AN: So, I hope everyone's doing well. I actually finished this chapter in two days. It took a while for me to figure out where the next place for a clue, which I cannot wait to write. You're not going to see the next clue until chapter after next, I think. I think you'll see where I'm going with the next chapter by the end of this one.

In other news, I was thinking about a possible sequel to this one. It would be the last story. Unless you want this one to be the last one and think four is too much, which is cool, if you guys feel that way. I will talk more about it at the end of this story. I just thought I'd put the idea out there.

This chapter is dedicated to Guin Parris, Musical Cake, Always and a day Love.

I hope everyone likes the chapter.

Happy reading.

"You only need the courage to follow your heart." - Letters to Juliet

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. – Plato

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. – Charlotte Brontë

Chapter Twenty One: Letters to Juliet

"Alright if you were Eva and Kaelen, where would you hide the next clue?" Tess asked the rest of us.

"Well hindsight is 20/20, knowing what I know now about the Casa di Giulietta, I would have hid the clue in the wall because of all of the letters that are shoved into it every day." I surmised, "But that wasn't really done in the 1700's. I don't really think it got popular til around the 40's to write letters to Juliet."

"Still the wall is a good place to check-" John started.

"If it were in the wall, someone would have found it." Tess argued, "People do collect this letters and reply to the writers."

"Then you and Emily talk to the secretaries of Juliet, we'll search the wall." John replied. Mom and Tess nodded and went off to find the secretaries.

"John, I really don't think it'll be in the wall." I told him.

"You never know if you don't look." John replied, "You start on one side, I'll start on the other, and we'll meet in the middle."

I nodded and went to the other side of the wall.

-Verona 1719-

Eva's POV

"You want to put it where?" Kaelen asked disbelievingly.

"In the wall." I reiterated.

"Why?" Kaelen asked not getting my logic.

"The best place to hide something is in plain sight because it is the last place someone would ever think to look to find it."

He sighed, "They would want to try to think like us and want to look in someplace difficult."

"Which wouldn't make any sense because you're not all that difficult." I commented.

"No, you're the difficult one between the two of us." He replied.

"You really wanna say that to your wife and the mother of your child, soon to be children?"

He looked at me stoically, "Yes. You're difficult and you enjoy it."

I sighed, "I can't argue that."

He smirked, "I know."

"Doesn't make it right that you said it though."

"Hormones kicking in a little early this time around?"

"One more remark like that, I will not hesitate to maim you." I replied vexed.

"I take that as a resounding yes." He commented as we headed off to find a place in the wall to hide the clue.

-Verona 2013-

Bianca's POV

"We've searched the entire wall, John." I told him, "There's nothing here."

"That's because the secretaries had it." Tess replied coming over to us with mom. "They didn't know what it was for or who it belonged to so they kept it until someone came to claim it."

"So what does it say?" I asked them.

"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet." Tess read, "Looks like Eva wrote this one down instead of Kaelen. The handwriting is very feminine."

"The same thing can be said about the quote." John commented.

"Actually it was a male who said that. It was Plato, actually. He was born in Athens. We'll probably find the next clue around there." I told him, as I looked at the clue. "And your right, Tess, Eva did right this. If it were Kaelen writing the clue, he probably would have picked a quote like, 'Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something' or 'Love is a serious mental disease'."

"So how are we going to leave something for them to find?" John asked.

"I'll write a letter and stick it in the wall after the secretaries have collected the letters from the people who actually need answers." I replied, "John, do we have to talk to-"

"I don't think so. The secretaries were waiting for someone to claim it, so I think it's okay for us to go ahead and take it."

"Alright. You guys go ahead to the hotel. I'm going to leave a clue for the others with the secretaries." I told them. They nodded and left.

I got out a piece of paper and a black gel pen and wrote: 'Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.' I flipped it over and then wrote in numbers, '16-5-15-16-12-5…4-15…3-18-1-26-25…20-8-9-14-7-19… 23-8-5-14… 20-8-5-25'18-5…9-14…12-15-22-5.' I laughed at the look of it and the idea of Ben trying to figure it out. He and Ian would over think it and not want to figure the message out simplistically, "Try and figure out that."

I got out my phone and texted Riley, On the next clue, when reading it, remember: simplicity is best. – Padame

That doesn't make any sense. – Bones

-Washington D.C. 2013-

Riley's POV

It will. We're headed to the third clue. If you hadn't headed to the first yet, I think we're far enough away for you guys to start. – Padame She replied.

Heading out tonight. – Bones

I had told Ben about the clue this afternoon. He called Ian and we were going to meet him tomorrow night. We made a deal with him that if we're going to help him, Carissa has to be returned to me first. With a lot of persuasion from his wife, he agreed.

I threw my phone into my computer bag, got Zach ready to go to Patrick's, and headed out the door.