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"Please," Nancy said. "Are you sure there's no one in room 318?"

"I told you," said the young woman at the desk. "That there isn't." She leaned in confidentially, smacking her bubble gum. "No one's supposed to know this, but we have kind of a mold problem on the third floor. Nobody's up there." She stood up straight, batting her fake eyelashes. "Could you please leave? We're really busy."

Nancy looked around. The lobby of the hotel was completely empty except for her, she receptionist, and the Hardys. "Oh, right. I'll let you get back to work." she said icily, walking over to join the Hardys. "I knew we should have gotten Joe to ask." she muttered to Frank.

Frank smiled. "No luck?"

Nancy just glowered at him.

Frank put an arm around her shoulders. "Well, in that case, we go with plan B."

"Geez, Frank, you need to find some new names for your plans." Joe jumped in.

Frank rolled his eyes. "Would it make you feel better if I called it the sneak-up-to-the-third-floor-and-check-out-room-318 plan?"

"Much." Joe looked satisfied.

"One problem." Nancy said. "How are we going to get past the mold exterminators…or whatever they're called?"

Frank smiled. "The art of the diversion."

Frank and Joe crouched in the stairway leading to the third floor, waiting. Right on cue, they heard Nancy scream. They knew she was lying at the bottom of the set of steps on the other side of the hallway, but they didn't go to her. She was their diversion.

Joe peered around the corner, relieved to see the five workmen heading for the end of the corridor. Quickly, he and Frank crept into the third-floor hallway, knowing they had three or four minutes, tops. Frank was the first to locate room 318, and he immediately set to work on the door with his lockpick. Joe waited impatiently until the lock clicked open fifteen seconds later, each second feeling like a minute.

Frank and Joe glanced at each other, nodded, and thrust open the door. Then they gaped in surprise. Room 318 was empty.

"I don't understand it." Joe said, shaking his head. "There was nothing. Except the furniture and stuff. Standard hotel furnishings. Nobody and nothing to indicate that Charity's up there."

Nancy, Frank, and Joe had regrouped and were sitting in their dilapidated hotel room.

Frank was pacing. "Now that I think about it, it would be stupid for her to tell us where she's going to be this far ahead of time…And if there's anything we know about Charity, it's that she's not stupid." He pursed his lips in frustration. "That whole thing was a waste of time." Then he glanced up at Nancy. "Nice diversion, by the way."

Nancy smiled. "It wasn't hard to convince them that I'd been pushed down the stairs by some hood. Despite the fact that there was nobody in the hall…" She looked up at the Hardys. "Isn't weird how this whole hotel is supposed to be full-"

"But there's never anybody around?" Frank finished for her. "I wondered about that too. Really suspicious. But then, everything about this place is creepy."

"I'll say." Joe replied, sinking down onto the bed. "What do we do now?" he asked.

Frank and Nancy answered in unison. "Now... we wait."

Callie laughed as she and Ned ascended the stairs to their hotel room. "That was the most fun I've had on this whole vacation." she confessed truthfully.

"I know. Me too." Ned said, shoving his hands in his pockets as he looked over the balcony at the ocean.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Callie asked wistfully, joining him at the railing.

"Yeah." Ned said, a little uncomfortably. There were a few moments of silence when neither Ned nor Callie was able to meet the other's eyes, but neither were they able to walk away.

Callie cleared her throat, embarrassed. "Well…"

Ned turned. "Callie? I was sort of wondering…" he trailed off, looking back at the ocean.

Callie looked concerned. She reached out and touched his arm and his gaze snapped to hers, the intensity of it startling her. "What?" she whispered weakly, not removing her hand from his arm.

"…About you…and me…" Before Callie could say a word, Ned leaned down and covered her lips with his own.

A/N: Yeah, another short one, but I totally just updated, like, yesterday. And I'm betting a lot of you saw the Ned/Callie kiss coming. Please review and tell me what you think!