Yay, I'm updating again! Sooner than last time, too! Lol. Well, anyway, ok... uh... never mind me, I'm kinda tired. I went to bed late, and woke up early this morning.
No longer writing disclaimers. Nope, I'm not, and you can bet on that! Ha, ha, ha! Well, except for on the first chapters on every single one of my fan-fictions. (Actually, the whole reason I'm not going to write disclaimers any more is because I can't think of anything else funny to say with them! Course, if I do think of something funny to say, I MIGHT say it; who knows?)
They ran all the way to Gerald's work from Darius and Daria's mansion/house. They stared up at it for a little bit, then Darius and Daria looked down at Cassidy and Josh. "We have to break into THERE?" they asked, in unison, like usual. Josh and Cassidy looked at Darius and Daria, and nodded their heads.
"That's right." they said in unison. The twins nodded their heads slowly, and looked around the bottom of the building. They sighed, and the group of four walked towards the building. Darius crouched down, and began crawling around the edge of the building.
"Uh, what ARE you doing? We're here to prove that his dad isn't cheating on his mom, not to play around in the grass." Cassidy stated, bending down next to Darius. He turned and glared at her, and she backed slightly away. He had a vicious gleam in his eyes, and she didn't want to mess with him. "Uh... sorry, I... was just, uh wondering... what you were doing..." Cassidy gulped, standing back up.
Darius sighed, and motioned for Daria to come down to eye level with him. She did as he requested, and they began to discuss something. Cassie played around with her fingers while Josh leaned against the hard wall. Darius stood up, and motioned for Daria to stand as well; and she did. Darius stuck his fingertips together, spreading his fingers apart, and Daria did likewise.
"We found where we're going to break into," they stated, in unison, again. "We need our tools, if you don't mind." Darius said, and the twins both held out their hands. Cassidy sighed, and Josh and she handed the twins their stuff. The twins bent back down, and went to work on the vent that they were in front of.
Soon Darius and Daria were done, and the small group of kids were going down the vent towards the office where Gerald and the woman were. Cassidy was in front, then Josh, then Darius and Daria. Cassidy looked right, down one of the vent pipes, then to her left. She looked behind her, and motioned to go down the right one. They turned and went down it for a while. Cassidy looked to her side, and saw out a vent where she saw a couple of people arguing. She slightly laughed, and they continued down the tunnel.
After a little while of crawling, all of them were resting, panting heavily. "How long... 'til we get to... his office?" Darius wondered in-between breaths. Cassidy shrugged, and looked at Josh.
"I don't know, Cassidy was the one leading us..." everyone looked to Cassidy, and she smiled, embarrassed.
"Heh, heh, heh... I don't know where his office is, actually..." she stated with a nervous laugh. The others groaned, and shook their heads. Suddenly, they heard a loud creaking noise from under them. Cassidy looked down, her eyes wide, and saw that the tunnel was collapsing under her weight. She looked back up; a alarmed look on her face. Then the tunnel gave out, and she dropped--screaming the whole way-to the floor.
Soon, the others started hearing creaking noises underneath themselves, and they fell to the floor, joining Cassidy.
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Cassidy slowly opened her eyes to a pitch black room. She sat up, and rubbed her eyes. "What on earth...?" she started, trying to find some kind of light in the dark. "Is anyone in here? Where am I? What happened?" she asked, feeling around on the floor.
"Cassidy?" she heard someone groan, and she smiled. It sounded like Josh! Wherever they were, he was there with her to protect her.
"Josh! Where are you? are you alright? Where are we? What are we doing in the dark?" she cried, on the edge of hysterics. She felt around a little more before someone suddenly grabbed her from behind. "Ahh!!" she screeched, spinning around and pinning the person against the wall. Or what she thought was a wall; it was really a cardboard box. "Don't ever-EVER-do that AGAIN!" she cried, panting loudly.
"Cassidy... it's me, Josh," the person she was holding said. Her visage softened, almost in a dreamy state, and she let go of him. She slightly shook her head, and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Josh. You just startled me... you know, I'm related to my mom," she laughed, making Josh to do likewise.
"Cassidy? Josh?" they heard two voices call from the pitch blackness. They looked round, trying to find the source of the voices. "Where are you?" they heard a soft female voice call.
"We're... uh... here," Josh said, trying to figure out where 'here' was. "I just don't know where 'here' is." he said, feeling around in the dark. Soon he tripped over a lump in the road. "Oof!" he fell face first onto the floor.
"Oops, sorry about that Josh," he heard Daria say, then saw her outline stand up, brushing herself off. She held out her hand for him, and he took it.
Cassidy was feeling around when she suddenly felt something warm. It felt like skin. "Who is this?" she asked, feeling the skin. Whoever it was, grabbed her hands to stop her from feel his or her face any more.
"It's me, Darius. Is this, Cassidy?" he asked, and Cassidy nodded her head. Then she realized that nodding her head would do no good in this dark.
"Yes, Darius. Now, come on, lets go find some way to get out of here!" she ordered, grabbing Darius' wrist, and dragging him farther into the dark. She ran with Darius tagging along behind her for a while, until she suddenly hit her face against a hard wall. She backed up a little, and rubbed her nose. Then she began feeling along the wall for a light switch. "Feel on the wall, Darius; NOW!!" she demanded, and he did like he was told. Cassidy felt around a little more, then felt a lever on the wall. She smiled a slight smile, and switched it.
Light spilled into the small room, temporarily blinding the four kids. Once they regained their vision they realized where they were: A storage room. There were about a thousand cardboard boxes scattered here and there, a few shelves, toilet paper, paper towels, light bulbs, etc.
Cassidy gasped, and glanced about the room. She then took notice of the door. She smiled, and walked over to it. She wrapped her hand around the doorknob, and tried turning it. She tried a few more times, then looked back at her companions with a look of panic. "It's locked..." she exhaled, turning her body so her back was leaning against the wooden door.
Daria burst out crying (a/n: you know, Sid's daughter?). "We're all trapped!!" she screamed, hysterically. Darius, Josh, and Cassidy looked at each other worriedly, then back to Daria.
Cassidy sighed, then walked over to Daria, and bent down next to her. "Daria, we'll all be fine... we just need to stay calm." she tried her best to get Daria to calm down. She looked up at Josh and Darius, furrowing her eyebrows a bit. "All we have to do is find a way out. You," she pointed to Darius, "and Daria are so good at breaking into places it should be a snap." she snapped her fingers.
Darius gulped, and looked at the door. "Well... we normally try and break into vents, not doors that are locked." he stated, and Cassidy gave him a blank stare.
"You mean, you two can't get us out of here?" she asked, breathing heavily. Her eyes were narrowed. Darius shook his head, and Cassidy stood up. She walked over to the door, leaned on it, and shook her head. "This is perfect..." she muttered.
Suddenly, they heard the lock clicking, then the door opened. Cassidy fell face first onto the floor. "What on earth!?" the person that had opened the door exclaimed. They were in trouble now...