After All This Time

Chapter Thirty-Six

All seven of us walked inside a door that spun with different compartments, but for some reason we all went into the same compartment of it, so it was very crammed. I went inside first and Five followed me, with Klaus next to him and then with every person that walked in, it got more squished. To the point that I was almost pushing my face up against the door and Five's chest was pushed up against my back, but he was trying to give me a little space to be respectful.

Allison stopped with all of our chitchat and began to walk away.

Klaus chuckled at my comments and then looked at Allison, "Wouldn't that- Where you going?"

"I gotta make a call." She responded and continued walking.

"But anyways, back to her." Klaus gestured to the hotel. "Nowadays, she's just a flophouse, a party house for those of us not looking to be judged by society's rules and norms."

"You mean, a place to hide?" Luther asked unamused.

"Exactly! It's perfect! And the best part of it is, she's gonna look after us, no questions asked." Klaus made some more hand gestures.

I felt someone's eyes on me and looked to my right and saw an older man staring at all of us, being very judgemental. I moved his newspaper back in front of his face with my mind and continued to listen to Klaus.

"Never ever. Right?"

I looked over at some lady sitting with her husband, wearing a fur scarf with a martini in her hand, staring at us and then whispering to her husband.

Klaus backed up and watched us, "Come on."

Luther and Diego walked next to each other hesitantly.

"I may have questions." Diego whispered to Luther.

"Yeah, me too." Luther whispered back.

"If you guys actually ask them, I'll be happy to hand you over to the Sparrows." I said jokingly, "But seriously, shut up and be thankful that we have a place to hide."

I walked over to where Klaus was, as Vanya made a comment. Klaus started waving at some random man sitting at a table, smoking out of a pipe. I walked over to the front desk with Klaus, and there was a golden brown pug with a name tag that said 'Pennycrumb.' I walked up to him and tried to pet him but he growled at me.

"What? You don't like cats?" I chuckled.

Klaus rang the bell and gasped, "Chet! Mon frère! It's so great to see you. I'd like my usual suite, por favor."

A man in a green and yellow suit jacket walked up to us and stopped the bell from ringing, "I've never seen you before."

Klaus turned to us all, Diego and Luther were trying to get the dog to smell their hands but it just whined at them, "See? I told you. Discreet." Klaus said.

"Please stop scaring my dog." Chet said to the both of them.

They back away from the pug, Diego glaring at him.

Vanya walked up from behind, "We need some rooms, please."

"Super." Chet responded and then put out a sign that said 'cash upfront.' "And how will we be paying today?"