Chapter 3

It has been at least 20 or so minutes since the Joker locked them in the storage room, but it felt like hours to Mara and Nicole. Most people would be totally scared and would be freaking out right now. But these two were not like normal people. They did worry about what the Joker is going to do with them, but there was a more dominant feeling they were experiencing right now: Boredom.

Mara groaned, "Uhh, why did he leave us here with nothing to do. I bet he's going to leave us down here until we go insane. Not that we were very far from that anyway. "

" Maybe you're insane, but I'm not. I'm actually trying to figure a way out of here, not complaining like you." Nicole said while trying to jiggle the locked door open.

" Okay, three responses to those comments. 1: You are totally crazy like me, which was proved when you insulted the Joker. 2 : You've been trying to open that door the whole time, and it won't open, so stop trying. And 3: I SO DO NOT COMPLAIN!

Nicole stopped jiggling the handle and turned to her friend. "Really? You don't ever complain?" she asked sarcasticly.

"…….Shut up."

Nicole smiled. "Thought so. Ughhh! I give up trying to open this stupid door!"

" Why'd your dad put a lock on a storage room door, which is in a basement?" asked Mara.

Nicole sighed. "Because my dad can be really stupid sometimes."

Nicole walked right next to Mara and slid down on the floor. She sat crosslegged and put her face in her hands. Mara was leaned up against the wall, her legs spread out. The wall was seriously dusting up Mara's black jacket, but she didn't seem to care.

"I wonder what he's going to do with us. If Batman shows up or not." Mara said to mainly herself.

Nicole nodded and said "I wonder what he's doing right now." After she said that, the girls curiously looked up to the ceiling, repeating the same question in their thoughts. What was the Joker doing upstairs?

The Joker was pacing all over the house, going nowhere in particular. He was trying to figure out what he was going to do with those girls. They were very amusing to him, in a weird " kids who try to get out of situations awkwardly way" . And he suspected that Batman would come by, so he would need them as hostages.

Although, they were getting braver, like when they told him "Batman will save them". "Yeah right!" he thought to himself. He also hated when people insulted him, and those girls really ticked him off. Especially that one girl, Nicole. She almost sounded manipulative, like she was purposely trying to set him off. And that glare. To the Joker, that glare was defiant, almost like….. Batman. Joker shook those thoughts away. He wouldn't let two little brats make him lose his edge.

"I know what to do with them!" exclaimed the Joker. " If Batman doesn't come, I'll ring up the henchmen and have them come here. I'll take those teenage twerps with me, and "tutor" them as my apprentices!"

To him, it was a wonderful idea. Their little senses of humour and ability to amuse the Joker could come in handy. And he could use an apprentice or two, to get even with Batsy's Bratgirl and Bird Boy. He bet it would also haunt the Dark Knight if he let his most dangerous enemy turn innocent girls into little maniacs. Maniacs like him.

"Oh, it will be so much fun!" the Joker chuckled darkly. "I haven't tortured anyone in awhile. And it will be very enjoyable to break the defiance of those little kids and make them serve me. That Nicole also won't be very insolent then, will she?"

The Joker then threw his head back into maniacal fits of laughter, thinking of his plan that involves the unlucky girls right below him.

Mara and Nicole were getting to the point of falling –to- sleep- boredom, since they were down there for like an hour with nothing to do. Just as they were reaching the point of sleeping, a high pitched noise scared them and made them wide awake.

"Wha…?" yelled Nicole as she quickly became aware of her surroundings.

"I swear I didn't do it! Wait, what?" said Mara as she became more awake too. The high pitched noise they heard was the Joker's insane laughter, and they guessed he probably knew what he was going to do with them now.

"That doesn't really sound very good in our favor." Mara said.

Nicole looked at Mara with a hint of annoyance in her eyes. "Oh, you think?"

Mara gave her a dirty look, but got over it and looked at the ceiling as if she could see what that homicidal clown doing.

Nicole sighed deeply and said, "Sorry."

"No big, Nicole."

Nicole put her arms on her raised knees, and rested her head in it.

"I hope Batman comes. Soon."