"You check those rooms," Original Cindy directed Joshua. "I'll check this row over here."
"Okay," Joshua nodded as the door to the bathroom opened. Alec stumbled out, half-dragging Max alongside him with her arm over his shoulder.
"Guess who I found puking her guts out in the bathroom?" he asked.
"Max!" Joshua exclaimed, rushing to help shoulder Max's weight. "Max! Max!"
"What?" Max asked dizzily.
"Did you tell Sketchy to make an excuse for you to go to Wyoming?" Joshua asked. Max's eyes widened.
"Ohhh!" she said. "Ohhh God, I'm in so much trouble."
"Come on," Cindy said. "We gotta get you home now."
Meanwhile...
Sketchy really wasn't worried that Max was gone, because Deck and Renfro were also gone out on a restaurant date (they expected Max to be home to watch him).
Pfft! Like he needed a babysitter. He was fifteen years old! He had thirty fireworks buried in the backyard and a marijuana plant in his closet. He needed a clientele.
"Yeah, I'm totally hooked up," Sketchy said on his cell phone to Druid. "Thing's like two feet high. Renfro hasn't even noticed it! How sweet is that?" He opened the refrigerator and perused it's contents. Cautiously reaching out a hand, (one could never be too careful when seeing how what Renfro cooked the previous night had mutated over the last few hours) he lifted up the foil on one container and saw what looked close enough to french fries to be a match for him.
"Sweet!" he crowed. "Nah, not you, dude. I just found fries in my fridge. Can you believe it? Fries! Renfro never lets us have fast food!"
He stuck the container into the microwave and turned the dial to "4 minutes". The fries looked half-frozen.
"Yeah, so grab your dudes and come over here. Bring money, too," he said, running up the stairs. He'd get the fries when the timer rang.
A/N: Now, I hope everyone else in the world knows the basic rule of microwave-ation that has been violated in this chapter: aluminum + microwave great need for a fire extinguisher.
(I believe I am branching out from the usual Max POV. Yay for me!)
In the next chapter: Deck and Renfro come back from their dinner date to find...
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