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Chapter 8 - The new time

 

Zack looks at his hands in horror and then around. What had happened? Isn't this the end of the world? He sees Jane and Alice chatting at lockers. So he is at a school, but not at his own school. "Since when does Jane no longer wear oversized shirts with busy prints?" Zack hopes it was a dream. "Because when we are in a different world now, we have new handsome people." Jane says proudly. "Crop tops look good on you." Alice gives Jane a pat on the back. "That's why my club shirt has to be in crop top." Jane says proudly. "How long have you been here?" Zack asks carefully. "Two weeks." Alice nods: "The four of us are going to celebrate our victory this afternoon." Zack doesn't get it for a moment: "Who is the fourth person then?" Then Harper comes: "Missed me?" "I don't know you." Zack doesn't get it at all now. "Miss, h. old girlfriend of Daniel. Until he abandoned me." Says Harper. Zack nods, but he actually has no idea who she is. No girl with glasses and black hair shoulder length comes up in his head. "Oh Alice, girls like you are incredibly weak." Daniel comes close to Alice's face. "Shut up." Hisses Alice. "Little one." Daniel chuckles. "If you're not careful, I'll drill through you with just a fork." Alice makes herself big. "Alice is stronger than you." Jane pushes Alice aside and makes herself big too. Daniel pushes the two girls aside. He walks away without saying anything. "You don't dare say anything." Harper shouts after him. "Weak Daniel doesn't dare to open his mouth anymore." Alice laughs at Daniel. Jane can't stop laughing.

Yowie is sighing in front of the mirror. He is in a small circus tent. In the middle of the stage is a dressing table in front of which he stands. He straightens his bow and buttons his last button of his bleus anyway. That looks much neater. A woman behind him puts some wax in his hair. Then they hear a loud female voice: "Oh, Yowie." Yowie looks at the woman and rolls her eyes. "I feel sorry for you." The Woman chuckles. Yowie sighs and looks at himself in the mirror. He needs Zack. Then the tent is shaken hard: "Yowie the show starts." The voice screams loudly. "Take it easy, I'm coming." Yowie screams angrily. Now the voice says sweetly: "I want to see you in the spotlight so badly. Zack is so proud of you!" " Leave Zack out of here!" Yowie shouts angrily. Then he drops his head on his arms. He misses Zack so much.

A little later the group walks in the city as if they were everything. Alice winks at beautiful girls. Jane walks straight up. Cato does her nails. Zack? He walks around with a hood over his head. "Bubble tea?" Jane asks. "No, milkshake." Alice sighs. "Bubble tea." Harper grins. Alice looks at Zack pleadingly. "Iced coffee." Zack sighs. Harper is already walking into the bubble tea shop. "What?" Alice looks at Jordi and Nancy incomprehensibly. "Since when have they been working in a bubble tea shop?" Zack whispers in Alice's ear. They argue about which flavor the customer had chosen. Jane starts laughing. Alice soon starts laughing along. Jordi looks at the group painfully. "I don't know you, but help me." He hisses. "What a beautiful pink shirt!" Zack chuckles. Harper is also starting to laugh. They chat a bit and then a good friend of Harper's joins them. She puts her puppet on the table. "Hi, I'm Chloe." She smiles. Zack looks at the puppet. The puppet looks exactly like Yowie. Zack picks up the puppet. "Can you leave it?!" Says Chloe irritated. Zack looks at the arm with a number four on it. "I want to buy him." Zack looks at Chloe. Chloe pulls the puppet out of Zack's hands: "No, you can watch my puppet circus tonight." Zack looks sad at the puppet. If there is anyone he misses incredibly it is Yowie.

Chloe meets up with the group. They are all sitting in the living room. Zack doesn't trust it. He wants to go upstairs to check but how does he get upstairs? Harper goes to the toilet downstairs so this is his chance! "Is there a toilet upstairs?" He asks. Chloe nods and Zack walks upstairs. He opens the room door of Chloe's room. There is Yowie listening to music. Zack's tears come to his eyes. He immediately gives Yowie a hug. "Chloe wants a living doll so she turns me into a puppet." He whispers. "But you remember me?" Zack asks. Yowie nods: "Of course I remember you! Why shouldn't I recognize you? Chloe is number 3004. Before I forget to say that." Zack pulls Yowie's head to his and they give each other a little kiss. "I missed you so much!" Whispers Yowie. "We will get out of here together." Zack blushes. "Together." Whispers Yowie. They crawl towards each other and the lips come together again. That quickly turns into kissing and after a short time Yowie turns back into a puppet and Chloe is angry at her room door. "What are you doing?!" Zack looks at Chloe in full tears. "My package will arrive soon." Alice looks at her phone. "So?" Harper asks. Alice answers: "Zack has to hurry because my mother doesn't like it when I order things. I have to be quick." "You can already go." Jane wants to help her friend. "What are they?" Harper asks. "Sunglasses." Alice says toughly. After a few minutes, they hear screams upstairs. "I think it's going really well." Harper chuckles: "I like to argue." Alice and Jane look at her angrily. "I can't help it that I find that funny." Harper sighs. Moments later, police are at the door. "I think it's going completely wrong upstairs." Harper chuckles. Jane looks at number zero on Alice's arm. Then Alice gets a nasty view of the future: "Not just upstairs. We are still in danger. I think there are new phases and blockages." "Oh no, someone screwed up again." Jane sighs and she walks to the door. The police ring the doorbell and she opens the door. "What's going on here?" The policeman asks. "No idea," Jane sighs. "I do hear screams upstairs." Says the police woman. The police then go upstairs. An hour later, Yowie comes down full of bruises. "I am going to a foster family." He says. Still the bad feeling about what Chloe did to him. Even worse, because every Tuesday and Wednesday evening he still has to play the puppet show as a puppet. 

"That was the training for today's girls." Yowie walks off the field irritated. Girls? What girls? Just because he's transgender doesn't mean she has to call everyone girls. "Jess, you did a great job." A soccer teammate shakes Yowie's hair. "Yowie." He corrected. Letitia looks at him incomprehensibly. "It's Yowie." He snaps. "You can never take compliments." Julia says sadly. Then Letitia pulls Yowie's arm. "Does that four mean anything?" She takes off her rubber band. "That's Zack's lucky song." Yowie is lying. "Who is Zack?" Letitia asks. "Are you going to change clothes?" Zack stands behind it with his hands in his coat. "That's what I was planning." Yowie takes a wireless earpiece from Zack. He quickly gives it back: "I'm not into Spanish rap. Dutch rap is better." Zack smiles: "I know something much better than music." "That sweater you still haven't given back?" Yowie chuckles. "Something much more beautiful." Zack blushes. "Wait, are you dating?" Letitia comes between the two. "Maybe." Chuckles Zack. "Then Jess is a girl because two boys can't be together." Letitia does not want a football club in which people are gay or trans. Yowie walks away irritated.

Alice walks away from the kickboxing training, she waits for the bus. She scrolls a bit on her phone. A girl stands next to her. Alice thinks she recognizes her, but from what? She tries to look but the girl is writing with her laptop in such a way that her head does not rise. She also has a hood on which makes her even less visible. It's weird to walk up to her. Should she do it? Then the head of the laptop moves away and Alice sees Jane. Jane sees Alice too, but Jane tries to hide her tears. "Are you overstimulated?" Alice asks. Jane nods. Alice knew Jane had autism and that's why she thought everything she did was extra clever. Alice pushes a chocolate bar into Jane's hand. "I don't like dark chocolate." She laughs. "And? You have to eat something. You eat very little lately." Alice is worried about her friend. "We can do without me." Jane sighs. "That's not true." Alice snaps: "You're a hero! Without you, we would have been dead a long time ago!" "Me a hero? That's too exaggerated." Jane sighs. "It's not." Alice puts a hand on Jane's leg: "If you've been feeling sad lately, you should let us know." Jane puts a hand on Alice's hand. She looks at Alice: "I get overstimulated more and more often and I want to talk to people much less." "I'm proud of you." Alice smiles. "Me too with you." Jane smiles. "I'm really proud of you!" Alice tries to make eye contact with Jane. Then a bus stops. "That's my bus." Jane stands up. "I have to have the next one." Alice says disappointedly. Alice then looks sad at the bus driving away. If she has to do something for Jane, she does! Jane puts on her headphones and listens to music. Then she hears a loud scratching sound through her headphones. She looks around scared. The bus is empty in one go. She staggers through the bus that drives along a bumpy dark path. Then Jane sees something strange. A Meninken but no sewn-up eyes or mouth? He has a wide grin and red glowing eyes. He slowly sneaks up to Jane. Jane doesn't know what to do and slowly walks to a corner of the bus when she feels a huge sting on her chest. "Jane, are you okay?" Jane hears a familiar voice. She only sees bright light and she shoots to her feet. Gasping for breath, she quickly looks around. She sees Diede, how full of hair she has without a tail! "Is your name Jane? Because that's what it says on your school pass." Jane nods with difficulty. Then she sees Diede all the way. When she almost loses her balance, Alice catches her: "Jane, I was so worried! I came right away when I heard it!" Jane hopes it's a dream. Because the Meninken had already grabbed her neck so she had almost died.

Yowie walks away from the puppet show irritated, Chloe is like a little child! He sees Zack at the packing place. "No ropes jumped loose?" Zack asks. Yowie hesitates in his words and gives Zack a kiss on the neck instead of words. "Can I have more?" Zack blushes. Yowie nods and then someone disturbs them. "Why always that kiss?" That's not fun anymore." Zack and Yowie look back in horror. Chloe kicks some stones. Yowie rolls his eyes at Zack. Then Chloe grabs Yowie by the collar of his sweater. "Follow me, I said something to you." She hisses. "Let him go!" Zack screams. Then Chloe slaps Yowie in the face. "Stay off my toys!" Chloe screams. "Chloe, It's a human! Not a toy!" Zack cries It makes him so sad when he thinks about the thoughts that his boyfriend is a toy. He doesn't want it to go like this! He would never have wanted that either! He always wants the best for Yowie. He feels like that has never worked before!

"Hello princess." A heavy voice can be heard through the phone. "How long until you come to pick me up?" Jenny looks in the mirror and plays with the cap of her mascara. Jenny hears some guitar noises through her phone. "As soon as possible... Just take ten minutes into account." "Great until then. I love you!" Jenny blushes. Then Cato joins the conversation: "Since when have you been with someone else? I thought you had with Raf." "Cato, hang up now!" Jenny shouts through the phone. Cato hangs up quickly! "Maybe we shouldn't call in the group chat." Jenny laughs. "I'll play one last song and then I'll get there. The boy blushes with a heavy voice.

"What is that?" Alice looks at Jane's neck. "It's nothing." Jane mumbles. Then Jane tries not to cry: "Does it seem because of the foundation yet?!" Zack walks to the group and also sees the black spots. "You have survived an attack of a meninken." Zack looks proudly at Jane. "But she is sick now." Harper mumbles. Then the air raid siren goes off. Everyone looks around. Except for Yowie: "Oh, lucky. The nonsense called puppet show is not back for a while." Then they see something landing from the sky. It's a UFO!

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