Author- Time for the trouble to begin!
Disclaimer- *sigh* Is this ever really necessary?
All- Just do it.
Disclaimer- Retaw owns Caitlin and the plot, Retaw does not own any of the YGO characters, she owns the hotel.
Author- I do? Cool!
Author- *counts money that she made from owning the hotel*
All- HEY!
Author- *notices everyone is looking at her*
Author- *hides money behind back* Heh heh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Here we are, room 102 on floor 2." Caitlin said, unlocking the cabin.
"Kinda funny isn't it, room one zero TWO on floor TWO for TWO girls." Tea laughed.
"Well, one more girl is going to stay with us."
"Really? Who?"
"Can't tell you, it's a surprise."
Tea rolled her eyes, "Oh is it, well then in that case."
Caitlin turned the doorknob, "Voila! Welcome!"
Tea almost gasped when she saw it. She knew Caitlin was going to get an upper class hotel room, but this was just spectacular! Everything was a calm shade of green, blue, and purple and it was even complete with a refrigerator and freezer, three TVs, three bathrooms with spa's in them, huge beds (one of which a water bed) and a huge window with a great view of the lake behind them.
"Its- gorgeous!" Tea gasped. "It's a luxury hotel- in the middle of nowhere."
"Yeah well, wanted to make up for having to drive for who knows how long. I think the boys are pretty much looking at an exact double of this room at this very moment, only they got a balcony and we didn't."
"Doesn't matter, how often are we going to use a balcony anyway?"
"Well what are you waiting for? Go ahead and take a look around!"
Tea grinned and went into the bedroom. The bed felt like a cloud and the sheets like silk, it was a little slice of heaven! She snooped around in all the closets and dressers to see what was left inside them. At first, the only thing she found that was bigger then a button, penny, or ball of lint was a bible. But then she found something else worth Caitlin's attention.
"Hey look what someone left behind!" Tea called.
Caitlin came to see the cartridge that Tea had pulled out from a drawer, it was a bright pink color except for some area's where the silver of the container shown through. Tea took off the cap, "It stinks! What are you supposed to do with it?"
Caitlin read the label, "Silly string huh? Let's see, 'keep away from eyes yada yada yada.' Have safe fun." She grinned evilly, "This could come in handy." She said, pocketing it.
"What exactly do you have in mind Caitlin, I'm afraid to find out."
"Another question I can't answer yet."
"Caitlin you are quite a character."
"I know. Hey I've got an idea, how about I call the guys up right now and we can have dinner over at our place."
"Dinner? From where?"
"Room service duh." She said, smiling and picking up the phone. "You look through those books on the table for 'ROOM SERVICE' or something while I call the guys."
"Got it."
~~ Meanwhile, At the Boy's Room ~~
The boys had just gotten settled in their new room. Joey and Tristen were fighting over the bunk bed, Ryou was looking around the living room, Yugi and Ryou's Yami's were pretty much exchanging death threats and insults (they were both in physical form), and Yugi was finding a safe place to keep his deck. They were all fine until they heard the phone ring, then everything stopped.
"We've got a phone call already?" Ryou said.
"Well somebody answer it!" Tristen shouted, pulling Joey's arm off him.
They all looked at each other.
"Yami, why don't you answer it?" Yugi told his Yami.
"Because it might be hard to think up an explanation of why I'm here, you should answer it."
"Me?"
Bakura rolled his eyes, "It's just a phone you are all being cowards."
"Alright then why don't you answer it?" Joey said, obviously not liking being called a coward.
"Fine." He said, picking up the phone and putting it to his ear, "What do you want?"
Everyone groaned, of coarse the one with the least amount of phone manners was the one that was going to answer it.
Caitlin had to yank the phone away from her ear for a second because of how loud it was "Hello?"
"Yes I know you're there what do you want."
Caitlin suddenly recognized the voice, "Bakura! What are you doing out of your ring?!"
"Why that is your business I have still yet to learn."
Hey how come Ryou's Yami gets to come out but I don't?
Caitlin groaned, "Fine keep your reasons."
"I will."
"But if anyone sees you out of your ring-"
"No one will see me."
"How exactly do you know that? You aren't exactly the most responsible Yami here."
"I'll have you know that I am VERY responsible and you have no right insulting me because you don't have power enough to send mortals that get in your way to the shadow realm!"
"Now that's not very responsible is it?"
"WHY YOU-!"
"Just put Ryou on the line ok?"
"And why should I listen to you?"
"Because it is the responsible thing to do."
"What if I don't want to be responsible?"
"Put him on the line right now!"
Bakura grumbled and held the phone out to his aibou, "It's your girlfriend."
Ryou snatched the phone, "Hello?"
"Hey Peanut, listen I wanted to know if you guys wanted to come over to our room tonight for dinner?"
He heard Tea in the background say, "Found it."
"Oh um, sure." He answered, "Was that it?"
"Yep, that's all. We're in room 102, see you soon!"
He hung up the phone and turned to his friends, "Ok, they wanted to invite us over for dinner."
Tristen wrinkled his nose, "What's for dinner?"
Ryou shrugged, "Didn't say, she just said for dinner in room 102 and I said ok."
Yugi got up from the couch and stretched his arms, "Well, we won't know until we get there. Packing can wait."
Joey grinned, "Packing can ALWAYS wait if food is second in line!"
**********
Another knock on the door, and another tray of food came in; "Room service."
Caitlin got up and smiled proudly. She thought she had done a pretty good job of picking out food that said, 'Welcome to the USA'. Although Tea was a little skeptical when she saw the pizza come in, ("It's so- flat.") she couldn't help drooling when she saw the apple pie.
"Let's see, apple pie," Caitlin said, pointing at the different food when she said the name, "Pizza, chicken and dumplings, hotdogs and hamburgers, icecream's in the fridge, we've got gummy fish, goldfish crackers, fish, and- doughnuts! I think that's everything we need!"
"That's a lot of food. Do you think we'll eat it all?"
Caitlin laughed at the thought, "Tea, between Joey, Tristen, and me, we might not have enough!"
There was a soft knock on the door and a faint, 'Hello?' that told them all the guys were at the door. Tea got up and ran over to let them in and Caitlin heard her say, loud and important like, "Welcome to out humble room 102."
*********
"That-" Joey said after the meal, "Was the single best dinner I've had in a long time."
"You ate mostly the donuts and the ice-cream." Caitlin laughed, taking her plate to the sink.
"Which were darn good let me tell you that."
Tristen nodded, "I liked the pizza a lot, and the apple pie wasn't that bad either. Heck all of it was good!"
Ryou smiled, "Maybe this means next time we go out for food you'll be more open to try new foods."
"Hey could you boys give us a little help over here with the dishes?" Tea called.
Joey picked up the apple pie, "Oh sure. What do I do with this?"
"Just put it in that trash disposal over there." She answered, "Then press the button to smash the trash."
Joey put the pie into the thing, then pressed the button, the only problem with that was-
He put the pie in face up.
"Joey!" Caitlin shouted, "Take the pie out fast!"
Joey looked around, "How do I stop the thing!?"
"Just pull it open!"
Joey opened the disposal and bit his lip, "Uh, the pie is gone."
Caitlin smacked her hand against her forehead, "It's not gone, it's stuck on the top of the smasher."
"Oh, oops."
"Well, now you have to scoop it all out with your hand."
"Say what?!"
Yugi grinned, "Caitlin's right, you can't just let it sit there and rot. All the bugs will get into it."
Ryou smiled too, "So you'd better start before it gets moldy."
"Hey wait a minute how come I have to be the one to take the junk off!?"
"Cause you're the genius who smushed the pie, so you'd better get cracking." Tristen said, forcing Joey's hand into the pie gook and laughing at his facial expression.
"Oh that's just great." He groaned, "Icky hand after a perfectly good dinner."
Tea giggled, "Where's a camera when you need one?"
Joey glared at them and grimaced when he got a big chunk with a piece of food stuck in it, "I hope you're happy."
"We are." They answered in unison.
********
"I wanna try!"
"No wait we're still playing."
"Oh common it's our turn!"
"Not yet."
The music played to signal that the round was over, and a little pick dinosaur they had learned as 'Yoshi' danced around the screen.
Caitlin smirked, "I win again."
Tea, Tristen, and Yugi sighed. Caitlin had won three times against them already being that Yoshi thing. Tristen was playing Falco, Tea was Jiggly- Puff, and Yugi was Mario. (If you don't know who they are, or what Super Smash Bros. Melee is, then I apologize.) Ryou had fought in the battle before and gotten close to winning as Kirby.
The whole gang was on the floor in front of the large television screen playing 'SUPER SMASH BROS. MEELE' on the Game Cube they rented in the lobby. Even the Yami's were interested in this, 'new form of entertainment'.
"Yami battle!" Caitlin's Yami shouted, grabbing a controller from Caitlin, "I wanna try this thing out!"
Joey wasn't happy about this, "Wait but I wanna fight too!"
Yugi's Yami looked up from the controller he was examining, "You can play with us Joey."
"Great!"
"Uh Joey?" Tristen said, tapping him on the shoulder, "I don't think that's such a great idea..."
"Why not? Don't think I can handle them? Well to that I say- bring it on!"
Joey picked Captain Falcon and watched Caitlin's Yami pick Roy, Yugi's Yami pick Marth, and Ryou's picked Bowser. They chose the place they wanted to fight at and then they started. Of coarse, all of the Yami's went for Joey first because he thought he was better then they were and Joey -who was freaking out at the moment- lost all his lives before any of the Yami's lost one.
"Well I'm out." He said glumly. "I should have picked that robot."
Caitlin thought for a moment, "You mean Samus?"
"Yeah him, he looked cool!"
"Well, first off, the HE is a SHE. But you might have been good at her."
"WHAT?!"
Tristen was laughing like crazy, "Hey that's sort of like you Joey! You llook like a guy, but you're really a girl!"
The second one to get out was Caitlin's Yami, who thought it was such fun he wanted to play again before the game ended. And finally, Bakura was defeated, which he especially didn't like.
"Hey Yugi Yami!" Caitlin called, "I challenge you to a match!"
He smiled, "I would be glad to take you up your challenge."
"Great, cause you know I wouldn't take no as an answer anyway." She said, winking.
And so it began, Yoshi against Marth. Although Caitlin came closer to winning then her Yami, even then Bakura, she lost in the end by one live.
"Well," He said, "I win this one."
Caitlin glared at him, then smiled, "Yea, that you did. But I'll get you next time." She added, extending her arm in a handshake.
They played on and on like that for a long time, at least until midnight when they all went into their own rooms and went to sleep. Well, at least MOST of them got to sleep.
"Tea? Are you awake?"
Tea groaned. A good sign that she was awake.
"Tea I can't get to sleep, I NEVER go to sleep this early. Don't you want to talk or something?"
Another groan and a noise that told her Tea rolled over.
"I saw a good show yesterday. Well not yesterday, a few days ago. It was called something like, Sponge Bob Square Pants? I know the name is weird but it was actually REALLY funny! It was in English too so you'd have to learn that but, it was really cool and-"
"Stop talking."
"There were a lot of cool shows on that channel. The only reason I was watching it was because I was a voice of a character though. You would make a good voice of a cartoon character, or anime."
"Please stop talking."
"Hey Tea, did you hear someone at the door?" Caitlin made up to start Tea talking again.
"Door?" Tea said sleepily.
"Yeah you know, that big wooden thing that stops there from being a hole in the wall." (I saw that on TV one day ^^)
Caitlin waited for Tea to answer, but she didn't.
*So much for nice conversation.*
Caitlin got up from her bed and put her robe on, it was a nice temperature outside and dark enough to see the stars. Caitlin decided to take her mind off things by exploring.
********
Caitlin wandered around the hotel looking at different things. By one in the morning, she knew where the arcade, the pool, and the put-put gold area were. Her favorite finding though, was a little balcony that overlooked the lake ending with a gazebo and bench. She sat down and looked out into the darkness.
"Only in darkness," She told herself, "Can you see the stars."
She closed her eyes and thought hard about nothing in particular, she was slowly tapping into the power of the item, but not fully. Enough to make it shed a soft glow and calm her senses. Then she felt the phone in rumble in her pocket.
Someone was trying to call her.
She picked it up, "Hello?"
"Caitlin!" The voice answered, "Why aren't you in Florida by now?!"
Caitlin groaned as she recognized her agent, "I ran into a little trouble on the way, someone took my cash and a credit card that the airline takes. I canceled the card so he can't take any money or anything."
"Where are you!"
"In California, at the Sweet Sunset Hotel."
"Well you drive right up to Florida right now so you can perform! DO YOU HEAR ME YOU'RE COOMPLETELY OFF SCHEDULE! In fact I'm going to send a chopper down there right now to pick up your friends and take them home. This wasn't what I had in mind when you said you'd perform at the school if your friends would come on tour with you!"
Caitlin gripped the cell-phone, she was tired of this. Tired of being known as the monkey who was trained to sing and smile on command, tired of having to bail on her friends for something she didn't like to do. Tired of having things she had or loved to do turn into things she hated to do, sick and tired of it all. She squeezed it hard and flung the cell-phone into the air and straight into the lake.
Where no one would find it and have to take the same crud she did.
I
And that would be?
That's what you are NOT going to do, what are you going to do?
What's that?
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Author- I can't think of anything else. This was a kinda funny, kinda boring chapter, but I thought it was a nice break from CAITLIN'S SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Retaw.
Caitlin- Thank goodness.
Author- ^_^ But we'll get right back to that next chapter!
Caitlin- Doh!
Mai- Where am I? I just kinda was there and then disappeared!
Author- Didn't you read the fic, you're in your room for that night. AND the world doesn't have to revolve around you ya know!
Mai- Humph.
Disclaimer- *sigh* Is this ever really necessary?
All- Just do it.
Disclaimer- Retaw owns Caitlin and the plot, Retaw does not own any of the YGO characters, she owns the hotel.
Author- I do? Cool!
Author- *counts money that she made from owning the hotel*
All- HEY!
Author- *notices everyone is looking at her*
Author- *hides money behind back* Heh heh. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Here we are, room 102 on floor 2." Caitlin said, unlocking the cabin.
"Kinda funny isn't it, room one zero TWO on floor TWO for TWO girls." Tea laughed.
"Well, one more girl is going to stay with us."
"Really? Who?"
"Can't tell you, it's a surprise."
Tea rolled her eyes, "Oh is it, well then in that case."
Caitlin turned the doorknob, "Voila! Welcome!"
Tea almost gasped when she saw it. She knew Caitlin was going to get an upper class hotel room, but this was just spectacular! Everything was a calm shade of green, blue, and purple and it was even complete with a refrigerator and freezer, three TVs, three bathrooms with spa's in them, huge beds (one of which a water bed) and a huge window with a great view of the lake behind them.
"Its- gorgeous!" Tea gasped. "It's a luxury hotel- in the middle of nowhere."
"Yeah well, wanted to make up for having to drive for who knows how long. I think the boys are pretty much looking at an exact double of this room at this very moment, only they got a balcony and we didn't."
"Doesn't matter, how often are we going to use a balcony anyway?"
"Well what are you waiting for? Go ahead and take a look around!"
Tea grinned and went into the bedroom. The bed felt like a cloud and the sheets like silk, it was a little slice of heaven! She snooped around in all the closets and dressers to see what was left inside them. At first, the only thing she found that was bigger then a button, penny, or ball of lint was a bible. But then she found something else worth Caitlin's attention.
"Hey look what someone left behind!" Tea called.
Caitlin came to see the cartridge that Tea had pulled out from a drawer, it was a bright pink color except for some area's where the silver of the container shown through. Tea took off the cap, "It stinks! What are you supposed to do with it?"
Caitlin read the label, "Silly string huh? Let's see, 'keep away from eyes yada yada yada.' Have safe fun." She grinned evilly, "This could come in handy." She said, pocketing it.
"What exactly do you have in mind Caitlin, I'm afraid to find out."
"Another question I can't answer yet."
"Caitlin you are quite a character."
"I know. Hey I've got an idea, how about I call the guys up right now and we can have dinner over at our place."
"Dinner? From where?"
"Room service duh." She said, smiling and picking up the phone. "You look through those books on the table for 'ROOM SERVICE' or something while I call the guys."
"Got it."
~~ Meanwhile, At the Boy's Room ~~
The boys had just gotten settled in their new room. Joey and Tristen were fighting over the bunk bed, Ryou was looking around the living room, Yugi and Ryou's Yami's were pretty much exchanging death threats and insults (they were both in physical form), and Yugi was finding a safe place to keep his deck. They were all fine until they heard the phone ring, then everything stopped.
"We've got a phone call already?" Ryou said.
"Well somebody answer it!" Tristen shouted, pulling Joey's arm off him.
They all looked at each other.
"Yami, why don't you answer it?" Yugi told his Yami.
"Because it might be hard to think up an explanation of why I'm here, you should answer it."
"Me?"
Bakura rolled his eyes, "It's just a phone you are all being cowards."
"Alright then why don't you answer it?" Joey said, obviously not liking being called a coward.
"Fine." He said, picking up the phone and putting it to his ear, "What do you want?"
Everyone groaned, of coarse the one with the least amount of phone manners was the one that was going to answer it.
Caitlin had to yank the phone away from her ear for a second because of how loud it was "Hello?"
"Yes I know you're there what do you want."
Caitlin suddenly recognized the voice, "Bakura! What are you doing out of your ring?!"
"Why that is your business I have still yet to learn."
Hey how come Ryou's Yami gets to come out but I don't?
Caitlin groaned, "Fine keep your reasons."
"I will."
"But if anyone sees you out of your ring-"
"No one will see me."
"How exactly do you know that? You aren't exactly the most responsible Yami here."
"I'll have you know that I am VERY responsible and you have no right insulting me because you don't have power enough to send mortals that get in your way to the shadow realm!"
"Now that's not very responsible is it?"
"WHY YOU-!"
"Just put Ryou on the line ok?"
"And why should I listen to you?"
"Because it is the responsible thing to do."
"What if I don't want to be responsible?"
"Put him on the line right now!"
Bakura grumbled and held the phone out to his aibou, "It's your girlfriend."
Ryou snatched the phone, "Hello?"
"Hey Peanut, listen I wanted to know if you guys wanted to come over to our room tonight for dinner?"
He heard Tea in the background say, "Found it."
"Oh um, sure." He answered, "Was that it?"
"Yep, that's all. We're in room 102, see you soon!"
He hung up the phone and turned to his friends, "Ok, they wanted to invite us over for dinner."
Tristen wrinkled his nose, "What's for dinner?"
Ryou shrugged, "Didn't say, she just said for dinner in room 102 and I said ok."
Yugi got up from the couch and stretched his arms, "Well, we won't know until we get there. Packing can wait."
Joey grinned, "Packing can ALWAYS wait if food is second in line!"
**********
Another knock on the door, and another tray of food came in; "Room service."
Caitlin got up and smiled proudly. She thought she had done a pretty good job of picking out food that said, 'Welcome to the USA'. Although Tea was a little skeptical when she saw the pizza come in, ("It's so- flat.") she couldn't help drooling when she saw the apple pie.
"Let's see, apple pie," Caitlin said, pointing at the different food when she said the name, "Pizza, chicken and dumplings, hotdogs and hamburgers, icecream's in the fridge, we've got gummy fish, goldfish crackers, fish, and- doughnuts! I think that's everything we need!"
"That's a lot of food. Do you think we'll eat it all?"
Caitlin laughed at the thought, "Tea, between Joey, Tristen, and me, we might not have enough!"
There was a soft knock on the door and a faint, 'Hello?' that told them all the guys were at the door. Tea got up and ran over to let them in and Caitlin heard her say, loud and important like, "Welcome to out humble room 102."
*********
"That-" Joey said after the meal, "Was the single best dinner I've had in a long time."
"You ate mostly the donuts and the ice-cream." Caitlin laughed, taking her plate to the sink.
"Which were darn good let me tell you that."
Tristen nodded, "I liked the pizza a lot, and the apple pie wasn't that bad either. Heck all of it was good!"
Ryou smiled, "Maybe this means next time we go out for food you'll be more open to try new foods."
"Hey could you boys give us a little help over here with the dishes?" Tea called.
Joey picked up the apple pie, "Oh sure. What do I do with this?"
"Just put it in that trash disposal over there." She answered, "Then press the button to smash the trash."
Joey put the pie into the thing, then pressed the button, the only problem with that was-
He put the pie in face up.
"Joey!" Caitlin shouted, "Take the pie out fast!"
Joey looked around, "How do I stop the thing!?"
"Just pull it open!"
Joey opened the disposal and bit his lip, "Uh, the pie is gone."
Caitlin smacked her hand against her forehead, "It's not gone, it's stuck on the top of the smasher."
"Oh, oops."
"Well, now you have to scoop it all out with your hand."
"Say what?!"
Yugi grinned, "Caitlin's right, you can't just let it sit there and rot. All the bugs will get into it."
Ryou smiled too, "So you'd better start before it gets moldy."
"Hey wait a minute how come I have to be the one to take the junk off!?"
"Cause you're the genius who smushed the pie, so you'd better get cracking." Tristen said, forcing Joey's hand into the pie gook and laughing at his facial expression.
"Oh that's just great." He groaned, "Icky hand after a perfectly good dinner."
Tea giggled, "Where's a camera when you need one?"
Joey glared at them and grimaced when he got a big chunk with a piece of food stuck in it, "I hope you're happy."
"We are." They answered in unison.
********
"I wanna try!"
"No wait we're still playing."
"Oh common it's our turn!"
"Not yet."
The music played to signal that the round was over, and a little pick dinosaur they had learned as 'Yoshi' danced around the screen.
Caitlin smirked, "I win again."
Tea, Tristen, and Yugi sighed. Caitlin had won three times against them already being that Yoshi thing. Tristen was playing Falco, Tea was Jiggly- Puff, and Yugi was Mario. (If you don't know who they are, or what Super Smash Bros. Melee is, then I apologize.) Ryou had fought in the battle before and gotten close to winning as Kirby.
The whole gang was on the floor in front of the large television screen playing 'SUPER SMASH BROS. MEELE' on the Game Cube they rented in the lobby. Even the Yami's were interested in this, 'new form of entertainment'.
"Yami battle!" Caitlin's Yami shouted, grabbing a controller from Caitlin, "I wanna try this thing out!"
Joey wasn't happy about this, "Wait but I wanna fight too!"
Yugi's Yami looked up from the controller he was examining, "You can play with us Joey."
"Great!"
"Uh Joey?" Tristen said, tapping him on the shoulder, "I don't think that's such a great idea..."
"Why not? Don't think I can handle them? Well to that I say- bring it on!"
Joey picked Captain Falcon and watched Caitlin's Yami pick Roy, Yugi's Yami pick Marth, and Ryou's picked Bowser. They chose the place they wanted to fight at and then they started. Of coarse, all of the Yami's went for Joey first because he thought he was better then they were and Joey -who was freaking out at the moment- lost all his lives before any of the Yami's lost one.
"Well I'm out." He said glumly. "I should have picked that robot."
Caitlin thought for a moment, "You mean Samus?"
"Yeah him, he looked cool!"
"Well, first off, the HE is a SHE. But you might have been good at her."
"WHAT?!"
Tristen was laughing like crazy, "Hey that's sort of like you Joey! You llook like a guy, but you're really a girl!"
The second one to get out was Caitlin's Yami, who thought it was such fun he wanted to play again before the game ended. And finally, Bakura was defeated, which he especially didn't like.
"Hey Yugi Yami!" Caitlin called, "I challenge you to a match!"
He smiled, "I would be glad to take you up your challenge."
"Great, cause you know I wouldn't take no as an answer anyway." She said, winking.
And so it began, Yoshi against Marth. Although Caitlin came closer to winning then her Yami, even then Bakura, she lost in the end by one live.
"Well," He said, "I win this one."
Caitlin glared at him, then smiled, "Yea, that you did. But I'll get you next time." She added, extending her arm in a handshake.
They played on and on like that for a long time, at least until midnight when they all went into their own rooms and went to sleep. Well, at least MOST of them got to sleep.
"Tea? Are you awake?"
Tea groaned. A good sign that she was awake.
"Tea I can't get to sleep, I NEVER go to sleep this early. Don't you want to talk or something?"
Another groan and a noise that told her Tea rolled over.
"I saw a good show yesterday. Well not yesterday, a few days ago. It was called something like, Sponge Bob Square Pants? I know the name is weird but it was actually REALLY funny! It was in English too so you'd have to learn that but, it was really cool and-"
"Stop talking."
"There were a lot of cool shows on that channel. The only reason I was watching it was because I was a voice of a character though. You would make a good voice of a cartoon character, or anime."
"Please stop talking."
"Hey Tea, did you hear someone at the door?" Caitlin made up to start Tea talking again.
"Door?" Tea said sleepily.
"Yeah you know, that big wooden thing that stops there from being a hole in the wall." (I saw that on TV one day ^^)
Caitlin waited for Tea to answer, but she didn't.
*So much for nice conversation.*
Caitlin got up from her bed and put her robe on, it was a nice temperature outside and dark enough to see the stars. Caitlin decided to take her mind off things by exploring.
********
Caitlin wandered around the hotel looking at different things. By one in the morning, she knew where the arcade, the pool, and the put-put gold area were. Her favorite finding though, was a little balcony that overlooked the lake ending with a gazebo and bench. She sat down and looked out into the darkness.
"Only in darkness," She told herself, "Can you see the stars."
She closed her eyes and thought hard about nothing in particular, she was slowly tapping into the power of the item, but not fully. Enough to make it shed a soft glow and calm her senses. Then she felt the phone in rumble in her pocket.
Someone was trying to call her.
She picked it up, "Hello?"
"Caitlin!" The voice answered, "Why aren't you in Florida by now?!"
Caitlin groaned as she recognized her agent, "I ran into a little trouble on the way, someone took my cash and a credit card that the airline takes. I canceled the card so he can't take any money or anything."
"Where are you!"
"In California, at the Sweet Sunset Hotel."
"Well you drive right up to Florida right now so you can perform! DO YOU HEAR ME YOU'RE COOMPLETELY OFF SCHEDULE! In fact I'm going to send a chopper down there right now to pick up your friends and take them home. This wasn't what I had in mind when you said you'd perform at the school if your friends would come on tour with you!"
Caitlin gripped the cell-phone, she was tired of this. Tired of being known as the monkey who was trained to sing and smile on command, tired of having to bail on her friends for something she didn't like to do. Tired of having things she had or loved to do turn into things she hated to do, sick and tired of it all. She squeezed it hard and flung the cell-phone into the air and straight into the lake.
Where no one would find it and have to take the same crud she did.
I
And that would be?
That's what you are NOT going to do, what are you going to do?
What's that?
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Author- I can't think of anything else. This was a kinda funny, kinda boring chapter, but I thought it was a nice break from CAITLIN'S SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS by Retaw.
Caitlin- Thank goodness.
Author- ^_^ But we'll get right back to that next chapter!
Caitlin- Doh!
Mai- Where am I? I just kinda was there and then disappeared!
Author- Didn't you read the fic, you're in your room for that night. AND the world doesn't have to revolve around you ya know!
Mai- Humph.
