"Why did I have to come to the bathroom with you?" Jade grumped as she trudged tiredly behind the redhead down several aisles, slowly but surely making their way back towards where the bathrooms were.
"Because," Cat said simply with a smile, looking back at her friend and giggling at the death-glare she received. She had begged Jade to come with her for a good ten minutes before Jade had finally given in just to shut her up. And now here she was, accompanying her friend to the bathroom in the middle of the night in a superstore. Great.
After walking for what seemed like forever, they finally reached the bathrooms and entered, clicking the lights on as they pushed open the door. The small room flooded with light, revealing four stalls and a row of sinks pushed up against the pink wall.
"Pee fast," Jade told her before she hopped up onto the counter beside the sinks.
"Kay kay!"
Jade sighed tiredly and swung her legs in the air as she waited for Cat to finish up. A yawn overtook her, causing her eyes to water and she wanted nothing more than to be fast asleep in the tent. She looked up as Cat emerged from the stall after flushing the toilet. The redhead skipped over to the sinks and washed her hands, accidentally splashing Jade with the hot water and causing her to sigh and glare - too exhausted to come up with an insult.
Just as Cat finished drying her hands, a loud thud emerged from outside of the bathroom door, causing both girls to stop and freeze.
"What was-"
"Shh!"
Jade silenced Cat as she slowly slid down from the counter, quietly setting her feet down on the tiled floor as she did her best to listen out. Cat wide eyes looked up at her friend, hoping that Jade knew what was going on.
A few moments of silence later, Jade shook her head, "It's probably just Tori and Andre trying to scare us. C'mon."
Cat nodded slowly before following Jade out of the bathroom, clicking the light off behind her and easing the door closed.
On the way back to the tent, Cat walked as close to Jade as possible, constantly looking behind her as she hurried along - her Keds lightly padding along the floor. Jade's heavy combat boots scuffed loudly as she walked, but she didn't care. All she cared about was getting back to the tent and getting some sleep.
Suddenly, as the two teenagers rounded a corner onto the wardrobe area, both of them were grabbed by the arms and yanked down into the space between two, large wooden wardrobes - neither of them knowing what was going on, or who had grabbed them.
"They've been gone for a while," Robbie spoke up from his corner of the tent as his fingers twisted and untwisted the clasps on Cat's backpack which sat beside him. His phone lay on the floor in front of him, but wasn't proving to be useful as there was no signal available. He wasn't sure why. Possibly because they were so far back into the store - nowhere near a window or the front doors.
"I'm sure they're fine, Rob," Beck mumbled, not even opening his eyes to speak to his friend.
Trina nodded, "Relax, Cat's probably just showing Jade a toy or something."
Robbie sighed before nodding a few moments later, realising that he was most likely just being paranoid. He yawned tiredly and removed his glasses before lying back down and closing his eyes.
They would be back soon.
He hoped.
Cat and Jade's hearts both thumped loudly and quickly in their chests as their bodies were suddenly pulled down into the small space between two wardrobes. Their eyes widened as they looked around to find out who exactly was responsible.
Jade could've killed someone when she found Tori and Andre's faces in the dim light.
"Dude!" she cried, and she would've continued with an onslaught of curse words if it wasn't for Andre holding his hand over her mouth.
Tori held her finger to her mouth in a 'shh' gesture as she held her other hand against Cat's mouth to silence the redhead.
"What?" Jade mumbled behind Andre's hand, her ice-blue eyes staring up at him in the dim light - her confusion evident in the two pools of blue.
Just as Andre went to open his mouth and answer her, his eyes suddenly widened and he dragged Jade closer to him as Tori did the same with Cat. Cat and Jade didn't think they could get more confused until they realised why they were hiding.
Heavy footsteps echoed through the aisle they were hiding in, coming closer and closer until they were right in front of the teenagers.
They watched as a man in a ski-mask stopped right in front of where they were standing. He was dressed completely in black and carried a heavy black bag in his hand. They held their breaths until he continued walking down and out of the aisle.
As soon as the footsteps faded away, the teenagers let out their breaths as the panic began to rise.
"We're not alone."