Chapter Eight
Everyone looked up. The principal was standing there, staring, waiting for an explanation.
"We're… playing a game!" Tori said on impulse.
"A game? What kind of game?" the principal asked.
"A…. memory game." Carly said.
"Now just who are you?" The principal asked Carly.
"I'm Carly Shay, this is Sam Puckett and Freddie Benson. We're friends of Tori's."
"Carly!" Sam leaned in and whispered to Carly. She seemed agitated that Carly had given out their real names.
"Just go with it!" Carly whispered back.
"What sort of memory game?"
"Well, we go from place to place and we have to remember what order we went to the places in." Carly said with a sheepish grin on her face.
"Excellent!" the principal clapped. "Except for one thing."
"What's that?" asked Carly.
"You're lying. Tell me what you're really doing."
"I invited them to come help us catch the girls who make the school coolness list. They really hurt Robbie's feelings," Tori prompted.
"As you were," the principal said in his booming principal's voice.
"Really?" Tori asked.
"Really." The principal said back.
"Thank you!" Tori thanked him.
The principal left without another word. He left the school, turned the lights off, and locked the doors. There was no way out. They were all locked in. Together.
