Faded Light

chapter three

God...its hard editing something you haven't touched since two years ago...

ІІІ. Death

At five to four, Jin and William walked to the elementary school Jin had passed through. She told William about everything, including the truth of her parents' death, the appearance of the Tracker Jacker, the story of Colonel Zach Newon, the talk with Matter, the fire in New York that involved Janey as one of the victims, and the horrible situation with Jerupi. After she finished, William suggested that she could secretly load her luggage into the hotel he was living in and moved in, as "friends".

"I think I should tell Zach about you," Jin said. She borrowed Will's cell phone.

"Do you know his number, though?" he asked, handing over his Blackberry.

"Yup," she replied, showing the ten-digit number written across her arm. She dialed in the numbers.

"Hello?" Zach's voice appeared after a few rings.

"It's me, Jin," she said.

"What's up?"

"Well," Jin began. "You know that glittering creature you told me about..."

"Go on."

"It's called Matter. And I saw it last night. It said God created the Jacker and it can travel around in search of perfect human. It said that the Jacker disappears if the person proves to be imperfect. And it also said that Jerupi's an enemy of my parents. But then when Jerupi was coming to my room, it told me to find a boy who can help me, called William Douglas..."

"Hold on," Zach interrupted. There was tapping on the other side of the phone, as if Zach was typing on a keyboard. "William Douglas, you say?"

"Hey," Jin called. "What are you doing?"

"I'm finding your guardian angel."

"Well, you see...I already found him." The tapping of keyboards stopped suddenly.

"Why didn't you say so?" Zach sighed.

"You were the one who interrupted me, sir," Jin exclaimed, laughing to herself. "Anyway, I have him here..."

Will's head moved in so close to Jin's face that she could feel him breathing. "Hi," he said to the speaker. "I'm Will, nice to meet you."

Jin swore and sighed. She pushed Will's head away. "That was William."

"I can tell," Zach replied. "He sounds kindda cool, doesn't he? He's a lot nicer than someone...who throws in a rude question for a greeting..."

"Hey!" Jin protested. "That wasn't my fault. You scared me, that's all."

Zach chuckled in the phone. "You got scared? Who am I kiddin?"

"Shut up," Jin scowled. "Anyway, I was thinking maybe you two wanna meet each other? Tomorrow would be a nice day, if you don't mind."

"Great idea," he said, a touch of sarcasm in his answer. "Will's not Canadian, is he?"

"No."

"Good. I will take you to Stanley Park. You haven't been to Vancouver if you haven't been to Stanley Park."

Honk! Honk!

Jin quickly said goodbye to Jerupi and ran outside, a white and black messenger bag hanging from her shoulder. Outside, she ran down the stairs, three steps at once, and stopped in front of a black Mercedes Maybach. Zach was waving at her in the driver's seat. Will was at the shotgun. Jin didn't have time to be cross at Will for taking her shotgun, for she was too shock at the beauty of the car.