It had come as a surprise, therefore, when Beth had announced she was leaving the next day. "Our time's up, I'm afraid. Back home and then back to sch...ol." Jack had nodded dumbly, bereft of words.Still, he had put on his Sunday clothes and gone to the station to see her off. He was ill at ease as he stood on the platform. He wanted to be there but was desperately worried that any of the boys from the town would see him. His embarrassment was complete when she suddenly leaned forward and pecked. The only reason I didn't get the usual Brain Trust hassling in school was that I helped the PE instructor teach martial arts, aikido mostly. I loved teaching aikido moves to the football running backs. It made them really slippery. So the jocks had a vested interest in not causing me grief.I'm Matthew Patterson. Other than the high IQ and martial arts I'm pretty average. At sixteen I'm five foot eight weighing one-thirty with brown hair and eyes hiding behind glasses. I'm a sophomore taking as. But depending on the Pruitts each time we needed to call forth a tunnel didn't seem either convenient or practical.We had determined how to activate the device, but not how to control the outcome of our transport. We might be jumping from the frying pan into the fire, but it soon became apparent that we couldn't stay in this place for long. There was no hope of finding any food, and the thin atmosphere could not long sustain us. We needed to summon another tunnel soon or perish. The Pruitt's. Per gand toh ma baravar esa lagta tha jitna bhi khati h sab gand mein bhar jata h ! Wo jab ghar se nikalti h toh loude bs usse ghurte hi reh jate h ! Meri ma kafi dino se paresan rahti thi ! Aur papa se bhi ladai chalti thi isi karan papa aksar unse baat ni karte the ! Mere dost bahut harami wo aksar mere ghar ate the ruchi ko dekhna ya ma ko ! Mein samajhne laga tha per mein kya bol sakta tha ! Ek din ma naha dhokar bahar nikli uper se towel lekar ham logo ne tabhi entry ki aur dekha ma ka.