The Town of Willow Falls

Meeting for Another Plan

Leo's POV

I'm writing a new idea in a notebook for poetry when David comes into my room.

"Hey. The door's unlocked." He says before I can ask anything.

"Is that a poem for Amanda?" He peers over my shoulder.

"Yeah. It's just the beginning." I close my notebook.

"That's so cute! I mean, cool, yeah, cool. I mean, I'd totally write poetry for Tara but I'm so bad at writing poems." David continues as I look at him like seriously?

"Dude, you're a great singer, though." I tell him.

"Hi. Sorry to break things up, but the rest of us are ready to begin a meeting. We didn't come here for nothing."
Grace pokes her head into my room.

"The rest of you? We?"
I am pulled out into the living room.

Everyone is in the living room. Everyone who knows about this whole situation at least.

"Hey guys, what's up?" I ask.

"That's what we're going to discuss. Sorry that we just dropped in. But we figured you wouldn't mind and Amanda said you weren't busy today."
Tara explains.

"Yeah, I wasn't doing anything important." I say.

I swear David smiles at me.

Rory, Tara and Grace are pretty much centered in the room, so I take a seat to the side.

"Thankfully, Tara took my place for my babysitting job last night. A few things happened. First, Grace ended up going along. What happened after that was a bit chaotic. I ended up coming back mid-date. But I'll let Tara and Grace explain that. Including the new discoveries." Rory starts off.

Tara and Grace take turns retelling their crazy night with Viera. But I'm mostly shocked about hearing of the Reviver. It sounds cool, like just what we need.

"But here's the thing..., Grace pauses. Even though I got my bag back, Viera must've taken the Reviver."

And there it is. The part where all of us come in to brainstorm a solution because things just never seem to go right.

"I say we get it back." Connor announces.

"I think we all say that. But we need a plan to get it. We can't all barge in and accuse a three year old of theft." Grace says.

"Okay, so the candidates to do the job are Rory, because she knows them, Grace, because she had the potion and Tara, because she was also there. But we need some people's suggestions on how to get this done." Amanda takes lead.

"How about Rory goes back to the house with Grace and Tara as backup? She'll say she's looking for an earring or something that she left last night." I suggest, following along.

"An earring? That's such a basic idea! But anyway, what if we can't find the potion? Do we search the house for hours?" Grace comes up with every detail.

"Let's start with the first idea. If it doesn't work, we'll have to wait until Saturday. Then, we'll have more time to search." Tara says.

Everybody nods in agreement, adding their responses.

"What about the trees? We're running out of time."

We all look at Amanda who just spoke. We're going to have to act quickly. Hopefully what we came up with today will be enough. I can't imagine what a three year old would want with a reviver potion. But it's scarier to think what she could be doing with it. Who knows where it is? Really, if someone does, let me know.

A/N: I feel like I haven't updated in forever and I just need some time to get back into writing. I'm trying to make each chapter interesting but this was sort've a fill in. ._.
Wendy Mass's characters.