The place they chose was a big, very fancy hotel.
"Whoa, Chuck, sure you wanna stay here? This place looks like a little too much just to stay one night".
"Oh, darling, nothing is too much for you".
Jane chuckled, Charles had just pretended to be his normal flirty self without meaning it.
"Now, do you want to sleep in separate rooms?" He asked.
"You know what? Let's sleep in the same room. Just keep your hands where I can see them" she smirked.
After paying for the room and getting something to eat for diner, Jane and Charles went to the room. Jane put her backpack on a couch that was in the room. Charles was surprised when he saw that Jane had packed clean clothes.
"To be honest, I was hoping I'd have an excuse to spend at least one night here. Oh, crap, speaking of that, my parents will be worried if I don't call" she was actually thinking about Trent being worried.
Jane picked up the phone and called to the Lane house.
"Trent! Hey. I just wanted to be honest with you... I didn't really go out with Daria today. I went out with a different friend and we drove to Boston and... now it's raining lot so we for, you know, safety and those things we preferred to stay here and drive tomorrow morning when the highway isn't wet. I know it's really unexpected so I'm sorry, but tell mom and dad I'm okay, will you?... Thanks. Good night, I'll see you tomorrow, Trent. Later".
Jane sighed and lay on the bed.
"Thank god I don't have to stay with them tonight".
Charles didn't say anything and just took a bottle of soda and began to drink it.
"Hey, Chuck, come here a second" Jane called him sitting on the bed.
Charles went in Jane's direction and stood in front of her. Jane pulled Charles towards her, holding his shirt between her fingers, and pressed her lips against his.
Completely shocked, Charles stood in front of Jane without moving a single muscle. Jane held his hand and sighed.
"I guess I'm going to sleep now. I'm really tired. Good night".
"Jane?".
"Yeah?".
Charles, shyly, pressed his lips against Jane's. Jane smiled at him and lay on the bed, covered herself with a blanket and fell asleep.
When Jane woke up, she found Charles sleeping next to her. Trying not to wake him up, she got up from the bed and went to take a shower. While the water soaked her black hair, she was thinking about the night before. Days before, she would had been sickened just thinking about kissing Charles, but now she didn't even regret it. She was, surprisingly, having a good time with him, as good as the situation allowed it to be. Was she falling in love with him? She didn't know, and she didn't want to think about it. For what she knew, she liked being around him and that was all she needed at the moment.
She got out of the shower and found Charles waiting for her, lying on the bed.
"Morning, Chuck".
"Hey".
Standing, covered only by a towel, Jane felt a little strange.
"Uh, Chuck, do you mind looking at somewhere else while I get dressed?".
"Oh, sorry" he apologized ". I'll go take a shower".
When Charles was already in the shower, Jane let the towel fall to the floor and started to get dressed. She sat on the bed and turned on the TV.
No Sick, Sad World right now, huh?, she thought.
Charles didn't take long, and he exited the bathroom already dressed. He invited her to go for some breakfast and they could go to Linda and James' around 11:00 am. Jane agreed and both of them had a lot of food for breakfast. Jane wasn't even that hungry, but the food was pretty good.
After breakfast, they still had one hour free. Jane, instead of wanting to do anything else, decided to go back to the room and lie on the bed during that hour. Charles stayed with her and they watched cartoons for a whole hour. Afterwards, when Charles told her it was already 11:00 am, it took them 15 minutes to find the place. It was building, they called to the apartment of the people they were looking for, the 4B, and introduced themselves.
"Oh, hello! Yes, yes, our little baby got sick but Whiskers is doing much better now. Come on in" a female voice greeted.
They went up the stairs and found an open door with a black haired woman holding a cat.
"Hi, nice to meet you two" Linda ". Come in, James is in the living room".
Jane and Charles followed Linda and sat on the couch. They greeted James, a brown haired man who was watching the TV. When Charles explained the reason of their visit, James turned off the TV and Linda sat on a couch next to James.
"Mary called saying you were probably coming over today" Linda informed them while petting Whiskers, who was lying on her lap ". She told us about your problem, so don't worry about having to explain it again. You see, Mary probably wanted you to talk to us because we believe in some things they aren't really into. I am going to be direct, is there anyone in your town that may be willing to use... supernatural forces?".
Jane and Charles looked at each other. The most supernatural related thing they had thought about was the aliens, and even then they were kidding about it. Going for the conspiracy path, though completely ridiculous, was real enough if they concentrated in te fact the those theories talked about real people doing crazy things. Now this was about invisible creatures doing invisible things.
"I know it sounds crazy, kids, but what other possibility you have now that isn't believing things like this?".
"She's right, Jane. We have no choice" Charles reminded Jane.
"Well... if I had to guess I'd say Andrea is the one who would be up for that but I can't see her using that to become a cheerleader. She just wouldn't".
"Maybe it's someone else. Perhaps a person who didn't know much about what was he or she doing and things ended up being different to what that person expected" James said.
"I guess that could be right, but I am sure it's not Andrea. I get why she'd want to stop being treated like such a misfit but she wouldn't make herself fit in, she would make us all misfits".
"I agree. I don't think it's Andrea either" Charles said.
"But then who could it..." a memory came to Jane and she froze with the idea.
She remembered the Holiday Island, the holidays and the entrance in the back of the Good Time Chinese restaurant. If Lawndale's situation had anything to do with something supernatural, who was better to speak about supernatural things than holidays in stupid costumes?
"What's on your mind?" James asked, noticing, as everyone else did, that Jane had an idea.
"James, Linda, thank you. What you suggested was very helpful. C'mon, Chuck, we have to go to Lawndale".
"If you need anything, feel free to call us whenever you want, you have our phone number, right?".
Jane nodded. She and Charles thanked Linda and James once again and left.
"Jane, could you tell me what's going on?" Charles asked when they exited the building.
"It's hard to explain, just trust me, okay? We need to go to that Chinese restaurant in Lawndale. I may have some friends that could help us".