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I took a deep breath as I waited for Noah to get out of the car. I caught my purse Noah threw at me and gestured Ryan to start moving.

He took a deep breath and seemed scared like he was about to sing on the stage. I smiled at how cute he looked. He gave me a you-find-this-funny? look when he saw me smiling.

'We're gonna be fine.' I said.

'We're gonna mess up big time.' Ryan shook his hands and rubbed his palms as he casted a look around. 'You sure you want to go with Noah? Come with me.'

I looked at his warm, nervous eyes that scanned it's surroundings. 'I'll be fine Ry Boy. Don't be scared.' I smirked and he shook his head.

I gazed at the muscles of his arms that contracted when he ran his hand through his hair but I was pulled back when Yang slapped Ryan hard on his back.

'Yo bud, we gotta go. Mia just texted me. We ain't have much time.' Yang fished his phone back into his pocket and looked at me. 'You guys will be fine yeah?'

'Oh hell yeah,' Noah faked his enthusiasm. 'I'm born Tom Cruise.' He puffed out his chest as if he was being filmed and we all chuckled.

'We'll be good Yang.' I assured as I looked at Ryan. 'Just buy us good time.'

They both nodded as they began walking towards the entrance of Charlotte's house before Ryan turned around and gave me a quick hug. 'Take care and you look sexy in maid's outfit.'

'Why thank you.' I tried so badly to hold my lips from curving into a big, goofy smile.

'Noah, take care of her.' He told Noah who was biting his nails.

'Huh? Yeah. No worries man.'

My heart melted and butterflies flew around my stomach. He was really worried and I had to do something to lessen his worry so I tip toed and kissed him on his cheek. 'You too.' He nodded and smiled warmly as he finally walked with Yang to the entrance gate of Charlotte's house.

While Noah and me leant against Yang's car as we waited for Mia's text.

After the day Noah convinced Harrison we'll steal the USB, we all tried to figure out what exactly to do. After watching bundle of crime movies, I concluded that we needed some information from inside of Charlotte's house so that we enter her house and go straight to the point where she might be keeping the USB.

We sent Mia to Charlotte's house as Charlotte knew me so well and Noah was so bad at not spilling beans and Yang, well, his temper was not to help so Mia was our last option and she gladly agreed.

After sending her there, fortunately, she was hired. Through texts, she sent us the information we needed that Mia searched the house as well as and only  Charlotte's room was left and to get in there, we needed to keep Charlotte busy that was by sending Ryan to her house who'll pretend that he's ready to leave me and take Charlotte and whatever and Yang wanted to go with him just so Ryan stays safe while me and Noah, as butler and maid, will enter her house.

I wiggle my toes in my shoes as I waited patiently for Mia's text while my eyes grazed the beautiful carving the house had. It was just like a dream house, too big, too beautiful, too concrete.

'Hey,' Noah slapped the back of his hand on my arm. 'She texted. Let's go, we have only five minutes.'

'Yeah, let's go.' I wore the bag around my waist as I ran with Noah at the back of the house. I tried to work my legs as fast as they can but still, I was behind Noah. I huffed as I ran praying for the house to end but it was too big.

Finally, the end came into sight. 'Two minutes!' Noah yelled from the front as he ran. My legs stung and my thighs seemed to be on fire. 'Come on!' He was already at the door Mia had it open to enter the house while I sped up my running as I exerted short puffs of breath.

Noah turned around and ran for me to help me but fell butt-first instead. 'Noah seriously? Quick now.' Mia half whispered, half yelled while I fell on the floor once I reached the kitchen Mia held open the door of as we waited for Noah to get inside now.

He sat down as we both breathed through our mouths. 'Ok, get up now.' Mia urged us. 'Where are your badges?' We fished out fake Id's of employees in Charlotte's house and pinned it to our front pockets. 'Great. Now act like you work here. These are the towels you guys will be needing to put in her Spa Room where the key is. It's the nearest room to her bedroom.' She kept on telling us the directions while we both kept on nodding.

'If anyone ask you any question, don't, I repeat, don't say anything and be aware of Rodger. He's the manager and has a beard. Now, go.' She got us up and hid Noah's backpack in a cupboard. 'And also, you have only fifteen minutes. Charlotte goes to her room at nine and it's already twenty minutes to nine.'

She guided us out of the kitchen but then left our side. 'How could we identify Rodger? I mean loads of people have beard.' Noah remarked as we set off with towels in our hand to a direction Mia just texted us.

Noah took his phone out. 'Okay, So she said take a left turn from her studio.'

'Shh, someone will hear us.' I walked on the polished surface of the Charlotte's house that was nonetheless than a castle. My mouth was in 'O' when my eyes noticed the beautiful chandelier hung from the ceiling. It was made of small chains wrapped and coiled around each other and were lighted illuminating the massive lounge.

For once, I felt like a princess.

We halted in front of two stairs cases. 'Do we have to go up?' I asked Noah who shrugged.

'She didn't mention anything.'

'Noah, put your phone down.' I told him urgently as I saw a man in butler's uniform walking towards us.

Noah turned his neck towards me instead. 'What did you say?'

'Put your phone down.' If it wouldn't be towels, I would snatch the phone from his hand but before I could ...

'Why should I pu—Oh!' He exclaimed as his phone was snatched by the man.

'I told you, no mobiles when work.' He growled as he looked at us holding towels. 'Where you going?'

'To the Spa Room.' I answered as I took in the scary face of Rodger with one purple eye as if he was beaten just now and a cut eyebrow. When Mia said beard, she meant The Beard as his beard literally reached down to the end of his ribs.

'What you doing here ?' I almost jumped as he bellowed. 'Get back to work!'

'We are lost.' Noah said. 'Can't find the Spa.'

'Go the left, take a right and go straight. See the ball room and take a turn. Go three lefts and take one right from the Cinema and after two doors of her studio, you'll finally reach the lingerie  closet and then go left from it and you'll get to the spa.' He explained like it was a piece of cake In his thick Russian accent.

I stared at him with my mouth agape. What the heck did he just say?

Noah was the first who snapped out of confusion. 'Uh huh, that was good. But where is the Spa Room? Also, I'd like to talk to the architect of this house.'

Rodger furrowed and his one purple eyes looked further nastier. 'Is this a joke?'

'We're good sir, thank you.' I nudged Noah to not ask anything else.

'My phone ... '

'No getting phone back.' Rodger spat on Noah's face and Noah scrunched his face in disgust. He wiped his face annoyingly.

'Ok.' Noah said through gritted teeth. 'Sir.'

Rodger glared at us one more time before we began walking away from him. 'What did he just say? Instead of Lingerie, I didn't get a thing.' Noah said to me once Rodger was out of ear shot. 'And did he just take my phone? You don't have phone either.' I gave it to Mia whose phone was also snatched by Rodger but she needed he quickly to send us information so I lend her mine.

I rolled my eyes. 'Can't expect anything else from you.' I walked the lobby with numerous turns and doors. It felt I was a maze runner. 'He just said go left from the closet to get to Spa Room so ... '

'So it means we have to find one room from hundred rooms and then we'll reach the one?'

'You know what they say?' I opened a door but it was locked so without having a single idea, we turned to our left.

'That a daughter is a treasure and a cause of sleeplessness?' Noah attempted a poor guess at what I was about to say.

'No idiot, just keep swimming.' I cautiously studied the lobby before opening a door but nothing was there of our interest.

'This reminded me of a pool party we'll throw when Ryan will win.' Noah was so relaxed and talking like he was on a stroll rather than sneaking into one of the biggest celebrity's house.

'Good that.' I looked down at my watch. 'How can you be so sure about him winning?'

8:48 pm.

We needed to find her room quickly before I'd lose my mind in these mazes of doors.

'I don't know. There's this feeling I get whenever things are going up or down and he is great so, he has to win.'

'And what will happen if he won't win?' I asked.

'That will be fine too. That's life. You can't predict everything to be perfect.' Noah, even holding the towels, seemed to be talking so casually. It was good to have him by my side. It helped keeping my nerves at bay. 'Besides, you're so good at coaching him. Like you guys work so hard on anything you want to achieve and it's so good. Hey, did he ask you out yet?'

I almost dropped the towels. 'No.' I replied instantaneously.

'He was talking to us about that. Said he'd give you a big surprise back at the cottage where we once went to. I think he was thinking of a romantic movie or shit.'

I twisted my neck to face him. 'You're really bad at keeping secrets.' I strode towards anther maid coming towards us. 'Hey there, can you tell us where is the Spa Room? We need to put these towels there.'

'Oh, I can do it.' She extended her hands but I withdrew mine.

'No thank you. Why don't you just tell us where the Spa is?'

'I don't mind really.' She insisted and I gritted my teeth. Just tell me the room bitch. I wanted to say to her but Noah spoke instead.

'We don't want your lovely hands to work more, beautiful.' Noah took her hand and kissed the back of it. 'May I know your name?'

'Ashley.' She instantly turned so red.

'Ashley,' Noah breathed his name. 'What a wonderful name for a wonderful lady.'

She giggled. 'Stop it now.' She said in a tone that yelled at his face that she wanted to hear more praise from Noah but we were running it of time. 'You're handsome too.'

'But you are more beautiful.' Noah winked. 'Your face reminds me of a good piece of art.'

She giggled again.

Then Noah said something else.

Then she giggled and then said something back.

But then Noah said something more and after her annoying giggle, she'd flirt back.

'I'm lost. Can you give me directions to your—ow!' I pinched his arm. 'Shit man, just give me the direction to the Spa.' Then Noah was about to say anything else but I pinched him on his arm and his dialogue was ruined.

Utterly confused, she pointed behind her with her thumb and said, 'the third door.'

'Thank you.' I said.

'Thank you my lady. I swear, I can't stop looking at your face. It's a beautiful piece of—.' I dragged him with me.

'That was so cheesy.'

'But she was so beautiful.'

'If Ryan will win, you'll get better.' I counted the number of doors. One, two, three! I opened the door and threw the towels as I reached down a pink cupboard and took out a key Mia had placed here.

'Got it!' I checked the time and my heart began beating fast.

8:56 pm.

'Shit!' I said as I ran out of the door and following Mia's direction, reached the door that was implicitly decorated. I inserted the key and rotated it. Gladly, it opened. But just as I was about to enter, Ashley, the maid Noah was flirting with, came running towards us and when she saw us entering, she gasped and was about to shriek when Noah ran towards her and muffled her scream by placing his hand on her mouth then dragged her in the room too.

'We two were enough.' I said as I locked the door.

I opened the first drawer of her dresser. It was all filled with her socks and it was a giant drawer. I scrambled through it but found nothing. I opened the second drawer full of her makeup brushes and looked between them, I didn't find anything. I kept on working with the drawers while Noah worked with her cupboards as he held Ashley by her forearm just so she won't run away.

When finished with dresser, I opened her lipstick box on top of her dresser but found nothing either. It was so full of lipsticks that I didn't quite bring myself to search through it so I closed it.

'Hey!' Noah called and relief drew to me instantly hoping he would've found something but as I turned around, I was ready to hit him. 'She plays Fortnite.' He held up the CD case. 'I'm gonna send her an invite only I could know her user name.'

'Noah, we could be jailed if we don't find the USB and run away from here and you're concern with her username?'

'Sorry.' He bit his tongue and got back to work while I probed under the bed and under the mattress. When my eyes landed on the time, I almost lost myself. It was 9:04 pm already and we haven't found anything yet.

'Noah did you find anything?'

'Other than some fascinating underwear and bras ? No, nothing.'

I huffed in panic as I searched her nightstand draws and looked behind the bed, then I ran to her bathroom and searched through roughly through it as Noah had already worked on it. I peeked under the couch, between her shoes, among her clothes, under her pillows, inside her pillow covers, through her socks, her gowns but found nothing.

I stomped my foot hard on the ground out of frustration. Nothing was there. Nothing.

I ran hand through my hair and pulled the roots. I scanned the room again. Something I must've forgotten. Somewhere I must search.

'What do you guys want?' Ashley asked after a long time.

'A USB.' I told her. 'We really need it.'

'For what?'

'She cheated with our friend on the contest she is a judge of.' Noah summarised.

She looked between me and then Noah, thought something and then pointed at the lipstick box. 'Look there,' she said. 'I saw her the other day putting something there.'

We both didn't wait a single second as we ran to the box. Opening the box, I almost felt dizzy seeing so many lipstick and one might be a USB. I accidentally looked at the time. It was 9: 10 and Charlotte would be coming back at any second.

I had to hold my hands as I searched through the thousand's of lipsticks. Picking them up, uncapping them and then covering them to put them back on place. I kept on checking back to see Ashley was there. She helped us by putting all the things back to place so that it won't look as if someone has broken into.

'Did you find?' I asked Noah who shook his head.

I dropped the lipstick as someone knocked at the door. I looked back at Ashley who had the same scared look on her face. 'It's Rodger.' She said and my knees began shaking.

'Noah, we can't find it.' I uncovered a lipstick but then there was another knock and I didn't cover it back rather threw it on the floor. My heart hammered in my chest and I heard the blood rushing in my ears. It all were frantic attempts for finding the USB. Someone jiggled with the door and at one point, I lost hope that we'd find it and began regretting trusting Ashley but then I pulled up a lipstick, uncapped it and the mouth of USB appeared.

'Oh yes!' I shrieked and was about to hug Noah out of excitement only to come to know he was not there instead he was holding the door close. 'What's wrong?'

'Someone's trying to open the door. They've suspected we're here now.' Noah tried to lock the door but someone was pushing it hard from the other side. I ran to him and helped and pulled all of my efforts and so did Ashley and finally the door closed. Noah instantly locked it up.

We all sighed. 'Ashley, is there another way out?'

'There is one but we need to go outside first.'

'We can't.' A commotion broke outside as if someone had ushered more guards to open the door. 'Tell us another way.'

'We'd need the keys for it which only Charlotte has.'

There was a loud blow on the door. I pointed at a console to drag it in front of the door. 'Maybe we can find it in the room here?' I suggested as I helped both of them to drag the console in front of the door.

'I don't know, you have already searched the room.'

'What about the window?'

'Too steep and high.'

I was about to ask another question, but I didn't as something weird happened.

Everything became silent. Too silent that we all could hear each other's breathing.

Too silent that my heart beat was the loudest sound I was hearing.

Too silent to be normal.

We all glanced at each other to understand the fact that it was true and to make sure nothing wrong happened. 'Why suddenly did it get so silent?' Noah asked but I just shrugged.

We waited and waited and waited.

For either the door to burst open or for the ground to explode but nothing happened and then, the silence began started nibbling my insides. My hands itched to open the door and see what happened but I couldn't.

The door had a peep hole and when we did, the passage seemed clearer. Holding the USB in my hand, I gave both of them a questioning look. 'I don't know.' Ashley said as she threw her thin small hands in surrender. 'Normally this isn't so silent.'

'Maybe they went away?' Noah projected. 'Maybe Ryan and Yang handled it?'

'Or maybe they didn't?'

'The path seems clear,' Noah said. 'We could run to the Kitchen and run out while hiding from them?'

'Maybe. But isn't it's too silent?'

He smiled. 'After a chaos, silence seems too much.'

I pondered over his words, looked through the peep hole and then opened the door just enough to peek through it. It all was clear. 'We should go,' I said. 'We should not waste anymore time.'

'Great.' We moved aside the console and opened the door. I looked around again. No one was there.

'Come on now.' Ashley was the one who guided us out. We took a left, another left, then took a right and everything was going just perfect. I was so happy as every time I raised my leg to run, I'd feel the USB in my pocket and knew we survived.

My happiness lasted for only a mere second as Ashley stopped abruptly just as she was to round the corner and from where I was standing, I didn't know why did she.

'What's wrong?' Noah stepped forth and he stopped too. My heart fell to the pit of my stomach as I took the step forward. I gasped as a inspected a scene.

About seven heavily weapons guards stood behind a grumpy Rodger and an angry Charlotte. Her hair were all messy because of humidity or maybe because her hair clips fell off and her clothes were in awful direction and revealed some of the parts of her body no one particularly wished to see at that moment but she didn't seem to care as she stared daggers at me.

I almost choked on my breath as I saw Ryan and Yang tied up and guards holding them so tightly that Yang's neck vein was popping out due to the struggle he was doing to free himself while Ryan was looking at something on they ground.

Even Mia, our last ray of hope, was captured.

'You know what they say?' I spoke.

'Yeah I know this time.' Noah said. 'We are all badly fucked up.'

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