The Jewels; Mother of Pearl (#ABA2017)

Chapter Twenty One

Lola didn't fold them elegantly, she half kicked, half folded them into their places and without a screw driver it was increasingly difficult.

Lola ended up pushing the bed down the stairwell a couple of metres attempting it.

The pair of legs furthest away from her only needed a small push and they'd fold into the bed and the whole thing would collapse.

Lola screwed up her face as she pushed the bed, it folded almost immediately and all its dead weight slid down the stairs and dragged Lola behind it, causing her to bite her tongue.

On the first corner Lola's whole body, except her right arm, slammed into the wall. Lola groaned in pain as she picked herself up, the door opened up and the doctor started going down the stairs.

Lola sat on the bed part as she kicked off the wall and pushed her way around the corner until she got to the second set of stairs, she hung at the very top stair as the folded up bed softly swayed back and forth, until finally it came sliding down the stairs quick as lightning as if she were riding a sled through the snow. If there wasn't anybody chasing behind, this could've almost been fun.

Except for the corners on the stairwell...

Lola repeated the same incident as before, the whole thing slammed head first into the wall.

Lola didn't have time to mull over what happened as she repeated what she did before and slid down the stairs again screaming. Lola managed to figure out a stride where she could continue sliding around the corner without crashing.

Lola screamed as she went bump on the stairs, echoing throughout the whole stairwell, one every second step she was biting her tongue and her voice would wobble with every step.

"Th-th-this i-s-i-s no-no-no-t f-f-Fu-Fu-n-n!" Lola exclaimed as she slammed into another wall.

Lola sat there for a moment bewildered as she looked up; she had a good two floors on the doctor and the nurses chasing after her.

Lola got up, but immediately stumbled as if she had been on a Whirl and Twirl. She managed a giggle as she leaned against the wall; the dizziness seemed to disappear quickly. Lola pulled on the bed and saw there was no other stairs go sled down, with both disappointment and relief, she rushed to the door as quickly as she could with dead weight on her wrist, and opened the brown door.

When she opened it, it seemed to be the lobby, but nothing much was going on down here so there weren't any nurses, doctors or patients about.

Lola heard the yells of the doctor above, and slowly closed the door when she pulled the bed out of the stairwell. But with it all folded up, Lola was forced to bend over slightly. Lola dragged it along the ground to the closest thing she thought she could hide in, behind the counter.

She lugged the folded bed behind the counter and ducked just as the doctor and the nurses came streaming through the door.

"Where'd she go?" one of the nurses asked.

Lola heard them complaining to themselves as she looked around under the counter, unlike most desks, tables or chairs she's hidden under, there was no chewed up gum stuck to the underside. Lola suddenly heard the people looking for her split up, two running down the hallways and one running back up the stairs.

Lola poked her head out from her hiding spot and slowly stood up.

"Where would they hide the keys?" Lola mumbled aloud, "more likely than not, there'll be some Master Keys or something down here..."

Lola looked around the counter, all she saw were the computers that had been left on and several papers and check lists of names and room numbers were on the desks.