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Chapter 6
The band is on the stage and Molly is stepping up the microphone not noticing Fi's late entry. Fi finds Jack and Clu sitting at a back table with a deck of cards. Yet another game of War, she couldn't understand what was so fasinicating about that game. Molly and Carey were of course of stage playing Ready Or Not a new song for them. They hadn't played it yet, practiced it a thousand times but never felt it was ready to be played live. Hopefully tonight was the night because it surely was a great number and would be a welcome addition to the same routine. Fiona pulls out a chair from the table she had been standing next to and takes a seat.
Usually at this point she would be opening up her laptop for some surfing. But that was now impossible. Her laptop had been stolen while in Seattle and she did get a new one with strict rules. The most important rule was the computer had to stay on the bus or the hotel room no ands ifs or buts. Fi hated it. So instead Fi was forced to examine gross looking gum stains on the table. The boys were laughing like they always did. Fi wished more then anything that she had a best friend. Sure there had been Candy, with traveling and being gone for a year they were now just acquiesces no longer best friends. While her and Annie got along they just didn't have that girlfriend type of bond. Sadly in Seattle her closet friend had been her 8-year-old cousin. Fiona needed a friend her own age.
Ready Or Not comes to an end and even without thinking Fi claps in pretend she had been listening. The band moves on to a new song, which was an unexpected surprise. Must nights they'll do each song at least 11 times.
Jack and Clu get up from their table and walk over to Fiona. Jack leans down onto the table right into the gum.
"Ug! You could have warned me." He mutters while removing a napkin from the dispenser. Fi just shrugs and tries not to laugh at her brother's misfortune. Clu on the other hand laughs right out loud, but shut up when it became clear Jack didn't find it funny and quickly muttered an apology. The two boys pull out two chairs, both away from the gum and sit down.
"Where's Annie?" Clu asks. Which instantly upsets Fi, they didn't come here to visit with me she thinks to herself.
"Isn't she here?" She asks in return while looking around the room to discover for herself she was not. How odd and unlike Annie.
"Nope we haven't seen since we went upstairs. And you two are roomies I'm sure you'd know." Jack continues to say.
"I have no idea. I was in the bathroom and when I came out she was gone. I assumed she went with whoever had been at the door. So which one of you came over?" Fi knew the chances of it being anyone else from the group was slim with rehearsal so close to starting time.
"Um neither of us. We've been here since 4:45." Clu informs her. Something was wrong. That feeling in her gut was telling her so. But that was crazy she'd only been "missing" twenty minutes.
"I'm sure she's somewhere." Fiona tells the boys not wanting to sound foolish for already being concerned.
"Yeah she's properly walking around. She better get back here before mom notices." Jack said while shuffling the deck of cards for yet another game of War. Fiona turns her body so it's facing the stage. The band is on its third verse of Origami and it was their second time doing the song. So much for a simple rehearsal. Fiona noticed her mom looked different. Wasn't sure in what way exactly, but there was some kind of change. A good kind of different though Molly looked really youthful and carefree. Perhaps she found that fountain of youth that Ponce De Leon searched so hard for. Then again she could be just be having a good day. Even when it's the greatest day in the universe for me I'll never look that good, Fi thinks. Ned along with Mike one of the roadies were on stage moving around wires to there proper placements. Irene was on the red phone again.