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Chapter Seven

"Skittles?" Drake Parker tilted the bright blue candy bag towards Carly as they both leaned against the counter in the Shay apartment kitchen and watched the others stare down a large corkboard that was covered in pictures.

"No thanks," Carly frowned as Josh Nichols peered closely at a picture. Carly didn't even think there was room for even a sheet of paper to fit between Josh's nose and the picture.

"Yea, he can be odd sometimes," Drake said, noting Carly's frown, "But my brother is good at what he does. Really good."

Carly shrugged. "Trust me, odd doesn't bother me anymore." Drake raised an eyebrow in question , not believing that anybody could be as odd as sometimes Josh could be. Carly pointed to where her brother Spencer Shay was also now nose to nose with the picture Josh was studying, the two of them muttering softly to each other.

"He looks normal enough," said Drake off handedly.

"If you want to keep that delusion, you won't bring up anything about socks, JFK, or black choppers in the sky."

"Sounds like a conspiracy nut with a sock fetish." Drake sounded generally surprised.

Carly laughed. "Yea, that sounds about right."

"Huh." Drake studied Carly for a second. "You remind me a lot of my sister Megan; you look exactly like her," as he said this, Meagan walked into the room.

"Is that boob still staring at the pictures?" she said, stopping when she looked at Carly. Megan did a double take, and so did Carly.

"Maybe we should separate them," said Carly, pointing towards Josh and Spencer, trying not to gawk at the similarities between herself and Megan.

"I think Josh can handle a few conspiracies. He'll enjoy pointing out the flaws in them," said Drake lazily. "Megan, this is Carly, and Carly, this is Megan." he finished, introducing the two.

Meagan waved at Carly, and Carly waved back as Megan found a seat, grinning evilly. "I say we sit back and wait for the fun to start."

"Got something!" Freddie Benson said, striding back into the kitchen, with Sam Puckett in tow.

"Freddie managed to enhance one of the photos in Photoshop, the one with the mirror, and we found--" Sam started, but Josh spoke up before she could finish.

"The mirror reflects the billboard outside of the window. It's for a body shop, about a block away from that location, if I remember. Now we know where these were shot. He took these, thinking we wouldn't find anything; he was taunting us. He overlooked the mirror though." Josh and Spencer looked over to Freddie and Sam for confirmation. Their surprised looks was a sufficient answer.

"Have we been here yet?" Josh asked, looking over his shoulder at the pair who thought they had big news.

"We were fixin' to ask you guys if you wanted to head over there." Freddie glanced at Sam out of the corner of his eyes, and Carly watched a whole conversation take place in a few seconds. Carly also didn't miss that Drake and Megan had noticed as well.

"Let me come with you," Josh said, as he put one one of his trademark polo t-shirts. "Drake and Megan, you two should stay here before you lose track of anything else."

"Hey," said Drake defensively, "It's not my fault someone decided to steal the Beetle."

"I'm wondering why someone would be stupid enough to steal it anyway," finished Megan.

"Whatever, we didn't drive all the way to Seattle just to lose the contract papers for the record deal. If it weren't for Carly and Spencer, we would've never known it was gone in the first place!" said Josh, as he took down the picture he was staring at, and walked right past Freddie and Sam. They had another silent conversation before walking out, following Josh.

"Well, that was interesting," Megan chuckled. "I wonder how long it will take for those two to 'get to know' each other better," she said, making air quotes.

Carly and Spencer laughed.

"Yea, it's been almost four years since we started hat conversation," Spencer said, walking away from the board. "And so far, nobody has won 'The Bet' yet."

"Yea?" Drake tapped the Skittles bag against his hand. "What are the guidelines?"

"Fifty bucks, and a time limit," Carly said. "But you might want to wait until you know them better before placing your wager."

"Yea, that was my first mistake," joked Spencer.

"Boys, thanks for the warning, but I've seen all I need to see. Put me down for whenever the end of your school year is, and let's follow Josh to wherever they're going. I'm sure they'll have something by the time we get there." said Megan, rising from her seat.

"Yea, I'm in, but put me down for a year." said Drake, also rising from his seat.

"I knew there was a reason I liked you two," said Carly as she handed Megan her jacket.