Across my memory | Ben Beast

chapter nine - siren

          Ana stood like the rest of her friends, frozen at the sight of her mother.

She looked so... her.

She still wore a red gown, but it was different than the dirty ones with holes that she wore in the Isle. Emerald green earrings dangled from her slightly pointy ears.

Her wild red hair isn't messy anymore, it was tamed. The lady infront of her had lucious hair, looking so shiny and healthy.

She had an evil grin in her face, makeup adorning her features. She looked crazy staring at the huge diamond in her hand, bigger than her dainty hand.

The VKs slowly walked towards their parents' statues.

Ana stared at her mother, silently. Slightly freaked out at the sight of her.

"Mommy?" Evie whispered.

Jay shook his head slightly. "Killer.."

Carlos looked petrified. "I'll never. forget mother's day again."

After a moment of silence, Jay backed away, hiding the fact he was freaked out. "Well, the wand's not here. Let's. bounce." Seeing his friends still frozen, he exclaimed. "Let's go!"

Ana broke away from staring at her mother and followed the other VKs, leaving Mal on her own.

Realising this, Ana looked back at Mal. "Mal, come on!" Seeing the girl still stuck staring at the statue, she was about to yell when Evie came back.

"Hey, I found the wand, let's go!"

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          Their plan failed, miserably.

They got to the section where the wand was, noticing some sort of barrier around it.

They were about to make a plan on how to get it when Jay recklessly, reached for it, excited.

Ana warned Jay as Mal glared at him, yelling for him to wait. Evie and Carlos yelled a no, but was too late.

Jay was shot back, the museum alarm blaring loudly, the siren wails echoed throughout the building.

"A force field and a siren?" Carlos asked, flabbergasted.

Jay coughed, crawling. "That's just a little excessive."

Ana scoffed, pulling him up roughly. "What do you expect, Dummy? A steal me sign?"

Jay was about to retort something back, when Mal ushered them. "Let's go!"

They rushed back down the stairs, narrowly dodging the woken up guard.

The phone rang as they ran outside, everyone ignoring it except Carlos, who answered it.

"Hello? Uh-Uhm...Just give me one second." Carlos scanned the paper in front of him, clicking away and managed to disable the alarm. "Uh, yeah... no, false alarm."

Ana came back for Carlos, urging him to hurry up.

Carlos nodded, gulping. "It was a malfunction in the-uh, LM 714 chip in the breadboard circuit." He chuckled, as if he wasn't in the verge of getting caught. "Yeah. Okay! Say hi to the missus."