Tears of an Angel

Chapter 9

"Where are they?" the drama director, Mrs. Otonashi, said to herself. "They were suppose to be here for extra practice and costume repair." Mrs. Otonashi looked at her watch and started to worry. "We only have an hour and a half until show time!"

"Umm...Director?" asked a fellow drama student carrying the five Eva children's costumes. "Where are they? Their costumes are the only ones left in the dressing room."

"T-They should be here soon." The student went to put the costumes back. "I hope they will be here soon."

Later at the restaurant

Misato was full with glee as she and Shinji, Rei, Asuka, Toji, and Kaworu stepped into The West Hill. They Eva kids were very taken aback by the size of the restaurant and the savory smell of the food.

"No! Don't give in!" Asuka whispered to the others. "Remember our plan?"

"Oh, yes..." replied Toji. "Urr...what was our plan again?"

"Why do I bother? Listen, I'm only going to say this one more time. We DO NOT order any food. NONE. Misato will only eat, so we don't have to spend all evening here! Besides, the play- it's in the bag! We know our lines...well...most of them. And if it gets too late, we go to Plan B."

"What's Plan B?" asked Shinji.

"Grrr...WE ESCAPE! We find a way to leave and dump Misato. We'll explain everything to Misato later if we have to execute Plan B, OK?"

"OK," everyone agreed.

"C'mon, guys!" Misato said. "This nice waiter will show us to our table! Now, eat all you want! On me tonight." Shinji looked nervously at Asuka. Rei stared into space, murmuring her lines softly. Kaworu and Toji lagged behind, hoping this wouldn't be the worst, stressful, unbearable, humiliating, scary, spine-tingling...

"OK! We get it!" Toji snapped.

Narrator(author): Sorry!

Kaworu giggled. Rei glanced at a big, golden clock behind the counter as she walked past it to follow the waiter. Her crimson eyes snapped alerted, and discovered she and everyone has only an hour and fifteen minutes until the curtain rises. She decided to do something. Something brave, something inquisitive, something constructive.

"Shinji, Plan B." Shinji asked why, and Rei pointed to the clock. Shinji's face lost his complexion entirely.

"Oh, right," he whispered.

"Misato?" asked Rei. Misato put down her menu as well as Asuka, Toji, and Kaworu. Asuka grinned. She knew they both they had an idea because Shinji kept looking at his watch then to Rei. Misato didn't notice.

"Yes, Rei?" Misato replied.

"I have to go to the bathroom."

"Alright then," Misato answered.

"And Shinji does to," Rei added.

Misato spit out her water and the others tried to refrain from their hysterical laughter.

"Umm...OK," Misato said. "You two realize there is a bathroom just for boys and just for girls, right?"

"We know," Rei said.

"Very well." Misato dismissed them, then Rei and Shinji stormed down the hall and didn't pay attention to where they were going. Shinji gave a signal to Toji to meet him in the bathroom in five minutes. Rei kept pulling her lines from her mind without heeding to where she was going. Both of them bumped into a wall. They knocked over a sign that pointed out which direction the bathrooms were.

"Rei? You OK?" Shinji asked trying to get up.

"Yes, I'm alright," Rei answered finding her posture.

"Which way is the bathroom? It's a fork in hall. Two ways but which?" Rei found the sign that had a red arrow painted on it that read 'To Bathrooms'.

"How was this sign hung? This way or the other way?" Shinji asked in a panic. Either hallway could lead us to the bathrooms, Rei thought.

"Here." Rei hung the sign up on the wall to indicate that the bathrooms were to the right. "Let's go," she said. She and Shinji went right and came upon a big iron door with a cold air passing by.

"This is the bathroom? Which one is the boys and which is girls?" Shinji asked. He opened the door. "It-It-It's freezing in here!" Indeed it was.

"Shinji?"

"Yes, Rei?"

"I do not think this is the bathroom."

"You're right. It's way to cold in here to be a bathroom."

"That is not the point. This is the freezer. The bathrooms must be the other way." Unknown to both teens, the door is locked from the outside. And as bright as the author made this parody to be, the closed the door behind them.

"Rei?"

"Yes, Shinji?"

"The door won't open."

Pause.

"What?" The freezer was stuffed with ice cream, long pieces of fish such as trout, salmon, swordfish, and halibut. Every frozen food you could think of was in there. "You mean when people want to go to the bathrooms, they will come here?"

"Y-Yes. Let's just hope that we can stop the door before it closes. It-it's cold in here."

"Are those two sick or something?" Misato asked.

"I don't think so," Kaworu answered.

"Well, they have been in the bathroom for awhile now. Toji, sweetie, can you go and fetch Shinji, and tell him that we're waiting for him. Asuka, could you go and get Rei? I'm getting worried."

"Okay," Toji and Asuka said. They walked down the hall and followed the sign with the red arrow painted on it that read: TO BATHROOMS. Little did they know that they were going to have one hell of a scene in the freezer!

At the school

"Mrs. Otonashi, it's time to open the doors to the public," a student said.

"Very well," she replied.

"Are Rei, Asuka, Shinji, Toji, and Kaworu here yet? We go on in forty minutes!" asked a female drama member.

"We will give them one half hour to arrive and if they don't, we'll have to delay the start of the show by five minutes, ten minutes tops," Mrs. Otonashi explained. My God, where could they be? She thought.

"Umm...Asuka? This is a pretty weird bathroom? Which one's the boys room?" Toji remarked.

"I'm not sure," Asuka said. "But I'm pretty sure that those two are in there. Yikes, it's cold here! Rei?! Shinji?! You guys in there? Toji and I are coming in!" Asuka pulled the door open and felt a cold air sweep over her body. "Shinji, Rei?!"

"Hey, fish!" shouted Toji.

"BAKA!" exclaimed Asuka. She spotted Rei and Shinji sitting on a cargo box with ice forming on the bottom. They tried to keep themselves warm by doing jumping-jacks but only looked silly. "Hey, this isn't the bathroom, guys!" Rei noticed Toji was about to step in and let the door go.

"NO! TOJI! Don't close the-" The door slammed shut. Asuka turned in possible anxiety.

"-door," Rei finished.

"Now you guys are stuck here with us. The door is locked from the outside. We've tried to look for some way out, but there are no windows or extra doors," Shinji said.

"Oh, God! We need to get to the school! What are we gonna do?" Asuka whined.

"Yummy! Fish-sticks and ice cream!" Toji cheered.

"Maybe Kaworu will come in next to rescue us? Or we could use the swordfishes and bag on the door and scream for dear mercy out of freezing temperature so someone can get us out of here!" explained Shinji.

"That idea is so idiotic," Asuka said looking sick from the smell of fish and ice.

"Listen Asuka," Rei started, " do we have any other options?"

"No, I don't think so if you have one."

"Then idiocy is our only option."

The Eva kids' time is running out! Let's see if they can work together and pull through with the greatest teamwork ever since the Angels! (Probably not).