Chapter 48: Room 204

Chapter 48: Room 204

"Try calling again" Rita prompted and chole nodded before she tried again, they have searched high and low and they couldn't find Jian anywhere, they had thought maybe she left for home but the security confirmed that no one passed through those doors since jian had come in. So the conclusion was she was in the big building somewhere just hiding

"It's still ringing" chole said but again no one picked and it went straight to voicemail

"Should we try one more time" chole asked Rita and Juliet nodded, Ethan decided he wasn't going to wait around calling as the girls called he went on to continue the search

"Hello" chole screamed when the phone was finally picked up

"Jian" she immediately called out before the girl could even reply to her initial 'hello'

"Yes" she answered trying to sound as cheerful as possible but her voice sounded hoarse betraying her attempt at being cheerful to lessen her friend's worry

"Girl, where are you" Rita asked grabbing the phone from chole and putting it on speaker

"I'm fine guys really, just a bit upset i wanna be alone for a minute" jian said as she smiled, she was glad she had friends that worry about her

"But-" Juliet began, she believed that jian needed comforting and wanted to be there for her friend so she was about to insist she drop her location and they'll come get her but looked like jian knew what she was about to say because she interrupted her before she could even finish her sentence

"Where's Ethan?" She asked, she knew the guy must be up in himself with worry and was probably looking for her all over the place, she wanted to tell him she was fine and would be back in a minute, nothing was going to ruin her birthday that they painstakingly planned

"He's looking for you" chole informed

"I'll call him then" jian said she was about to cut the call when she halted her hand hovering over the end button

"Guys I'm fine truly just give me a minute and I'll be back, nothing is gonna stop today" she added and that seemed to reassure her friends because they immediately cheered

"I'll tell Fiona to leave, if she already didn't" Chole said and jian hummed, Fiona was the intruder so why should she, jian leave her own birthday party

"Probably already did" Juliet nodded, she thought Fiona was a really cool person but now she was beginning to doubt that

"You know we have a special room for you" Rita said, if jian wanted a quite moment for herself she thought it should be a place she'll enjoy and the mystery room was perfect, she could check out the place before the games started

"Right" Juliet agreed nodding so did chole so Rita decide to give her the room number

"Tw-" before she could even complete the first number the line started breaking which was very strange

"204" Rita kept yelling Hoping jian heard it because she could hear cracked line voice of jian so maybe jian was hearing them and they weren't hearing her but before they could confirm that chole's phone went off

"I think she said okay" chole said

"Yeah" Juliet nodded, what they didn't know was jian didn't say okay because she wasn't even hearing them clearly and she was instead screaming

"What". She sighed as she pulled her phone from her ear she decided to call ethan then leave a message for chole to confirm if she heard the right number.

Mina was beyond frustrated, well she was happy that those two fought but that just complicated everything further, how will her plan work if Fiona leaves, she was sure Fiona was going to leave before she was kicked out so she has to hasten her plans but how would she be able to do that if jian was no where to be found and so was Fiona.

"Such attention seekers" she mumbled to herself, why were they running around from people just to be chased, as she walked on chewing her nails in frustration and annoyance she stumbled upon chole and the others trying to make a call probably to jian who has just decided she wanted to be a copy cat too and run off like that attention seeking Fiona

"Should we try again" she heard chole ask and she rolled her eyes, she had tried earlier to hack into jian phone to get her location to at least let her know where the girl was so the plan can move forward but to her horror the phone was off. As mina hid behind the pillar just contemplating because if she lost her chance what other chances would she have infact fiona fighting jian was bad for her she just knew somehow it would give jian a more solid chance to get seth and that just made her want to groan and pull her hair out but admist her suffering she heard chole scream which startled her, jian had actually picked up. Mina smiled the stars were truly in her favor, she immediately tried getting into Jian's phone to get her location while she tried listening to their conversation aswell

"Upstairs" she said to herself glancing up, jian wasn't actually far from them, she was two stories up. She could reach the girl within a minute

"Sweet" she said to herself rubbing her hands together but then halted frowning she actually wanted jian to be tormented with the idea that what was going to happen somehow was her fault and since the girl happened to be a kind and a people's pleaser type of girl she'll have the conscience to stay away from seth and Fiona and anything concerning the two thus ruining any chance with seth and there's no way even with her very persuasive manipulative skills would she be able to make jian believe it was her who sent the message to Fiona when there was no chance of it happening, this realization made mina stomp her feet in anger but again the odds were in her favor when she heard Rita say

"You know we have a special room for you" she halted gluing herself on the wall so she could listen, that was it, this was taking chances but it was worth the risk, the worst that could happen was Fiona leaving and jian coming into that room alone and just maybe her plans may be revealed

"I've come to far" mina said to herself it was already too late to take a turn back. So she waited anticipating, breath hitched her hands hovering over her phone when she heard Rita start reciting the numbers, she jammed the call signal then proceeded to log into chole's phone and power off it. Now she'll have to take her chances and hope jian didn't clearly hear the number and would text chole but as she typed, she'll bump into her. That way jian would be a little more gaslight able because Fiona's number was above chole's in her chats. Mina would just make it sound like she mistakenly sent it there but in reality she'll be the one to send it and power off Jian's phone.

"Jian" mina muttered to herself as she sneakily left to excute the next phase of her plan.

Jian was sitting on a bench as she contemplated about calling ethan, but she knew the guy must be worried about her so she'll have to do it. She took a deep breath then placed the call

"Hope he's not mad" she said to herself

"Jian" his voice called out filled with worry and it made her feel bad

"I'm fine ethan" she went straight to the point, she knew the guy was about to ask how she was.

"Where are you" he asked as he sighed

"I'll be back in a minute, just need some time alone" she said in her sweetest voice so that he won't insist when she didn't hear anything from him she quickly added

"If i don't come back in 5 meet me in the mystery room" and it seemed to work because ethan sighed before he agreed, he knew she was stressed about her birthday being ruined and he didn't want to leave her in that vulnerable state alone, after the call jian opened her Whatsapp to message chole

"204" she typed before before she'll send it she bumped into the running mina who she didn't see because she was focused on her phone

"Jian" the girl called out worried but her eyes said something else,

"Are you okay" she asked and jian just nodded suddenly the girl hugged her startling her so much her phone dropped

"Oh I'm sorry" mina said bending down to pick it

"Here" she said with a smile giving the phone back, jian smiled back out of politeness

"Let's go back" mina said grabbing her hand and jian immediately snatched her hand back, mina right now was making her mad uncomfortable

"You go ahead" jian said and to her surprise and delight mina didn't protest, she nodded before walking away

"Isn't she supposed to be with Fiona" jian asked but more like said to herself, she shrugged and turned to look at her phone but it was off, well she'll just check room 204 when she can't find it, she'll ask the staff. She wouldn't be able to call chole because her damn phone won't come on maybe it was because of the fall.