ABS9
Teenagers, Babies
and Wedding cakes
The Babysitting Universe, book Nine
Chapter Ten
" The Test's Journey"
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Roxy went downstairs for lunch, having actually fallen asleep, she forgot about the bag under her bed. Instead she was focused on getting to and from the kitchen without Mr. Drake catching her. She had been gone for about ten minutes when her roommate, Laurie, came in .
Laurie sighed deeply before she began to clean up. Weekly room inspection was in about an hour, and Roxy's side was trashed, as usual. Laurie found the paper bag sticking half out from under Roxy's bed. Laurie went to shove it back under, and accidentally knocked it over, spilling the contents. Shocked, Laurie quickly shoved the test back into the bag and put it on the bookshelf, next to several other similar bags that contained her science experiment, regarding decomposition of vegetables.
She then went back to cleaning, still shocked at the idea of Roxy pregnant. One thing was for sure, she needed to throw that bag away before room inspection. With this in mind, Laurie finished making the beds and started out of the room, bag in hand, as Illyana knocked on the door.
" Hello. I was needing the project to record the data." Illiyana stated when Laurie opened the door.
" Oh sure, no problem. I just have to take this trash out, go ahead and grab the bags." Laurie replied, gesturing to the bookshelf. Illyana agreed, and Laurie headed out to the dumpster. Illyana grabbed the bags off of the shelf, and dropped them off in her room on her way to lunch. As she set them down, she accidentally knocked one over, and out spilled the test. She spotted it and shoved it back into the bag.
Illyana was halfway down the stairs before it registered what it was she saw in the bag. She froze on the stairs, undecided. Wait! Laurie's test was positive. And where were their carrots. Also, Laurie was pregnant!
She was about to head back upstairs, but Julien and Jamie were right behind her, and they tended to be nosey, so it would be best to wait until she could slip away to destroy the evidence against Laurie. This was bad.
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Logan and Hank were hiding in Logan's office, in a 'meeting'. They were actually researching dye on the internet, trying to find a way to fix their hair. Remy's comment gave Logan an idea, so he was looking up dyes, trying to decide which would work to fix their problem.
He learned quickly, that his own hair wasn't going to be hard to match. Hank however, was going to take some work. Because blue isn't considered a natural color. Finally he decided that they may need help. However, he didn't want everyone to know about his hair.
A few minutes later, Wanda and John stood before him, next to Remy and Rogue. Rogue had called Wanda to help, after reminding Logan that her white streak was not dye. Wanda, on the other hand, did dye her hair. As did John.
" I need ya to help us with some hair dye issues." Logan stated.
" What happened?" Wanda asked, cranky because her nap was interrupted.
Reluctantly, Logan lowered his hood. Wanda and John stared for a moment trying not to laugh. They failed in this attempt.
" Logan, I know it's got to be freaky, but dying the grey white doesn't cover it up." John stated.
" You need to use black dye to cover grey." Wanda added.
" That's what I told him." Remy supplied.
" I. was. Pranked." Logan grounds out. The others quickly sobered at his tone.
Staring critically at Beast's fur, Wanda 'hmmd' several times, circling him slowly. Finally she said. " Well. I don't know about the bald spots. But as far as the color goes, we could pick up some blue dye in the mall. "
" Good. Wanda, Rogue. I need you to go to the mall and pick up as much blue dye as you will need. Pick up my black dye while you are at it." Logan grumbled, still irritated over their jokes.
" Wait, I have to finish room inspections first." Rogue stated.
" Good. I want to know who did this." Logan stated.
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Jessica came in to their room. She flopped onto her bed, intent on reading another chapter of her new book, but accidentally kicked over a couple of Illyana's bags. She quickly scooped the potatoes and put them back, then the corn. However the third bag contained the test.
It actually made sense to her to hide it amongst those bags before room inspection. However, what would happen if Laurie came in for the experiment and grabbed this bag on accident. Thinking quickly, Jessica grabbed the bag and left the room. She had to get rid of the test somehow. Because Illyana's brother would flip out if he learned this via room inspection.
Spotting Rogue, who had just left Sarah's room, and was walking away from her, Jessica darted into her sister's room. Sarah was sitting on her bed when Jessica ran in, wild-eyed and panicking. Sarah started to ask what was wrong, but Jessica shoved the bag at her.
" Hold this, I'll explain later. Mrs. LeBeau was already in here right?" Jessica stated, Sarah nodded, and Jessica ran back out. Curious, Sarah looked into the bag, before heading out in search of her sister, leaving the bag on her bed. The test slid out as the bag tipped over, and was sitting plainly where anyone could see it.
Jessica ran back to her room, arriving just in time to walk Mrs. LeBeau in. Their room passed, as it did every week, and the teacher headed out for the last room, Paige and Laura's. Sarah came in a moment later, and waited calmly for Jessica to explain. The explanation, however, would wait because Illyana came in right then, and noticing the missing bag, assumed that Roxy had returned for it. Sighing with relief, she laid on her bed, ignoring the other girls, intent on taking a nap.
Although Rogue knew that she wouldn't find the evidence during room inspection, she looked anyway. Just in case Logan came by to see if she'd found it. Remy was doing the same over on the boys' side. Rogue found the girls' behavior very odd this afternoon. They were darting from room to room, most with guilty expressions on their faces. Clearly they were up to something, so she decided to look around for what it could be. If it was another dog she was freaking out. Seriously, she meant it.
Megan returned to her room a few minutes after Sarah left, just from the shower. She spotted the test right away, and as everyone else had done today, she assumed it was her roommate's. She, like the rest, decided to hide the evidence and slipped the test into the pocket of her robe, before heading out to get rid of it.
Megan ran into Ruth in the hall, literally. They both yelped, and stood back up, as Megan rushed down the hallway, she yelled an apology. As she turned the corner, Ruth spotted the test. She picked it up, and froze when she saw the result window. However, Mrs. LeBeau was still up here somewhere, so she shoved it in her own pocket and darted into her room, intent on getting rid of it as soon as possible.
Ruth slid the test from her pocket into her drawer as sneakily as possible, before rushing back out of the room, to ensure that the teachers had left the floor before attempting to get rid of it. She was distracted, therefore she didn't notice that her roommate was sitting at her desk, dong homework.
Hope, on the other hand, noticed Ruth's behavior, she went and looked in the drawer as soon as Ruth left the room. Gasping at the results, and realizing that Ms. Rogue was being extra picky this week, for some reason, she ran to the girls' bathroom, and threw it in the trash, covering it quickly with paper towels, then went in search of the other girls.
Rhane had been washing her hands, and not really hard to notice, though Hope seemed to have missed her. Rhane went to throw her own towel away, pretty much ignoring what had just happened. After all in this house, someone was always acting weird. She saw the test, and it's results as she threw her towel in.
Rhane shrugged, it was really none of her business. She left the restroom, just as Hisako entered. Hisako, of course, noticed the test when she threw her own towel away a bit later, however, unlike most of the previous discoverers, she did not assume it belonged to the last girl she saw. In fact, she had no clue which girl, or teacher, it could belong to.
However, she also knew that this could cause a total meltdown from the teachers if it was found, so she sneak it out and downstairs, intending to be rid of it. Ms. Monroe caught her in the foyer, however, and sent her to help clean up the ballroom.
She had just moved the last of the wedding gift into Mr. and Mrs. Wilson's room, and was back to her original journey, when she realized that the test had fallen out of her pocket at some point. Worried, but not wanting to be caught searching for an item that could get you in that much trouble, she decided to pretend that she had never seen it. That could work, right?