The group looked around.
“Wow. That was weird,” said Mark.
“Indeed,” Carrie agreed. Then she spotted a girl with two boys sitting on her magic couch. “SARA SARA!” she shouted excitedly.
“Care Bear!” responded the tall curly-haired girl. She stood up and they hugged, and the boy sitting nearest Sara stood up as well. “Care--”
“No, Jay, you may not call me that,” Carrie reminded him.
“Hello Peter,” Matthew greeted the other boy, rather amused by the fact that he was greeting his brother.
Eager to get going on their next adventure through the next door, Kim began searching all the doors for the lack of a sign. However, all the doors had signs.
“Did we not explore the first door enough?” asked Charlyn curiously.
“I doubt that,” replied Cy.
“Yeah, we spent forever down there!” Katie agreed.
“Did not!” Kim retorted.
“This isn't helping us find the new door,” observed Abigail.
“True,” Sarah agreed.
“Cricket, help us find the door!” encouraged Tiffany.
“Chirp, chirp!” suggested Cricket, helpfully.
“You so smaht,” Carrie praised sarcastically.
“Here it is: http://www.geocities.com/hobbithugz/unopeneddoorschapter2.jpg,” announced Chris. Everyone looked at the door.
“Obviously Photoshopped,” commented Elisabeth.
“It's not supposed to look like a real door, get over it,” came the voice over the loudspeaker again.
Scarlett jumped. “Whoa! She needs to quit doing that.”
“But what is that supposed to mean?” asked Rainor, pointing at the sign on the door.
“'Open this door into that of the beginning'?” Klaus read aloud, seeming to question the statement. “Beginning? Beginning of what?”
“Maybe we'll go back to the Garden of Eden,” mused Ben.
“I sure hope I don't go back to infancy,” chuckled Michael.
“Don't say that! You'll jinx us!” ordered Sara.
“Well, there's only one way to find out,” said Carol. But no one seemed very eager to be the first one to pass through the door.
Finally Peter made an observation that set many of their minds at ease. “It's a very wide door.”
“That means more than one of us can go through at a time!” continued Jay, offering pie to Carrie, who wisely turned it down.
Much of the group crowded together, none wanting to be the first nor the only one to go through. The entire group of twenty-two people, plus Cricket who was hiding in Someone's pocket, passed through the doorway, apprehensive of what might come. No sooner had they gone between the door jambs, they stood against the wall, facing the exact same door.
Every single one of them thought to themselves that it was just a dream, but never said anything to their companions. So they moved toward the door again.
“'Open this door into that of the beginning,'” Sara whispered, and they stepped through the doorway again. Like before, they found themselves standing against the wall opposite that door.
“Wow. What an interesting door!” exclaimed Katie.
“That was a lot of fun!” said Jay. He and Matthew ran through it again.
“What on earth was the author thinking?” Mark pondered aloud.
“Probably don't want to know,” replied Charlyn.
“True, very true,” Abigail agreed.
What could possibly be crazier than this door? Curiously, they anticipated the opening of the next door.
