They all arrived early at the studio the next morning, ready for work. None of them looked well rested. "We should probably tell Marshal something so that Mr. Condor won't get angry when none of us are working, like last time." Tawni suggested.
"Hmm... What should we tell him?" Zora asked "That we are going to try and find Marta's house, snoop around and if we find anything to suspicious, go to the police and maybe get her arrested?"
"We could just ask for the morning off!" Nico suggested.
After half an hour of begging and bargaining, Marshal gave them two hours off work. It wasn't a lot for what they were planning to do, but it was better than nothing. They quickly hurried down to the car park, and got into Chad and Tawni's cars. They would all have fitted into one car, but they went in two so that Sonny could fit in to when they found her. If they found her.
Luckily, Chad had a GPS, so they found Marta's house in about twenty minutes. Marta's car was in the driveway. "She must have called in sick!" Chad exclaimed.
"Why didn't we think of that?" Grady asked. Nico slapped him upside the head.
"If all of So Random and two members of Makenzie Falls called in sick, it would sort of prove that none of us were. How would we be able to explain it if anyone caught on to us? No one had a cold or anything contagious, so we wouldn't really be able to explain why so many of us were suddenly sick!"
They started searching around the front of the house. After forty five minutes of hard searching, they gave up on that part. It was lucky that Marta's house was not on a main road, because they had been peering in the windows, and actually climbing up the front to see what was in the upstairs rooms. I guess that means it was also luck that none if Marta's servants were around that day! Zora ran round the back of the house, they appeared again a few minutes later round the front. "Marta's round the back of the house digging a hole! She also has a barrel right next to her!"
For the past while, Sonny had been trying to sleep most of the time. There wasn't really anything else that she could do! She had no idea how long she had actually been gone. Most of the time, there was silence, but now she could hear someone digging.
Marta had taken the past few days off work. Chad and the cast members from Chuckle City seemed to be getting suspicious of her. She needed to get rid of Sonny before they actually caught her in the act! She didn't really see how they could find her. Chad had no idea where she lived. She had told anyone who Chad was lightly to ask for her address not to give it to him. Her cast mates didn't know what she was up to, and she couldn't tell them not to give Chad her address without giving them a reason not to. Anyway, Chad would never ruin his reputation by asking one of his co-stars for another one's address!
At about half past ten, Marta heard some car engines. It didn't bother her. Why would anyone passing or driving by come round the back of her house? For the next hour or so, Marta heard some scuffles and some muffled voices. Marta was thankful that she was behind her house.
Suddlenly, she heard someone say Sonny's name, and recognised the voice as someone from chuckle city. About a minute later, she heard some more engines. Chad and Chuckle City must be onto her. Why hadn't she seen it before? Why would there be scuffles and people talking outside her house for about an hour, unless they were looking for something, or in this case, someone. Angry at herself, she threw her shovel down in rage. She then remembered that earlier, there had been two sets of engines. Now there had only been one. That meant that some of the people who came were still here. Eyes gleaming, Marta started to head towards the front of the house.