The Program [Book Two of The Test]

Chapter Twenty-Five

"I see. Well, no harm will come to him as long as John, again, cooperates."

"That doesn't exactly answer my son's question," My mother voiced. "I would like to hear that answer too."

Bridget turned to me, gesturing with her head toward my parents and brother. "I can tell them or you can, it's your choice."

My family was staring at me as I nodded slowly and looked around nervously, itching my arm a bit and then finally speaking, "Mom, remember how at the dinner with Jack's dad I said I few things to his dad that may have been confusing to you?"

"Yes," She answered.

"It's because I was angry at him. When me and John, and even Jack were in the first coma," I paused, waiting for the moment when John's parents or even Natalie would stop me. They didn't. "It's gonna sound crazy, but we weren't exactly...in a coma. I mean, we were but-"

"Wait, what?"" My father boomed, rising from his seast. "What do you mean you weren't in a coma? Of course you were, Lexi. What are you talking ab-"

"Don't interrupt her again." Bridget said. "Let her finish."

My dad sat back down, my trembling voice even more shown as I continued. "The night I fell asleep and went into a coma, I woke up in a place called the test." I looked down at the papers in my hands. "It was made up of computer codes. A simulated dream made on a computer and there was a group of teens attached to the same dream that we were in. A hundred and fifty of us."

My mom held a hand up to her mouth, covering her dropped jaw. My father just stared, and Marcus had wide eyes.

"It gets worse but i'm gonna stop talking now." I told them.

Bridget spoke up. "Maybe John would like to continue for you, Lexi." We both knew it wasn't a suggestion.

John began. "We couldn't remember anything about our lives, not who we were besides for our first name, not our families, nothing. This guy named Reid, A.K.A. Jack's stupid real dad, brought us there and said we would be undergoing a test to save humanity." He leaned back. "Back then no one knew he was Jack's dad. It came as a surprise to all of us. He almost killed us which was fun, sense the sarcasm. He did it with angry bears and weird monsters, wasps the size of our hands. It was weird." John paused, then said, "Okay, i'm done."

"I believe there's a tiny bit more to this story." Bridget said. "Natalie, care to finish?"

"Lexi can disrupt." She said, not missing a beat. "She was a threat to the test because she has the ability to harm it. She can minipulate the codes holding it together and in a sense 'break' it and delete things brought into it. Reid probably would have let it go, but his boss wants her dead. We don't know who the boss is."

Bridget smiled. "Thank you for that, it was greatly appreciated. But there's one final thing you're all avoiding."

I inwardly sweared at her. "What is that?"

"Why you, my dear, went back in the test and John ended up there too of course."

"We had to shut it down again, no big deal. I do what I have to." I snarled.

"That you do, and you are to be commended for such acts."

John growned in his seat. "Are we done now?"

"Almost. There's one more thing we need to do first." Bridget answered.

I continued holding the papers in my hands, pondering over my next quesion, "When we're done, I want to see Annie, make sure she's okay. Can I-" I stopped, turning to John. "I mean, can we?"

"Of course."

"And Jack," I added quickly before she could say no. "I want to see Jack too."

"Fine," Bridget smiled her creepy one again. "That can be arranged, Lexi."

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Okay, no more triple updates. But i'm gonna try to update everyday for the next few days. We'll see how that turns out... And now this story officially has more pages than 'The Test'. Looks like this one's going to be longer. But this story will only have thirty chapters(unless I hit a rough point and have to make it longer) which means five more after this one and then i'm actually thinking about doing three epilogues.

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