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Part 7 is called "Tony in Guangzhou", this part does have some violence/action and laws in it, so just keep reading.

In Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court, Lelle and Jessie were on the edge of their seats. They were waiting for the arrival of five witnesses. Because only they could prove the Rooney car accident was not really an accident. If they lost the case, they would have to pay Seth Wall, the defender of the case $500,000, and their plan of defeating the Four Frenemies would fail.

10:15, the judge sat on the chair, graveled on his small yet indestructible hammer. "Order! I now here announce the opening of case 5027. This case is in relevance with the car accident of Hollywood star Liv Rooney and her relatives, happening at Tian He Bookstore this Wednesday at 3:48 P.M. Now, I would like to call the plaintiffs…" The judge rose his head, staring at the five empty seats in the plaintiff's table. "Mr. Sheldon, Miss Prescott. Would you two like to tell us why the five plaintiffs were not present?"

Lelle and Jessie stood up immediately, "Your honor, they were stuck on the road. Should be here any minute now." As Lelle finished his sentence, Tony walked in with five high school freshmen, all looking out of place. The blonde girl in the front had her hair all wet. The Blonde guy besides her had a nail board on his butt. Behind them was a girl with Asian look, she was covered in feathers from top to bottom. Right after was a guy with brown hair, he might as well open a market with the vegetables all over him. At last was a girl with glasses, she was trying to remove the cactus needles from her hand. These five were best friends back in Chicago, but today was probably their worst day ever.

"Your honor, I'm Tony Chicolini, and may I present to you the plaintiffs. Lindy Watson, Logan Watson, Jasmine Kang, Garrett Spenger, and Delia Delfano." Tony was facing the judges. Everyone was staring at him and the five plaintiffs behind him, and the whole room fell into silence.

A Few Days Ago…

After the New York traveling group bid farewell to Team Austin, they hopped on the plane to Guang Zhou, on their way to the third frenemy. There was a lot of turbulence on the way there, and everyone was sleeping on the plane after a day of tiredness. It was 1:00 A.M. when they got to the hotel, and they had gone into their own sweet dreams without even looking around.

The next morning, everyone did not get up until ten. Robbie suggested that since they were in Guang Dong area, they might as well get into the zone. He drove everyone to a well-known restaurant in Jiang Men for tea. "I have been there before." Lelle started as approached the front door, "My cousin was here, attending an international high school, and we came here for tea one morning. It has been ten years, and it hasn't changed a bit."

The first thing they saw after entering was a picture of The Bear. He got that name for eating twelve patches of BBQ bun in ten minutes back in 2005, and then he got in Guinness World Records. It turned out that there were many marvelous people in China, and The Bear right here was only one of them.

Luke stopped in front of a pile of newspaper, saw a picture of Liv Rooney on the front page. "Hey, guys. Isn't this the hot lady star that we met at the Eastern Pearl?" He grabbed a newspaper randomly and shouted to inside. Emma and Zuri rushed in after hearing this, want to see any news about the star that they once battled. Jessie also followed the kids forth.

If they all stood in the front, they would block the entrance, instead they decided to grab a copy and read it on the table. However, the newspaper was printed in Chinese, and everyone could only read the name "Liv Rooney" in English. "Lelle, it's your turn. Can you tell us what this is about? I lost interest after seeing words in large chunks." Luke passed the paper to Lelle, whining.

After Lelle read the news, first he frowned, then covered his mouth, like something horrible happened. Zuri could not stand this any longer, "I know that you like acting as much as Jessie does, but we don't get what you're trying to say here. Can you explain to us what happened?"

"Oh, man, I can't believe this actually happened!" Lelle threw the newspaper to the side, rubbed his eyes, and started explaining, "Guys, listen. I'm sure that Jessie taught you this before, but just in case, I'm going to say it one more time. The cover can be very deceitful. What you see here, even though it is Liv in her usual pop star look, but the journalist reported an accident on scene. Yesterday in front of Tian He Bookstore, the Rooney family was involved in a terrible accident. They were all in a coma and sent to the hospital for emergency later that day."

"What?" Jessie picked up the newspaper on the floor, "But… but this doesn't make any sense. If they wanted to report an accident, then why they don't have a picture of the accident?"

Lelle turned to the next page, found another headline: All Security Cameras around Tian He Street was Down, Police Getting into Further Investigation. "The answer is right over here. The culprit must came prepared, he disrupted the signal of all the security cameras in that area, and there were no video footage or photos for the accident. The news article must have words and pictures, the reporters could not find any good ones, so they picked this."

"Oh, you want a picture of this accident? I have it here!" Lelle turned around and found a girl with glasses behind him, squishing between Rita and him. "Delia Delfano, favorite word 'Moomy-fer-in-tooty ("crayon" in Delionics)'." Delia did not wait Lelle to start and introduced herself first.

"Oh, sweetie, can't you just settle down a bit?" An Asian girl followed Delia and said, "You know the rules, we do not talk about this with anyone." Then, she went up and shook Lelle's hand, "I'm so sorry, my friend here is a little… odd. I'm Jasmine Kang, future detective."

"So, Delia." Jessie was curious about the evidence that Delia wanted to show them, "You said you have the picture from that accident, can you please let me take a look? Those people in the accident are my friends, and I want to make sure they're okay."

"All right, but first thing first. I want to introduce you to our friend group." Delia turned to the other table, and described to the New Yorkers, "We're the five best friends in Chicago, just graduated from freshmen year, and came here to take a bigger step in the world. The blonde girl over there is Lindy, the one beside her is Logan. And this fellow over here is Garrett Spenger, the cleanest person in our group."

"Logan? Logan Watson?" Lelle suddenly realized they met Logan back in Shanghai, "You're the one who's asking about the formula back in Shanghai, right? I still have your card. By the way, no one can top your Photoshop skills."

"Oh, thanks, buddy. Now you're in Guang Zhou, considering our wish as granted, right?" Logan put an elbow on the table, and spoke with his deep voice. Rita smiled and nodded.

"Nice to meet you guys. We're the travelers from New York. Jessie Prescott, a nanny from a high profile family in New York, and a talented actress. This is Lelle, my friend from childhood, and this time he was here with his girlfriend Rita all the way from Canada. And those are my four charges, Emma, Luke, Ravi and Zuri. And there's their butler Bertram. The handsome sat over there is Tony, one of my ex-boyfriends. And the one beside him is Robby, the driver of this trip." Jessie introduced themselves to the friends from Chicago. They built strong friendships after only few minutes of meeting each other.

"Delia, you said that you have the evidence for the accident, can we take a look?" Ravi loved puzzles, and he was eager to find out the truth.

"Not here, how about we grab something to eat first, then I can show you on our way out. It's too obvious over here." Delia suggested while putting away her phone.

The five best friends sat down with the New York traveling group, and chatted through the two hours in laughter. Garrett accidently tipped over his cup to tea in the middle of the conversation, and he told the waiter to change the tablecloth. When they were ready for the check, Lindy insisted in paying the meal by themselves."

"Okay, Logan. I told you to keep the purse, now pay up." Lindy instructed Logan. Logan searched his pocket on the left, then the one on the left, and shouted, "Oh, man. We have been robbed!"

Lindy thought Logan was joking around as usual, "Now it's not the time for laughs, get it out right now." Then, she searched Logan's pockets thoroughly, and justified after finding out they were all empty. "Okay, we have been robbed, for real."

Fact: Guangzhou really has more criminal activities than any other areas in China.

Next chapter will be updated around Valentine's day, while you guys enjoy this chapter, don't forget to WRRDA! :)