Chapter Two Jeremy loses something

"Em"

There was a long pause.

"Em"

Jeremy whispered softly. Not too softly, of course, as then his big sister wouldn't hear him. But there was still no movement. She was fast asleep.

"Em"

This time he stood on tip-toe by the bed and leant right across Emma and spoke right into her ear. Surely she must wake up now. Please. It's important.

"what?"

Emma had heard him the first time but was warm and comfortable and in the middle of a really dreamy dream. It could wait until the dream finished she thought. No it couldn't.

"I'm scared"

Oh no, not again, Emma thought. He had been "scared" the other night, had woken her up, made her all anxious (and in the middle of a really great dream) and all because some branches blowing in the wind had rattled against the window. She didn't get back to her dream and that annoyed her all the next day.

"What for this time" she said, with a little ring of irritation in her voice. "It's not the wind and the branches again is it?

"I've forgotten the password"

WHOOOSH. WHAM.

Emma sat up in bed. Really fast and 100% wide awake. Her eyes were wide open. She went pale. She forgot the dream. Her mouth was working so fast the words tumbled over each other.

" You what, when, why, oh no, how could you, think think think did you write it down oh no but you said you would remember what do we do now...."

So this is what a panic is like thought Jeremy but forgot that very quickly as Emma pulled him onto the bed and looked at him very very closely with eyes WIDE open. His eyes were tightly closed so he missed this extra special look.

Still with his eyes shut and scrunched up he sighed "I don't remember. It was with me when I went to sleep and then it went blank and now its gone. I want it back. I really want it back but I can't find it in my head."

Emma thought some very wicked thoughts about the inside of Jeremy's head but calmed down and said very slowly and very carefully

" calm down and slowly think. When was the last time you knew the password? What was the very last thing you were doing before you went to bed?"

" I was cleaning my teeth" Jeremy told a little white lie and went bright red so that was a red lie as he was really on his mobile texting his third best friend who Emma did not like one little bit. "and then I turned the lights off and it was gone."

Now it was Emma's turn to start to get worried. Without the password things would change; or rather things would stay the same and not change because with the password things changed.

"Let's try again. Open your eyes; breathe slowly, not that slowly, take a sip of this water. Not too fast. I'll count to nine and then you will remember. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight"

"HIIIIIIIIICup". Jeremy exploded with the loudest thunderclap he had ever heard. A gold medal hiccup. His head spun round, his back jumped up, his teeth crashed together.

"I remember" he yelled and jumped for joy, "I remember, I remember. it's ........"

"Sshhussh" said Emma, still picking herself up off the floor after the explosion. "Don't let anyone know... it's our secret. They are our adventures. It will soon be time to go on another one"

and that will be in the next chapter.