Before Lunch on Saturday the 12th

Jake Berry was digging in the fridge. It was lunchtime and there was nothing good lying around. He took out some turkey and bread. This will have to do he thought. He normally would never want to eat a turkey sandwich on a Saturday. However, today he was absolutely starving. He had skipped dinner the night before and he needed something to eat. This would have to do. Jake Berry bit into he sandwich and started thinking about stupid nick Makara. He kept telling him that he fell into a well on Monday the 7th. That kid’s brain was messed up. The doorbell rang. Jake got up and answered it. Nobody was there but a package was left in its place. He brought it inside and went back to the table. His mouth dropped open when he saw somebody was sitting at the table eating his sandwich. It was a tall old guy with some gray hair. There wasn’t much left on his head though. He had a pointy nose and scarred hands. Jake also noticed he had a white beard that made him look a bit like Santa except without the roundness. He had a cane and was fairly skinny. He looked oddly familiar but Jake couldn’t recall where he’d seen him before.
"You! I mean... ya you. Listen hear-r, III"M G-gonna call police. Y-you got that." Jake picked up the phone and reached for the buttons. Who was this guy? Jake was scared out of his pants. What if he had a gun?
"Jake! Buddy! Pal! Long time no see. Don’t you remember me?" The man said with his mouth half full with turkey.
"State your name! I don’t know who you are. Now get out of my house before I call the police!"
"Jake! Don’t do that. I’m your great grandpa Hettito! Why, I haven’t seen since you were a baby. It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t remember!"
"I-if your m-my grandpa, t-then h-how come I-I’ve never h-heard ab-bout you?" Jake’s hand was shaking and it took quite an effort to keep the phone to his ear.
"Jake listen, hears what happened. Your parents decided that I was to stupid to be your grandpa so they kept me a secret and kicked me out of their lives."
"Oh ya, w-well. I already have enough grandpa’s how can you also be one." Jake reached his finger down to press the 9.
"Jake! One of those other grandpas is a fake! Your parents paid him to be your grand pa!" This guy is the weirdest person I’ve ever met, Jake thought. Does he really expect me to believe him?"
"Jake loo----"
"NO! Either you get out of my house now, or I call the police! GO"
"Jake, would believe me if I said that I know what your friend Cody looks like?"
"How would you know what Cody looks like. You said that the last time you saw me I was a little baby."
"On the contraire, Jake. I said that was the last time you saw me. I’ve been spying on you waiting for the perfect time to tell you the truth."
"OK, fine. What does Cody look like."
"OK, he has yellowish hair. He’s skinny, usually gets good grades but has an F in Spanish. He sometimes wears a shirt that looks like a leaf, and he knows s that 2+2 equals fish. Unlike you of course"
"OK, wait a m minute hear, two plus two does not equal fish it equals four." Jake was sick of people saying that two; us to equaled fish. That was nonsense.
"But it can also equal five or fish."
"Just be quiet, your making my brain hurt."
"Fine. Anyway, I want you to come with me to this nature preserve in Indiana just outside of Indianapolis tomorrow. I need somewhere where I can tell you the rest of the truth." Jake had never been to a nature preserve before. It might be interesting.
‘Why can’t you do it hear?" Jake asked. This guy may be telling the truth but it couldn’t hurt to take precautions.
"Are you CRAZY! Some could hear. I could get caught. A neighbor could see me! No, I want to take you to his preserve and tell you the rest there" Jake thought about it for a while. I wasn’t wise to go to a deserted place with a half stranger alone. He had it, he would ask if he could take Cody! Cody was smart. He knew that two plus two supposedly equaled fish!
"Can I bring Cody along!"
"Why sure! The more the merrier!" The man said. Jake could have sworn he saw the man smile as well. Oh well, it was probably nothing. He was going to a nature preserve.
According to Miguel, Jake’s choice of taking Cody along because he was smart is false. Miguel claims that Cody’s brain is mush. Maybe that’s why Cody agreed to go to the nature preserve with Jake when Jake called him five minutes after Hettito left. If Jake had called Miguel I believe he may have said know and convinced Jake that the guy was lying. Miguel knows that 2+2 equals fish and he also know that 4+4 equals squid. His brain is not mush either, according to him. Maybe he would have been a better choice.
Cody grabbed his watch and ran out o f the house. Jake told him that he was suppose to meet him and his grandpa by this tree 3 blocks away. He walked down the sidewalk humming the Barney song and thinking about nature preserves. Cody’s mom and dad thought that he was going to the nature preserve with Jake’s parents and Jake’s parents thought Jake was going with Cody’s parents. When he got there, Jake was standing next to this tall hunched man with gray hair. This must be his grandpa, Cody assumed.
"Ah, Cody! You made it. We will have lots fun at nature preserve, yes?" Said the man.
"Uh, sure. We’ll probably have fun." Cody said looking around for a vehicle. E was starting to wonder if this was such a good decision.
"So, no time to dawdle, we must get a move on!" the man said as he started to walk down the street. Cody and Jake followed not knowing exactly where they were going. They stopped next to an old barn where there was this shatty old car waiting there.
"Get it kids!’ said the guy whose name was Hettito Cody later found out. They got in the car and another man jumped out from behind the seat.
"WHOA, whoa, whoa, wait a minute. Who is this guy? Do you know him?" Jake half screamed at The Hettito guy.
"Why, of course I know him! He’s my friend. You didn’t think I could drive did you? No, this man here is going to drive us to the Nature Preserve. You guys can sit back and relax, it’s going to b a long drive."
It was a long drive. Jake assumed that about 5 hours passed before they got there. During the ride, Hettito whispered a few things to the driver and the driver whispered stuff back but other than that, the two kept fairly quiet. Finally, the car came to a quiet stop.
"Okay kids, everybody out. We are heeear!"
‘This is it?" Asked Jake. The stood in a beat up parking g lot with trees in every direction. Garbage was lying around and there wasn’t an animal in site.
"Well, ya. What did you expect? A nice little parkin' place with green bushes and beautiful trees. Squirrels runin' around places and birds squawking everywhere?" Said the other man who had driven them there.
‘Well, ya. Didn’t you think the same Cody?"
‘Well actually, I did. Oh well, that just shows how much I don’t know." Said Cody as he sneezed into his hand.
Cody and Jake walked down the trail and talked a little. Jake tripped on the same stump three times in a row too. He would trip over it. Then get up and trip again, and then do the same thing over again. Alleluia there were no wells around this time. They were walking when Cody stopped dead in his tracks.
"What’s wrong Cody? Why’d you stop?" Asked Jake as he pushed Cody out of his way. The he saw why Cody had stopped. There were two coyote’s sleeping behind a bush right in Front of the bush.
"Oh my Gosh!" Yelled Jake, "Somebody! Help! Coyotes! HEEELP!!" Cody ran over and put his hand over Jake’s mouth but it was too late. The coyote awake and started to eye them both.
‘Come on Jake!" Cody yelled and tried to pull Jake up a tree. I’m not sure if I'm happy or sorry that Cody could not pull Jake up the tree because he was not strong enough. Now that I think about it, this also refers to what Jake said at the Mousetrap car workshop. That’s two different incidents where Miguel theory is right. HMMMM, Interesting. Anyway, Cody dropped Jake and continued up the tree only to fall back down and get knocked down at the bottom. The last thing either of them heard, were two loud gunshots. And that was it.
When Hettito saw the two coyotes and Jake and Cody falling out of a tree. He reached into his shabby jacked and took out a revolver. He shot both coyotes and if they are dead or not I do not know. Hettito with the help of the other guy whose name was Albert loaded the kids into his trunk and snuck them back into their houses, into there beds. Somehow they happened to escape unnoticed and unblamed. When Cody and Jake awake, they both assumed the events a dream and forgot them. They can’t recall any of these events. Something you should know is that Grandpa Hettito is the indeed the same guy as Uncle Hetty. Nothing is known about Albert. Neither of their whereabouts are known. This information has been given to me by a mysterious caller whose name is unknown as well.

P.S. This document has also been written by Nicholas Makara. Sources have requested to remain Anonymous.