Chapter 7
Amber came by the next day to give Hayden The Pants. Her week was up. She couldn't stay because she had plans with her dad. The girls were soon alone again.
"So, what are you going to do with your first day with The Pants?"
"We need to find that woman."
"Not exactly the answer I expected. Why are you so interested all of the sudden? Amber drove us crazy the other day just talking about her, and now you want to find her?"
"You'll see." Lauren knew she knew something she didn't.
The girls tried the place where Amber had first had her audition, but it was closed on weekends. They searched the phone books, but there were no Vreeland's.
"Are you sure it was Vreeland," Hayden asked impatiently, skimming through the phone book for the fourth time.
"Yes, Amber said she used to be an actress. Maybe she kept her maiden name when she got married, so she would probably be listed with her husband who wouldn't have the same last name."
"Why do you have to make me look so stupid?"
"Just my job," Lauren smiled.
"How are we going to find her?"
"Call me crazy, but isn't that her over in the market?" Lauren pointed across the street.
"This is freaky."
The girls hurried across the street and plowed through the door. In the process, Lauren knocked over a pyramid of macaroni. Lauren stopped to pick it back up as Hayden hurried on. By the time Lauren caught up Hayden was in mid-sentence.
"Are you the woman from the auditions," she asked out of breath.
"Yes." Terri looked horrified.
"Terri Vreeland?"
"Yes, who are you."
"We are friends of a girl that went to an audition you were at almost a week ago."
Terri looked at Lauren. "Oh, I remember, you're the girl that read seven magazines." Lauren blushed and nodded. "Did you need something?"
"Are you related to Bridget Vreeland?"
"Yes, she was my mother. Why?"
"Did she ever say anything about The Traveling Pants?"
"How do you know about those?" The woman pressed her pink lips together.
"We sort of…found them," Lauren spoke up.
"Can you tell us what you know?" Hayden looked pleadingly at Terri.
"Everything," she answered with a sly look in her eyes.