Chapter 2: A Crazy Tale

Jessica raised her hand and knocked at Carmelitas door. No one answered at first.

"This must be a curse!" Jessica thought in disbelief. But after a minute she heard someone walking inside. She thanked god and waited patiently.

"This has to be important, whoever you are!" Rachel said angrily while opening the door. "Jessica? What are you doing in here?" She asked in bewilderment.

"Rachel? Oh no... I forgot again!" Jessica said and sighed. She had forgotten that this had been Rachel's place for ages and she had rented it for Carmelita to use until around a month ago, Carmelita moved away. So of course, Rachel moved back to her own house. Why wouldn't she if it was hers?

Apparently this night was full of surprises...

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Jenny woke up with a splitting headache. She kept her eyes closed tightly, she didn't dare to open them. She started to listen if there were any voices, but she didn't hear anything. She smelled something familiar, but she couldn't really place it. It was like.. a very familiar smell but there was something strange in it. Jenny felt movement next to her so carefully, she opened first one eye, then both of them to check. At first she didn't see a thing, but when her eyes got used to the dark, she started to recognise things.

She was definitely in a small room. There was a little window, but otherwise the walls were empty. No portraits or anything. The room was actually quite nice, it must've been a quest room.

"Finally, you're awake. I'm afraid of the dark, so... It's nice to have some company." The voice was a thin, kinda like a sweet voice. Jenny recognised it immediately. It was the poor snowleopard girl.

"Y-You are?" Jenny tried to sound reassuring but she failed miserably.

"Yes. Oh, I quess I should introduce myself. I'm Lindsay. What's your name?" She sounded like a nice girl. Jenny felt like they would have just met in a cafeteria or something, and would have just started to talk.

"Oh, I'm Jenny. Jenny Palacios." Jenny answered and stood up. For what she could see in the dark, she saw that Lindsay was a tall girl, with big lovely green eyes and long hair. She was wearing tight blue jeans, black shoes, a light blue jacket and a white top under the jacket. She had her hair in a high ponytail. "Oh, Lindsay?"

"Yeah?" Lindsay answered while wandering around the room.

"How did those..goons come after you?" Jenny asked and gulped. Even thinking about the whole chase and the harbour made her want to vomit.

"Well.. I'm kinda good at getting into trouble." Lindsay smiled a little and stopped her wandering. "And it doesn't help at all that my dad's an inspector in Interpol." She grinced and sighed.

"I understand completely. My mother had the same thing with her dad." Jenny nodded but didn't start to tell the whole story, because she didn't want to interrupt Lindsay.

Lindsay took a deep breath and started to tell. "Well, it started when me and my friends smuggled ourselves into a bar this evening, and so on..."

"Ain't this cool?" Sasha exclaimed with excitement. Neither Sasha, Lindsay nor Rebecca had ever been in a bar before. Lindsay watched with awe when people were dancing and having fun.

"Yeah.. This is awesome!" Lindsay nodded and smiled. "Yo guys look, do you see those two guys sitting there maybe two tables across from here?" Lindsay asked mysteriously while grinning.

Sasha watched them curiously and noticed instantly what was going on in her friends mind.

"Let's wait until they order, and then.. take their money and then we can go and order something ourselves." Sasha grinned.

"But guys...If we get caught they're going to KILL us!" Rebecca, an orange vixen with purple eyes, was always the insecure one and spoke with a trembling voice.

"Calm down Becca, you just stay here while we do it, and then we run together, okay?" Lindsay said and nudged Rebeccas shoulder playfully.

"If you say so..."

"Don't look guys.. But they're getting up, and the other guy left his coat at the table. This is our chance." Sasha whispered and acted like she was just leaning back relaxing.

Immediately when the guys turned their backs and were over ten feet away, Sasha and Lindsay got up and walked to the table like it was theirs. Sasha sat down at the table and played along while Lindsay checked the coat searching for anything, wallet, cash, credit card, anything... But suddenly things started to go wrong.

"I quess it had something to do with the other guys credit card, because the other one turned around to pay for their order."

"Uh-o. Of course he saw you and Sasha then?" Jenny asked with a concerned look.

"He had a straight view, no doubt about it."

"Well what did you do then?" Jenny asked interested.

"Well we ran like crazy!" Lindsay exclaimed and waved her hands while explaining.

"Hey...you! That's my coat!" The other guy yelled and pointed at Lindsay. That drew everyones attention towards them. Lindsay just dropped the coat and started to pull Sasha with her. Rebecca was already at the door and they ran for dear life.

When they were outside and had ran for like one hundred feet, Rebecca looked over her shoulder and saw to her horror that the guy was after them. And the other guy was with him too.

"Now what you two? You and your great plans! I wish I had stayed away!" Rebecca shouted and ran faster.

Lindsay sped up, they made a quick turn to first left, then right, then right again.. and while doing that, she yelled, "Uhmm, well.. Let's split up!"

Sasha, for being an agile cat, took some extra speed and headed for the rooftops. Rebecca and Lindsay kept running, and after a while, Rebecca took a left turn and Lindsay took a right one. The goons seemed to forget about Sasha and split up to get Lindsay and Rebecca.

Lindsay knew the city pretty well, so she took a short-cut throught the park and headed for the outskirts of Paris. She ran so fast that everything seemd to go pass as blurs when she dashed on. Unfortunately she took a wrong turn on the process and ended up to a dead end. There was only a ten feet high fence, and some garbages.

Lindsay turned around in horror just when the guy dashed around the corner to the same alley where Lindsay had ran just a second ago.

"Look, you're not getting away, so, surrender now and I don't have to harm you." He was panting from the running.

Lindsay looked behind her at the fence, but didn't dare to try and get over it by climbing. She tried to misslead him by dashing for the left but suddenly changed direction and tried to get pass him from his right side. But apparently he sensed what she was going to do and tackled her and before she could do anything, twisted her arm behind her back and put a gun to her head.

"You come with me."

"And then he contacted his "pal" and they took me to the harbour. The other guy didn't catch Rebecca, but I don't know how she got away. But you know the rest because you saw us in the platform." Lindsay said and ended her telling.

"Yeah..I did." Jenny thought a while and nodded. "Hey Lindsay, what did you take from them? It seemed to me like it had to be something big because they were ready to even kill you!"

Lindsay stopped and realized something.

"Hey.. I don't really know because I didn't have the time to check it. I just took what I could. I think I put it somewhere..." She started to look for it from her jacket, but couldn't find anything. Then she looked from her jeans, but couldn't find it from there either. Then suddenly she just started to grin and then laugh.

"What's so funny?" Jenny looked at Lindsay like she was crazy. This definitely wasn't a funny situation!

Lindsay wiped her eyes from her happy tears and raised her head to look at Jenny. "I don't have it, whatever it was. Sasha must've been as curious as I was and somewhere in the middle of that chaos, took it from my pocket!" She grinned widely.

"You're kidding right?" Jenny said in amazement.

"Of course not! I don't even know what I took! But I don't think that they're just letting us leave. I just hope that Sasha realizes that I'm missing and takes the thing we stole to my father." Lindsay said pondering the situation. Finally there was some hope..

"Well they have to check on us someday. And when that happens, we will be ready." Jenny said with determination showing in her voice.

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A/N: Ooh, there's hope after all!

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Heid