Chocolate Wright

Chapter 5

"Wow, that went better than I'd expected." I say with relief as we wheel the suitcases up the stairs - Edgeworth refused to use the elevator, as always.
"Well, what were you expecting, Miss Fey?" Edgeworth asks with a little smirk.
"I don't know - I guess I thought Nick would figure it out before we even got the suitcases out or something." I had thought I would be the one to give it away.
"Yeah, I did too - especially since four out of the five of us are terrible liars." Emeri says, drawing a imaginary circle between me, Larry, Pearly, and herself.
"That's because we have no experience!" Larry protests. "Edgey lies all the time in court, don't you, Edgey? ....Th-that was a joke! Of course you don't!" Larry quickly adds when Edgeworth gives him an unamused expression.
After a minute, we reach Nick's office. I take my key out and turn it in the keyhole, the door opening with a click.
"Now all that's left is to put the sculpture together." Pearly restates our task and giggles with excitement. "Mr. Nick is going to love it, but he's going to love Mystic Maya even more!"
"Pearly, I told you it's not like that!" I say, but the conversation stops as we hurriedly get out the parts and start assembling them - even Nick would figure out pretty quickly that there was no paper in the car, and he'd come up to his office and find us.
"Okay, I think we've got it." I say as the body is finished, "now to just put on the head..." As I go to attach the head, my hand slips and I yelp in surprise as the other parts all fall over with a crash.
"Aww, Maya!" Larry groans, and at that moment, we heard someone running outside and Nick's voice calling, "Guys? What happened?"
We freeze as he turns the doorknob and comes in.