ᴏᴜᴛ ᴏғ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ | 𝗁𝖾𝗇𝗋𝗒 𝖽𝖺𝗇𝗀𝖾𝗋

𝗏𝗂𝗂. 𝗌𝗎𝗉𝖾𝗋 𝗌𝗂𝖼𝗄 𝗌𝗂𝖽𝖾𝗄𝗂𝖼𝗄

{ep: sick and wired}

❦︎𝙨𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬❦︎

"that rotten little mutt!" ray yelled while throwing a water bottle at schwoz causing him to fall off of his stool. he'd just gotten off a call with henry saying he wouldn't be going to work because he was still sick after 3 days. 

"ray!" charlotte exclaimed while standing up. 

"what?"

"you could've killed schwoz!"

"oh, sorry schwoz. i didn't mean to hit you with that bottle."

"well you did," schwoz said while on the floor.

"i'm just so angry at henry for lying to me." ray said while walking over to help schwoz up but then dropping his hand when he lost interest.

"you think henry's lying to you about being sick?"

"i know he's lying!"

charlotte gasped. "ray manchester! how could you say that about henry?"

"oh okay, so you think he's telling the truth?"

"i do."

"well, i think he's lying. come on, he's probably halfway to smidge reek by now trying to find his ghost girlfriend."

"you just saw him in his room-"

"so, we're gonna find out."

"wait a second-"

"schwoz, i have an assignment for you. get yourself a disguise then sneak into henry's house and install some cameras and microphones so we can spy on him."

"we're going to spy on henry?" 

"yep!"

"guys no! i will not let you spy on him."

"oh no, charlotte's saying no again."

"it's an invasion of privacy and it's wrong."

"hey you better not run to the tubes so you can try to warn henry that we're gonna spy on him," ray fake worried. he had a plan up his sleeve and charlotte didn't catch onto his obvious sarcasm.

she started to run over the tubes while ray pretended to try and stop her. "no stop come back," he said blandly. 

she'd made it under the tube pad and brought the tube down over her: that would be her worst mistake. "up the tube!" she tried, but ray then turned off the power to the tube which left her trapped inside the tube. 

"you better not keep me in this tube!" she threatened. 

"okay, up the tube," ray said having another trick up his sleeve. "now other tube down, and charlotte. there, now you're in a different tube!"

schwoz and ray shared a little chuckle at this. "ray you're so encouragable."

"hahahahaha, i don't know what that means."

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at henry's house,  schwoz had just finished installing the cameras for henry's room when he began to wake up.

"schwoz? is that you?" henry asked. he saw a figure dressed in red, overalls, and a hat: somewhat resembling a plumber/videogame character.

"no..i'm just a dream. yes, a dream about a nice italian plumber, so you just go back to sleep and dream about- ayeeeeeee!" schwoz said as he fell out of henry's window. henry just decided to go back to sleep and question if it truly was a dream or not.

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"where is it? where is it" where is it?" milo asked frantically. 

"hey milo, we've been at your house for an entire 15 minutes and still have no idea what you're looking for," wyatt said. he was trying to be supportive but had no idea what he was trying to support.

"or why we're here," paige finished. "i have to go on some dates with old guys from the fair today."

"paige, as much we all care about your sugar daddies, we don't care at all." milo's room had gone silent, nobody was expecting her to say that and nobody knew why she was in such a weird mood. she went back to ransacking her room.

"okay listen, we want to be able to help you but we need to know what's going on first," wyatt said while putting his hands on her shoulders. 

"i lost my bracelet and can't find it anywhere." more silence, how cute. milo's bracelet was the last thing she has left of her parents and it's the most important thing to her besides her aunt, wyatt, and paige. 

her parents aren't dead though, that's another story for another chapter.

"well, where do you last remember having it?"

"yeah, we'll help you look!"

"well i remember having it at the booth, then i went to the hot mom booth-"

"what?"

"don't ask, then i went to a booth where some guy was getting bucket therapy, then i ran into the guy who's apparently in love with me, and then i came back to the booth with you guys."

"maybe we could go back to the park and look around for it?" paige asked, finally being useful.

"wait a second, i don't remember you having it when you came back and told me about blondie who was obviously into you," wyatt said thinking back on the previous events from a few days prior.

"yeah i don't think i saw you with it either."

"why didn't either of you say anything?"

"i just figured you put it in your pocket or something!"
"don't get mad at me, i was barely paying attention."

"well now some low life from another city probably has it! it was probably someone from swellview, that town has the dumbest laws, the dumbest people, and the absolute dumbest-"

"hey hey hey, calm down. we'll get your bracelet back, i don't know how but trust me, we will," wyatt said wholeheartedly. he wasn't lying, he really didn't know how they were going to find it but it's always worth a try for a friend right?

and as for what was happening in swellview, ray planned to set jasper up to find out if henry was really sick or not which ultimately backfired and ended up with vomit all over ray's shoes, and the restaurant floor.