Chapter 11: The Epilogue Car

It's been a few months since Mike and I left the train and I started my new life with him in California. I now had to chance to lead my own life with so many possibilities to choose from. I was sitting bored in a classroom listening to my new english teacher.

After we both crossed through the portal me and Mike talked with his aunt Lori and his uncle Pete. It turns out that time on the train works differently than here because according to them, Mike was gone for a couple of days instead of a few months. Long story short, with a lot of truth bending, Lori and Pete let me stay with them since I had nowhere else to go.

It was a hassle but with their help, I was enrolled in the same school as Mike. I was kinda hopeful about going to school again, but I soon learned that it's dull everywhere in the world.

I had just finished eating lunch with Mike and two of his friends, and after the bell rang I gave Mike a hug and a kiss on the cheek before I walked to my english class.

It was now fifth period and I was sitting there in one of the middle desks propping up my head with my arm. I was wearing my usual purple and chrome hoodie and jeans but with a simple white tee shirt. Bored out of my mind I stared at the clock on the wall.

'C'mon bell just ring already.' I thought impatiently.

Most of the other students seemed just as bored as me, we all just sat with blank expressions on our faces while the teacher continued the lesson.

I gave up on the clock, and started to look around the room. The walls were painted blue with many posters hanging up, and the floor was lined with grey carpet. There was a white board with today's lesson scribbled on it, the teacher didn't have the greatest handwriting so it made reading whatever he wrote challenging sometimes.

Eventually I just started to stare out the window when I noticed something resting on a tree branch outside. It was a purple-ish blue bird. At first I thought nothing of it until I realised that there something was odd about it.

The bird didn't look feathery, instead it's body looked like many flat surfaces coming together to shape it. It was then that I understood what I was looking at. The bird was completely made of crystal, and I've only seen crystal birds in one other place.

I was stunned, concerned, and most importantly, very confused.

'What in the world?' I thought, 'How can that be here, I thought only things that come through the portals come here. How is this-'

"Heather, you still with us?" I looked over and saw the teacher as well as most of the other students looking directly at me.

"Uh, yes sorry."

"Ok good, please try to avoid daydreaming from now on ok?"

"Right."

Everyone's attention was back on the teacher as he resumed talking about today's assignment. I looked towards the window once again only to see that the bird was gone.

Author's Notes

With the end of one story another will begin. This marks the beginning of a new adventure for Mike and Heather called Infinity Train: The Sliver Paradox. It is available to read now so if you wish to see what's in store, go check it out.