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Chapter 4
"Come on guys if we don't check in by 4:30 the hotel will charge us nearly two times the cost." Irene calls out from the front of the bus. Fiona couldn't understand why Ned or anyone for that matter didn't do that stuff while the rest packed. Oh well.
The gang stops whatever they were involved with and climbs off the bus and walk into the hotel lobby doors feet away. The hotel was very fancy and expensive looking, but they had learned a hotel could look nice but be a real dump. Traveling a lot and staying in dozens of hotels they had experienced the best and worst of both worlds. Fiona just hoped that she finally get some breathing room. 8 people were not meant to live on the bus at one time. There just wasn't enough room to everyone to meet all their needs. Poor Ned didn't even get a room he's stuck sleeping on couch. All three boys are shoved into one room which Fi still can't understand how that's possible because of the lack of space in there. Her and Annie were together and were not perfect roomies, but tried there best to live with the situation. Even though Irene didn't sleep on the bus a lot, always busy with manager duty, when she did she bunks with Molly. Maybe I'll get own room Fi thinks than laughs at herself for having such an insane thought.
"Ok let's see here. We got 5 rooms you guys decide who's where." Ned tells everyone. Five rooms maybe I'll get one to myself after all she begins to think again. One room was defiantly going to be Ned and Irene it would be foolish not to have that. Molly would must likely get her own. So that left five with three rooms with many possible rooming combinations.
"Me and Jack we'll take a room." Clu says while his friend nods in agreement. Now it was down to two rooms and three people.
"Would anyone mind if I roomed by myself?" Fiona asks her heart pounding with nerves.
"No way. Same gender in each room you know the rules." Her mother tells her. Yeah she knew the rule but didn't understand them. Just because Carey was a boy and Annie a girl didn't mean they have sex all night or anything. After all Jack and Clu could do that as well. So Carey would get the room to himself. Fi just hoped the rooms were luxury size.
Fiona leaves the lobby and enters the gift job full of way over priced useless items. She picks up a pack of bubble gum but quickly puts it back. Not being to see how she could justify paying such an extreme price for something that would lose its flavor in ten minutes perhaps even sooner.
"Hi Fiona." She turns at the sound of her name being spoken and sees a man standing there. She had never seen him before and suddenly felt uneasy.
"Um hey." She says not wanting to be rude but slowly starts to back away to leave. And quickly backs right into the table with magnets and pins nicely displayed.
"How are you Fiona?" The man asks obvilous to fact that she's trying to get away.
"How do you know my name?" She asks while starting to shake slightly.
"What's wrong Fiona?" The man asks his voice sounding sweet, a sickening kind of sweet. Fi nearly shouts for joy as she sees Carey enter the shop and head towards the refratitor full of bottled carborated sodas.
"Hey Carey!" She screams out to him. He turns towards her eyes asking why did you yell my name? Picks up a Barqs Root Beer and walks over to her not noticing the man a few feet away.
"What's going on?" He asks her.
"I was just wondering if you could tell me how much the sodas cost." At least was something she thought.
"2.00." He replies while picking up a pin that says Cleveland. The mystery man is still watching them and Fiona knows this.
"Come on Carey let's get going." She tells him while tugging on his sleeve. With Carey with me I'm sure to be safe she thinks to herself.
"Alright but first I have to pay. Last time I checked shop lifting was still a crime." Fi smiles and forces out a laugh while the two of them walk to the register. Carey puts the soda and pin on the counter and the clerk with the name Ginger on the tag rings them up. The mystery man is still there, not having moved from his position. Just standing there looking straight ahead annoying some other shoppers for standing in the walk way. He was well built, with a good height and looked like he worked out quite frequently. Fi would guess his age to be mid twenties. His reddish hair was in a desperate need of a haircut and had would looked like a 36 hour shadow on his face.
"Thank you." Ginger says to Carey while handing him his change in his awaiting palm. He nods and smiles and turns from the counter. Fiona turns with him and they walk out the door, she tires her best not to look at the man. Sighs for relieve when the stranger doesn't start to walk out as well. Carey turns to Fi at the sound of her sigh but doesn't ask why just continues walking to the elevator. The two of them reach the 4th floor he turns left and she heads right to their rooms.