✴CHERRY BLOSSOMS✴ Alexei (ST3)

chp. 7: the sauna test

Third POV:

The next morning Cherry was woken up by Jim and Joyce's voices.

Cherry groans sitting up and tripping over her feet to get to her door.

When she opens the door she hears Jim ask Joyce "Where are my clothes?"

Cherry looks over towards her brother wondering what was going on, only to turn back around and yell "Ah!"

"Uh..." Joyce points to the front porch trying to look at something else instead of the man that was naked.

When they went outside Cherry went to the kitchen to get something to eat.

"I mean, did you recognize him?" Joyce ask Jim who was heading to the kitchen.

"Who?" Jim asks his voice still groggy since he just woke up.

"The thug." Joyce says. Cherry looks at her confused. "Thug? What thug. Were you robbed?" Cherry asked feeling nervous.

"What? No, we-we didn't get robbed, we went back to the lab." Jim reassures his sister.

"Oooh, ok." Was all she could say.

"And to answer your question, no, I didn't get a good look." He said answering Joyce's question.

"Well, I mean, he's gotta be government, right?" Joyce wondered aloud.

"Yeah, but if he's government, what's he doing slinking around? W-why is he running? You know, why didn't we find anything down there?" Jim asked her.

"Let's ask him." She said showing him a little pad with the license plate number.

After Cherry washed her stuff she went over to Jim and Joyce.

"What is that?" The siblings asked together.

"His license plate." She said simply.

"What are the dashes?" The siblings asked together again.

"Well, they're blanks, and please you two have got to stop doing that." Joyce told both of them.

Jim and Cherry look at each other then back to her. "Doing what?" They asked once again at the same time.

"That!" Joyce said. "Wha-oohhh." They both said together realizing what she was talking about.

"But anyway back to this, there was... I thing it was either a 'H' or a 'P' but the part rubbed off. And there was definitely a 'Y'. For sure. And I think that was a 'B' but it could have been an 8. And that- Wait-." Joyce said while Jim let it fall to the ground.

"I think you should stick to sales." Jim told her bluntly while he closes the curtain to his room.

"Can't you run a search of something?" Joyce asked him getting annoyed.

"I just think you have to lower your expectations." He told Joyce. Cherry rolls her eyes at her brother while going to sit on the couch.

"I mean, this is a state government agency, it's gonna take weeks before they fine a match." He told her behind his curtain.

"Weeks?" Joyce asked. "If we're lucky." Cherry says. "And I mean, what are the odds that this guy registers a car and his own name." Jim says.

"It wasn't a car." Joyce replies. Cherry looks up right as Jim opens his curtain.

Cherry tries to hold in her laughter when she sees what her brother is wearing. "Uh, what are you wearing?" Joyce asks also trying not to laugh.

"What do you mean it wasn't car?" Jim asks ignoring her question.

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Jim, Joyce, and Cherry left the house to the town hall.

They got out and headed towards Larry's office.

"Hey, is he in." Jim asks the receptionist without stopping.

"Yes, he's busy at the moment-" She started. "Great" He tells her still waling towards the office.

"Excuse me." She said trying to stop him.

Cherry and Joyce stay behind to make sure she stays where she is.

"You should sit down." Cherry and Joyce say together. The receptionist just looks at them after a few minutes The girls heard something or someone be in pushed against the door.

"Damn it." They heard a person that sounded like Larry exclaim.

They soon hear a struggle and the receptionist runs to the door and trys to open it. "Larry?!" She says.

"Cut the crap Larry they hear Jim says to Larry.

After calling his name a few more times the receptionist runs to her desks and reaches for her phone, but Cherry and Joyce were quick and cut the line.

"Who are you calling?" Joyce asked. "The police?" Cherry finished with a fake smile.

After a few more minutes Larry comes flying out of the room literally.

"Larry?" The receptionist calls out.

"He just bumped his head. Just a little boo-boo right Lar?" Jim asked Larry.

"Have a nice day." Cherry and Joyce say leaving the room.

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They all piled into the car, but not without difficulty, but they soon figured it out.

Once they reached to Larry's house they all got out of the car, "Ok you guys go in, I'ma stay out here and keep watch." Cherry tells her brother and Joyce they both nod and pull Larry along with them.

After a few moments of walking around the front yard she saw Larry trying to get out through the window.

She heard Jim calling out for him but shes guessing Jim didn't get him in time because next thing that Cherry knew he fell out the window and into a bush.

She walks over towards him, he trys to run thinking that he'll get out of trouble.

But he was soon proven wrong when Cherry asks him "Where'd you think you're going?" He turns around to be face to face with the girl.

"Um-just let me go." He begged. Cherry puts a finger under her chin pretending to think. "Hmm...how 'bout...no." She says grabbing him behind the neck and taking him inside.

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