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Story 2: Instructions (Part 3)

 Read "Missing" and "The Seven Buildings" before you read this. Tyler appeared in an open area with several trees surrounding it. He still had the time machine in his hand. He looked around and saw that James and Alice were next to him. Then he noticed Sam standing in the middle of the area. Tyler, James, and Alice were hidden behind a tree so he couldn’t see them. James was about to ask something when two more versions of Sam appeared. “There are three Sams,” Tyler whispered. “Thank you Captain Obvious,” James replied. The two Sams which had just appeared had several differences. One of them looked thinner than the other. That version of Sam also looked older. “We don’t have much time,” the older version Sam said. He pointed at the Sam who had been there first. “You need to leave a time machine with Tyler, James, and Alice and leave them a note telling them to come here right now.” The version of Sam , who had been there first, looked surprised before nodding.  “Al

Story 2: Missing (Part 2)

Read "The Seven Buildings" before you read this. About a month after Sam left to go to his time, Tyler was sitting in his room with James and Alice. “I am getting bored of playing Hangman,” James said. “We have only played six games so far,” Alice said. “Only?” “Let’s play Pictionary instead,” Tyler suggested with a grin. He knew that James hated playing Pictionary and would rather play Hangman. “No!” James said. “Let’s play tag.” Tyler shrugged. Normally they wouldn’t be allowed to play Tag indoors but their parents were on a business trip, so they could do whatever they wanted to do. He was fine with playing any of the games but Alice and James couldn’t agree on one to play. Alice shook her head. “Why don’t we just continue playing Hangman?” “No,” James said. “Hangman is boring.” “How can you not like hangman?” Tyler tried to think of a game both James and Alice liked. He couldn’t think of any. Before he could suggest just talking about something random, somebody appeared i