Rrrring! Rrrring!

Jesse's phone rang at one o'clock in the morning, which was WAY too early for anyone. He tumbled out of bed, fell down the stairs, and tripped over air. He had to get the phone. It could have been the Disney people calling to double-check a reservation. That was not something he wanted forwarded to voice mail. They were leaving early the next morning for their vacation.

But, nope. No Disney people. Just Axel.

"Hey man, I couldn't sleep. Too excited for tomorrow!"

"Yeah, I can tell. It's one AM."

"Sorry for waking you up, dude."

"Hey, it's fine. You all ready and packed for tomorrow?"

"Yep, all six bags. You got the hotel rooms reserved?"

"Double-checked a few hours ago and ready to go."

They talked for a half an hour longer until Jesse looked at the clock. "Oh crap, it's almost two o'clock. I gotta sleep now. See you tomorrow. Bye!"

"But—" Click.

"Sorry, Axel, but it's time to get some rest." Jesse laid down and fell asleep.

"AHHH!" Jesse was awoken by Reuben at 5:30 AM, who acted as his alarm clock by licking him sloppily across the face. "Reuben!"

"Oink!"

"Okay, okay. Fine, I'm up." The boy climbed out of bed and got ready. "Dang, I didn't realize how early it'd be."

Still half asleep, Jesse accidentally put toothpaste on his hairbrush and his shoes on the wrong feet. "My toothbrush is huge," he commented. A second later came the answer to the unspoken question. "Oh."

Once he managed to put all articles of clothing on the right body parts, he jumped on his golf cart (Gill had borrowed his car) and drove to the airport after stopping to refill its gas. There, he found everybody else who had decided to come along on the vacation (which was everyone except, Reginald, Milo, Otto, and the Gladiators) in the airport cafeteria.

"You're late," frowned Lukas.

"I know, I had to take my golf cart. My car was getting borrowed," replied Jesse, as if this was something he said every day.

"You know a golf cart's not really a car, right?" Lukas walked away, leaving Jesse to talk to Soren.

"Hi, Soren," greeted Jesse. "Did you manage to get the tickets?"

"Well," answered Soren. "There were some difficulties, but Gabriel came through for us at the last second." He turned to the warrior, who waved happily at them with a fistful tickets in his hand. "Excuse me," continued the architect, "but I'm needed by the plant." He walked to the fern, and carried on a deep conversation with it.

"Okay... that's not weird at all." Jesse then looked at Olivia, who came up beside him.

"What's up?" she asked.

"Nothing much. But do you know how Gabriel got us those tickets in such short notice?"

She answered, "Nope. But I'll ask him. Gabriel, how did you get all our tickets so quickly?"

"Oh, I have my ways," came the mysterious reply.

Olivia turned to Jesse, eyes wide. "He murdered somebody!"

Gill, who had overheard part of the statement, said, "Gabriel's a murderer? What did you say? Sorry, I wasn't really listening."

Gill didn't listen a lot.

"A murderer?" exclaimed Em. "Let's get 'em!"

"GABRIEL'S A MURDERER?! NOTCH HELP US ALL!" screamed Nell, running around the building, alerting total strangers of Gabriel's non-committed act of homicide.

"Ooh, we could be friends!" exclaimed Cassie Rose.

The airport was in chaos. And it was all Gabriel's fault for murdering someone, which he did not.

Thankfully, an announcement came announced over the loudspeakers. Unthankfully, the announced announcement was announcing that their flight was delayed two hours. "Yay! We can stay here for two more hours!" said Magnus happily, plucking Ellegaard's phone from her pocket.

"Hey!" she exclaimed.

All the strangers nearby groaned.