Odd Squad: Otis Substitute

Chapter 28: Let Me Go

After getting dressed, Otis stared at the mirror, where was written "I'm still here, bastards -O", next to Olympia, Oliver and Selena, in the hotel bathroom.

– How the hell did anyone come here and just wrote it? – Olympia murmured.

Oliver analyzed the place in detail, wondering where anyone could enter, leave, and how long it would take to write in the mirror without anyone noticing.

– Maybe he's been there a while, probably before Otis gets in the shower.

– Are you blind? It was Selena! – Otis shouted. He pushed Selena against the wall, holding her. – How did you do that?

– Otis, calm down. – Selena said.

– Tell me, how did you do it? – Otis made grunts and screams.

– I swear it wasn't me.

– Otis, let go of her now! Oliver exclaimed, pulling Otis away from Selena.

– I thought you were smart, but you're blinded by love! Selena is "O". Can't you see? – Otis was furious. – Olympia, you believe me, do not you?

– Um, Otis, I ... I do not know. - She answered.

– I can't believe it, Olympia! I trusted you! And you, Oliver, are being stupid!

– Let me go! Selena pleaded, trying to get out of Otis's arms.

– Then tell me why you torture us!

- I told you to let her go! – Oliver pulled Otis, unwittingly, with a lot of strengh, which eventually made Otis stumble across the bathroom tiles and bang his head in the mirror, and fall soon after.

Otis did not seem to breathe, he was paralyzed, dropped to the ground without making a lot of movements, blood flowing from his head, and broken glass shards beside him.

- Otis? Otis? Wake up, please. – Oliver was crying, looking at Otis.

Selena started cleaning the blood on the floor, and Olympia called the ambulance. Oliver started stroking Otis's face.

– I'm sorry, I didn't want to do that. Please, wake up.

Olympia, also with her eyes full of tears, went to Oliver's side.

– He'll be fine, trust me. The ambulance is coming. We have to take him downstairs.

- We have to use the stairs. If anyone gets in the elevator and see Otis like that, they'll think we killed him. – Selena said as she cleared the blood.

Oliver started to cry even more.

– What if I killed him?

– Remember that he was trying to kill me, and I swear I'm not that "O"!

– I'm trying to believe.

A sheet of paper entered through the open window of their hotel room, and Olympia hurried out of the bathroom to pick it up.

– Check mate, signed O - Read Olympia aloud.

– Wait, "O" sent a paper message? After all this waiting? – Oliver was trying to lift Otis's wounded body.

- Apparently, yes.

– Calm down, give it to me. – Selena took the sheet of paper and analyzed it. – It's the same color it was in the bathroom ... a very light lilac.

Oliver opened the door to the hotel.

– Great, we know it was the same person who wrote, we just do not know who that person is. We have to go downstairs.

Oliver, Olympia, and Selena went downstairs, carrying Otis's body. The ambulance arrived soon. Olympia and Oliver seemed to be praying for Otis to be alive. The hotel manager approached them in amazement.

– Hey, are you okay?

– No. – Oliver answered, quietly.

– What happened?

– Hum, our friend hit the head when he went to take a shower. – Olympia seemed very convincing.

- Oh my gosh! – The manager exclaimed. – I'm sorry for him.

– He's not dead, do not say that! – Oliver exclaimed, his face tear-stained.

– I didn't say he was dead.

– Excuse me sir. – Selena hugged Oliver and guided him back to their hotel room, next to Olympia.

Selena opened the bedroom door with a security card. As soon as they opened the door, they found an open laptop on Oliver's bed, which could be seen as soon as the door opened.

– A laptop? Who left that? Olympia asked, closing the door after everyone entered.

– I bet it was "O" – Oliver murmured.

The three approached the laptop, which had absolutely nothing, no music, no internet icon, no bluetooth, no files, just a video titled "watch.mp4". Selena clicked on the video. "Otis, calm down." "Tell me how you did it," were some phrases spoken by the voices in the video.

– Oh my. This is...

– ... the video of when Otis was pushed and banged his head on the mirror. - Selena completed the sentence of Oliver.

– It looks like it was taped outside the bathroom, like it was out the window. – Selena commented, terrified.

– How could anyone record this? And why would record this? – Olympia asked

– To have something against us, and somehow make me look like a killer. – Oliver spoke in a serious tone, with cold eyes and disheartening air.

– If "O" now has something that can be used against us, we need something against him, or her, or it, or anything, I'm just sure this thing is a bitch. – Selena said – But I have no idea what it might be.

– We have absolutely nothing to prove against him, her, it, anything. Messages are deleted automatically after 5 minutes, and the message sent by paper could have been sent by anyone.

– Well, O already made the Odd Squad and all the members of it disappear, kidnapped Ohany, burned a forest and invaded our hotel room, I can't take it anymore, so if O wants to play, let's play. – Olympia was confident, she felt ready to do everything to protect her friends.

Selena nodded.

- Bring it on, bitch.