"NO!" Cat screamed. Cat hated elavators. She feared of the worst when she saw them. The only thing good about elavators was the cheesy music, but it wasn't in every elevator.
"Lil Red it is all right." Andre said trying to calm her down.
"Fine, you guys use that thing, I will use the stairs." Cat replied.
"Meet you up there." Rex the puppet said.
The tiny red head skipped off and onto the long flight of stairs at the mall.
"She is so..." Beck started.
"We know." The group added.
The door dinged and split in two. The gang stopped, let a group of elderly people get off, than they got on. Before the doors closed, a familar voice spoke.
"Stop the door!" Cat cried. Only, it wasn't Cat. Was it? A Cat with no red hair. No floral skirt and ruffled blouse.
The woman walked in holding a little boy's hand. This woman had the exact features of Cat's face. Even the birth mark that Cat had on her chin. The teenagers were dumb founded. Tori's eyes were wide with shock. Jade had a tight grip on Beck's arm. Robbie dropped Rex. Beck's mouth was wide open. Andre's face was blank. Trina gasped loudly. The doors closed. This had to be some joke, but it wasn't. The lady was a doppleganger! Cat's DOPPLEGANGER!
She had short brown hair, and wore a buisness suit, with a skirt. A little boy who looked like he was maybe 4 years old held her hand. No cheesy elavator music to break the silence. Robbie picked up the Rex. Than Cat's doppleganger turned around to see who she was riding with for 20 seconds. She raised her eyebrows at the high schoolers. The little boy looked around. Jade was the first to wipe the shocked expression on her face and thwacked her friends on the arms. The doppleganger looked down at the child, becuase he tugged at her skirt.
"Mommy, can we gets smoothies?" The kid asked.
"Sure, honey." The woman replied.
But the elevator stopped in the middle of the lift. The doors were still shut. You could see out of it because the walls were glass. Tori nearly fell on the floor of the elevator but was supported by Robbie and Andre. Beck grabbed a hold of a railing, with Jade by his side. Trina scooted towards the railing bar. Cat's doppleganger pulled her son close to her and leaned against the wall. No wonder Cat hated these things.
"We cannot be trapped!" Beck hollared.
"We're trapped?" The little boy wailed.
"No there will be someone to save us." Tori assured the boy with her fingers crossed behind her jeans.
Jade stepped over to the panel with buttons and pressed the one with the call sign on it.
"Hello? Los Angeles Mega Mall Staff, how can we assist you?" A gruff voice greeted.
"Yeah, your elavator stopped between floors and we are stuck." Jade complained.
"Okay, please hold on for a moment." The voice told them. They heard what the employee spoke to someone named Bob.
"Yeah there are people stuck on the elevator, I don't know I'll ask Bob."
"Okay, how many people are on board?" The man asked.
"Uh six." Jade told the man.
"Make that seven." Robbie whispered. Jade rolled her eyes and ignored him.
"Okay m'am we will be there soon."
"Hurry, or else." Jade murmered stepping back towards her boyfriend.
"So, uh, when do you think they will be here?" Cat's clone said.
"I dunno." Jade replied.
They all sat down.
The teens introduced themselves.
"Hi. I am Rachel, and this is Connor." Rachel said.
"You are the The Diddly-Bops!" Connor cried.
"That's us!" Andre said proudly.
"Want autographs?" Tori asked.
"Sure! Mommy, can we get der autawaphs?" Connor begged.
"Of course, just let me find something to write on and a pen." Rachel said.
She fished out a legal pad and a black ball point pen from her big mom bag. The Diddly-Bops signed the the next 10 minutes or so Connor sang and got pictures with the Hollywood Arts students. It was nothing compared to being trapped in the RV. Suddenly, the elavator roared to life and brought them to the second floor. The doors opened and the riders saw a maintenence man, 3 mall staff, and a bouncy Cat.
"Oh my goodness! The mall people came! And a dude who fixes eleavators who said he liked to dance came, and they rescued you!" Cat screeched jumping on her friends when they came off.
"Nice meeting you, and thanks for singing with us!" Rachel said walking off while picking up her son. He waved good bye with a big grin on his face.
"Who was that?" Cat wondered.
"Oh, just someone who reminded us of you!" Tori answered while poking Cat.
"Really?" Cat said.
"Yupper-roony!" Robbie told her.
"Well let's go get pretzels from Uncle Zane's Pretzel Emporium!" Cat suggested.
"All right than." Beck said.
The gang got their pretezels, than explained the rest of the story to Cat. Trina showed a picture of Rachel she secretly snapped with her phone while they were trapped.
"Wow." Was all Cat could say.
From than on, they decided to keep their eyes open for the rest of the group's dopplegangers. And they had to take picures of them. To be continued...