A/N: Hey guys. Sorry I took forever to update this, especially since I've had this chapter written for a while. I'm mainly updating today because I start school tomorrow, and I don't know how much writing time I'll have, but I do really like this fic, so I'll try not to let it get forgotten.

Anyway, here's chapter two. I hope you like it and please review!

Chapter Two

Two hours later, Andre was beating the wall with his fists, curled up on the floor in boredom. "Help," he called weakly. "Someone, get us out of here."

Monique rolled her eyes as she lay on the bed with a book. "Just give up. They can't hear us."

"How are you so calm about this?" Andre exclaimed. "I'm dying here! No food, no entertainment,... and I'm supposed to meet Eden at the lighthouse in twenty minutes!"

"She'll come looking for you after a while," Monique deducted. "Then the others will find us in here."

"And what if they can't get the door open?" Andre fretted. "I don't want to die in here, alone with you, Monique."

"Likewise," Monique replied. "But don't worry. They'll find us."

Andre leaned against the wall and closed his eyes, trying to find a way to get out of there.

The ringing of his cell phone interrupted his thoughts.

Andre's eyes snapped open. Monique sat up and stared at him with wide eyes. "You have your phone?!" she exclaimed.

Andre scrambled to get his phone out of his pocket and held it up for her to see. "Well, yeah…"

"Why didn't you call for help, you idiot?! Answer the phone! It could be your cousins trying to find us!"

Andre pressed the 'talk' button and put the phone to his ear, not bothering to check the Caller ID. "Hello?!"

"Andre, do you- wait, what's wrong?" Sorel seemed to have heard the urgency in his cousin's voice, and his original question was forgotten.

Andre jumped up, excitedly gesturing to Monique. "Sorel, I need your help! I'm locked in a room with Monique and I broke the doorknob and we can't get out!"

"What?!" Sorel exclaimed. "Andre, what the heck?! What were you doing in a room with Monique in the first place? And why was the door locked?!"

"Is that really the most pressing issue, cousin?" Andre demanded. "Get us out of here!"

"All right, all right," Sorel said quickly. "Where are you?"

Andre hesitated, imagining the layout of the manor. "Fourth floor, third guest room from the left- not counting the empty one facing Old Man Rayome's house. It's the one with all the caviar in it."

"Oh, Great Aunt Helen's room?" Sorel asked.

"Yeah, that one," Andre confirmed. "Come help us!"

"I'm on my way," Sorel promised.

"Thanks, cousin."

Andre hung up and grinned at Monique. "We're saved!"

Monique was glaring at him, apparently not as happy as he was. "You couldn't have called Sorel two hours ago?"

Andre shrugged. "I wasn't thinking. Besides, when anime characters get locked in rooms, they escape in way more exciting ways than just calling their cousin to rescue them."

Monique clenched her fists angrily. "Andre, I swear to God, I am gonna kill-"

Andre's phone rang again, interrupting Monique's death threat. He quickly answered the call. "Sorel?"

"How long have you guys been in there?" his cousin asked.

Andre looked at the clock on the wall. "'Bout two hours."

Sorel sighed. "Let me talk to Monique."

Andre handed her the phone. Monique listened to Sorel for a moment, then grunted and hung up. "Apparently, I'm not allowed to murder you while we're in such close proximity."

Andre smirked, taking his phone back. "Good. I'd rather not die."

Monique glared at him, then lay back on the bed to ignore him.

A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door. "Andre! Monique! Are you guys all right?" Sorel called.

"I'm locked in a room with Andre; what do you think?" Monique replied sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

"Just get us out of here!" Andre ordered. "Eden's gonna kill me if I'm any later!"

"I'm working on it," Sorel promised. Andre could hear him jiggling the doorknob from the outside. "Damn it. How do you unlock this thing?"

Andre ran a hand through his hair, looking sheepish. "Ah… Sorel? The door locks from the inside… You can't get us out that way…"

"If the door locks from in there, why can't you just use your key?" Sorel asked, sounding exasperated.

"I told you, I broke the doorknob," Andre replied.

"How do you break a doorknob?!" Sorel exclaimed.

"It doesn't matter," Monique insisted. "Just open the door!"

Sorel sighed and started jiggling the doorknob again, but the door still wouldn't open. After a minute or so, Andre heard a popping sound, then a clatter as metal hit the floor. "Uh oh," Sorel muttered.

Monique facepalmed, immediately realizing what had happened.

"Apparently, that's how you break a doorknob," Sorel commented.

Andre groaned and turned to face Monique, leaning against the door.

"We might be in here awhile."

Eden Sinclair waited at the Garville Lighthouse for an hour and a half before starting to get worried.

Andre was late. Annoyingly late. And Andre was the most chivalrous and polite person she'd ever met- he wouldn't promise to meet her somewhere and then stand her up for an hour and a half. Something must be wrong.

Since Eden didn't have a cell phone (a fact she regretted quite often), she couldn't contact Andre without straight up going to his house. So that was what she had to do.

After making sure no one could see her, Eden shapeshifted into her gargoyle form and jumped up, letting her six wings catch the air. Then she flew across the town, too fast to be seen, and landed over the gate outside the Chevalier Mano.

Looking around, Eden saw both Andre's motorcycle and Damien's car parked in the driveway, along with two other vehicles she didn't recognize- probably belonging to Andre's aunt and uncle, or maybe Sorel and Monique. Either way, Andre hadn't left his house. Something must've kept him from leaving.

Eden didn't bother knocking, since the door was unlocked. She burst into the mansion, shifting back to human at the same time. "Andre?" she called. "Are you here?"

There was no answer. Eden shut the door and ran upstairs, calling her friends' names. "Andre? Sorel? Colette? Where are you?"

Finally, on like the fourth floor of the giant house, Eden found three of her friends- Sorel, Colette, and Damien- banging against the door of a room.

"What's going on?" Eden asked, confused.

Colette spun around and grinned at her. "Eden! What are you doing here?'

"Andre was supposed to meet me at the lighthouse, but he never showed," Eden explained. "Do you know where he is?"

Sorel scoffed and stepped back from the door, glaring at it in disgust. "Yeah. he's locked in this room with Monique."

"What?!" Eden exclaimed, shocked. "What was Andre doing in a room with Monique in the first place? And why was the door locked?"

"That's what I asked him," Sorel replied. "Maybe you can actually get an answer."

Eden pushed her way in front of them and knocked on the door. "Andre?"

"Eden?" Andre sounded both surprised and excited to hear her voice. "Eden, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to stand you up, really- I just got locked in this room, and-"

"It's okay," Eden said quickly. "You can make it up to me later. Right now, we need to get you out of there. Are you all right?"

"I'm fine," Andre assured her. "Just bored out of my mind."

"I'm fine too, thanks for asking," Monique added.

Eden ignored her and turned to the rest of the Gargoyle Club. "Have you tried unlocking the door from the outside?"

"Can't," Sorel informed her. "The doors on this floor lock from the inside. Andre has a key, as all of us do, but someone broke the doorknob!" He raised his voice slightly to make sure Andre heard the last part, but it wasn't necessary. With their gargoyle-enhanced senses, Andre and Monique could hear their conversation as well as if they were two feet away, not separated by a metal door.

"Don't say it like it's my fault!" Andre replied, also unnecessarily loud.

"It is your fault!" Monique shouted.

"Never mind whose fault it is," Damien put in. "We still need to find a way to get the door open."

"We could try breaking it," Colette suggested. "With our gargoyle strength, the four of us could probably do it."

Her brother shook his head. "Not to a steel door. We can't break that thing."

Eden sighed and shook her head. "Well, we've gotta get them out of there somehow."

A/N: There's that. I hope you liked it. Please review!