Chapter 13: End of the Trip

The next day was the last day they'd be at the hotel. For a certain couple though, it was the beginning of a normal relationship though.

"*yawn*, last morning I'll be waking up in a comfy bed like this till I go to another hotel," stated a sleepy Ash to himself as he got up, "good thing I packed my things up last night though, now I can get a few more z's." Just like that, he fell asleep again. However, not too long after, the girls woke up.

"Morning Melody," yawned Flannery through sleepy eyes, "so, how was yesterday?"

"Oh, it was amazing! We went to do everything that we didn't mind doing together, that is apart from shopping at the mall… I ended up asking him what looked good on me," she stated. "Say, speaking of yesterday, what'd you do?"

"Oh, uh, well," Flannery started.

*Flashback*

Yesterday right after Ash and Melody left, Flannery went over to Ms. Carol's room to see what they were doing since she was alone for the day.

"Hey, guys whatcha doin," she asked curiously.

"Oh, nothing much, just figuring out how to make Ash's date go smoothly without any trouble," replied Gary on his bed, fortunately for this room, they had three beds, "wanna help us with plan-"

"You guys are going to spy on them! That's not right, you of all people should stop this Ms.," Flannery said before she saw her teacher with a list and outline of what looked like a diagram of the mall and hotel for infiltration purposes, "Carol?"

"Oh, hi Flannery," Ms. Carol said with a creepy grin, "care to help us?"

"Um, uh…"

"If you're scared, we know how you feel, "Brock whispered to her, "she dragged me and Gary into this too."

"She looks like she'll gut me if I say no," she whispered back.

"I'm waiting," Ms. Carol said as she started writing up more of a plan.

"Sure, why not, I've, uh, got nothing better to do… I guess…"

"Great!"

*End Flashback*

"Well," Melody asked again.

"Uh, well, you see, I can't really tell you much," she replied.

"Why's that?"

"Umm, because your sister told me," she said in a confused tone.

"Err, o…k…? What does my sister have anything to do with this?"

"Umm, uh, err," she struggled as she thought of what to say.

*Flashback*

"Oh, and Flannery," Ms. Carol said, "I made sure to tell this to the boys too but don't tell anyone about this, got it?"

"Oh, why's that," she replied.

"Because otherwise I'll fail you for the rest of your high school life even if you actually pass," she said with a smile.

"You know, you can be real scary… especially when you're happy."

"I get that a lot, is it because I smile when I pull my knife out of my bag?"

"Say what now?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, Oh and if she asks where you guys were yesterday just say I took you to the zoo."

*End of Flashback*

Man your sister's crazy… and creepy, she thought to herself.

"Well," questioned Melody.

"Well you see… its kinda embarrassing," she said, "we went to the zoo…"

"The zoo? What's so secretive about the zoo?"

"Oh, nothing."

By the time they finished their chat, it was time to wake up Ash otherwise they wouldn't check out on time. Seeing as how the normal methods like yelling in his ear, using the alarm clock, or Melody kissing him on the check didn't work, they decided to use their last resort…

"Well, seeing as how this is a desperate time, I say we use desperate measures, what says you," asked Flannery.

"Use it, if that's the only way, the do it," replied Melody.

So Flannery went to her bag and pulled out an item you might remember… the blow horn. "Ash, I'm sorry but if you don't wake up by the time I count to ten, I'm blowing this in your ear. 1…2…3…4…5…6…7…8…9…9 in a half, 9 and three quarters, t…e…n…"

"God what's with the racket going on here," Ash said as he put his head up when Flannery blew the horn in his ear, "WTF OUCH! I think I just went deaf in that ear."

"Well, if we didn't do that you wouldn't have woken up and if you didn't wake up we wouldn't be able to leave," replied Melody.

"Oh, well, at least I'm all packed, just let me brush my teeth, change my clothes in the restroom and let's head out."

As Ash left for the restroom, a knock came from the other room… along with Ms. Carol's voice, "Hey Flannery, may I have a talk with you?"

"K," she replied as she walked to the other room, "what's up?"

"You didn't tell her anything right?"

"Nope, she doesn't know a thing."

"Good, then that means all that money I spent on them went for a good purpose… a secret purpose, heh heh heh," she said creepily.

"Um, well, I'll be going soon check out's in ten minutes, so if I were you I'd start getting ready."

After a few minutes, everyone was in the lobby.

"Okay class we're heading back to school now," Ms. Carol announced as they all headed outside to the bus.

"Man, this was one odd trip," Melody told Flannery.

"Yup, it sure was," she replied.

"Well, if you ask me, I thought it was great," Ash said from behind their seats.

"Well, I think you'll keep thinking that way cuz when we get back, we have to right a ten page report on what we did and a couple of essays for the rest of our classes," Flannery said, "but of course, if you were paying attention after school you would've been given the chance to finish earlier… like me and Melody!"

"Oh fudge cake," slumped Ash.

"What's with that attitude," Melody asked.

"Oh, nothing, nothing at all, just that we're going to get a lot of homework when we get back."

But in the front of the bus Ms. Carol was just snickering at how the friends were acting and said to herself, "They'll never know who that lady was, even though she's right here. Oh, almost forgot, I have to right a rubric for their papers when I get home! Well, entertainment does come with a price."