Sorry I took longer to update (what, about... 9 days? Yes, that's all) than last time, but I'm sick *cough, cough* and every single time I get on the computer I get all dizzy, and have to get off. It's getting annoying. Luckily, I just have a cold that is almost gone now, not what is going around where I live (this cold that is sort of flu-ish, but then turns into pneumonia [I hope mine doesn't convert to that... *gulp*]). Oh, well anyway, you don't care about whether I'm sick or not, you want to read, doi! I'll stop rambling for your sake. (You've been spared a horrible death, of boredom) Oh, and today, March 3rd, is my birthday! I turned 14 today! Yay! *cough, cough*
No disclaimer here, but there are ones on 1,2,3, and 4! *cough, cough*
The man stared down at Cassidy, with a look that was a mix of shock and anger. Kids... in the storage room. He clenched his fists, and scowled. "What are you kids doing in here? Don't you know this is a employees ONLY storage room!? You kids are suppose to be out in the lobby, with your parents, doing whatever you kids do whe-" he suddenly stopped talking, and fell to the floor, face down. Josh, Darius, and Daria (who had amazingly stopped crying for a second) stared at him with wide eyes. Then they looked up, to see Cassidy standing there with a smile lingering on her face, and twirling the binocular things in the air by the strap that lets them hang around someone's neck.
Josh collapsed on the floor in laughter, making Cassidy roll her eyes. "You know, it wasn't all that funny. I just didn't want him to tell anyone that he saw us back here... Josh, are you alright?" she bent down next to him, and he nodded his head. Cassidy's eyes almost got a dreamy look in them, but before she could really get lost in thought, she shook her head and stood up. (A/n: in case you were wondering, she caught a whiff of his shampoo ^_^ *hint, hint*.) "Ok, well, you BETTER be ok, or else we'll have to leave ya here. Hee, hee, hee." she joked, making Josh stop laughing and glared up at her.
"You better be glad we need to be quiet, or I would do something I'll regret." he stated, and stood up. Cassidy's eyes went a little wider, making Josh burst out laughing again. "HA!! I got ya!" Cassidy rolled her eyes, and looked out the door, down the left hall then the right hall. She looked behind herself, and nodded her head.
"The coast is clear. C'mon," she motioned for them to follow, and looked back down the right hallway. She silently slipped out of the room, and flattened her back against the wall. Soon the other three did likewise, and they edged their way down the hall (along the wall). Soon, Darius had enough.
"Oh, this is ridiculous! Why are we pushing ourselves against the wall? It's not like as if it'll make us invisible when someone comes down the hallway!" he cried, walking away from the wall with his arms crossed across his chest. Cassidy shot him a look that meant you-better-get-back-over-here-and-stop-yelling-or-you'll-be-dead-meat, making him gulp, and press his back up against the wall, once again. "I still say this makes absolutely NO sense, at all."
Suddenly, they heard a shout, making them turn around. Their eyes widened. There was a girl, of about their age, with a oddly shaped head (football shaped, as a matter-of-fact), long red hair that was pulled away from her face by yellow flowers, freckles, and a yellow sun dress. "Calypso..." Cassidy whined, clasping a hand over her eyes, then bringing it down her face. "WHAT on EARTH are YOU doing HERE?!" she questioned, anger very evident in her normally calm voice.
Calypso stopped running towards them, and hunched over, trying to catch her breath. Cassidy tapped her foot, making Calypso look back up at her, and smile. "Oh, yes!" she said in a sickeningly sweet, high-pitched annoying voice. "I saw you guys leave your house, Cassidy, then come here and perch yourselves in that tree out there. I was naturally curious, and decided to see what you two were up to. So, then I followed you to Darius and Daria's house, then back here. I followed you guys in the tunnel, but you just didn't notice me." she chirped, with an ever present smile.
Cassidy nodded her head, then lunged forward, grabbing the collar of Calypso's sun-dress. Calypso was sure she could see fire in Cassidy's eyes; and because of that, she gulped. "Now listen here, cuz, you could have gotten us CAUGHT!! Don't EVER yell for us when we're doing something that needs ABSOLUTE silence!" she shouted, and Calypso flinched away from her.
"Uh, then... Wh-why are y-you sh-shouting?" she asked, and her smile returned, but with a more smirk type style to it. Cassidy frowned, and threw Calypso to the floor, then crossed her arms, looking away.
"That's beside the point," she stated, then turned and walked back down the way they were going. Josh looked at Calypso, frowning, then followed Cassidy. When he caught up to her, she was practically seething. Her fists were clenched so tight they were white, her teeth were clenched so tight she was getting a over-bite, and her eyes were so narrowed that they looked like she was about to make them pop out. He tapped her on the shoulder, and she then snarled, "Josh, leave me ALONE."
"Oh come on, Cassie, don't be so angry! She didn't know what we were doing; she thought that we were allowed back here, I guess," he said and shrugged. Cassidy completely stopped, and turned her head to him, quickly, making him jump. "Cassie... are you... ok...?" he wondered, slightly backing away from her. She was angry every so often, but not very often, and he wasn't used to it.
"Oh, so now you're defending HER? I thought you were MY best friend, not her's?!" she shrieked, then Josh lunged forward, wrapping one of his hands across her mouth, then shushed her. "Mmt mmmr mmnd mff my mmmmf!" she tried, but realized that it was no use, because his hand was muffling everything she said.
"Shh! People will hear you! You're louder than Callie!" he scolded, and Cassie completely stopped moving. She became limp, and slumped her body against him. "Cassidy, this isn't funny, get up!" he whispered harshly, and shook her limp body, which just so happened to be quite heavy. "Come on, get up Cassie, you're too heavy for me! I'll drop you!..." suddenly he paused, and realized why she fainted.
There stood the woman that had been kissing Gerald. Everything started to become blurry for Josh, and soon he dropped Cassidy, his body suddenly limp, like her's. He fell forward onto his face, and the woman watched, eyebrows raised. "Kids... in this area of the building? Now that's a new one." she said, then walked over to Josh and Cassidy, who were lying on the floor in a pile. "Kids... wake up, kids... please, get up!" she shouted to them, poking Cassidy's ribs. Cassidy slightly stirred, but still stayed unconscious, underneath Josh. The woman sighed, and rolled her eyes. "Ok, Sophie (a/n: talking to herself in the third person, in case you were wondering) what do you think we should do? Wake these little ones up, or let them just lay there unconscious? Well, duh, of course you can't leave these little ones just lying there! You have to get them at least to the lobby." she picked Josh up, and cradled him in her arms. Then, she looked down at Cassidy. "Ah, leave the girl, she can take care of herself." she said, then walked down the hall towards the lobby.
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Meanwhile, Darius and Daria stared at Calypso, frowning. She fiddled with the edge of her dress, trying to avoid their stares. She look up, then down, then to the side, and then to the other side. Finally, her eyes rested on Darius and Daria, who were still frowning. "What? What did I do?" she asked innocently, and Darius scoffed.
"You know what you did. You shouted, which meant that we COULD have gotten caught, THEN you make Cassidy mad and she left us. What there doesn't need a reason to be mad about?" he asked, and Callie looked at the floor, ashamed of herself.
"I'm sorry, I just... wanted to be involved for once in my ever so boring life. I mean, I don't even have anything to do at home, 'cause my mom's always saying, 'Ever so little girls can't play, that would get their ever so beautiful dresses dirty!' or other stuff like that. It gets boring, because I'm not allowed to do anything with anyone because it get's me dirty. And I'm NOT allowed to wear something besides a dress. So, I'm never involved, and I wanted to be for once! Please forgive me..." she said, then collapsed on her knees and began to silently sob. Darius' frown disappeared, and was replaced by a look of sympathy. He walked over to her, and wrapped his left arm around her shoulders.
"It's ok, Callie. Just stop crying. We forgive you; we understand, you just wanted to be involved. Plus, you didn't know that we weren't allowed back here and needed to be as quiet as mice." he said, and hugged her closer to him. Daria rolled her eyes, walked over, and tapped Darius on the shoulder. He looked up at her with a frown. "What? Can't you see I'm busy?" he questioned, making Daria roll her eyes once more.
"Yes, of course I can see that you're busy, but we need to go find Cassidy and Josh so we can continue on this mission thingy we're on!" she said, making Darius jump up, and whack her in the nose. "Ow!" she shrieked, and began to rub her nose. She pulled her hand away from it, revealing that it looked quite pink. "Watch where you fling your arms!" she said, and walked off in the way Cassidy and Josh had walked off. Darius looked down at Calypso who was looking up at him, then they looked towards Daria, and shrugged. Darius helped Calypso stand up, then they followed Daria.
"Cassidy!!" Daria cried when she saw Cassidy laying there in the middle of the hall. She ran to her side, and began to shake her. Soon Darius and Callie were helping Daria try to wake Cassie up. Daria stopped shaking her, and began to hyperventilate. "She's dead!! Our leader is dead!! Nooo!" she cried, and buried her face in her hands. "This can't be happening!" she took her face out of her hands, and fell backwards onto her back.
Darius rolled his eyes, and smacked Cassidy across the face, making her jump up. "Josh!" she cried, and looked around, seeing that the only ones around were Darius, Daria (who was still passed out on the floor), and Callie. She blushed, and smiled. "Hee... hee... I mean, where is Josh? That woman that was kissing his dad must have taken him! Ooooo, I KNEW she was malevolent!" she said, and cracked her knuckles. 'I hope that covers for the mess up when I woke up...' she thought, almost with a gulp, but figured she better not or they would suspect something.
Darius, Daria (who had woken up now), and Calypso nodded their heads, and looked down the way they had came. "Well, where do you think she took him?" Callie asked, looking back to Cassidy. "And why? What in the world are you guys, and me, doing here? I want to know why we're here, and who you are talking about! Plus, if I'm going to help you, I'm going to need some kind of something to help me with helping you." she said, and Cassidy sighed, then began explaining the whole story over again.
After her story was finished, Callie sat with her mouth agape. "Oh, this isn't good, is it? Your dads would never do such an ever so rotten thing!" she stated, and crossed her arms. They all were now walking down the hallway towards the lobby, 'cause they figured that was the most logical place to take a child if they worked there. "I am DEFINITELY going to help you guys."
Cassidy nodded her head, then her eyes widened, and she pushed herself against the others, knocking them against a wall. "Shh, we're in the lobby. We just need to sneak around the front desks, then... I can see Josh and the lady!" she pointed towards a seat where the lady sat with Josh's head in her lap, because she thought he was still knocked out. His eyes were open, and he looked angry. Cassidy slightly laughed at his look, then stopped herself. She motioned for the others to follow her, then she crouched down, and began to crawl towards the fronts desks. She looked up towards the people standing at the front desks, and sighed to herself because they were too busy helping people to notice them. She looked forward, and they continued to crawl. Once they were beside the first of the front desks that they came to, she whispered to the others, "Stop, no further!" and they stopped right behind her. Cassidy watched the woman look down at Josh's face, then stand up, letting him sit up, told Josh something, then walked off. Cassidy smiled, and motioned for the others to follow her. they crawled out a little ways into the lobby, then stood up, dusted themselves off, and walked over to Josh. "Hello Josh, how ya' doin'?" she asked, and Josh looked up at her.
"Cassie!" he stood up, and threw his arms around her. She half smiled, and then Josh pulled away, making her half smile turn into a smirk. "What?" he asked, crossing his arms.
"Oh, nothing. Now come on, we now have Callie helping us, so it'll make it ten times easier."
They got down on all fours again, and crawled back into the back part of the building. Suddenly, they heard a voice behind them say, "You kids sure are persistent on getting back here. I didn't have you thrown out the first time I saw you because I was in a good mood. Now, I'm not. Security!" Cassidy and Josh knew who the person was. Sophie, the one that had been kissing Gerald. Soon they heard footsteps coming closer, then they stopped. "Throw those children OUT!" she said, and Cassidy panicked.
"RUN!!" she shouted, and they all began to run down the long hallway. Cassidy looked in door after door, but as she was, she suddenly couldn't run any more, because something caught her from behind, and had lifted her up by the collar. She looked behind herself, and saw that one of the security officers had caught her. "Pooyfoof. This bites. Crimany." she muttered, hanging her head, and shaking it. Then she looked up, and saw that Josh and the others were still running, but looking back at her. "Run! Crimany! Run!!" she shrieked, and then saw the other security officers going after her friends. "Come on, go on without me!"
Before she knew what was happening, Cassidy, Calypso, Josh, Darius, and Daria were all getting thrown out. Cassidy frowned, and looked over at the others, who were all in uncomfortable positions. "Now, tell me WHY you didn't go on without me? I could have gotten back in, you know." she said angrily, and the others shrugged.
"We weren't fast enough to get away from the security." Josh said, and pulled himself out of his uncomfortable position. "Plus, they would know we were in there, and then would be looking for us. But now, they won't be because they know we're out here."
Meanwhile, inside the building, Sophie was contemplating why 'those kids' were sneaking in. "Why on earth would they want to come in here of all places? I mean, it's not like it's some kind of playground. Ha, now there's a thought!" she laughed, and walked into her office. She sat down, and looked at the picture of Gerald and Phoebe he had given her when she was still acting nice to him. She frowned, and started remembering what Josh had looked like. Her eyes widened, and her jaw dropped. "Their son, Josh. The one Gerald told me about... those kids'll be back..." she murmured, grabbing the phone. She dialed the number for security, and waited for them to answer. "Hello, security? Be on the look out for five young children, about the age of nine. Two have oddly shaped heads, almost like footballs, one of them with blonde hair and the other with red. Three have black hair; two of the black haired ones are twins, and the other looks Japanese, with a tan." she said into the phone, then set it back down in the cradle. She looked into a mirror, and smirked. "You're nasty, Sophie. Those poor little kids, just trying to keep that one kid's dad and mom together. Oh, boo hoo..." she trailed off, and began to laugh like mad.
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Wow, and this is just at Gerald's work! Imagine Arnold's work! It's going to be even harder to get the pictures there, isn't it? You'll just have to wait and see!