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Maddie looked to the door creaking open. It was Miley! It had to be, she was probably just going to tell them that it was all a stupid joke! Maddie felt a wave of relief surround her and she had to work hard to keep a smile off of her face. She leaned forward anxiously, ignoring her hurt shoulder, to see ……Amber and Ashley?
Maddie's mouth slowly opened to gap at the two girls, who were looking around the room with confused expressions on their faces.
"Is there, like, some kind of party that we didn't know about?" Ashley asked, flipping her black hair over her shoulders.
"PARTY? PARTY!?" Lily lunged at them and it took Oliver and Maddie to hold her back. "Let me at them, I'll rip them apart, let me get my hands on them!"
"Okay, you have gone from, like, loser to psychopath." Amber said, backing up and looking terrified.
That's when Mr. Stuart stepped forward. "From what I heard, you girls were involved in a practical joke or something that made Miley disappear." He didn't sound mean or irritated, just worried. "At least that's what Lily and Oliver told the teachers."
"What? Us, hang out with Miley? Yea, riiiiiiiight. Ohhh, sisss!" The girls exclaimed, crossing fingers.
"But you were there!" Everyone turned to see Oliver speaking up for the first time that night. "We saw you! You helped abduct Miley!"
"Abduct? Doesn't that mean, like, kidnap?" Amber said, looking at Ashley for support.
Maddie rolled her eyes and then stood up. "Ok, look, we'll prove that you were involved in this. Where were you 2 hours ago?"
The two girls looked at each other with smiles on their faces and opened their mouths, but all of a sudden, they closed them and looked at each other confused.
"We- we don't know." Amber said, sounding actually sorry for the first time that night.
"Wait." Everyone looked over to see Ashley slumped on the ground with her eyes closed, and her fists clenched. "I… I remember something…."
The next moment her eyes shot open and she screamed, "Snakes!"
As Amber slowly began to back away from her too, Ashley continued. "They were all over the place. Even," at this Ashley's voice began to fade, then all of a sudden was replaced by Amber's voice.
"……even on people's heads."
"Yes! Exactly what we've been trying to tell you!" Lily practically screamed in Mr. Moseby's face.
"What?" The teenage boy said, his voice wrapped in confusion. He gave a small laugh. "The only person that can do that is Medusa and her sisters." He began to laugh even more. "Yeah right, Miley was kidnapped by Medusa."
As he faced blank faces from Maddie, Lily, and Oliver, his shoulder's slumped. "Oh, you've gotta be kidding me." He muttered to himself.
Maddie saw that she needed to take charge, since the adults were all looking as freaked out as the boy was.
"All right," she said, hoping to sound mature and in control, "the first thing we need to do is find Arwin and get him to tell us more about these statues. Zack and Cody, you will be in charge of that. Lily, Oliver, and you," she said, pointing to the teenage boy, "will cover the bottom half of the hotel. If you see Miley, then try and follow her before approaching her, she may be under Medusa or who ever she is spell." Then she pointed to the adults and herself. "We will cover the upper half of the hotel, including the roof. Amber and Ashley will each go with one of the groups. If you see any funny behavior from either one of them, follow them, don't try and stop them. They could lead us to Miley."
Meanwhile, Patrick was cleaning up around the restaurant when he noticed that one of the Gorgon statues was broken. As he bent down to try and clean up, and think of a good excuse for Mr. Moseby, he didn't hear the hiss of the snakes and the footsteps of a girl running from the restaurant………….
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-WhiteIce