Christmastime at the Plaza

chapter 9

Prunella threw down the phone and came over to see the kids.

"Oh, poor Prunella, all that hard work for nothing?" Eloise mused.

"You would think they would know not to send folding chairs to a wedding!" Prunella snapped. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an hour to find replacements!"

"What?!" The kids exclaimed from shock.

"That means they're actually going through with it!" Eloise yelled out that the wedding was still on. "After we--"

Prunella glanced at the kids, now having a sneaking suspicion. "After what...? What have you four been up to?"

"Run." Felicity whispered to her friends, dashing off with them to avoid the icy woman.

"Me and Eloise will go warn Rachel, you two go and inform Mom, Aunt Cherry, and Uncle Forte." Akito said while running.

Estelle and Felicity then went up to their floor. Eloise was running with Akito to find Bill however.

"Bill!" Eloise and Akito called out as they went into the kitchen.

The chefs were making a wedding cake.

"He left on his vacation." the top chef told them as he heard them come in for the man.

Eloise's mouth gaped open and she ran with Akito to now find Rachel. They had no time to lose, they had to tell her all about Brooks.

"Rachel, it's us, Eloise and Akito!" Eloise slammed on the doors. "There's something you don't know!"

Brooks opened the doors and looked at them, seeming evil at the moment. "What sort of things? Let's take a little walk, shall we?"

"Over my dead body." Akito said while glaring at Brooks and protecting Eloise.

Your funeral, kid." Brooks picked them both up and started to carry them away quickly so no one would see him.

"Put us down, you evil-hearted, selfish, devil of a man!" Akito exclaimed from rage.

Brooks refused to and took them to a part that seemed to be off-limits to anyone and he put the kids in a closet.

"Rachel will never marry you now!" Eloise snarled.

"Who's gonna stop her?" Brooks taunted as he shut the doors and locked the kids inside.

"Let us out of here!" Akito called out.

Eloise slammed on the doors, then sighed. "This is the worst Christmas Eve ever... Rachel's gonna marry Brooks and everyone's going to be miserable!"

Cherry, Forte, Simon, and Mo weren't in the room when Estelle and Felicity came.

"Maman? Papa? Frère?" Felicity called to her family. "Où sont vous?"

"Where are they?" Estelle asked.

Felicity saw a note left behind written from her mother. "They are at the wedding!"

"Oh, no! We've got to go and tell them." Estelle said.

"Come on then." Felicity put the note down and ran with Estelle to get to where the wedding was being held.

Prunella was greeting people as they came in.

"There's gotta be a way out of here..." Eloise took off her scarf and hat as she sat next to Akito. "What do you wanna do until we get out of here?"

"I guess we could just talk," Akito said, before he remembered something. "Wait, do you still have the walkie-talkie?"

Eloise checked her pockets quickly. "Got it!" She beamed once she took one out. "I don't know where the other one is... I hope someone helpful gets this..."