Falling Stars - Chapter 13
Avalon walked down the hallway of the hotel looking for the room that matched the key card she had. Shannon had told her to meet him at his room later, but for some reason she kept getting turned around. Sighing she looked back down at the number son the card, 532. Then she looked back up at the number son the door in front of her, 515.
"Dammit," she said softly as she turned around and headed back down the hallway. "You need to be more careful about what your doing!"
The sound of someone yelling echoed through the empty hallway. Looking around, Avalon tried to find where the female voice was coming from.
"I know you are in charge of this whole stupid plan, but you and your idiot henchmen almost got caught tonight. You better hope that girl doesn't remember anything."
Avalon recognized the voice, but couldn't quite pinpoint whose it was. Down the hall she spotted a door that was still slightly ajar.
Whoever was in there didn't bother to make sure it was completely shut before going about their business. Slowly, Avalon walked towards the door, hoping she might be able to see who was inside. She had no idea what the girl was yelling about, but it didn't sound good.
"Look, I'm sorry. I'm just worried that's all. I don't know where we are supposed to go from here.
Things aren't looking to good and you are getting sloppy. I don't want to get caught. Fine, whatever, bye."
Avalon heard the phone slam down onto its cradle and then heard footsteps as they stomped towards her. Quickly, Avalon moved away from the door and towards the otherside of the hallway and pertended to look lost.
"Hey Avalon, what are you doing on this floor at this hour?" a voice asked from behind her.
Turning around, Avalon was greeted by a smiling Mandah, who was peaking her head out from behind her door.
"I am actually trying to find Shannon's room. He gave me a key card, but I can't seem to find 532 to save my life."
"Oh," Mandah said with a giggle. "It is right down the hall and on the left I think. I hope that helps."
"Yeah thanks, Mandah. Goodnight." Avalon said as the other girl waved and then closed her door.
As she continued her walk down the hall, Avalon kept running the questions through her head. Who was Mandah yelling at on the phone and what was she a part of? She knew she needed to talk to Troy and Reese, but as she found Shannon's room decided it could wait until the morning.
"What is said in this room cannot be taken out of this room. Our lives depend on it and the lives of others depend on it. Please promise us you will not say anything to anyone about what we are about to tell you," Troy said. The guys all agreed and then fell silent once again.
Looking over to where Jeff and Reese was, she watched as he ran his fingers through her hair and knew by the look on Reese's face that she wasn't going to be much help during the explanation process.
"Okay then, here it goes. Reese and I are Private Investigators hired by Vince to catch whoever is responsible for the kidnappings. We aren't up and coming wrestlers, although at one point before we finished school we were actually headed in that direction. Normally, it is our policy not to tell anyone about ourselves for risk of blowing our cover to whoever is behind whats going on, but we have ruled you all out as suspects. Go ahead and get mad at us for thinking at one point you could have been behind this. In our line of work, everyone is a suspect until we prove otherwise," Troy stopped to take a breath and surveyed the group of men. None of their expressions had changed except for Adam's. He had a huge smile on his face.
"Adam, what is so funny?" Reese asked him.
"I thought your little secret was going to be so much worse than that. So what you guys are PI's. I respect that. In fact I think that is totally cool. I don't mind you thought I was a suspect, I don't mind you had to lie. I am truly honored that you are trusting me with your secret and I will help you guys in anyway I can," Adam said truthfully.
"Thanks Adam," Troy said with a smile.
"I'm a little confused still, but I'm with him. You were just doing your job, just like when I gave Reese the Twist of Fate earlier, I was just doing my job. I don't hold it against you," Matt told them.
Andrew nodded in agreement and then settled back to wait for Jason and Jeff to answer. Troy looked at Jason who was still sitting at the end of the bed looking down at the dirty, hotel room floor. "Although I hate that you where keeping a secret from me, I understand why you had to. I am here for you if you need me," he said softly. Troy let out the breathe she hadn't realized she was holding and then crawled across the bed to hug him.
"I am so glad you said that. I was so worried you would hate me. Everyone we ever make friends with hates us in the end for not telling them the truth. They don't realize that we kept it from them for their sake and our safety."
As she hugged Jason, she realized the room was still very silent and that Jeff had yet to make any kind of statement. Looking over to him, she realized why. Reese and Jeff where wrapped in each others arms locked in a passionate kiss. Troy smiled and looked up at Jason who was also looking at their friends with a smile.
"I thought he had a girlfriend," Troy whispered.
"They broke up about a month ago. He hasn't stopped talking about Reese since you guys came here."
"That's what Avalon told me. I guess he's been talking non-stop to Shannon about her."
"Avalon? Whose Avalon?" Jason questioned.