𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒰𝓈

Ch.5

📍Museum Holding Cell
2:30pm

I'm laying on the hard slab of concrete, listening to the rhythmic bouncing of Mal's ball. Jay and Carlos are saying tongue twisters in attempt to ward off the boredom.

We were caught. We didn't really have much of a plan for after we got Gil and Harry onto the border. The guards caught up to us almost immediately after they left. They took us back to the museum and put us in the same cell Gil was in, ironic.

"Could you shut up?" Mal barks at Carlos and Jay, breaking her silence.

They give her a weird look. "No." Jay says, continuing to practice his tongue twisters.

"Seriously, shut the fuck up." Mal says.

"What's your deal?" I ask.

"It's their fault we're in here in the first place. The least they could do is not cause issues, for once." She sneers.

"Our fault?" Carlos stops.

"Yes. If you didn't blow your covers and did what you were supposed to, we wouldn't have been caught." Mal says.

"M." Evie looks over to Mal. "C'mon, it's no one's fault.

"E we don't have to be saints right now, we're in jail and it's their fault."

"It was your job to distract the guards." Jay argues back.

"You weren't even supposed to come outside!" Mal raised her voice.

The argument quickly escalated and the cell erupts in echoes. Mal and Carlos both get in each other's faces. It's starting to get heated just when the cell door opens. A guard in a blue suit looks at all of us.

"You're now released under order of Prince Ben." The guard says, quieting all of us.

Oh shit, Ben.

We all look at each other before moving. Jay stands up first and cautiously walks out, eyeing the guard as he passes him. We all slowly follow and the guard closes the cell behind us.

The guard gives a silent walk to the front of the museum and all the way to the castle. Awkward, to say the least.