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Will_the_devil
THE HECK ARE YOU DOING IN THE DUNGEONS?
Cereal_killer
IDK. MY PIZZA GUY IS HERE SOMEWHERE.
Will_the_devil
WHAT THE-
Cereal_killer
SAY IT WILLY. SAY THE F WORD!
Will_the_devil
WHAT THE FISH?
Cereal_killer
-_-
I WILL GO AND FIND MY PIZZZA GUY. YOU GO AND LEARN NEW WORDS.
Will_the_devil
WHAT THE HELL?! GET OUT OF THERE!
I AM COMING.
Cereal_killer
NO NEED TO COME, I CAN FIND MY WAY.
OOH, I SEE SOMEONE!
YAY! THAT’S MY PIZZA GUY.
Will_the_devil
WHA-
I SWEAR, IF THE GUARDS SEE YOU THERE, I AM NOT SAVING YOU.
Cereal_killer
OH, DAMN.
IT WAS NOT THE PIZZA GUY.
Will_the_devil
…
Cereal_killer
IT WAS NOAH.
Will_the_devil
DON’T TELL ME HE ORDERED PIZZA TOO -_-
Cereal_killer
TALK TO YA LATER, WILLY. LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A SITUATION HERE.
***
“Charles says we have the wrong girl, but, Alice wants us to keep her,” thing 2 told thing 1.
“No! What the hell? We have the right girl! She is Quinn with a little makeover,” thing 1 (the spectacle guy) proclaimed.
I rolled my eyes, and leaned my head back against the walls. “You two need to up your game. I am dying of boredom here. If you keep this level of stupidity up, you aren’t going to get any girl anytime soon.”
Yes, I was giving them relationship advice. Because, in the last half an hour, I got to know the sad story of their unrequited loves. Then, thing 1 also told me that he had a crush on Anna. But, I strictly told him that Anna was a big no-no. He became sad, so I gave him hope that he would find some other girl.
Yes, I was freaking out and screaming on the inside. They hadn’t fed me for a long time. I was going to get sick from the horrible stench of this place and they could be dangerous when they wanted to be. That didn’t mean I couldn’t have a little fun though…
“We don’t just want any girl, we want Quinn,” thing 2 said.
I frowned, “I thought Charlie wanted Quinn?”
“Yes, he does. We want Quinn for Charlie,” thing 1 said then, adjusted his specs and added, “ooh, and can I have Anna, if no one is having her?”
“Ew, shut your trap!” I scolded him, sitting up straight. My kidnappers were the most idiotic, stupidest, moronic beings I had ever encountered in my life. But, hey, it had its perks…like I could insult them, roast them and take digs at them, without them realizing it.
“Do you really think, Anna would even look at you after you kidnapped me?” I asked thing 1, “you lost your chance, buddy. I am sorry.”
“It’s okay,” thing 1 sighed solemnly, “she is way out of my league, anyway. She is a royal and I am just a small time kidnapper.”
“Dude, no!” thing 2 patted thing 1’s back, “I Will kidnap her for you! Don’t you dare give up on your crush!”
Seriously?!
I was about to give them a piece of my mind, when, I heard a loud crash from somewhere. Thing 1 and 2’s eyes widened.
“Hurry, hide her somewhere!” thing 2 ordered to thing 1, while he went to inspect the noise.
When thing 1 reached me, I made my lips tremble and looked up at him with sad eyes, “I thought you were my friend.”
This made him freeze. Ha!
“Justin!” thing 2 barked, “Someone’s coming this way! Hide her!”
“I am sorry,” thing 1 muttered as he pulled me up to my feet.
“So, you want to give up whatever shot you have left with Anna?” I asked him, grimly.
This made him freeze, again.
Damn, Chloe, you are a genius.
“Justin! You idiot!” thing 2 approached us this time, and grabbed my hand, “go and stand guard at the entrance of this dungeon while I take care of her.”
“Me no like you,” I huffed at thing 2. He rolled his eyes and started dragging me somewhere.
I gave it a moment, for him to feel that I wasn’t going to protest or try anything and was walking with him Willingly. Just when he was comfortable enough, and his hold on me relaxed, I slowly reached for the shard of broken glass I had stuffed in my pocket, took it out and pulled my hand out of his grasp.
When he turned around in surprise, I inserted the pointed end of that shard in his thigh and twisted it, wincing at the expression of his face. He let out a scream and fell to the ground, clutching his thigh.
“Grant!” I heard thing 1 yelling from somewhere, “What was that?”
“Sorry, I didn’t want to do this,” I whispered, “just um…wash it under running water and apply antiseptic…and you should be good to go. Bye!”
I bumped into a hard chest as soon as I turned around to get away. Oh shit…!
Without looking up, I reached into my pocket for the second shard of glass, but a hand grasped mine, stopping me.
“Damn, forgive me if I ever annoyed you. Please don’t kill me.”
I almost gasped and looked up to see Noah, staring down at me with a comically scared expression.
“Oh my God! You are here!” I exclaimed, almost tearing up, “you are here!”
“I am,” he grinned, then, his expression turned serious. “Are you going to cry again? Because my shirt is ready,” he held up the end of his sleeve.
I inhaled a sharp breath, smacking his chest. “If you bring that up one more time, I am going to-”
He raised his hand in mock horror, cutting me off. “I am sorry, I am sorry. Please keep that thing away from me,” he pointed to the glass shard peeking through my pocket.
I rolled my eyes. “Drama queen,” I muttered, but, couldn’t help wrapping my arms around him.
“These kidnappers were idiots,” I mumbled against his chest, “and I know, it doesn’t seem like it, but, I was freaking out on the inside. I thought you Will never be able to find me in this place which smells like dead rats.”
Noah chuckled, patting my back. “Dungeons, this place is the palace dungeons.”
I scrunched up my nose, and pulled away to look at him. “How did you find me, Noah?”
“There’s only one secret route out of this palace, and that is through these dungeons. These kidnappers really were idiots. They made a mistake by waiting here. Not that I am complaining. But, yeah, I thought they had taken you somewhere else- Oh shit! We have to get out of here. We Will be in big trouble if the queen finds out about this whole incident.”
“Wait! There’s thing 1 also…at the entrance.”
“Oh, him…Caleb is taking good care of him,” Noah replied thoughtfully.
I frowned and walked towards the entrance, along with Noah and my eyes almost bulged out at what I saw. Caleb had done nothing…nothing at all…he was just standing over poor thing 1’s specs, crushing them under his feet.
“You didn’t happen to see any pizza guy, did you?” Caleb asked thing 1.
“I thought you were my friend, Chloe,” thing 1muttered, flailing about his hands blindly in the air.
So, now, I was Chloe and not Quinn with a little makeover?
“Jeez, I am not Chloe, I am Caleb,” Caleb exclaimed, then turned to us. “What are we going to do with him?”
“Well…let’s leave him here with the dead rats,” Noah said, tugging me towards the doors and gesturing for Caleb to follow.
While walking through the long dark underground tunnels, which was our way out from the dungeons, I had a very bad feeling that someone was following us. Caleb was on his phone, going on about some ‘lost pizza guy’ while Noah was busy threatening someone on the phone (my bet was on Charlie)
What if thing 2 got up and helped thing 1 and both of them were after us now? Maybe, we made a mistake by leaving them there. I was about to ask Noah where the guards of this place were, but, never got the chance.
Because, I could now hear footsteps…loud footsteps approaching us, seemingly hell bent on a purpose…the purpose of getting us. Why the hell were Caleb and Noah not paying attention? If I said anything, there would be no time to run.
I gulped, controlling my urge to jump, when the living bezonkers were scared out of me by a tapping on my shoulder. This is it. Thing 1 was going to crush me like Caleb crushed his specs.
But, I was Chloe awesome Scott. I didn’t need Noah or Caleb. I reached into my pocket for the shard of glass, which was begging to be used and turned around with my hand raised.
“There you are,” Caleb interrupted my heroic moment, hugging the stranger who had tapped on my shoulder, “my pizza guy. Finally!”
I dropped my glass shard in disbelief and sagged incredulously against Noah. Why? Why me? Why always me? Just when I was about to become a hero again-