The Confidential Emporium
Chapter 4

Logan was purely shocked, like an audience watching a magic trick. Anxious, he threw himself around, looking everywhere, persevering to find the special door. Logan swore the door was placed in the exact spot, confusion ploughed through him. He stamped his foot in anger, he forgot everything, his mind was blank, he was helpless. Suddenly, a small round shimmer glinted in the rays of sunlight, he expected the best possible answer, the door. Exiting the old cottage, he quickly ran down the hill and back to the beautiful waterfall. Ignoring the sharp rocks, Logan jumped and leaped from one to another, realization struck him the grand glint was some of the damp rocks. He stared at the clean, crisp water in sadness noticing his reflection. All of a sudden he saw a small door knob hover in the water, and a wooden plank slept a the bottom. Logan knew exactly what it was.

Immediately, Logan plunged into the small water-pool. Logan thought the freshwater would be freezing, it was surprisingly warm. Unsurprisingly, Logan was always a talented swimmer he could swim with ease. Panicking, he heard the thunderous sprint of the creepy creature, he knew what to do. So with that he took a large, deep breath and dived under swimming and kicking frantically.

Seconds later, Logan found himself floating next to the special door, he grasped for the door handle, quickly he held the door knob and violently tugged the door open. A large whoosh of air bubble surrounded Logan. A quick as a flash of lightening he was through the mahogany door. Opening his eyes he saw a blurry corridor which was a familiar sight for Logan. He was back, in The Confidential Emporium. He panted trying to engulf as much air as possible.

Anxious, Logan crept through the corridor and back to the main shop. Surprisingly, Vinicius Bronze was stood around polishing some chine tea pots, which when cleaned he stacked them gingerly on top of a dust smothered shelf. Unnoticed, Logan paced around, he was welcomed back by many recognisable sights: a velvety curtain hung hopelessly surrounded by a mahogany wardrobe; a small silver crow flew around the dark, damp room chipperly; and many potions and pots stood proudly creating small area name an apothecary.
“You have returned is see,” Mr Bronze said, noticing Logan gazing around the emporium. “But I would like to bring up an unsafe action, you wrote in the book didn’t you, I flicked through all of the pages and there was one to many,” he said, looking very annoyed and frustrated. The shopkeeper slowly walked towards Logan and pointed at him, he said in a stern voice, “Get out of my shop now, no questions asked.” Without replying he headed for the door.

Logan paced out of the shop and sat down on a solitary bench in sadness. Logan wanted to find more information about everything related to the Confidential Emporium. He tilted his head to look but only a couple of midnight bricks led down on where the emporium used to be. Logan was purely confused, so he simply turned around and his mind was blank like a piece of unused paper. But he noticed something he remembered about it, a small circus monkey followed him along the street path as he paced home.

Logan whispered to him self, maybe it would reappear, hopefully it would. What Logan forgot was that a small monkey was following him closely behind. As Logan turned around it hid behind a large trash collector bin. As Logan gave up on trying to find the Emporium again Logan walked on home and the monkey screamed with all the time in the world.