Chapter Two

It was a quiet night. Electricity was gone for past 30 hours as it was raining and streets were flooded with water. As there was no electricity there was no TV, no radio , in short no noise, it was a quiet night indeed.

Pat sat holding his bat on the mat. He had lost his ball thus the game he was playing was to pretend that the mat was a ship in a flowing river and his bat the oar that he was swiftly using to maneuver his way through the river.

Suddenly there was a short knock on the door, In the complete silence it sounded like thunder.

"Who is it " shouted Pat from his mat., in answer to the question there were a series of knocks of varying durations, two long one short , two short one long, one short , three short , three short , one short two long , four short , three long.

Pat was confused as the knocks sounded to be in Morse code, and the Morse code of the knocks seem to be saying 'Guess who'

"what do you mean guess who, you don't go knocking people's doors and play guess who" , shouted Pat back.

once more the door started vibrating from the various knocking patterns, Pat had to really tune his ears to listen up what was being said this time around. , One long, four short , two short , three short , two short , three short , one long , four short , one short

'This is the ' , wondered Pat, "this is the who ? " he asked aloud.

This time the knocks on the front door said 'Bill'

"Bill" , wondered at aloud to himself , why would the kid from his class who lived 4 blocks away would be coming to his house in this heavy rain.

He got up from the mat and went to open the door. From the peep hole in the door he saw a small figure hunched in the rain and trying to cover his head from the drops, his face was hidden behind the raised arms.

He opened the door and Bill rushed in from the rain and went directly infront of the fire place.
Bill took of the heavy wet rain coat , socks and cap , his Golden hair falling all the way down to the middle of his back along with Pat's mouth with if not hinged to his face would have fallen to the ground .

Bill turned around and shouted angrily , "What took you so long ? i had been pounding like anything for the past 10 minutes" , said Lassie , who wasn't Bill,

Pat's managed to drag his mouth up and stutter " b..bu..but your not Bill !"

"Ofcourse im not Bill what ever in the world gave you that idea? "

"You said it so yourself when i asked who it was "

"said myself ? i could hear nothing but the wet cold rain falling down on me , im SO going to catch a cold now because of you opening the door in a million years "

"but but , You said it was Bill , in your Knocks , through the Morse code "

"Morse Code ? what ever gave you the idea i would know Morse code ? it was freezing outside and when you didn't answer the first two knocks i started pounding till i get an answer. You were suppose to be expecting me i believe, your mom and dad agreed to have me over for the weekend while my parents are out of town remember? "

And then Pat realised that whatever Lassie was saying was true and indeed , who would communicate in Morse code in normal every day life? Lassie was going to be staying over at his house this weekend, and Pat's Grandma was also going to come over, infact his mom and dad would already be coming back from the train station now after picking her up.

"Sorry Lassie , i guess it is my mistake that you got completely drenched"

"Oh never mind that , i have some exciting news for you... " , said Lassie,

Now that Pat looked carefully , he did notice that Lassie was over excited, more than the usual as lassie was almost always running around poking her nose in things.

He wondered what was this exciting news. Little did he know now that this one news will take him to his biggest ever adventure.