A/N: Yes I know, this took forever, but I just started school and blah, blah, blah. You know the drill. Thanks to top20fan13 andFudge 1.

-Hotel Lobby-

"Ah, Mr. Garcia. I see that you have decided to stay with us for a few more days?" The man behind the desk seemed surprised. If anything he had been expecting some worried parent or the police to come and take this fifteen-year-old away any day now, but he had been with them for three days and counting.

"There you go, everything is set up."

"Thank you." Christon Garcia turned and left the lobby of the Hotel bon Marche. No one new yet, but he would be the deciding factory in the fate of the world.

-Maria's dorm 9:30 am-

I hadn't bothered to change out of my pajama top since it was Sunday. I had put on a pair of jeans and I was currently standing on my bed trying to cover the writing on my wall with a poster. Let's just say it wasn't working. A knock on my door caused me to fall off my bad and on to the floor.

"Owwwwww," I muttered. Standing, I fixed the strap of my purple tank top and opened the door. Ulrich and Odd stood there.

"This had better be important," I said rubbing my head.

"We come bearing gifts of food," Odd said stepping into my room and holding up the paper plate in his hand. I shrugged and moved to my bed to let them come in.

"Why weren't you at breakfast?" Ulrich asked.

"I over slept." I took the plate from Odd and started eating the toast that was there.

Ulrich looked up at the wall.

"It's off center," he commented.

I looked at the poster and saw that he was right. Darn! I thought I almost had it. I set down the plate and moved to fix the poster.

"Here, let us do that," Odd said going to the wall, "You eat." They stood and started to fix my poster.

"I presume that you have a reason for being here other then I wasn't at breakfast," I stated as they worked.

"Well," Ulrich started, "Jeremie wants to run some tests and he keeps talking in this gibberish that we don't understand."

"And you wanted my help?" I finished for him.

"Uh, yeah," he finished lamely.

"Sur-." Just then the sound of Jingle Bells interrupted me.

"Hello?" I picked up my phone and answered it.

"Maria," the voice on the other end breathed, "You thought you could run from me?" The fear I was feeling must have showed on my face for Ulrich's brow furrowed and Odd asked,

"What's wrong?" I shook my head.

"You should come meet me," the caller continued, "We really do have a lot to talk about. I'll be at your school gates in 20 minutes. Come alone." The line went dead. Slowly I lowered the phone and turned it off.

"What's going on?" Odd asked they were both worried. Once again I shook my head.

"I…I have to go." I ran out of the room. I could barley hear Ulrich and Odd calling my name behind me.