Chapter 4 Is it red or green?

"Em"

"Jem"

"Em!"

"JEM!!!"

"Em" "Jem"

"EM!!!"

Silence. Not a whisper. It was very, very quiet.

Jem looked around. Slowly. Eyes wide open.

There was no sign of Emma.

Emma was also looking around. She was also looking very slowly and here eyes were open even more than Jem's.

There was no sign of Jeremy.

"Where are you?"

"Where are you?"

Emma looked again. He was nowhere to be seen.

Jeremy looked as well. She was not there.

"You've done it again!" he said to himself. "She will shout at me again and I'll look silly. Well I'm not having that; it was an easy mistake to make".

He gently stood up. The fast trip wasn't too bad. He remembered the chair and now looked around him. Not too strange; a bridge, a market and yes there it was! It had worked again! he was excited and totally forgot about Emma.

Emma had already forgotten about Jeremy. She was already looking around. Big buildings, lots of grass and yes, there it was right in front of her. It had worked again!

Only now she had to find her absent minded brother who could never do things right.

But this time he was ahead of her. He knew the second password.. yes the second even more secret password. He looked over his shoulder and then over the other one and hid his hands and used the second password.

"Where are you?? Emma shouted as soon as she heard her ear stud tingle.

"Right in front of the dragon" said Jem. He thought it better not to admit to having made the earlier mistake.

"No, you're not" said Emma. She too overlooked his mistake, thinking she was right. He was not in front of her dragon. (But she quickly checked just to make sure).

"I've got a big green dragon here" said Jem, looking up to the big green dragon which was not moving but still looked rather dangerous.

"Green??? It's red" said Emma. "And a little squashed"

"Let me have a look" asked Jem. He was getting rather worried as he could not see Emma anywhere. She could be hiding but he had looked behind the tree, over the road.. indeed everywhere. But she was not there, that was for sure. Red? Rubbish, he said to himself, it's green to me.

"OK, here it is ..."

"That's not my dragon!!" yelled Jeremy. "That's red and it's, it's like sort of squashed"

"That's what I told you" said Emma, "Now stop playing the fool and come out where I can see you. I know you are around here somewhere"

"Of course I'm around here, I'm here!" said Jeremy, still looking at the big green dragon and the rather squashed red dragon. two dragons in one day was too much, two too many really. It was getting slightly dark and he knew that dragons did strange things when it got dark. There were not very many people around at the moment. They were all wrapped up in big thick coats, with their heads buried in their necks under big hats. They were not looking at him. They were certainly not looking at the dragon. They were hurrying home.

Jeremy started to think he should be hurrying home. The street lights were starting to shine brightly.

"Well?" said Emma. "If you are here, then where is here if I can't see it or you? Where is your big green dragon?" she said with a smooth smile to her voice. It was sunny and bright and her dragon was still squashed.

"I'm here" said Jeremy but quietly now. It was dark and he did not want to disturb the dragon. maybe he thought if I shared it with Emma it would go away, or he would go away.

"Here's my dragon" he whispered.

and as he sent it he saw the dragon's eye move.

Just a little.