FlowerTown Mysteries: The Hotel Ghost!

Chapter 1: Familiar Faces!

It was morning, and the trio were up and ready to head out! Ace was going to grab his keys, but T.D was faster.

"Shotgun!" T.D said as they grab the keys from the table to unlock the car. As they went, they bumped into Bob, and kept on going since they didn't notice in their excitement. When they got to the car, they go to unlock it before noticing that they keys were gone! "What!?" T.D said as they slightly panic, thinking they had lost they keys before seeing Bob who was looking smug.

He then showed the keys. "Looking for these?" he said with a bit of sass.

T.D looked shocked. "Seriously!? How the heck!?" They slightly yelled out, gesturing towards Bob. Bob laughs, then throws the keys to T.D, and they clumsily catches them and gives Bob a look of defeat.

Bob smiles. "Sorry, old habit," he apologizes before heading to the car. T.D unlocks the doors, then passes the keys to Ace and got in.

Ace was about to head into the car, before pausing. "Are we forgetting anything?" he asks, believing that he missed something. Before any of them could answer, they see a car pulling up, and Ms. Jazmin gets out and approaches the group with something in her hands.

"Oh hey, Ms. Jazmin!" Bob greets. "How are you doing - OH!" He yelps as Ms. Jazmin thrust a box into his arms. 

Ms. Jazmin sighs out of relief. "Hi! Sorry! Just wanted to give you guys some gardening things as a kind of thanks!" she says quickly.

Bob tries to keep himself from being crushed from the box's weight. "T-Thanks!" he says weakly.

T.D was about to go help, but Ace beat them to it. "I'll take this!" He says while taking the box from Bob with relative ease.

"Thank you," Bob quietly said out of relief.

Ace puts the box near the house and thanks Ms. Jazmin. "Though I don't know if we'll have time to take care of them right now," he then adds.

Ms. Jazmin looks at him, only now just thinking of it. She then facepalms, "Oh. Sorry! Really should have thought of that. It's just common to give plants as gifts here," she said apologetically.

"It's still a really nice gift!" Bob reassured her. "We were just about to head out," he adds on.

Ms. Jazmin nods, then remembers something, "Wait! Here's this id card. Just show this to Mr. Bud, the head of security, and he'll let you into the flower's room," she said while giving Bob the id card

Bob got a bit confused, "Did the tours stop because of what's happening?" he asks.

Ms. Jazmin sighs, "Yea. We needed to make sure that no-one could sneak in," she said disappointingly, "I just wish that wasn't the case. People loved learning the history of this place, plus all the money that the tourists gave go straight back into helping the town,"

Bob looked sad, but gave Ms. Jazmin a reassuring smile. "We promise to figure this all out soon," he said as he puts his hand on her shoulder.

Ms. Jazmin smiles as well and nods, "I trust that this problem is in good hands," 

When Bob heard this, he felt a sinking feeling in his stomach. He tries to hurry this up to leave, "Uh, Yea! We should be going. We'll talk when we get back!" he says while heading to the car, trying not to look like he was in a hurry.

Ace follows Bob, stopping by to say to Ms. Jazmin "We'll notify you if we can't get back by sundown,"

"Alright," Ms. Jazmin responded as she goes back to her car. Ace and Bob get in the car to see that T.D was just drawing, not having a care in the world. After making sure that they have everything, they drove off.