress on the floor in April's room. It hadn't looked like any time had gone by.
"April!" I hissed in the darkness.
"Trying to sleep," she muttered.
"April! How have you not noticed how long I've been gone?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I... was in Santa Martina!"
"It was a dream. Probably your stupid allergy medication acting up on you again."
"No! I'm not even kidding! Like, I was there!"
"Wow... you are really far out there... like, you need some sleep. A lot of it."
I sighed. Maybe I could get back to Santa Martina. Maybe I could read the next book and see them again. But I was already asleep again before I could pick up Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher.
How'd you guys like it? REVIEWWWW :DXD
Okay, so here are some stuff that was and wasn't in the dream or in real life:
-I did land in Santa Martina in my dream, and met all the SK characters
-I was NOT at a sleepover at April's house the night I had this dream, but I HAD been reading a SK book.
-I did (don't hate me!) think I was ruining the Cammy OTP O.O
-I did get "home" (which was just me waking up) by reading "Sammy Keyes and the Clones"
-April IS a real person (and that is her real name XD)
-I did sleep in the Acosta's tree (in my dream not in real life! :P)
And... idk. XD Hope you guys had fun reading 'cus I had fun writing!
Once again (I said this in my Frozen fic) sorry for the late posting, Winter Break was over and school's been crazy!