Miraculously, despite the mess, the party went with success. Everyone who came didn't even think a tree had fallen down in the room. Probably because the broken table was thrown out into the dumpster outside at the back of the hospital along with everything else that broke in the room. Since Emma never went to the back, no one would ever know about what went on that night.
"Merry Christmas you guys!" Emma said. "Thanks to you guys, the party went on with success."
No one except Tomoe, Hanzou and Hank heard it. CR-S01, Maria, and Gabriel were too tired from running to the hospital carrying three boxes of decor.
"So do we give the Secret Santa now?" CR-S01 asked.
"Nope." Emma answered. "Not until Esha says so."
"So what do we do until then?" CR-S01 turned, once again, to Maria since Emma left after answering the surgeon's question. Maria shrugged.
"I don't know. Anything." Maria said. "Walk around, chat, drink-"
"I don't drink alcohol." CR-S01 intervened. Everyone that heard it, by which I mean, Gabriel, looked at him in surprise.
"Seriously, kid?" Gabriel asked. "Not even once?"
"Of course!" CR-S01 answered back, almost quite determined. "I'm a doctor, an emergency could happen at anytime, I shouldn't intoxicate myself with something that interfere with my abilities!"
Gabriel and Maria both gave each a shifty look before nodding.
"That's something we'll have to change." Gabriel smirked.
Luckily CR-S01 had seen this on few occasions in the past and those looks meant one thing and one thing only, R-U-N. It wasn't long before CR-S01 made a mad dash through the crowded room, hoping to lose the two in the sea of people. It worked. Speaking of which, can you guys busy yourselves by imagining what currently is going on with those three, even add a hectic fight put up by CR-S01 or Hank defending that he has the right, and by all means, should stay sober, while I switch the point of view from the doctor's situation to the kids' situation.
-Alyssa and Joshua's P.O.V-
"Done!" the two cheered. "And just before the Christmas party too!"
"You might want to look outside Alyssa." Joshua said.
Alyssa peeked outside the door. Much to her surprise, a crowd was right outside. They were almost less than an inch away from the closest person. It wasn't soon before Alyssa poked her head back inside the room.
"When did all these people get here?" Alyssa asked.
"I'm more surprised we didn't notice them until them until now." Joshua said. "We got too engrossed I guess."
"We better clean up." Alyssa suggested.
"Yeah," Joshua agreed. "if the nurses and doctors saw this, they'd be pretty angry."
They were right. The icing was made from scratch and the two were excited so…I'll leave that to your imagination.
As they turned their backs to clean the mess, much to their surprise, a black haired surgeon ran into the room, shutting the door before placing a rolling pin between the two handles. They had never seen anyone before run so fast to a drawer just to get a rolling pin and back.
"Umm…" the two said. CR-S01 looked back in surprise.
"When did you-" then CR-S01 looked around in surprise, "What happened in this room?"
Alyssa and Joshua looked nervously at each.
"Well, why are you here?"
CR-S01 soon became nervous after the two asked the question.
"Hey," a voice from outside said. It was Gabriel's. "have you seen the kid?"
"No. Why?"
Alyssa was about to open her mouth before CR-S01 suddenly shook his head. Joshua and Alyssa got the idea and nodded. Gabriel and Maria didn't seem to notice him because they walked pass the door without stopping to look back. CR-S01 sighed in relief.
"Maria and Gabriel are forcing me- I'll tell you when you're 16." on the side, CR-S01 muttered "The drinking age..."
"We were making cake." the two answered, purposely ignoring the rest of CR-S01 's statement.
"I'll help you two clean up." CR-S01 stated. "But why were you two baking a cake?"
"It's for Naomi, Joshua's mom, and the bushy doctor." Alyssa answered.
"Bushy?" CR-S01 asked in confusion. "You mean, Dr. Cunningham?"
"Yeah." Joshua said.
"I think we should put it in the fridge to keep it from spoiling." CR-S01 said. "I'll go get the cleaning supplies, I trust you two can wash the utensils yourselves?"
"Of course!" the two said. CR-S01 left to the back.
-Meanwhile (elsewhere)-
"Have you seen the kid?" Gabriel asked.
"Why?"
"No reason." Gabriel answered.
"I'm not sure… You've got that look on your face. The one that says you're planning to do something-"
"You're imagining things." Gabriel interfered.
-Meanwhile ( another elsewhere)-
"Honestly," Lisa huffed. "I wish Joshua would tell me his plans beforehand. Why did he take after his father?"
It was lucky Joshua had a cell phone. He got one after Alyssa disappeared on Halloween. Apparently during Alyssa's attempt to find Naomi, she wandered around telling other kids her predicament before asking about Naomi and leaving since no one knew who she was. Then those kids told their parents. It didn't help that Alyssa told several parents as well about her predicament. If you're asking why no one sent her to the police about a lost child, my answer is that they did. But Alyssa had a tendency of being impatient and ran off before they came back with an officer. So a lot of people ended getting glares, warnings, and laughs from police who said "Haha, good one.", "Is this your idea of a joke?", or "What girl?"
It was pretty hectic for some people and officers. Especially since some officers got called more than once about Alyssa and some people called the police more than once since Alyssa ran in circles sometimes. All one can say is that after that, every parent bought their kid a cell phone to make sure their children wouldn't get lost.
"Where is this address anyw-" Lisa said before staring in front of the hospital. Now she got it. Ever since Mother's Day, Joshua (with help from Alyssa at times) had been trying to find out how she and Gabriel knew each other. In counting, this may be the 110th plan they've tried. Still, she decided to try to humor her son a little or at least find a way to finally stop her son's attempts to find out their relation. Luckily, she already made a plan just in case.
It's almost finished. I don't know when or how though.
