Chapter 17

Teddy's POV

Luther and I headed down the hallway, while Stella and Zeke headed outside and Mo and Charlie went out into the restaurant. Luckily, all the intermission stuff was outside and the crowd wasn't allowed back in until two minutes before the second section started. Hopefully, Wen and Olivia weren't taken with someone outside.

We walked down looking into every room until we came up to the restrooms.

"Okay," I said, "You go in the men's restroom and I'll go in here."
"Got it," Luther said. We split up and headed into our separate restrooms.

I pushed open the door and came up to the sinks. I checked underneath them and looked around the area, generally. I looked underneath the stalls to see if anyone was inside, and luckily no one was. I pushed open the first stall and found no one. I repeatedly opened each one of the stalls until I had looked into all of them.

I sighed. Where in the world could Wen and Olivia be?
I walked back out of the bathroom. And, Luther came out of the men's restroom soon after.

"No sign of them in there," I said, pointing to the women's restroom.

"Same," Luther said.

We began walking again. And, Luther started talking, "I know it's not the time or place. And, we are kind of preoccupied right now. But, I thought that you sang beautifully tonight."

"Thank you," I blushed, "You did great, too."

I leant in and gave him a hug. Before we pulled away however, he gave me a small peck on the lips.

We completely pulled away and kept walking and I could feel my face turning red.

"Teddy…" Luther began.

"Oh, we should look in here," I cut him off, not wanting to talk about it at the moment. Even though, I did in fact enjoy it. I just knew I wouldn't be able to speak properly about it considering how crazy the butterflies in my stomach were being. I pointed to the door next to the bathroom.

Luther looked at me for a second, then looked back at the door, "Uh, okay."

It was the storage room. Luther tried to push at the door, "It's locked."
"Hmm," I thought for a second, but then I had an idea. I reached up to my ponytail and pulled out a bobby pin that was holding one of my stray curls back. The curl fell around my face, but there was no time to be focusing on hair at the moment. I'd fix it later. I pried the two sides of the bobby pin apart and stuck one end into the lock. I twisted it around in different ways. Suddenly, I heard the lock click. I grinned in satisfaction.

Luther stared at me, his mouth agape, "How in the world did you do that?"

"Girls and hair accessories, simple," I answered twisting the doorknob.

I flipped on the switch on the side of the door and the room filled with light.

"Okay," I said, "You look over there," I pointed to the left side of the room, "And, I'll look on the other side."
"You got it, sir," Luther saluted at me, and I stuck my tongue out at him. I walked down to the right end of the storage room and began walking down the aisles. Luther and I met in the middle and found nothing.

"Oh, they're not here either," I said.

"How much time do we have?" Luther asked.

I glanced at the clock that was at the top of the door, "We've got six minutes until the two minute mark. We should at least check a couple more rooms."

"Okay," Luther answered. We headed out of the room.

Wen's POV

"Olivia?"
"Yeah?" she answered, lifting her head off my shoulder, turning around in my lap.

"Do you hear something?"

We sat silently for awhile.

"Yeah, I think I see a shadow of someone's feet too," Olivia whispered, peering under the crack of the door.

"Do you think it's someone we can trust?"
"I don't know. But, we should try right?" Olivia said, "It's either we do that, or get stuck in this closet for the rest of our lives."
"All right."

We both stood up from our sitting positions on the ground and began pounding on the door, calling as loud as we could, "We're in here!"
Suddenly, we heard the footsteps getting closer and a female voice called, "Who's there?"
Olivia turned to me, "You don't think it's one of those girls who put us in here earlier, right?"

"I don't think so. If it was, they wouldn't ask who we were, right?"

"Probably not," she turned back to the door, "It's Olivia."
"And, Wen!" I added.

Suddenly, I heard a male voice, "It's them Teddy, c'mon!"

I turned to Olivia, "Its Luther and Teddy."

Olivia slapped her forehead in relief, "Thank goodness! We're saved."

We stepped away from the door and the doorknob started jiggling.

"Wow, it's really stuck," Teddy said, through the door.

"We know," I answered, "We've been trying to get out for awhile."
"How did you get in there in the first place?"

"Well different girls came up to us and told us Miss Reznick wanted to meet us in here. But, then they just locked us in."

"Oh," Teddy answered.

"Give us a second," I heard Luther say.

The rattling on the doorknob continued, and finally the door opened. I have never been so happy to see a person in my entire life.

"You guys have to be on stage in three minutes," Teddy said. We began walking quickly towards the stage.

Olivia's POV

"Hey," I looked over at Teddy and Luther, "Why are you guys dressed almost like us?"

"We're you're look-alikes," Luther answered, "They couldn't find you. So we had to fill in for you guys."
"So that's why we heard singing." I turned to Teddy, "So that was you, not Mo?"

"No," she answered, still walking.

"Wow, you have a nice voice," I complimented her.

"Thanks."
"You guys sound almost exactly alike," Luther said.

"Hmm," I answered. We all kept walking.

"Nice rapping, too. By the way, bro," Wen said, shaking Luther's hand.

Wow, that's the friendliest I've ever seen the two together. They were friends now, but still.

Chapter 17, yay! Sorry for not updating; it was a crazy week at school! Anyways, please read and review; I know you know how!

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