Me: Ok. I'm in Rome, and I'm tired as hell. I'm gonna stay at that hotel down-

Wait a minute..(Looks closer). Nudge! She's staying at that hotel! (Lands on balcony, and knocks on window)

Nudge: What are you doing here? I'm still mad at you.

Me: I know. That's why I came all the way to Rome to find you. I wanted to apologize. I'm really sorry.

Nudge: Sorry doesn't make fact that you yelled at me!

Me: I know. I was just frustrated that we were being chased.

Nudge: Well it's gonna cost you big time if you want me to forgive you.

Me: Crap…ok. What's it gonna cost?

Nudge: First, give me your credit card

Me: My credit card? (pulls out wallet, and credit card). Ok, but why?

Nudge: You'll see why. Now come with me. We're gonna start our shopping extravaganza!

Me: Oh Sh-

Nudge: language!

Me: Oh this is gonna be a long chapter….

Chapter 4: Now what?

"Crap. Crap. Crap. Crap. A thousand times, crap!" I said as I paced in the little jail cell that we were being held in. So here's how we ended up here.

We sneak out to go to a party after getting grounded, then, we get there, and everything's fine. Me and Fang are dancing, and Iggy and Ella are drinking some punch. Then I find out that the Punch is spiked! So, I, being the leader, try to get everyone out of there and home, and be responsible. Then, Iggy elbows Fang in the face, we land in the yard of the party thrower, and the cops come.

What makes it worse, we could have gotten of scott free.

Flashback:

"Put your hands in the air." An officer yelled at us.

"We didn't do anything! I swear!" I tried to reason with him.

"We got a complaint about a out of control party. Is that true?" an lady officer said, walking over to us.

I pushed Iggy off me, and stood up so I could talk to her. "I guess. We have no idea. We were just on our way home from the park."

"Yea. Our brother and sister are really tired, so we decided to head home." Fang added.

She looked at us to try and see if we were lying. "You realize that it's past curfew?"

"Yea. We didn't realize how late it was until about five minutes ago. We're really sorry."

"Ok. I'll let you off with a warning. Get home now." She said, smiling at us.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I started to piggy back Ella, and Fang lifted Iggy's arm over his shoulder.

"Stupid pigs!" Iggy yelled. Oh crap. "You guys piss me off! Always picking on innocent people and teenagers! We have our rights!" he yelled.

"Is he ok?" she asked, eying him curiously.

"Yea! He's fine! He just gets really crazy when he's sleepy. He'll start saying random things." Please believe that. Please believe that.

"I'm not sleepy! I'm drunk!" Iggy yelled. Shit.

"Me too!" Ella joined in. Double shit.

"You're what?" she asked, flashing her flash light in his eyes.

"He's blind." Fang added. That's probably the only true thing that's come out of our mouths in the last 2 minutes.

"And what about her?" she asked, pointing her eyes in Ella's face.

"She's just weird." Fang said.

"Ok. Well if you don't mind, I'd like to give you all a breathalyzer test." She said.

Crap. Two minutes later, she found that our two siblings were positive. "Ok, I'm gonna have to take you all down town and call your parents."

"No! You can't take me! I won't let you!" Ella said, hiding behind me.

"We are so dead." I whispered while shaking my head.

Flashback ends

"Max, calm down." Fang said, sitting against the wall.

"How calm down? We're at the freaking police station after being arrested for having two drunken teenagers, lying to the police, and for resisting arrest." Oh did I forget to mention that last part? Ella started freaking out and trashing when they tried to cuff us. Then, Iggy kicked one of the cops, and tried to help Ella.

When we got here, we were questioned on where we lived and things like that. Here's how that went:

Another Flashback: Max

"I know my rights! I don't have to say anything." I said, crossing my arms.

"Young lady, you realize that the more you refuse to comply, the more severe your punishment will be."

"Trust me, nothing you can say will convince me to talk."

Next Flashback: Fang

"Young man, please answer the questions. The sonner you comply, the sooner we can get you out of here." The officer reasoned with him.

Fang just sat there, silently glaring.

"Ok, get this kid out of here. He's starting to creep me out…"

Next Flashback: Iggy

"Young man, can you please tell me your address."

Iggy's eyes started to water. "No. I can't." He said.

"And why not?"

"Because I don't know it. I'm blind! I can't see anything! I've never seen it!" he yelled as he started to ball his eyes out.

"Son, calm down. Everything's gonne be fine."

"No it's not! Every time someone says it's gonna be fine, it get's worse!" he continued to cry.

Last Flashbacks: Ella

"Miss, will you please tell me your name and address."

"Please just let me go. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do anything."

"Miss, please just tell me your name and address."

"I don't want a criminal record! I'm sorry! I'll never do it again."

The officer sighed, and left the room. "This is why I hate having to deal with kids."

Flashbacks End

"We need to stay calm and think about our options." He said.

"Ok. First, we can call Mom, tell her the truth, and have her come get us."

"Let's save that for a last resort."

"Agreed. We could try to have Iggy pick the lock or try to make a mini bomb to blow up the lock."

"I like the first one, but he's way to drunk, and even if we did, these two are way too drunk for us to sneak out. The second one isn't a good idea at all."

"Why not?"

"Iggy's already crazy enough when making a bomb. Imagine a drunk Iggy."

"Good point." I sat there and tried to think up another idea.

"I could always go invisible. Then when the guard comes in, I ambush him, and and we get outta here as fast as we can?"

"No. If we do that, not only could we never go home again, but then we'd be outlaws. If mom ever found out, we'd be in even more trouble!"

"Yea. So I guess we have to use our last resort."

"Yea." I walked over to the bars of the dark cell. "Hey, I want my one phone call!"

"Yea, yea. Keep it down you little brat." The guard said, opening the door so I could come out.

"You'd better watch yourself. I got your badge number." I threatened.

"Whatever." He led me over to the phone, and walked back over to the desk.

I stood there for a couple seconds before dialing the number. It rang for a couple of seconds. Part of me was hoping that Mom wouldn't pick up the phone.

"Hey?" she asked. It was definitely her voice.

"Hey Mom. Um, listen…we snuck out to go to a party. Iggy and Ella got drunk, and then we got taken down to the police station. We're there now. We need you to come and get us."

"Oh my god! I'm on my way." She said before she hung up.

I walked back over to the cell, and sat next to Fang. "So how long do you think it'll take to get here from the house?" I asked.

"Ten minutes. Maybe less."

"So we have t-minus ten minutes in counting before we die." I said, snuggling up to him.

"Yea." He said, kissing my head. "Let's enjoy it."

"Yea." I agreed.

We sat there for five minutes, when we saw three people we didn't expect to see. "Nudge? Gazzy? Angel?" I asked, walking over to the bars.

"Max!" Angel cheered, running up, and hugging me through the bars. "We're so glad you guys are ok."

"What are you doing here? Where's mom?"

"She called before you did. She said that one of her poodle's at the vet went into labor, and that she could be gone a couple of hours."

"Well that doesn't help. We're still-" then something hit me. "Wait, if she's at the vet, then who picked up the phone?"
"That would be me." Gazzy said proudly.

"Of course. I should have known." I said, with a smile.

"And we got a plan to get you guys out of here." Angel said winking at me. She walked over to the desk where the guard and the other officers who brought us in where sitting. "Excuse me sir." She said as she stood on her tiptoes so she could see over the desk.

"Yea?" he asked rudely.

"You didn't see any of these kids to night. You don't know who they are. Everything that has happened tonight that involves them, never happened."

"We've never seen these kids before….we don't know who you are…" they all repeated while Nudge grabbed the keys, and let us out.

We all ran outside, or in Iggy and Ella's case, staggered outside, and walked home.

"I can't believe that you guys did that! I'm so proud of you." I said, hugging them all as I headed up the porch.

"Um Max," Gazzy called. "Before you open the door, you should know…we made a little mess…"

"How little?" I asked.

"Like, the whole kitchen is covered in ice cream, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream…" Nudge said.

"What?!" I shouted. "What did you guys do?!"

"We got into an argument over the chocolate sauce, and then the whipped cream got in peoples hair, and it just turned into one huge food fight." She explained.

We walked into the kitchen. "Oh my God." Was all I could say. We sent Iggy and Ella to bed, and got to work on the kitchen.

We had been working for about a half hour, and we were all really tired. But we were almost done. Then, the door opens, and we all tense up, and stopped dead in our tracks.

Mom shuffled her way into the kitchen, barely noticing us. "Hey guys," she yawned. "I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning." She continued to shuffle out of the room, and down the hall to her room.

"Well. Looks like we're off the hook on this one guys." I said with a smile. "And Fang?"

"Yea?"

"Remind me to never do this again." I said laughing.

Surprise! Bet you thought they were gonna get in trouble, didn't ya? I bet no one was expecting the younger flock members to come to the rescue of the older ones, did ya? Lol.

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