Long Story Short, I Survived

The Lodge

Back to the train station." I sighed as I put the gold decoys in dress. "Hey look on the bright side Ror, we're about to free your aunt!" Ian spoke cheerfully. "Ror?" I chuckled. "Yeah it suits you and is the perfect shortening of Aurora." Ian smiled proudly. "Your so stupid." I laughed as I grabbed scarlets hand while we crossed the street. "Only for you." He said sarcastically. "Whatever." I jokingly rolled my eyes. "Are you guys in love?" Scarlet giggled. "Oh definitely not, God no!" I answered. "Yeah Aurora is totally gross." Ian jokingly added. "Yeah yeah." I sniggered, flicking his forehead. "Hey looks like we're here." I stated, turning my attention towards the train station. Flash forward we got our tickets and got on the train. "I'm hungry!" Scarlet groaned. "We can order some food on the train." I replied, pulling out a stash of money. "Whoa where did you get that!" Ian asked. "Don't worry about it." I responded, just between you and me, it's a mix of the lended money of Rosetta's and money I stole from Eleanor. "Would you children care for a meal?" A man asked. "Yes please that would be very nice." Scarlet eagerly answered. "Very well, here's some menus, just tell me what you'd like and I'll bring it to you." The man said as he handed us menus. A few minutes later we all ordered our food and now we were just waiting on it.
"Here is your food, the total will be around 40 dollars." The man spoke. "Alright." I said, handing him some money. "Yum." Scarlet sighed. I couldn't help but laugh at how real scarlet is, she doesn't let the world get in the way of her life. A few hours later we arrived at Pine Mountain. "are we going to save Rosetta?" Scarlet questioned. "Yeah scar." Ian answered as we exited the train. I followed the directions that my father gave me and we got there in about 40 minutes. "Hey I think you need to stay out here with scarlet, I don't want you guys to be exposed to this, it could be traumatizing on a whole different level, especially for scarlet." I whispered to Ian as we stood outside the holiday lodge. "What no! I can't let you go in there all by yourself, you heard your dad, he said it was dangerous and to stick together!" Ian yelled. "Shh! I don't want you guys getting hurt, your my only friends and I can't risk losing you guys too, I'm not ready." I explained. "I promise we will be just fine, I'll protect scarlet if anything happens, I just can't let you get hurt all on your own, what if something goes wrong? You won't have anyone." Ian defended himself. "Alright fine, but you don't know what your getting yourself into, you need to be prepared." I spoke. "Then prepare us, we're ready." He replied.  "Okay Scar I'm going to need you to stay behind me and Ian at all times unless we direct otherwise and Ian I need you to just not be stupid okay?" I said. "Okay." Scarlet and Ian both said. We all walked up the steps that were built in the mountain and got to the lodge. I opened the wooden log door and I looked around, nobody was there but a lady at the front desk. "Alright I know what we need to do, we're going to pretend to get a room for the night, we need to act as if we're a family, me and you will be the parents of scarlet and I'll know what to do from there." I declared.
"Okay so let's go up to the desk?" Ian asked. "Yep, follow me." I ordered, walking up to the desk. "Hello ma'am, me and my family wondering if there is any room open for stay?" I asked. "Room 22 is open but it's a one person room, only one bed and bathroom, if you'd like to stay in there, you also get the family discount since we have no more family rooms open." She answered. "Alright thank you!" I responded, handing her the money. We then walked up to our room and got our things situated. "Alright I just need to figure out where Rosetta is." I sighed, sitting down on the bed. "Don't worry I'm sure we will find her." Ian assured me. I got off the bed and began frantically searching the hotel room for any sort of clue or letter from Rosetta, I couldn't find anything so I knew she was really in danger, she didn't plan this out, I can tell she wasn't expecting to be caught in her schemes. "calm down I'm sure it's all gonna be fine." Ian said. "Yeah don't worry." Scarlet added. "You guys are right, I think we should just get ready for bed and tomorrow I will get to work." I acknowledged. Me and Ian got ready for bed and I knew it would be a rough night, we were in a cheap, discounted, rundown room with only one bed, but I'm sure it will be okay. "Scar want me to fix your hair?" I asked. "Yes please." She answered sitting in front of me on the floor. "Can I try something new? It will make your hair look so pretty tomorrow." I told her. "Sure why not." She replied. About 10 minutes later I had her hair done and got her ready for bed.