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Chpater 21a: The Happy Ending, Part 2
one week later
A hotel
It wasn't a big hotel, nor a small one. It was just your average outsida-town Hilton that had gone independent for no reason. It also happened to be where Father and the Delightfuls were staying while the mansion was being rebuilt. It was their luck that that would take a month. Father would have to reconstruct a duplicate Delightfulization Chamber, which would take about two weeks. He was already half done, but that didn't concern Amber.
Father was in a seperate room from his children, as the duplicate Delightfulizer took up most of the room. So they were free to try the TV channels, jump on the bed, and annoy room service. There was a bible in the bedside table drawer, which Amber spent her free time reading. It kept her mind off much more pressing matters.
Such as what was to come. When Father's duplicate Chamber was complete, it was going to be eight months in darkness. Pain. Longing. Loss of control.
In the middle of reading about The Wisdom of Solomon, Amber shut the bible. She walked over to her window and gazed outside longingly. She sighed and turned over. It was late, she should get to sleep. But she couldn't. It had been like this for the past week. She hoped her decision had been right.
Just as she at last began to feel drowsy, there was a knock on the door. Amber sleepily got up and opened the door. "Yeah, what?"
It was room service. "I gottsa package for a miss Amber Wigglestein?" He held out a shoddily packaged something with the KND logo on it.
"I'll take that, thanks!" She grabbed it and shut the door.
"Guys! Guys! Wake up! We got something from the Kids Next Door!" This comment roused her siblings, bleary-eyed and drowsy. "Yeah, whatdweget?" they groaned.
"I guess we better find out!" With some difficulty due to the bad packaging, Amber tore the box open.
Inside was a note, a smaller box, and what looked like a formal letter. She read the formal letter first.
Dear Amber, Lenny, Mikey, Danny, and Leona
The Kids Next Door have been thoroughly amazed with your act of bravery, sacrifice, and risk in the face of Father. This was a deed that not even our highest authority can do without screaming for their mommies. We commend you for this.
As a visible sign of our commendation, we award you the Kids Next Door Code of Supremity. Amber, since she has done more than the rest, will recieve Second Class (out of ten classes). The rest of you will recieveFourth Class for bearing Father's oppresion for seven years- y'know, being his kids and all. Amber's is the blue one, the rest of yours are yellow.
Normally, this would be presented in a ceremony, as even Tenth Class Codes of Supremity are very high awards, but due to circumstances, we've sent them to you. Keep in mind that these are VERY big KND awards, especially since you are not operatives and never will be, haven't had any formal training, and have been considered enemies for about three years. Second Class is especially rare, Amber, so DON'T LOSE IT OR LET FATHER SEE IT.
Hope you have a good rest of your lives. We'll be checking up on you.
Signed,
There was a list of high rankingKND ops, including Numbuhs 1-5.
"Woah," Daniel said. They just stared at the letter.
"I guess that's what's in the box," Michael said. "Go on, open it!"
Amber did. It was a bit easier to open. Inside were four square peices of metal-like hard stuff with engravings on them. One was blue, the rest yellow.
The blue one said:
To Amber Wigglestein
For Bravery and undying commitement to the
mental freedom of Children all over the world
Kids Next Door Code of Supremity, Second Class
April 16, 2005
The yellow ones said pretty much the same thing, except the name and class.
"Cool! That's what it is, right?" Leona picked up the one that had her name on it. The others-except Amber- busied themselves with their awards.
Amber turned her attention away from the small blue plaque and to the hastily written note in the box.
Dear Amber (and the rest of you, if you're there),
Hi there! I hear you're in that old Hilton. Hope Father isn't treating you too badly.
Things aren't going too well with the KND. Some operatives are refusing to believe you've been our side the entire time. Habit,I guess. But lotsa them see you as heroes. I mean, you've delayed Father's plans for a month, and you'll be free someday! Numbuh 362 even got some Codes of Supremity for you. They're with this letter. Don't they look awesome? All of Sector V got Fifth Class for helping you guys. Can you belive it? FIFTH CLASS! It's lower than you got (Second Class? DO YOU KNOW HOW AWESOME THAT IS? Only twenty other kids have gotten that in history, and only five kids ever got First Class), but it is still AWESOME. I've only recieved Tenth Class before.
Things are going normal at Sector V, though. Numbuh 1's been a little loopy since you kissed him, oh scratch that, he's VERY loopy. With love. So I've been doing leader stuff while he babbles. Aah, you should hear the stuff he's saying. It's even better than TV.
Anyway, we send our regards, hope you have a good time, and hope you don't rip up this letter when you're Delightfulized.
YOU GUYS ROCK!
Numbuhs 2-5, written by Numbuh 5.
AMBER! HIIII! HOW YA DOING? WEE! I LOVE YOU! --------------------Numbuh 1 says hi too.
Amber looked at the celing. I send regards too, she thought. She played with her hair idly as she picked up the remote. She clutched her Code of Supremity in her other hand, feeling a friendly warmth pulsate through her as she turned on the TV.
END TRANSMISSION
And now, the Happy Ending is over! You can now read straight through this with an actual ending! Wee! But now, I have two more endings and the next book of Urtrip to work on.
Woopee!
-SP