The Key- Soy Luna Halloween Week

1.

At the sound of the large countdown timer manteled on the staircase railing, Gaston immediately has a hand wrapped around her arm. "You and me?" he asks Nina, as the crowd of people around them descends into a flurry of chaos. She nods her head smiling as they look in which direction to take.

"Nina! Nina! Nina!" they hear the voice of Luna calling from behind them. They both turn around to find her pushing her way to them. "You wanna be my-" she attempts to say while out of breath. She stops when she realizes the couple's hands holding. "Oh, yeah. Of course, it's fine," Luna sighs sadly. Nina hates the unsettled feeling in her chest not being her best friend's partner. "No, Luna we can be partners. It's fine. Don't" she waves her hands at her. "No, no, no. You stay with Gaston. Trust me I'll be fine," Sandy says with a softer smile as she leaves them be.

As she walks off, Gaston notices Nina's frown. "Are you alright? You can go and be partners with Luna if you want. I can just go ask Matteo." Nina shakes her head. "No, it's fine. I wanna be with you. Plus, maybe Luna and Matteo will find their way in partnering up," Gaston chuckles at her comment. "Very true, pushing them together like that. Genius," earning a smile from Nina.

As soon as the main floor opens up a bit more space, they both pull out their bags. They find a small envelope, no bigger than a post it. Gaston looks down at the girl holding his breath in. "Are you ready?" she nods her head. "Countdown to three. 1,2, 3!"

They both open theirs at the exact same time and squint at the tiny lettering of their papers. "What does yours say?" Nina asks the boy. He hands her his paper with a confused face. It had only numbers on it. "1: 3/10. What's that supposed to mean?" he only shrugs with an unreadable look. She adjusts he glasses to look at it better while she absentmindedly hands him her note without even reading it herself. He does a double take at her note as well. "Nina, your note has only numbers on it too," She blinks and grabs back her own. "What? Give me that," she demands, causing Gaston to back up just a little.

And sure he was right. The only clue on the card was the numbers '639'. Both of them look at each other and back at the notes several times. "What do these exactly mean?" Nina questions. Gaston loudly sighs and an idea suddenly pos up in his head. "Why don't we look it up on my phone to see if it's some sort of code," he suggests. Nina nods her head in agreement. "Yeah, that's a good idea."

Right, when he unlocks his phone and opens up the explorer page, Ambar comes by and clears her throat loudly. "Um, no cell phones allowed. That's cheating," she states, putting a hand on her hip.

The both of them look very offended. "But Ambar, these hints are so vague. How are we supposed to actually get clues from this?" Gaston asks her. She only shrugs her shoulders at them with an out-of-luck look. "Figure it out on your own. Bye!" she says as she struts away toward the kitchen. SHe stops briefly and looks back at them once more. "And by the way, if anyone gets caught pulling their phone out for the use other than a flashlight, you're automatically disqualified. Anyway, have fun!" And with that she struts away finally, leaving the couple speechless.

"Well, what are we supposed to do now?" Gaston turns to Nina. She looks back down at the papers trying to decipher their meaning. "Maybe they're math problems? I mean I don't know exactly which formulas to use but I have a handful that could work and if we just go through all of them and-" he cuts her off. "Nina, as smart as that sounds. We don't have the time to do that. It's too much," he says. Nina pouts at him. "You're right, it is a bit too much work. "

"But let's think: the key has to be hidden well, but not too well. Accessible but easy to miss. Meaning no private rooms or cupboards. So it's most likely to be in a general area. But obviously not somewhere where you'd expect it to be..." Nina strategically plans. Gaston listens intently to what she is saying. "So where do we look first?" he asks her. "Kitchen." she simply says. "By now everyone's probably raided it but like I said there may be places that they've missed. He nods as they both walk over there.

Turns out that they were right. The kitchen had looked already disheveled. And not because of badly behaved teenagers. But they were still willing to look anyways. "You cover the cupboards on the left, and I on the right, go," she demands. They split off and rummage through every pot and pan. Every cookbook, every food item in the refrigerator, every dirty dish in the sink. And nothing. And they had expected this. So they kept moving. "Where to next?" he questions her.

She scans around the room and into the hallway, finding a cracked door to what looks like the staff bathroom and she points her finger to it without saying a word as she works over to it, with him on her tail. Nina opened the door carefully just in case there was anyone in there. Luckily there wasn't since it was generally small anyway. And it still looked pristine, meaning probably not many people have looked in there.

Gaston turns on the light and closes the door behind him, being nearly squished together because of the tight space, causing Nina to blush furiously. She opens the cupboard under the sink while he looks through the mirror medicine cabinet. And still nothing. When she gets up and is about to open the door again, Gaston stops her. "We haven't checked behind the shower yet," She shakes her head. "Why would it be behind there it's too obvious," "I don't know, it could be for all we know,"

She lazily shrugs giving him a whatever motions and he slowly peels back the shower curtains. They both peer down into the bottom of the bathtub where they find a small box. Smaller than a snowglobe giftbox, but bigger than a jeweler's box. Nina gasps upon their so soon discovery. She motions or Gaston to pick it up, which he does so cautiously. He gently lifts it up and rests it in her hands. He mentally counts to three before opening the lid.

And when the lid is off, there's another paper found inside.