WOO HOO I AM BACK FROM FLORIDA! I dub that place one of the best places on earth. Sorry people that I couldn't update for awhile but I was down there getting a tan. So anyway now I can get on with the updating so here we go to the reviewers.
Kasumi: Hello Kira, hello Ashtun. Well I'm sorry if I made me sound noble I just couldn't think of how to end the chapter. I'll try and fit the cookies in there somewhere… but until then you are still drinking. Glad you liked the mashed potatoes so keep on reviewing for more stuff.
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(Previously)
"Umm…why are we sitting down Emma?" he asked and watched as she nodded toward the upper level deck where the Matt, Dalton, and Ashley had appeared. Right now it looked like a fight was about to break out between the relatives.
"Well this should be interesting…" Emma said with a smirk. She and TJ sat there and watched as Ashley started yelling at the two, who were yelling back. It took about five minutes but in the end Ashley threw Dalton halfway over the railing. Emma was trying to keep a laugh in during the whole thing but it was very difficult. When the three had finally left Emma turned to TJ and asked, "She's drunk isn't she?"
"Probably, she gave me this earlier today." TJ said while pointing up to his head where there was a large cut on his head. Emma cringed at the sight, as she slowly stood back up. It was getting rather cold outside.
"Well I think we should go." She said as she began walking with TJ right behind her. "I'll walk you to your room." She said with a smile and TJ nodded. They walked together in silence until they were inside and right in front of his room. Emma waved him good-night and as she walked away TJ stood there thinking about her plan and if she stuck to it, in two days, she would be dead.
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Chapter 12: We Lost Chelsea!
Courtney woke up to the sound of very loud knocking at her door. At first she thought she might just have a really big headache, but she then realized that the noise was real. Grumbling, she threw the covers off of her and slowly walked to the door. 'This better be good.' She thought to herself. She reached for the door knob but stopped when she heard the muffled voice of Ashley from beneath her pillow.
"Courtney, when you open the door step behind it cause I'm gonna throw this book at them." She said as she reached over to the desk beside her and grabbed a rather large looking book. Courtney looked around cautiously before nodding slowly. She grabbed the door knob and opened it quickly before hiding behind the door.
"Courtney where are y-oof!" came the voice of Emma before Ashley threw the book at her. Courtney heard a slam before she looked around the door to see Emma sitting against the opposite wall. She looked completely dazed at the moment and she only got worst when the door behind her opened and she fell backwards. Out walked TJ from behind his door and Courtney rolled her eyes at the whole situation.
"Ashley, you just hit Emma with a book." She sighed as Ashley sat up.
"About time someone did it." She smirked as she stretched her arms. Courtney shook her head before looking back toward TJ.
"Emma has to tell us something important I'm guessing but we can't leave her out in the hall while she's out cold. You don't happen to have a chair or something, do you?" she asked the tall boy. He looked at her as if she was crazy but then nodded reluctantly. Courtney got up and helped him pull Emma to a chair in his room.
"We'll be over in a couple minutes; we have to change to our day clothes." Courtney said. TJ nodded and sat on his bed as Courtney closed their doors.
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"Ugh… what happened? It feels like I just got hit by a bus." Emma moaned as she tried to open her eyes.
"Nope not a bus Emma, but the book of Macbeth by William Shakespeare." Came the voice of Courtney from the corner. Emma opened her eyes to see her, Ashley, and TJ all sitting on what she guessed to be his bed. They all had a look of anticipation on their faces.
"Why are you all looking at me like that?" she asked the trio but before they could answer the door opened and in walked John with a confused look on his face. He turned to TJ.
"Ok, I am going to completely ignore the fact that you have three girls in your room with you alone…" he said as he looked around to make sure there was no one else.
"That would be a good idea." TJ said bluntly, but that didn't end it for John.
"Well can I ask what you four are doing?" he said, this time pointing the question toward all four of them.
"Emma needed to tell us something." Ashley said as all eyes turned to Emma. The brunette looked as if she was trying to recall something in her brain before a light bulb seemed to go on.
"Oh yeah; Ashley, Courtney, and now I guess TJ and John, we have a problem." She said making sure she had gotten everyone in the room.
"Which would be what..?" Courtney asked tipping her head slightly forward. Emma took a deep breath.
"Umm…..well it seems we have lost Chelsea." She said as calmly as she could but it caused Ashley and Courtney to stand up.
"WHAT!" they yelled simultaneously causing Emma to flinch. She then proceeded to explain.
"Well you see she became a…cross dresser on this ship and Kristen, Bri, and I have checked all places, male and female, that she could have gone and we just can't find her." Emma said simply.
"Wow, your friends just keep getting weirder and weirder blondie." TJ said and the short girl gave him a glare that made him shut up.
"We'll find her Emma don't worry." Ashley said as she stood up in her dress. Courtney nodded and then grabbed TJ and John by the wrists and proceeded to pull them out of the room, leaving Emma standing there holding the Macbeth book.
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The group of four spent two hours looking for Chelsea on the ship but couldn't find her anywhere. They had actually made a list and checked off all the places she could be which included her room, the dining room, the deck, the smoking room, the deck again, the first class corridors, the second class corridors, and the third class corridors; in which Ashley dispatched more justice on her two cousins when they made fun of her. Finally they ended up on D-deck and were sitting on the chairs at the moment.
"That's it I give up!" John said loudly as he rubbed the back of his neck. TJ nodded in agreement and the two girls looked at each other with doubt.
"Come on guys she didn't just disappear off the ship." Courtney said encouragingly.
"Well she could have jumped…" Ashley said turning to her friend and John and TJ shrugged as if saying it could happen. Courtney mumbled under her breath.
"Well we're not going to find her by sitting here. I say we split up and look for her separately." Courtney said. "We can spit and look for her by ourselves. I can check first class social rooms and corridors." She said.
"Well, I guess I could keep checking the deck." John said shrugging his shoulders. Courtney nodded then looked at TJ. He sighed.
"Well I could check second and third class areas." He said defeated as if he knew there was no way he was getting out of searching again. All three then looked at Ashley.
"I will be checking the bar!" she said happily and the two guys looked at Courtney as if saying, 'You're going to let her do that?' Courtney just shrugged.
"Well I don't approve but at least you'll be out of our way and such." She said shaking her head. Ashley smiled evilly and then started running away. The three watched her go before turning their own separate ways and leaving as well.
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Courtney sighed as she opened what she thought to be the millionth door she'd checked. She couldn't believe that one girl could be so hard to find. She started to think that Chelsea had actually jumped off the ship.
She sat down against a wall in the Dining Room with her head in her hands. Luckily, since it was only filled with waiters and maids, no on really noticed her. The blonde girl watched as a tall looking waiter came walking by, and before she knew what she was doing she had pulled the hem of his pants, causing him to look down.
"Umm… may I help you miss?" He asked with a slightly awkward tone. Courtney looked up at him.
"You haven't happened to see a girl about my age; with very curly hair running around here did you?" She asked adding a sigh at the end. The man looked around.
"I'm sorry miss but no I haven't." He said and then walked away, leaving Courtney there on the floor.
"Hmph, some service…" She mumbled to herself. She rubbed the side of her head before she stood up and walked out the door. She wondered, lost in thought for her lost friend and how drunk Ashley was at the moment. Before she knew it she was back in her room. She sat down on the bed, after completely giving up on Chelsea, and contemplated what she should do. Ashley probably wouldn't arrive until dinner so she had no one to talk to.
Since she had nothing else to do she reached into a drawer and pulled out a little compensation book which she had created into a little journal. She was planning to put it into a lifeboat before the boat went down so people could read about how… brilliant she was about knowing that the boat was going to sink. She smirked at herself, and then began to write.
April 13th, 1912
Well I have had a rather interesting day today. We seem to have lost Chelsea completely con this ship and I'm starting to worry she actually did jump. The boat is scheduled to sink tomorrow unless we do something about it. If I wasn't so loyal to my friends I would do something like stay in a lifeboat or something…HOLY CRAP! I know where Chelsea is!
Courtney set down the diary and ran out the door without another thought.
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Ashley sat at the bar as she looked around the room, which was full of really blurry faces. She blinked her eyes a couple times and her vision became clear again. She was still somewhat sober. She turned back to Susan.
"Ow… Hey Susan, you don't happen to have anything that gets rid of headaches and blurry visions do you? I'm supposed to be looking for someone and the blurry vision isn't helping me with that." She said rubbing her head. Susan smiled as he continued to clean out the dishes.
"Well I actually do have something." He said reaching behind the counter. He pulled out a paper bag and handed it to her. "They're my own recipe and they have never failed me." He said before returning to the other customers.
Ashley looked at him before opening the back and pulling out what looked to be a giant chocolate cookie. Tilting her head to the side she opened her mouth and took a bite of it. In a second her eyes popped WIDE open before she mumbled quietly to herself, "Mmm… cookie."
It took her a minute before her headache went away and her eyes were as good as new. She looked back at Susan.
"What…in….the world….do these things do?" She said in a dreamy state. Susan looked back at her and smiled.
"It clears all your senses and helps you think clearly, so you should be able to find your friend easier. Just be careful, they're very addictive and I don't think you should tell any of your friends." He said. Ashley sat there for a minute, thinking the way Chelsea would think. A light flashed in her eyes before she looked up.
"About time I realized it…" she said before leaving the bar with the cookie.
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TJ stood in a hallway that lead three ways in third class. He couldn't figure out where to go and he knew if he came back without any information, blondie and her friend would murder him. He shook his head.
"Ok if I was her friend, which hallway would I be going down." He mumbled to himself. A cough from behind him made him turn his head to see Matt, Zack, and Ryan standing behind him. 'Oh crap…' he thought.
"Well it depends for what friend's friend you're looking for." Zack said, tilting his head to the side slightly. TJ rolled his eyes wondering how to describe this.
"One of Emma's friends…" he said bluntly before going back to figure out which way.
"Oh, well would it happen to be one of the ones that you seem to be hanging around a lot?" Ryan asked, being persistent.
"No… it's another one of her friends." TJ said before trying to go down the right hallway.
"Well at least you're helping someone out, even though you haven't really been down here once to help us." Matt said quietly, causing TJ to stop.
"Oh yeah Matt, well it seems to me that you are using them for help to, cause I saw all you guys up at dinner last night with them too." TJ turned around. "And just to tell you, I am hanging around with them cause I am trying to make sure you guys actually live through this." He looked at them, right in the eye before he turned around and took the stairs to the deck.
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John was sitting, half asleep, on a bench on the deck. He had walked around the deck three more times with no sight of Chelsea, and the walking was wearing him out. He was just ready to fall asleep, when a big chocolate smelling thing hit him in the face. He opened his eyes to see Ashley standing over him with what looked to be a cookie.
"You're supposed to be looking, not sleeping." She said simply, before roughly grabbing his shirt collar and pulling him up. He groaned in misery.
"You're friend is not up here. I've checked three times." He said quietly but she just kept shaking him awake.
"Oh no John, she is up here. We just haven't been thinking like she would have been thinking. Now come on! Here comes Courtney!" Ashley said with one final pull, causing John to stand up. Courtney came running up beside them.
"Hey did you guys figure it out too!" She asked excitedly.
"Well I did, but sleeping beauty seemed to have been a little tired."
"Let me sleep! I hate all of you!" John complained.
"No way you are coming with us. Where's TJ?" Courtney asked while the other two shrugged. Immediately the tall, blonde boy came walking out of a door. He looked at the three.
"What's going on here?" he asked before Courtney grabbed him and the two boys were dragged down the deck by the two girls. Before the two boys knew it the were down at the stern by the one lifeboat.
"And why are we here?" TJ asked looking at the two females for answers.
"Because the stern is the last part of the ship to go down and this is the lifeboat farthest down the stern. So if you think like Chelsea you would probably spend a lot of your time near this lifeboat." Courtney said.
"Or in…" Ashley mumbled and the two began laughing.
"Wait so she's in the lifeboat?" John asked.
"Yep…!" The two girls said excitedly before pulling back the tarp. Light filtered into the boat revealing a girl in a suit. She looked up at them.
"Awww…crap." Chelsea said toward the four faces.
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YAY WE FOUND CHELSEA! Now all you Chelsea fanatics out there can rest in peace. In the next chapter Emma takes Bri, Zack, and Dalton down below third class in search of some articles of clothing. So please…REVIEW! If you do you get a whole pizza to yourself. Arigato.
Kyree
P.S. Sorry it took me so long to update but we got a new moniter.
