“What is that?” Ari asked.
“What’s in it?” Syd asked.
“I found it near the auditorium,” Lidia answered. “I think someone left it there.”
Ari frowned and said, “Maybe it’s dangerous.”
“It’s tiny,” Lidia chucked, “How dangerous can it be?”
Syd shook her head and said, “It says ‘Do Not Open’ maybe you should throw it away.”
But the warning didn’t stop her. She ran her thumb over the latch. It was cold and smooth. She felt an unexplainable feeling that she just couldn’t stop thinking about it.
Coach R walked by and froze.
“Where did you get that?” she asked.
“Outside… Why?” Lidia replied.
“That box… it was part of an old experiment,” she said quietly. “Decades ago, the old ‘auditorium’ was actually a research lab,” said Coach R.
“What? I didn’t know that.” Lidia said curiously.
“They don’t like to bring it up, but it was a lab, and an experiment went wrong so they destroyed it and blamed it on the ceiling collapsing. The researchers never finished their work”
Quietly Lidia whispered, “well what’s inside the box coach?”
“Nothing you want to release, throw it away and forget about it,” replied Coach R.
She stared at the box with a cold dead look in her eyes and walked away.