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Caitlin stared up at the ceiling blankly for about a half an hour, going
over the plan in her head over and over again.
*Am I making a mistake?* She thought, *Isn't there any other way?*
She closed her eyes and thought hard, it was a very complicated plan that would either work, or not. It was all up to her now, the fate of her friends, the life road she would take, the fate of the item, all of it! She watched the clock hit 11:00 and slowly got up from her bed.
"Now or never." She said, opening the door only a crack and slipping into the darkness, now or never. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Caitlin wiggled her toes a bit to take off some of the grass strands that had stuck to her foot because of dew. The street name read, 'Life Rose Lane', a nice name. She remembered Mai making a point on how most streets were named something stupid like 'Long Branch' and how she loved the name Life Rose. Caitlin quickly darted down the street and looked at each house. Although she couldn't remember the number of the house, she was PRETTY sure it had a rose flag in front of it.
"I should have taken notes on this." She said quietly as she looked for a house that was even remotely familiar, then she saw it. The house with the rose flag to match the street name, this was Mai's place.
She was happy to see that the mailbox read, VALENTINE on it so she wouldn't be walking into someone else's house.
*Ok, door or window?* She thought, *They might have security, and they wouldn't just leave the door unlocked, I might be walking myself into something if I even try that maneuver. Better go for the window.*
She climbed over the fence, a little less then gracefully, and peeked into each window to make sure it was Mai's. She couldn't be sure it was Mai's room, so she decided to take the first room she was sure was a bedroom. Unfortunately this was the wrong one.
"Ah, that was easy." She said, crawling through the window that had been left open a crack.
She started to walk in when she saw it wasn't Mai in the bed, but one of her siblings. She couldn't tell if it was a girl or a boy because of how it was hidden underneath the blankets and couldn't be sure because of what color the room way because it was dark.
"Oh-!" She covered her mouth to keep herself from cursing and from making another noise. She kept her mouth covered while she walked backwards out of the room and into the room next to it. She was sure this one was Mai's because it was the only one that smelled like perfume and hair spray. She looked around for a jewelry box of some kind. Unfortunately, she became very frustrated when she saw that Mai had not one, but twelve or so boxes full of things. She opened the first one, which had only pink accessories. Oh god, she color coded her girly junk?
"Well, at least this makes things a little easier, now if the box has blue in it I don't have to search." She said to herself, grabbing the next box, and shutting it promptly when it started playing, 'I feel Pretty'.
Stupid music box.
At last, she found the one with gold in it and took out the newly chained beetle. Although she wasn't happy it was just shoved in a box, she was happy to see it had also been cleaned. She put it around her neck and started out the door.
"I did it!" She thought, "I stole it without getting caught!"
Then an icky feeling overcame her. She was proud of herself for stealing it without waking anyone up, but she wasn't proud of stealing it from a friend that had given her her first sleepover party ever.
And probably the last.
She was so wrapped up in thought she didn't realize where she was going, just to waltz out the front door.
"Wrong way wrong way." She told herself, snapping back to the fact that she wasn't safe yet.
She backed up to turn around and ended up hitting a glass vase that was precariously perched on a stand by the wall. She managed to save the vase, but in doing so made a lot of noise and caused the parents to get up. Maybe she would go out the front door after all. She tried to move her legs but felt so trapped she didn't know what to do. She didn't want to make the noises that she had to make by going out the front door, but she didn't want to just stand there and be quiet.
"Stop going over all the possible scenarios and GET OUT OF THERE!" A voice in her head yelled, Caitlin was so stressed at the moment thought, to even notice. She ran however, right out the door.
Which was unlocked the whole time and had no security attachments.
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Caitlin took a breath, trying to regain herself from running the whole way from Mai's place. She softly knocked on Tea's window and watched her stir. It took her a while to get up, but she opened the window when she saw Caitlin standing there.
"What on earth are you doing out there?!"
"Long story."
"I've got nothing to do."
"Ok I decided- to take- a walk."
Tea was confused, "At three in the morning?"
"Yeah, about that, did I mention it was a VERY EARLY morning walk?"
Tea sighed, she had been friends with Caitlin for almost a whole week now and she continued to get more and more strange. Tea just assumed that she was a strange person, and some people were just naturally mysterious right?
"So uh- could you let me in?"
"Oh! Yeah hold on!" Tea rushed to the front door to let her in and Caitlin smiled, glad to be in a house she was supposed to be in.
"So." She said, "What were you doing on your walk?"
"Oh uh, thinking."
"About what? You've got one of the easiest lives I know! You live at a house where people clean up after you and you don't have chores, you go to a school where everyone likes you, and you have friends who like you. What's to stress over?"
"Ok, first of all, you know as well as I do I'd rather NOT be the most liked person on my second day. AND you know that I am not a chore person."
"I've noticed." The first thing that that popped into her head was when Caitlin decided to pretend Tea was her slave. She remembered Caitlin ordering her around and laughing every time Tea would pretend to think of diabolical plan to kill her.
Caitlin giggled, obviously thinking of the same memory and yawned, "What time is it?"
"Too darn late to stay up talking. If I were you, I'd get as many hours of sleep as possible before school."
"Well you aren't me are you? But I think I'll take your advice anyway." She said, walking to Tea's bed.
"Good."
"Oh, and what day is it?"
"Why?"
"Just curious."
"Thursday."
"Good, 24 hours before Friday."
"Why are you counting down to Friday? Are you still stressing over the dance thing Caitlin? Listen I told you, just pick someone you like and go with him. For example I'm going with Yugi-"
Caitlin looked at her with a blank expression, "You know I'm not that two dimensional Tea! I'm just happy to see the school week end."
Not really a lie.
"Yeah right."
"Tea you know again as well as I do that I have no interest in guys yet, and I could care less about my appearance to them."
"Whatever Caitlin."
Caitlin flopped down onto the bed for some well deserved sleep, only sleep never took her. Her mind kept wandering to the fact that she was leaving her best friends -save Zach and Megan- and going to start over again.
This would be the second time she started over from a regular life. She and Zach used to be living in an orphanage together, then she did her first bad thing that made them decide to leave the town. Zach left first, she was only nine then, and she followed him. They left because she had she was in trouble with the law like she was now.
She had stolen the beetle for the first time, she stole it and was able to keep it a secret for a long time. She enjoyed mastering the powers and talking with her Yami. She couldn't remember exactly how she stole it because it was years ago, she just remembered running away with Zach a month later.
She turned over in her bed and recalled her parents, her dad was a stressed out teacher with dark brown hair. She remembered how he used to pick her up on his shoulders and say, 'Up you go little rascal.' Most parents called their daughters, 'little princess' or 'Angel', not Caitlin's. Her dad would either call her 'Rascal', 'Caity-Did' or just plain 'Caity'. He would sing her songs like-
"C-C-C-Caity, Beautiful Caity, You're the only g-g-g-girl who I adore! When the m-moon shines, over the cow shed, I'll be waiting for you at the k-k-k- kitchen door."
Her mother was always home and looked almost like a female version of her dad. She remembered being the only one in the family with red hair. Her mother was always there with hug or a kiss on a boo-boo. She was more practical then her father was.
The last she could remember of her parents was when she was around seven. They had given her the beetle for her birthday and they got into the car to go to her special birthday dinner. She remembered laughing, then there were loud noises and lights and the next thing she knew, her mother and father were dead. She recalled being scared and crying, she ran out of the car to get help, but she dropped her item and was too afraid of the screaming people to go back and get it. Her parents were dead, so no one knew they had a child with them, and their only family was her granddad who lived in Canada and wanted nothing to do with his son, and her aunt who was very sick and couldn't remember what her name was. She was all alone.
Caitlin choked back the tears that were now coming. She was so scared then, and crying like crazy. She remembered being mad at herself for not staying with her mom and dad and mad for not getting the item. She wandered around until she had found Zach, and that's when she first went to an orphanage.
She remembered her first meeting with Megan at he antique store and how she took care of her; she must have been a few years older then Caitlin was. She never had the time to develop an interest in boys, and she never had enough food to grow properly. She had the body of a ten-year-old and she knew it.
Megan, Zach and Caitlin had sworn to always be there for each other, they were her only family! And she wasn't going to let down on her promise now, not when they was in such big trouble. When they needed her the most. She wasn't going to make the same mistake she did with her parents and just leave them there. It was going to be a long night.
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"Miss Caitlin will you please pay attention?" The teacher rapped on her desk with her pencil and Caitlin woke up quickly.
She pulled her head up from behind the book, which was upside-down. As usual, she was sleeping through math class. She usually got away with it, but it would have helped if the book was actually open to the right page and right-side-up.
"Good morning Caitlin, did you sleep well?"
Caitlin would have glared at her, but she was too tired, instead she said simply, "Sorry."
"Sorry indeed. Caitlin would you care to tell us the answer to number seven in your math text?"
Caitlin looked at her text; there wasn't even a number seven on the page! She looked franticly to her friends, which sensed her distress and gave her the best signal they could for three. Caitlin almost laughed when she heard Tea start to hum 'Three is a magic Number', but answered firmly.
"Three." She said, closing the text so as not to show she had the wrong page.
"Can you tell us what page you had Caitlin?"
Caitlin was shocked, "You mean it's wrong?"
"No, I just want to see if you are one of the gifted few who can do math in their sleep."
*Stupid sarcasm. * She thought, *I never know if she WANTS me to do things or not! *
"Anytime now Caitlin. Unless you like being the center of attention." Her teacher said, signaling that she did want a page number.
Oh poop, mixing sarcasm with non-sarcasm! She was tricky. Caitlin looked helplessly to her friends, who once again gave her help. This time Bakura coughed loudly and in a way that sounded like 302. So Caitlin turned to that page and smiled innocently.
"Three hundred and two."
The teacher glared at her, once again Caitlin had gotten away with sleeping in class, and once again the bell rang at the perfect time.
Bells, such wonderful things.
"Thanks for the lesson but I have to go now." Caitlin said, rushing out of the room before any more could be done.
Caitlin three- Teacher zip- Jennet zip and a half.
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"You know you should really stop falling asleep in class Caitlin." Joey said when they were out of Teacher's earshot.
"She was up all night." Tea explained, "Didn't get any sleep."
"Why not?" Yugi asked.
"I just had a lot on my mind."
Everyone seemed to think this was a phony excuse but let Caitlin have it anyway.
"So have you figured out who you're going out to the dance with?" Tea joked.
"Tea. We have gone over this already! I don't really care!"
"Oh common you do so!"
"If I did I would have an answer wouldn't I?"
"You do have an answer, it's called yes or no."
Caitlin wasn't about to tell Tea she'd be busy and not go to the dance after all. If she said that Tea would want to know why and Caitlin wasn't going to have a way to make 'break my friends out of prison' seem more appealing.
"Fine. I'm thinking about going without one and seeing what happens from there."
"That wasn't yes or no." Tea teased.
Caitlin whacked her on the arm and continued into the classroom. This was going to be her last normal day, if you call life with Tea, Joey, Tristen, Bakura, and Star-head normal.
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"Ok, run it past one more time?"
Caitlin sighed and lowered her voice, "I told you three times already!"
"Tell me again, you know how I am. UNEDUCATED."
Caitlin pulled on her hair, "I told you I was forced into that situation!"
"Whatever." Zach said, with his usual yeah-right expression on.
"Ok, be ready to get out of here Friday night cause I'm going to steal the keys to your cell and break you out."
"Hey beautiful." A person called from the cell across from Zach and Megan's, "Hows about you break me out of this hellhole too?"
Caitlin gave him the death glare, so he shut up.
"Ok, how are you going to STEAL the keys?" Megan said, obviously thinking this was impossible.
Caitlin smirked, "I've got experience." She showed them the beetle that she had stung around her neck and under her shirt.
"You stole it back!" Zach exclaimed, marveling at the golden beauty.
"Yup! So now I'm ready to leave as soon as I get you out." She seemed a little disappointed, but fine with it.
"Ok, but what if Kiba comes before you do?" Megan asked.
"I-uh- scream."
Megan raised her eyebrows and crossed her arms, "Yeah, a real fool proof plan."
"No wait! I've got an idea, ok. I throw the key into your cell and scream at the same time, that way he wont hear it land. Then I'll make sure he sees my item and run. HOPEFULLY he'll chase me and you guys can get out."
"And what happens if he catches you?"
Caitlin thought about this for a moment, "Get my new friends, tell them I'm in trouble and where I am. They'll be able to help me."
"I don't know who your friends are!"
"Zach does, he'll show you."
"It's risky Caitlin."
"I know, but it's all we've got."
Megan nodded and Caitlin picked up her backpack and left. Another day gone, tomorrow the last day. Would she be able to do it, and what would happen if she couldn't? No, loosing wasn't an option.
She was going to do this, there was no turning back.
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Author- Only two chapters left in the fanfic.
Tristen- What's going to happen if Tea finds that-
Author- *claps hand over his mouth*
Editor- *very interested* You were saying Tristen?
Author- STEVIE! YOU ALWAYS GET THE SNEAK PEAKS ANYWAY!
Editor- *shrugs* That's cause I'm the editor. See the badge? *shows shiny badge that says editer*
Author- *sigh* I never should have given her that. -.-
Editor- AND you always give me the answers anyway, like I know that in the sequel Caitlin-
Author- *claps hand over editor's mouth while her other hand is still over Tristen's*
Caitlin- What? What happens to me?
Author- Nothing.
Caitlin- She said something, I know it's not nothing.
Author- Like I'm going to tell you anyway. *glares at Stevie*
Caitlin- I DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MEEEE!
Author- No you don't.
Caitlin- YES I DO IT'S MY LIFE!
Author- I PUT YOU IN THIS STORY AND I CAN TAKE YOU OUT JUST AS EASILY!
Caitlin- -.- Must you always bring that up?
Author- ^_^ Now, does anyone else have anything to say?
Everyone- *cricket* *cricket*
Author- Good.
Yugi- *to Tea* She freaks me out.
Author- What was that Yugi?
Yugi- O.O Nothing.
Author- Good. ^_^
*Am I making a mistake?* She thought, *Isn't there any other way?*
She closed her eyes and thought hard, it was a very complicated plan that would either work, or not. It was all up to her now, the fate of her friends, the life road she would take, the fate of the item, all of it! She watched the clock hit 11:00 and slowly got up from her bed.
"Now or never." She said, opening the door only a crack and slipping into the darkness, now or never. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Caitlin wiggled her toes a bit to take off some of the grass strands that had stuck to her foot because of dew. The street name read, 'Life Rose Lane', a nice name. She remembered Mai making a point on how most streets were named something stupid like 'Long Branch' and how she loved the name Life Rose. Caitlin quickly darted down the street and looked at each house. Although she couldn't remember the number of the house, she was PRETTY sure it had a rose flag in front of it.
"I should have taken notes on this." She said quietly as she looked for a house that was even remotely familiar, then she saw it. The house with the rose flag to match the street name, this was Mai's place.
She was happy to see that the mailbox read, VALENTINE on it so she wouldn't be walking into someone else's house.
*Ok, door or window?* She thought, *They might have security, and they wouldn't just leave the door unlocked, I might be walking myself into something if I even try that maneuver. Better go for the window.*
She climbed over the fence, a little less then gracefully, and peeked into each window to make sure it was Mai's. She couldn't be sure it was Mai's room, so she decided to take the first room she was sure was a bedroom. Unfortunately this was the wrong one.
"Ah, that was easy." She said, crawling through the window that had been left open a crack.
She started to walk in when she saw it wasn't Mai in the bed, but one of her siblings. She couldn't tell if it was a girl or a boy because of how it was hidden underneath the blankets and couldn't be sure because of what color the room way because it was dark.
"Oh-!" She covered her mouth to keep herself from cursing and from making another noise. She kept her mouth covered while she walked backwards out of the room and into the room next to it. She was sure this one was Mai's because it was the only one that smelled like perfume and hair spray. She looked around for a jewelry box of some kind. Unfortunately, she became very frustrated when she saw that Mai had not one, but twelve or so boxes full of things. She opened the first one, which had only pink accessories. Oh god, she color coded her girly junk?
"Well, at least this makes things a little easier, now if the box has blue in it I don't have to search." She said to herself, grabbing the next box, and shutting it promptly when it started playing, 'I feel Pretty'.
Stupid music box.
At last, she found the one with gold in it and took out the newly chained beetle. Although she wasn't happy it was just shoved in a box, she was happy to see it had also been cleaned. She put it around her neck and started out the door.
"I did it!" She thought, "I stole it without getting caught!"
Then an icky feeling overcame her. She was proud of herself for stealing it without waking anyone up, but she wasn't proud of stealing it from a friend that had given her her first sleepover party ever.
And probably the last.
She was so wrapped up in thought she didn't realize where she was going, just to waltz out the front door.
"Wrong way wrong way." She told herself, snapping back to the fact that she wasn't safe yet.
She backed up to turn around and ended up hitting a glass vase that was precariously perched on a stand by the wall. She managed to save the vase, but in doing so made a lot of noise and caused the parents to get up. Maybe she would go out the front door after all. She tried to move her legs but felt so trapped she didn't know what to do. She didn't want to make the noises that she had to make by going out the front door, but she didn't want to just stand there and be quiet.
"Stop going over all the possible scenarios and GET OUT OF THERE!" A voice in her head yelled, Caitlin was so stressed at the moment thought, to even notice. She ran however, right out the door.
Which was unlocked the whole time and had no security attachments.
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Caitlin took a breath, trying to regain herself from running the whole way from Mai's place. She softly knocked on Tea's window and watched her stir. It took her a while to get up, but she opened the window when she saw Caitlin standing there.
"What on earth are you doing out there?!"
"Long story."
"I've got nothing to do."
"Ok I decided- to take- a walk."
Tea was confused, "At three in the morning?"
"Yeah, about that, did I mention it was a VERY EARLY morning walk?"
Tea sighed, she had been friends with Caitlin for almost a whole week now and she continued to get more and more strange. Tea just assumed that she was a strange person, and some people were just naturally mysterious right?
"So uh- could you let me in?"
"Oh! Yeah hold on!" Tea rushed to the front door to let her in and Caitlin smiled, glad to be in a house she was supposed to be in.
"So." She said, "What were you doing on your walk?"
"Oh uh, thinking."
"About what? You've got one of the easiest lives I know! You live at a house where people clean up after you and you don't have chores, you go to a school where everyone likes you, and you have friends who like you. What's to stress over?"
"Ok, first of all, you know as well as I do I'd rather NOT be the most liked person on my second day. AND you know that I am not a chore person."
"I've noticed." The first thing that that popped into her head was when Caitlin decided to pretend Tea was her slave. She remembered Caitlin ordering her around and laughing every time Tea would pretend to think of diabolical plan to kill her.
Caitlin giggled, obviously thinking of the same memory and yawned, "What time is it?"
"Too darn late to stay up talking. If I were you, I'd get as many hours of sleep as possible before school."
"Well you aren't me are you? But I think I'll take your advice anyway." She said, walking to Tea's bed.
"Good."
"Oh, and what day is it?"
"Why?"
"Just curious."
"Thursday."
"Good, 24 hours before Friday."
"Why are you counting down to Friday? Are you still stressing over the dance thing Caitlin? Listen I told you, just pick someone you like and go with him. For example I'm going with Yugi-"
Caitlin looked at her with a blank expression, "You know I'm not that two dimensional Tea! I'm just happy to see the school week end."
Not really a lie.
"Yeah right."
"Tea you know again as well as I do that I have no interest in guys yet, and I could care less about my appearance to them."
"Whatever Caitlin."
Caitlin flopped down onto the bed for some well deserved sleep, only sleep never took her. Her mind kept wandering to the fact that she was leaving her best friends -save Zach and Megan- and going to start over again.
This would be the second time she started over from a regular life. She and Zach used to be living in an orphanage together, then she did her first bad thing that made them decide to leave the town. Zach left first, she was only nine then, and she followed him. They left because she had she was in trouble with the law like she was now.
She had stolen the beetle for the first time, she stole it and was able to keep it a secret for a long time. She enjoyed mastering the powers and talking with her Yami. She couldn't remember exactly how she stole it because it was years ago, she just remembered running away with Zach a month later.
She turned over in her bed and recalled her parents, her dad was a stressed out teacher with dark brown hair. She remembered how he used to pick her up on his shoulders and say, 'Up you go little rascal.' Most parents called their daughters, 'little princess' or 'Angel', not Caitlin's. Her dad would either call her 'Rascal', 'Caity-Did' or just plain 'Caity'. He would sing her songs like-
"C-C-C-Caity, Beautiful Caity, You're the only g-g-g-girl who I adore! When the m-moon shines, over the cow shed, I'll be waiting for you at the k-k-k- kitchen door."
Her mother was always home and looked almost like a female version of her dad. She remembered being the only one in the family with red hair. Her mother was always there with hug or a kiss on a boo-boo. She was more practical then her father was.
The last she could remember of her parents was when she was around seven. They had given her the beetle for her birthday and they got into the car to go to her special birthday dinner. She remembered laughing, then there were loud noises and lights and the next thing she knew, her mother and father were dead. She recalled being scared and crying, she ran out of the car to get help, but she dropped her item and was too afraid of the screaming people to go back and get it. Her parents were dead, so no one knew they had a child with them, and their only family was her granddad who lived in Canada and wanted nothing to do with his son, and her aunt who was very sick and couldn't remember what her name was. She was all alone.
Caitlin choked back the tears that were now coming. She was so scared then, and crying like crazy. She remembered being mad at herself for not staying with her mom and dad and mad for not getting the item. She wandered around until she had found Zach, and that's when she first went to an orphanage.
She remembered her first meeting with Megan at he antique store and how she took care of her; she must have been a few years older then Caitlin was. She never had the time to develop an interest in boys, and she never had enough food to grow properly. She had the body of a ten-year-old and she knew it.
Megan, Zach and Caitlin had sworn to always be there for each other, they were her only family! And she wasn't going to let down on her promise now, not when they was in such big trouble. When they needed her the most. She wasn't going to make the same mistake she did with her parents and just leave them there. It was going to be a long night.
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"Miss Caitlin will you please pay attention?" The teacher rapped on her desk with her pencil and Caitlin woke up quickly.
She pulled her head up from behind the book, which was upside-down. As usual, she was sleeping through math class. She usually got away with it, but it would have helped if the book was actually open to the right page and right-side-up.
"Good morning Caitlin, did you sleep well?"
Caitlin would have glared at her, but she was too tired, instead she said simply, "Sorry."
"Sorry indeed. Caitlin would you care to tell us the answer to number seven in your math text?"
Caitlin looked at her text; there wasn't even a number seven on the page! She looked franticly to her friends, which sensed her distress and gave her the best signal they could for three. Caitlin almost laughed when she heard Tea start to hum 'Three is a magic Number', but answered firmly.
"Three." She said, closing the text so as not to show she had the wrong page.
"Can you tell us what page you had Caitlin?"
Caitlin was shocked, "You mean it's wrong?"
"No, I just want to see if you are one of the gifted few who can do math in their sleep."
*Stupid sarcasm. * She thought, *I never know if she WANTS me to do things or not! *
"Anytime now Caitlin. Unless you like being the center of attention." Her teacher said, signaling that she did want a page number.
Oh poop, mixing sarcasm with non-sarcasm! She was tricky. Caitlin looked helplessly to her friends, who once again gave her help. This time Bakura coughed loudly and in a way that sounded like 302. So Caitlin turned to that page and smiled innocently.
"Three hundred and two."
The teacher glared at her, once again Caitlin had gotten away with sleeping in class, and once again the bell rang at the perfect time.
Bells, such wonderful things.
"Thanks for the lesson but I have to go now." Caitlin said, rushing out of the room before any more could be done.
Caitlin three- Teacher zip- Jennet zip and a half.
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"You know you should really stop falling asleep in class Caitlin." Joey said when they were out of Teacher's earshot.
"She was up all night." Tea explained, "Didn't get any sleep."
"Why not?" Yugi asked.
"I just had a lot on my mind."
Everyone seemed to think this was a phony excuse but let Caitlin have it anyway.
"So have you figured out who you're going out to the dance with?" Tea joked.
"Tea. We have gone over this already! I don't really care!"
"Oh common you do so!"
"If I did I would have an answer wouldn't I?"
"You do have an answer, it's called yes or no."
Caitlin wasn't about to tell Tea she'd be busy and not go to the dance after all. If she said that Tea would want to know why and Caitlin wasn't going to have a way to make 'break my friends out of prison' seem more appealing.
"Fine. I'm thinking about going without one and seeing what happens from there."
"That wasn't yes or no." Tea teased.
Caitlin whacked her on the arm and continued into the classroom. This was going to be her last normal day, if you call life with Tea, Joey, Tristen, Bakura, and Star-head normal.
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"Ok, run it past one more time?"
Caitlin sighed and lowered her voice, "I told you three times already!"
"Tell me again, you know how I am. UNEDUCATED."
Caitlin pulled on her hair, "I told you I was forced into that situation!"
"Whatever." Zach said, with his usual yeah-right expression on.
"Ok, be ready to get out of here Friday night cause I'm going to steal the keys to your cell and break you out."
"Hey beautiful." A person called from the cell across from Zach and Megan's, "Hows about you break me out of this hellhole too?"
Caitlin gave him the death glare, so he shut up.
"Ok, how are you going to STEAL the keys?" Megan said, obviously thinking this was impossible.
Caitlin smirked, "I've got experience." She showed them the beetle that she had stung around her neck and under her shirt.
"You stole it back!" Zach exclaimed, marveling at the golden beauty.
"Yup! So now I'm ready to leave as soon as I get you out." She seemed a little disappointed, but fine with it.
"Ok, but what if Kiba comes before you do?" Megan asked.
"I-uh- scream."
Megan raised her eyebrows and crossed her arms, "Yeah, a real fool proof plan."
"No wait! I've got an idea, ok. I throw the key into your cell and scream at the same time, that way he wont hear it land. Then I'll make sure he sees my item and run. HOPEFULLY he'll chase me and you guys can get out."
"And what happens if he catches you?"
Caitlin thought about this for a moment, "Get my new friends, tell them I'm in trouble and where I am. They'll be able to help me."
"I don't know who your friends are!"
"Zach does, he'll show you."
"It's risky Caitlin."
"I know, but it's all we've got."
Megan nodded and Caitlin picked up her backpack and left. Another day gone, tomorrow the last day. Would she be able to do it, and what would happen if she couldn't? No, loosing wasn't an option.
She was going to do this, there was no turning back.
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Author- Only two chapters left in the fanfic.
Tristen- What's going to happen if Tea finds that-
Author- *claps hand over his mouth*
Editor- *very interested* You were saying Tristen?
Author- STEVIE! YOU ALWAYS GET THE SNEAK PEAKS ANYWAY!
Editor- *shrugs* That's cause I'm the editor. See the badge? *shows shiny badge that says editer*
Author- *sigh* I never should have given her that. -.-
Editor- AND you always give me the answers anyway, like I know that in the sequel Caitlin-
Author- *claps hand over editor's mouth while her other hand is still over Tristen's*
Caitlin- What? What happens to me?
Author- Nothing.
Caitlin- She said something, I know it's not nothing.
Author- Like I'm going to tell you anyway. *glares at Stevie*
Caitlin- I DESERVE TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO MEEEE!
Author- No you don't.
Caitlin- YES I DO IT'S MY LIFE!
Author- I PUT YOU IN THIS STORY AND I CAN TAKE YOU OUT JUST AS EASILY!
Caitlin- -.- Must you always bring that up?
Author- ^_^ Now, does anyone else have anything to say?
Everyone- *cricket* *cricket*
Author- Good.
Yugi- *to Tea* She freaks me out.
Author- What was that Yugi?
Yugi- O.O Nothing.
Author- Good. ^_^