Chapter Five: Getting The Body

Author's Note:

Chapter Five: Getting The Body is here! Sorry for taking so long! Matt, Inez, and Robbie are finally at the clinic. But they can't just barge in and ask for Inez's body. They have to go undercover as doctors. But Robbie is having a few disagreements. See what happens. Until Chapter Six: Just Like Heaven, see ya! Please read and review! ;-)

-CelestialTime93

Matt crept close behind Inez, and Robbie crept close behind Matt. Inez bolted to a stop when a doctor passed by and the two boys stayed in the shadow of the dark hallway as much as possible. The doctor passed, not seeing any of them. Inez went along the wall, then melted through a door. The boys quickly crept in and closed it carefully behind them.

The room was very bright. It was basically a hospital's colours. Turquoise and White. Medical equipment were lined up carefully on the shelves alongside the walls and a ton of hooks hung several white doctor jackets.

"This is the storage room." Inez explained, "Unfourtunatly we can't go in the medical room that my body's in so we have to go undercover."

"In we, you mean and me and Robbie, right?" Matt asked in a low voice so that Robbie won't hear, "'Cause, you're invisible."

"Ooh... got a point there." Inez bit her lip uncomfortably. She didn't want Matt and Robbie to do this by themselves. But she had no choice. And time was running out. They were gonna get rid of her body in only a matter of minutes!

"Listen, if we're gonna go undercover as doctors, count me out!" Robbie exclaimed.

"Robbie, it's our only choice!" Matt cried.

"I just can't do it." Robbie pouted, "I feel queasy around dead bodies."

"Oh god, Inez is not dead, Robbie!" Matt hissed, shaking Robbie by holding him by his collar, "She's just in a coma, and we're here to bring her back to her body! If we don't return her before she's sent off to be buried in the ground, then she will be dead!"

"No!" Robbie fought back.

"Yes!" Matt hissed.

"Okay, let's put it this way." Robbie said to Matt, as Inez walked behind Robbie, "I'm going to put my hand behind my back, and you guess what I'm doing. If you get all of them right, I'll go with you."

Inez watched Robbie's bony hand go to the back of his back. It was in a familiar position.

Inez looked to Matt. Matt's expression told Inez what to do.

Inez returned to Robbie's hand, and said, "Rock."

"Rock." Matt said.

Robbie's hand shifted.

"Scissors." Inez said.

"Scissors." Matt said.

Inez wrinkled her nose when she saw the next shape. "Is he crossing his fingers?"

"Hey!" Matt cried, "You're crossing your fingers!"

Robbie was surprised by Matt's reply and twirled around to see if he was cheating.

Inez thought that they were caught, but then she remembered that Robbie and the others can't see her. Only Matt can see her.

"I don't know how you knew that, but I'm sure Inez wasn't behind me." Robbie muttered.

Inez ran over to one of the hooks on the walls. She picked up a white coat and said to Matt, "Wear this."

"I can't believe you talked me into this..." Robbie muttered as the two boys, dressed in a white coat, walked out of the elevator, pushing a stretcher on wheels. There was nothing in there of course. Inez walked beside Matt.

"Robbie, it's the only way we could get in here." Matt muttered back through gritted teeth.

"How do you think Jackie's going to think about this?" Inez whispered, "Y'know, working with Robbie?"

"She's gonna freak." Matt muttered back.

"Who's gonna freak?" Robbie asked in a low voice.

Before Matt could answer, a doctor cried, "Hey, you!"

"Oh, great!" Inez hissed, "It's the Hall Monitor God."

"Is he really?" Matt asked.

"No, but he sure acts like one." Inez replied.

"Hey, didn't you hear me?" the doctor cried again.

"He's gonna chase you guys, run!" Inez cried.

The three rushed around a corner and down a hallway. Some doctors and nurses stepped out of the way, as the doctor chased after them.

"This is the room!" Robbie exclaimed, "According the newspapers, this is where her body is!"

"Inez, get in!" Matt cried, not even caring if anybody heard or not.

Inez melted through the door in a rush and Matt accidently hit his head, forgetting that he wasn't a ghost or an appariation like Inez. He hissed in pain, clutching his head.

"Well, well." the doctor said, catching up, "What do we have here?"

Back inside, Inez saw her body infront of her. She wasn't attached to any machines. No tubes through her nose. No air mask. They were really trying to get rid of her.

Inez sighed. "Here goes nothing." Then, she dove into her body.

"Doctor, we could explain." Robbie began.

Then, Matt heard a clutter.

"Inez?" Matt wondered out loud, as Robbie started making up lies about why they were here. He cautiously walked towards the door. The door was shaking, and making banging noises.

Matt grabbed the doorknob, and jerked it open, during the last thump, only to be brought down by a screaming girl.

"Dr. Garcia!" the doctor exclaimed, "You're alive!"

Inez realiezed that the doctor could see her. A thousand other eyes were upon her as well. Even Robbie was staring at her.

Matt was almost breathless. There was a beautiful girl on top of him, being stared at by hundreds of other employees and his friend.

"Inez?" Matt asked.

Inez turned her head to face Matt.

"I'm dreaming, right?" Inez asked.

Matt shook his head, and brought himself to sit upstraight.

Inez was in tears of joy, as she hugged Matt tightly. Matt felt tears rolling down his own cheek, as he hugged his dear friend.

The doctors and nurses applauded.

Ding, ding!

Matt entered the bookshop, and saw Jackie, reading a book behind the counter. Inez cautiously stepped in behind Matt.

"Jackie," Matt said in a sing-song voice, "Look who's with us!"

Obi barked in agreement.

Jackie looked up and gasped when she saw the familiar girl.

"Inez! You're alive!" Jackie squealed in happiness. She got out from behind the counter and hugged her old friend, tears streaming through her eyes.

"Honestly, I do not have a crush on Matt!" Inez defended.

"So you were there." Jackie said, wiping her tears, "Are you sure? Sometimes your aura shows something that not even your own mind could tell you. These feelings are kept deep within, and only brought up when you allow it to."

Inez saw a glimpse of Matt's weak smile, before he walked out of the shop.

"I may not have a crush on Matt," Inez said, "But I think I hurt his feelings saying so."

Obi was still in the shop. He whined when he saw his owner get into his truck and drive off to the road the opposite direction of his home. Obi didn't know where his owner was going, but he knew that his feelings were somehow hurt.

If there was one person who knew where Matt was going, it was Inez. Although, she didn't know why.

She turned to talk to Jackie again. "Hey, Jacs." she asked.

"Yeah?" Jackie asked.

"Remember that shortcut to the flower garden?" Inez asked, "You know, where we always went there for a picnic every sunset with our family and friends, before Matt arrived?"

Jackie knew what Inez was talking about.

"You're not saying..." Jackie said.

"I am." Inez replied, "If there's one place here that Matt remembers, is the one place where any country boy goes to gather his thoughts or calm himself down..."