Welcome back! Thank you to those of you who reviewed the first chapter. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter, the action is going to pick up *wink*
"We're here!" Annabelle's dad shouted from the front seat. The family had just arrived at the hotel that they were going to stay at for the night. They had booked 2 rooms, one for Annabelle and Kate, and one for Annabelle's parents.
After they had checked in, Annabelle and Kate went directly to their room. "Hey look! We even get our own coffee maker!" Kate commented.
"I know you're obsessed with coffee, but don't drink too much, we know what happens when you do that!" Annabelle replied.
Kate giggled. Annabelle could have sworn that she heard another laugh, as if someone else was in the room with them.
"We should probably get ready to go to the show." Annabelle pointed out.
"Ehh, not right at this second." Kate said. There was a long awkward pause where everything seemed to freeze. "Aww snap, I just suddenly got hungry, I'm going to go down to the vending machine for a snack."
"Ok, just remember to take the key-card with you." Kate left to get a snack.
For a second, everything was fine, but suddenly, there was a voice calling Annabelle's name. "Annabelle! Can you hear me?" Annabelle was frightened, but stood strong ready for anything.
"Who are you!?" she asked as confidently as she could. "And how do you know my name?"
"I'm in the closet. I have no intention of hurting you, but no one can know I'm here except for you." The voice replied.
"You didn't answer my question, who are you?" Annabelle cautiously walked to the closet.
"I will step out if you promise not to scream."
After a long pause, Annabelle said "Alright" while backing away, convinced that there was a murderer hiding away in the closet of her hotel room.
The doorknob turned very slowly, and the door opened revealing a green woman in a long black dress. Annabelle gasped. She stood there with her mouth wide open not knowing what to say.
Elphaba smiled looking at her daughter. "Hello, Annabelle. I've missed you so much." She said calmly.
"I … I don't know what to say! ELPHABA!?"
"We need to talk." Elphaba said hurriedly. She knew that Kate was going to come back, and she had a lot of information she needed to pass on to Annabelle.
"Uh, OK." Elphaba motioned for Annabelle to sit down next to her on one of the full-sized beds.
"This is going to be a huge shock to you, but you are my daughter." Elphaba said. "and, you are 14 years old, your powers are going to come in at any moment."
Annabelle stopped her right there. "Whoa whoa whoa, hold on a second, you mean t tell me that I am your DAUGHTER! That's impossible, I have parents, and they are both right next door."
"I know, Fiyero and I had to leave you with them. We had to go on an extremely dangerous mission, and we couldn't risk losing you."
Annabelle gasped. "You mean, I am the fiyeraba baby!"
"Fiyeraba? What's fiyeraba?" Elphaba asked.
Before Annabelle could answer, Kate knocked at the door. "Anna, I know you said not to forget the card-key, but… I did. Can you let me in please?"
Annabelle shook her head at her friend's blondness, and started going o the door. "Wait! No one can know I'm here!" Elphaba said desperately.
"Don't worry, Kate's my friend. She will be happy to meet you!" Annabelle reassured her.
"No, you can't let her in right now, I have to tell you some things, Annabelle, it's very important! If I don't talk to you now, I don't know when I will get the chance to again, and it might be too late!"
Annabelle stopped and thought about it. "Hey! Annabelle! What are you doing? Let me in!" Kate called from outside the room.
"Hide," Annabelle told Elphaba. "I'll handle Kate." The green woman ran into the bathroom, and closed the door.
Annabelle went to the door and opened it just a little bit. "Hey, Kate! How're you! I hear they have a really nice… uh… pool here and…"
Kate cut her off. "I need to use the bathroom. What's going on, are you hiding something from me? You sound very suspicious."
"NO!" Annabelle said a little too fast. "You know, they have really nice public bathrooms down at the lobby, you should use those instead!" she was panicking , Elphaba was hiding in that bathroom.
"No way, move aside." Annabelle gave up. She ran to the bathroom door before Kate could get there and leaned against it, pretending to play it cool. "Anna, this isn't funny anymore. Now, get out of the way."
Annabelle sighed. "Kate… you can't use that bathroom."
"Then why?" Kate was getting angry.
"Because… uh, the toilet isn't working!" Annabelle replied feeling a little bit ingenious.
Kate rolled her eyes. "Then call room service! Here, I'll go do it."
Annabelle felt relieved for a second, and then realized that if a plumber came in and saw Elphaba, it would be even worse than Kate. "WAIT! You can't do that!" Annabelle yelled way too desperately.
"Anna, something is going on. I can tell. Friends don't keep secrets from each other. PLEASE tell me why you are doing this. It's worrying me."
Annabelle let out a huge breath. "Kate… Elphaba's in that bathroom."
OH the suspense! Please review and tell me what you think! Reading without reviewing is not cool.
