Guess what.......I'm back! Hello everyone! Been a long time. Oh how I missed typing to you all. Before you get crazy and put up comments saying 'How could you leave us, and then just come back?!' Well, there is a perfectly good explanation....We're in China! We got fake I.D.'s (Somehow Tony knows how to get them...?) and took a plane ride to China. In the note that Philip's parents left behind it also left instructions on setting a single to let them know where we are. It was a simple creating a black out on the west side of town and flickering all the house lights on and off ten times. Philip and Audree were surprisingly good at that. They used this really cool control box that they used to hack into the the lighting system. Really complicated but, worth it. We then waited at a the "pick up"spot the instructions left for us. (which was this restaurant whose name I can not say, you know the drill) Around 10:35 this couple came up to us and said
"You look lost."Philip responded with the code words that were instructed must be said if someone were to say that to us. "Never. Not while I'm carrying my map."
And that's when the couple started crying and hugging Philip. We left in their car (which was too small for us all so we sat on each other) and they drove us to their apartment. At first we were all worried cause it was clearly to small for us all. But then Nancy (Philip's mom) went and pressed a button on the remote
and the couch and five feet of the floor around it lifted its self up and revealed a staircase leading below."Sweet!" Tony exclaimed rubbing his hands together
Nancy and Cerk (Philip's dad) lead us down there. Turns out there is a whole other world in there! :O When you first go down you will find yourself in a control room. Complete with high tech computers and gadgets. On your left when you continue walking is a room with four twin size beds. They were bunk bed sets. Two each, so therefore four beds. There were no cabinets or anything to put our clothes in. In the last...what three, four months? We actually hadn't obtained any luggage. Just the clothes on our backs. The last time we showed was a couple days ago when we sneaked into a school locker room...yeah. Not one of my most favored memories. Cerk explained that we were going to be staying down here, so suspicions were not displayed by the neighbors. There was only one shower and it was upstairs and everyone was dieing to use it. After some fighting, cursing, and graphic threatening we let Jasmine go first. After her was me. Of course Jasmine used up all the hot water, but I was cool with it. I wanted to shower in cold water. After I exited and returned to the living room(with a towel around me. All the guys were downstairs until we said an all clear), Nancy pulled me into her room to put on some clean clothes. Nancy had taken our old ones and put them in the washer.
Nancy is really skinny. She is only a two! Jasmine and I are the same size. We are a little more full in our bust and butt. So her jeans were a bit snug. We instead we wore her baggy jeans instead, and a t-shirt and sweater. I really needed to comb my hair, so I asked Nancy wear er combs were. Of course, they were in the bathroom, in the dwoor. So I walked back in the bathroom and completely forgot that after me Audree was sopost to take a shower. So when I walked in she was standing in front of the mirror with a towel around her. I quickly closed the door and called:
"Oh, I'm so sorry!" I was about to turn and leave when Audree called out to me
"No! It's okay! Come in."
I opened the door and walked back inside.
"I just need the comb and conditioner..." I said embarrassed
I pulled them out and turned to leave.
"Wait!" Audree called, I turned seeing how intensely she as looking at herself in the mirror.
"What's up?" I asked a little worried
"Do you..." she asked unsure of herself "think I'm pretty?"
Did I think she was pretty? Audree was never the one to worry about her looks that much...and I know she was not coming on to me.Was she going through that stage where a girl doesn't think she's pretty?
"Yeah." I said a little baffled she would ask
"I mean..." she started "what's pretty about me? What's there to look at?"
What was there to look at? Her bold posture, her muscles, that scowl she had at the corner of her lip.
"Well..." I began "your smile is nice..."
Audree looked at me from the mirror, obviously not pleased.
"And.." I continued "you have a big butt. I hear mot guys like that."
She laughed. Which made me laugh.
"And, you have a funny laugh." I said while she snorted like a pig, "And you have a gorgeous tan."
Audree was mixed. She did have a really nice, natural golden glow to her skin.
"And you have an intense dark brown eye color. And you have a fit body." I finished, "Why ask?"
She sighed and looked at me through the mirror.
"There's...this guy."
I automatically knew she was talking about Mike, but I played dumb.
"Ooo! Really?" I smiled
"Yeah, and we used to be so close," (she's definitely talking about Mike) "but now he's so distant with me. I feel like I can hardly say 'hi' to him anymore. And I really want to be with him, but he doesn't look like he wants to be with me."
"Well, you really care about this guy, right?"
"Yeah,"
"And it sounds like he's going through a rough time."
"He kinda, did go through a rough break-up."
"Then what he really needs right now isn't a girlfriend...its a friend."
Audree looked at me funny.
"What I mean is, he is still healing from his break-up and he just needs someone to be therefor him and to be patient. If your really close and you really care about him you will be what he needs for the time he needs it. And right now he needs a good friend like you. And maybe, in time he will start to see you as something more."
Wow, I didn't realize I could give such a good pep talk. Audree smiled.
"You're right." and that's when she realized her towel and it went down revealing her nudness.
"Ah!" I turned away and covered my eyes.
"You can leave now. I'm showering!" Audree said in her regular irritated tone (classic Audree)
I left and returned to Nancy's room and combed my hair and Jasmine (after I was finished) did the same.
Once everyone was done showering and dressed. We met back in the control room downstairs. (really under the couch)
"These computers, have a device attached to them so we can not be tracked." Cerk explained "They work so well we don't receive spam emails or pop up adds."
"Sweet..." Tony swooned
"So no one can track us if we use the computers?" I asked
"Negative." Cerk smiled "We are completely safe from anyone finding us. But to be extra safe you should be careful on some sites you look at."
"So...do you think....a blog could be tracked from here?"
And that's how I got permission to continue posting on my blog. :)
After that we started talking about the reason we decided to find Philip's parents and what had happened to us. We explained everything from the plan, to Ms.'s death and the fact that Mike's ex-girlfriend was a spy.
"So, your going to try and find all of your parents?" Nancy said
"Yes." Jasmine said, like she came up with the plan
"And then what?" asked Cerk
"Uh," Jasmine stuttered
"We thought that if we found all of our parent we would have a better chance of survival, and be safer." said Philip
"That's actually pretty smart." Nancy said
Cerk was rubbing his chin, thinking. "So, you go here by plane? Under fake identities?"
"Correct," Philip said smiling
"Did you delete any video recording of you in the airport? Any pictures?"
Philip frowned. Cerk immediately went to one of the computers and typed furiously. He even typed faster than me! And ever since I started the blog I've learned to type really fast. In a minute or two of hearing him type...
"Done!" he said triumphantly. "But they probably have already seen it."
"So they know we are in China?" asked Tony
"Possibly." said Cerk turning around in the chair
"So what do we do?" asked Audree
"Well, I like your plan on finding everyone."
We all smiled.
"But," Cerk continued "the problem is you have no leads on where to go next."
We all frowned. He was right. Our parents were smart people and could be anywhere in the world to find from the company.
"Lucky, Philip knew how to get to us and you came here first." Cerk smiled at his son slightly proud, "We do have important information that will give us a clue on where Mike's parents are."
Mike's face brightened up.
"You knew my parents?" he asked
"We knew all your parents." Nancy said
Now all our faces brightened up.
"We each gave each other a piece of information that will give us a clue as to where to look if we ever needed to regroup." Cerk continued
"How convenient." mumbled Jasmine
"We gave a clue to Philip, Mikes parents gave a clue to us, and we assume someone gave a clue to them."
"Like a puzzle!" said Audree
"Exactly," Cerk smiled
"What's the clue my parents gave you?" asked Mike eagerly
Cerk nodded and opened a desk dwoor and pulled out a red thumb drive. He inserted it into the computer he was sitting at. He opened it up and up came a picture. It was a picture of a coffee cup, sitting on a table casting a shadow on the table.
"Theres also this one." Cerk said clicking and another picture came up
It was a picture of a small coffee shop.
"What do you think it means?" asked Mike axtiously
"We haven't really discussed much on it really." Cerk explained
"If we did we probably would have gone looking for them." Nancy explained leaning on the chair looking at the picture.
Philip looked like he was thinking hard...I was kinda chilling waiting for someone else to figure it out and on top of that, I started to crave coffee. Then Philip's face brightened up.
"The shadow the coffee cup is giving off, is a way to tell time!"
Cerk's face brightened as well.
"You're right!" his fingers danced on the keyboard, a minute later. "The time the shadow is showing is 7:30 a.m. western time."
I did know a little bit about that. If your shadow was facing the west in was around evening time, late afternoon. If it was facing east it was early afternoon, morning. And you could find the exact time, but it was pretty complicated math if you did it on your own.
"Wow, your dad figured that out?" I heard Jasmine whisper to Philip
"Well, he is a scientist." he smiled back
Yeah, I saw them flirting. Jasmine will hear about this later.
"So we have a time," said Audree "what about the other picture?"
Cerk went back to the other picture.
"It's obviously a location" Nancy explained The name of the coffee shop is-" Okay, I can't say the name of the place. Sorry, trying to be safe here, :P but we looked up the place and it only has one location on earth! *being dramatic* It was in Santa Monica, CA. We're going to California!! After a long discussion we figured that Mike's parents are giving us a sign saying that they will be there at this coffee shop at the time the shadow shows. Assuming they go there everyday waiting for someone to have figured it out.
