Something Fallible

Chapter III

"you know how I hated this." Wilbur sighed,
"oh come on man, I needed company you know, and you're my only way in." Noel whispered lowley.

The two were in a prestige art museum across town, probably 3 hours away from home. This museum contains the most valuable artworks in it, including a replica of Mona Lisa, and since, it was exclusive for what they call VIPs, or as we can say, the greatest archeologists in town.

Of course Noel was not a VIP, nor someone known, so the only way he could get in is to make fake IDs. And that job was for Wilbur.

"man, you're staring at her for an hour now. She's not even cute." Wilbur keeps on blabbing and blabbing but Noel was so focused on observing the painting, so he decided just to stroll around.

What's so good about this drawings? Wilbur thought. As he walks down the aisles, he saw lots of paintings hanged on walls. "Damn, he's so fascinated with these things. I can do better than this." he said looking closely on Vincent Van Gogh's The Bedroom. He also saw some sculptures in the room, touch-touching them though a sign was screaming DO NOT TOUCH on his face, "there you go," he said patting a David sculpture on the hips. "these men gotta be so.." he was stopped when he suddenly remembered something.

"Noel? Dude have you heard about the-- Noel??" he noticed that Noel disappeared from where he was standing few minutes ago.

"heck man where'd he go? Noel???" Wilbur called out. He saw some men running, they were in uniform and looked like they were catching some kind of theif or outsider who eventually went inside illegally--

"oh no.. ohhhh no, what the heck Noel you're so dumb. Why are you so dumb" he started running after the guards, realising that they've lost the guy, they started to spread out. Wilbur cautiously wandered around, looking for Noel.

Noel was under the sink, in the comfort room. "Seriously? This was your best hideout?"

Noel was startled and bumped his head on the concrete. "owww" he said scratching his head.

"seriously dude how stupid can you be"

Noel snickered, "Not because I almost got caught it means you are smarter than me, idiot. This was all your plan." he said fixing his shirt and hair.

"excuse me this was your plan."

"You really gonna lie to me right now Wil?"

"i-it doesn't matter, the only reason it didn't work was because you were careless"

"talk about being careless, you crossed every line the rules this place had given you, and now you're pointing your finger at me."

Wilbur then looked at his hands, that were both on his sides. Then he turn to look at Noel again.

" ..I'm not."

"what the f-- no not literally, I-- you know, we must stop this nonsense. We gotta get out of here quick."

Noel found an exit at the back portion of the museum, but heading to there was pretty tough. The had to make sure that not a single person would see them.

Luckily, they've reached the outside safely.

"well that was an adventure." Wilbur said, catching his breath.

"Bro, I haven't found anything.." Noel claimed, his voice was lowered. He had read and read and read hundreds of articles about Mona Lisa, but not a single one had tingled his contentment. That's why he had decided to actually go to an art museum to see the painting closely. Noel observed each and every details carefully, plotted the theories he had read, but at the end of the day, he still got nothing.