Today was going to be the day. We were going to get home. I didn't know how, I didn't know when, and I didn't know if it would be painful. All I knew was that within 24 hours, we were going to be out of there for good. I knew it had to be true, because if it wasn't, I was gonna jump in the blueberry juicer.
 Alex held a conference to decide what should be done concerning our situation. Alex, Steph, Frederick, myself and about 50 young teenage guys were gathered in the juicing room.
 "Guys, there's gotta be something we can do. They're gonna be back to make sure everything's going smoothly and we can't always be hiding. We need to put our minds to the test and come up with something that Godiva will not be able to . . ." Alex talked on and on to the guys, all of whom seemed very engrossed in what he was saying.
 I, on the other hand, was not listening to him. My eyes wandered the room, looking for clues. I didn't know what I was trying to find, I figured I'd know when I found it. The control panel, blueberries entering the juicer, purple liquid leaving it in tubes, fans on the ceiling, a grid floor. . . nothing seemed to be too valuable.
 But wait! My eyes spotted something yellow stuck into the grid in the floor. I peered in closer. A rubber ducky! This entire thing began with that duck. I couldn't believe it, he could be our ticket out of here! I crawled over to it, trying not to disrupt Alex's speech.
 It was stuck in the grid. I reached my fingers in through the thin squares and tried to pull it out. It was lodged in there pretty hard. I shoved and pushed and it came loose. I gasped as it slipped deeper in the grid.  Luckily it didn't fall right through into the darkness below. I pulled on it again, this time slower, with more care. I held my breath as I raised it until I had it in my hands. I didn't release I'd been holading my breath until Alex noticed me on the floor.
 "Andrea, what are you doing? And what . . . what's in your hands?"
 I turned and looked up. The entire room was staring at me. "It, it's just a duck. See? A harmless little rubber ducky."
 The whole group of guys gasped. Their eyes were fixed on the duck, they didn't even breathe.
 "What's going on?" I asked. No one answered, they all looked at the duck in terror. Frederick and Steph were the only ones who weren't under the spell. They came over to me and Frederick took the duck from my hand.
 "Hey, I remember this thing! Is this mine or yours?" he began juggling it around from hand to hand. The guys all gasped and screamed "No!" at the top of their lungs. "What?" he asked, innocently.
 I looked down at the duck. "It must be yours." I told him. "I left mine in the apple tree out in the garden."
 "You have two of them!" one of the guys shouted. The guys all gasped in unison again.
 "Um, well, we had two. The other one may still be out in the garden, if no one's found it."
 "We have to get to it!" They all shouted.
 "What? Why!" Steph asked, bewildered.
 Alex ran over to me. "There's something you've gotta see!" he cried, and grabbed my arm, pulling me toward the door. I followed him and he led me down a small dark tunnel. Frederick and Steph followed close behind, while the 50 young men ran after. We stopped soon after at a dead end.
 "What was the point of bringing me here?" I asked Alex.
 "Look!" he said, as he held up a lantern to the wall in front of us. An engraving in the stone was lighted. "We don't know what these complex symbols mean," Alex began explaining,
 "But Alex, this is English. Don't you guys know how to read?" they all gave me looks. "Right, stupid question. Let's take a look."
 I peered at the writing, and read aloud.
-When the stones are placed together during an eclipse of the two suns a new world will come forth. These stones can be found inside two identical Mattel rubber ducks, brought to us by carriers from this new world.-
 "Ha. This is insane." I blurted out. No one was listening.
 "We've gotta get that duck!" shouted Alex. The workers all erupted in cheers, and the mob moved back the juicing room.
 "Well they still have to figure out how to get up there." I said to Frederick. "This is starting to turn into a video game, once you pass one obstacle, there's another one right afterwards!"
 "Uh, Andrea?" Frederick motioned for me to turn around. "I think they've got this one covered." he laughed.