The Eye of Fire: The Third Gate (Episode 1) Read Online Free

incandescent bulbs. It always made her white skin look blue or gray under the light. She told her parents, they should just stick to the normal light bulbs, but her dad was always thinking of ways to save money.
    She looked into the refrigerator for a snack, it had been a long trip, and she missed her mother’s cooking. Alicia hoped there was some kind of left overs in the refrigerator, maybe a casserole or something she could warm up. The refrigerator was full of bottled water, fruit, vegetables, and a bowl had some leftover turkey in it. There was some whole wheat bread on the counter, and she made herself a sandwich with cold turkey, that her dad had cut off the bone.
    The taste was incredible. She had not made turkey in years. She used to help her mom prepare the turkey that her dad had slaughtered. They had turkeys, chickens, cows, and rabbits on her parent’s farm.
    As she ate her sandwich and sipped her coffee, she looked at the pictures on the wall again. Her parents had made a photo she had not seen before, it was with both of them together, but it was not professional. It looked like someone had made the picture for them near the barn. It was probably made by Jeb Davis’s son. Jeb was a long time neighbor of her parents, and their boy, Adam, liked to make photos with his cell phone. He was always snapping photos with it, and sharing them. She smiled when she thought of Adam, he was such a goofy young man. He was too awkward with the girls to ever get a date when he was in school. He tried asking Alicia to the dance, but she respectfully declined.
    She peered into her old bedroom before she made her way to the back door. It looked the same as it always did. It had an old fashioned white bed spread on it, with her favorite dark brown teddy bear leaning against her pillow. The shelf was full of her old books, and she still had her old laptop on the desk. Her mother had left her room just exactly the way she had left it.
    The light on the back porch came on, since it was motion activated. The porch swing rocked back and forth gently in the little breeze. The screened back porch was always a nice place to sit in the summer and enjoy a cool breeze and eat a slice of farm fresh watermelon sprinkled with salt.
    “Mom, Dad. I am here.” Alicia called toward the direction of the barn.
    The horse was neighing in the stall. Her dad had always brought him in before it got dark. Dusty was an old horse, but her dad had no heart to shoot him. He always said. “He will pass when it is his time.” In truth, he loved that horse. He always took good care of him, and brushed his mane out every day, and gave him oats and apples for a treat.
    “Dad I am here. Where are you guys?” Alicia came near the barn and seen the light was already on. She could hear the barn door on the other end swinging back and forth and slamming shut, by the wind. The wind was starting to pick up, and it sent a chill through her. She hugged her crossed arms across her tightly. The wind pulled at her long shirt as the breeze was whipping it up over her ankles.
    She picked up a lantern flashlight that was placed on top of the old John Deere tractor, and turned it on. She called again, and walked toward the cow stables. She seen cow, Lucy had already calved and her baby was near her side. She was right, it was about the cow. She felt good that she would not be delivering a cow this night, but instead she could rest. She figured maybe her dad had convinced Adam to come over and help, when it was taking too long for her to arrive.
    She stepped in the squishy mud near the stable, and looked down at her shoes. She seen Adams phone on the ground. She picked it up.
    She felt a little shy about it, but her curiosity had gotten the best of her and she wanted to see if Adam had taken photos that day, maybe she could find out something about why the phone was on the ground and turned off. She turned the phone on, and it was not holding the charge. So, she took it