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“W-what did you say cause I know I did not hear that right”
Kourtney said, sort of out of breath with her eyes tightly shut closed.
“No you heard it right now can you please keep driving. I know it sounds crazy, I still can’t believe it.”
“Now why would I drive us to the ALIENS!? Girl we gotta catch a flight or something to get out of here before they I don’t know drink our blood?”
“Really Kourt? That’s vampires first of all”
“Well how would I know it would explain why they’re all attractive they gotta drink young blood to look it”
“ We grew up with them, they're the same age as us, keep driving, they don’t cause any harm, they're mostly human anyways and Maddox was the one that saved me after all”
“What?”
Kourtney said, turning towards Ashlyn for a minute before continuing to drive.
“Yeah I wouldn’t have been here if she hadn’t saved me at the cafe, look I’ll answer all your other questions later we’re about to get there and when we do don’t go in the parking lot pull over on the curb and pop one of your tires while I go inside”
“I’m not even going to question that I’m sure it’s a part of your plan you’ve probably been overthinking this whole time”
“Yep”
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“Did we really have to match wearing all black to do this?”
Jet asked Gina while adjusting his black beanie.
The three teens were at the side of the police station, being covered by a large garbage bin, they were going to go through a window that was right above the trash on the second floor that went straight into the Sheriff's office. There was a slight ledge where they could stand on to get inside and there were bars covering the window with a lock that could easily get opened with a wave of a hand.
“Yes Jet stop complaining besides it should've been the easiest for you to find all black with your emo-ness now help me give Maddox a boost”
Maddox would be the first to go up since she has the best control of her powers so she waved her hand across the lock on the bars that kept the window undisrupted and unlocked it using heat to contort the lock mechanism inside, it was as if she had just used a key.
She opened the gate surrounding the window then opened the actual window itself and hopped inside before popping her head out to look at Gina and Jet with a proud smile and saying,
“Well I got in, who's next?”
Second was Jet to get in since he was the next shortest that also needed a boost despite his disagreement, then Gina got up with a jump and got pulled in by Maddox.
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There were some shelves that held records just in the actual office but there was a small shortage room connected to it filled with record files in boxes on shelves so they were going to have a lot to look through.
“Okay so I’m thinking that two of us go in the storage room to look and one of us stays here to look through these shelves”
Maddox said quietly since there was still one worker left in the building.
“I’ll stay here, you and Jet can look through the other ones.”
“What no way you and Madddie can look through all those”
Maddox just sighed and opened the door to the storage room and said
“Look we don’t have that much time so figure out who’s going to look where quickly I’m gonna start looking already”
After the door closed Gina turned to Jet lightly slapping him and saying
“You heard her go in there to look”
“First, ow? And no I don’t want to talk to Maddie or be near her you go”
“Jet you need to talk to her, it was just a small little argument anyways”
“Is that what you saw it as? It was a lot deeper than you could understand and maybe even more so for Maddie to understand also. It’s not something that could just be resolved after a few hours plus it’s not the right time or place to be doing all that we have a bigger problem at hand.” Jet finished while turning around and starting to look through the files.
“Okay but don’t ignore her forever” Gina said, pointing at Jet before going into the storage room.
Inside the storage room there were boxes full of evidence bags then there were boxes with record files inside.
They needed to get Maddox’s file if she had one which she most likely did from being the most suspicious and they had to look through Ashlyn’s file along with looking for the evidence bags despite Ashlyn saying that it was in a suitcase they assumed that was just for transfer reasons..right? Or else all the time they were spending looking through these boxes would be useless which it was starting to look that way since so far they found Ashlyn, Maddox and even Jet’s files since Jet was somewhat suspicious since he was at the cafe that day with Maddox when she saved Ashlyn but aside from that they looked through all of the boxes and no evidence bags of sorts regarding alien stuff or Ashlyn was found so now they were left standing there while Maddox paced around talking,
“I don’t get it, where could it be? We looked through all of the storage. Do you think he would bring it home with him?”
“I don’t know Mads he could’ve”
Gina said, shrugging her shoulders.
“Well that’s helpful”
Maddox said sarcastically and stopped her pacing to look at Gina.
“Well what am I supposed to say Maddie?”
“I don’t know, okay? I’m sorry I’m just feeling a little helpless”
While Maddox and Gina were talking Jet went over to the Sheriff's desk and sat on the chair spinning once before laying back and kicking his feet up on the desk before putting his feet back down after his foot hit something that was under the desk mat, confused he lifted the mat and saw a small key he grabbed it and looked around wondering what it was for.
Then his eyes quickly looked over the desk before seeing one of the drawers had a lock and was more so on the side of the desk since it was quite larger than the other drawers, he put the key in and sure enough it worked, he opened it and he saw it ‘Of fucking course’ he thought shaking his head and grabbing it.
“Hey bozos look what I found”
Gina and Maddox both turned to Jet with unimpressed faces that immediately shifted to shock once they saw the briefcase that Jet was holding.
“No way,” Gina said with a small laugh.
“Wow who would’ve thought huh” Maddox said.
“Y’know a ‘thank you’ would be nice just sayi-”
“Wait Jet”
Maddox said, holding up her hand as she listened to faint voices of someone talking downstairs.
“Is that the sheriff?” Jet asked.
“What’s he doing here?” Gina also questioned.
“I don’t know but-” Maddox started before she paused as a realization dawned on her,
“I can hear Ashlyn too, we gotta go now”
The voices started to get increasingly louder.
“How are we going to get down?!” Jet whisper screamed.
“Shit i didn’t think about that,” Maddox said, biting the inside of her cheek.
The voices were now clear as they were now right outside of the door as Ashlyn seemed to luckily be blocking the door from the Sheriff and stalling.
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A couple minutes earlier Ashlyn went inside the police station being met with Sheriff Redonovich making light conversation with the night shift worker at the front desk, it seemed like he had only just gotten there moments before Ashlyn did.
He noticed Ashlyn and looked confused and said,
“Hello Ashlyn, what are you doing here so late?”
“Hi I got a flat tire and you know I’m just a girl and I don’t know how to change a tire so yeah,” Ashlyn said slightly grimacing at the lie since she very much did know how to change a tire after her father continuously teaching and making sure she did for her safety.
“ Really? I thought Dennis taught you?”
“Oh yeah he did but….that was a while ago”
Ashlyn said as she made an awkward smile and slowly nodded.
“Oh well I could change that tire for you, I don’t think I’ve seen you around I’m Jackson” Said the night shift worker while he tried to put on a charming smile but wasn’t working for him Ashlyn thought trying not to laugh at the failed attempt, he seemed to be in his early twenties.
“You probably haven’t seen me since I’m usually in highschool… as a student”
Ashlyn said to herself quickly mumbling.
“Yeah well she’s usually with my son, her boyfriend”
Mr. Redonovich said loudly with a raised eyebrow towards the boy which had shrunk into himself at the raised voice towards him.
“Now Ashlyn I can handle that flat tire for you first though I have to get something from my office”
“OH wait uhm I can go with you” Ashlyn said quickly walking in front of the Sheriff which didn’t question it too much.
As they were walking up the stairs Mr. Redonovich cleared his throat and said, “So Ashlyn what were you doing out so late?”
“ Oh well you know that ice cream shop that's like right next to this place well Kourtney and I wanted Ice cream so we decided to drive over there before the flat tire thing,”
Ashlyn said, raising her voice slightly as they walked closer to the office.
“Ashlyn you don’t have to talk so loud I’m right next to you”
“Right sometimes I just forget how loud I can be, you know it’s a theatre thing I guess”
Ashlyn said, still talking loud and directing it to the door in front of them.
“Yeah sure, can you please move out the way I have to get in my office”
“I can open it for you!”
“There’s no need for that I have the key”
“I can still-”
“Ashlyn, please” The Sheriff said through gritted teeth.
“Okay you can just OPEN THE DOOR!” Ashlyn said loudly before moving to the side nervously.
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Gina quickly got out through the window brushing herself off looking up at Jet and Maddox with an unsure face.
“Yeah I don’t know guys good luck I guess I can try to catch each of you or break your fall?” Maddox just sighed running her hands through her hair before she thought of something, granted it wasn’t her best idea but it was something.
“Wait Gina open the dumpster lid real quick”
“Uhm Okay?” Gina responded, opening it, Jet also confused until he started to realize what Maddox was planning.
“Wait no way”
“What? I didn’t even say what we were going to do.”
“Maddie, I am not jumping into a dumpster,” Jet said, seriously pointing at Maddox.
It was heard that Ashlyn was saying something about opening the door followed by the sound of keys and the door knob turning.
Jet just grunted and jumped followed quickly by Maddox.
“See it wasn’t that bad”
“See it wasn’t that bad,” Jet said, imitating Maddox.
While Maddox just chuckled and they both got out.
“Let’s move to a different hiding spot he could see us through the window if we’re not careful,” Gina said.
-
After Mr. Redonovich opened the door to an empty office Ashlyn let out a breath she hadn’t realized she was holding.
“What the hell happened to the window! Jackson!”
“Yes sheriff? Oh not again.”
“Jackson I swear-”
“Uhm I’m just gonna wait in my car bye!”
Ashlyn said running outside and around the building to find Maddox, Jet and Gina leaning on a wall.
“Oh hey Ash thanks for saving us back there we found everything we needed to” Maddox said as she instantly lit up upon seeing the redhead.
“That’s great we can probably look through it tomorrow”
“That’s perfect it’s a date- uhm- or- like -a a plan since we’re aaallll friends it’ll be a hangout thing to look over the stuff..”
Maddox said, clearing her throat, looking at the floor as she played with her bracelet while she was getting redder as she continued to talk.
Ashlyn just let out a small chuckle at the embarrassed girl. She found it cute, even endearing if she was being honest, as any friend would think…obviously.
“Oh my god”
Ashlyn said before face palming and Maddox practically getting whiplash from how fast she looked up with wide eyes.
“I have to change a tire now before Mr. Redonovich comes back so we can just leave before he sees you- all of you”
“You got a flat tire?” Gina asked.
“Well no I or not me but it was purposely popped so I could use it as an excuse”
“Hm smart,” Maddox thought out loud.
“Thanks,” Ashlyn said, blushing lightly at the sudden compliment.
“Where’s your car I can fix the tire”
“It’s fine Maddie I know how to change a tire plus Mr. Redonovich could see you”
“Oh I wasn’t going to change it I can uh use my powers to undo it as if it never even happened” “Wow okay follow me I’ll show you to where it is so we can go together, unless you brought a car which you probably did sorry”
“We actually didn’t so we wouldn’t be recognized or be noticed so we can go with you” Gina commented
. “Okay so It works out perfectly- Maddox?”
Ashlyn paused after looking back to respond before seeing something on the other girl trying to stifle a laugh as she saw a banana peel on her shoulder.
“What?” Maddox said wide eyed.
To which Ashlyn pointed towards her shoulder.
Maddox immediately got super red and took the peel off looking away trying to cover her embarrassment.
Jet started laughing along with Gina also laughing at the scene. Jet threw his arm over Maddox’s shoulder and said mockingly
“It’s not that bad”
As they came close to the car they noticed someone leaning on the car and they all froze including Ashlyn, she forgot to mention the whole Kourtney situation.
“Is that-” Gina said, letting the words hang.
“Yeah it is and she knows I’m sorry but I had to tell her she wasn’t letting it go”
“It’s fine Ash I think we can trust her even though she likes to gossip she wouldn’t say anything about something this serious” Gina said reassuringly.
“Really?! Another person?!” Jet whisper screamed towards Ashlyn.
Kourtney saw them walking up so she waved towards them with a small nervous smile.
They greeted each other and Ash led Maddox to the tire that was flat.
Maddox waved her hand across and it was as good as new while Maddox wore a shy smile as Ashlyn watched in awe since Maddox wasn’t used to anyone actually thinking it was cool when she used her powers especially since she could only use her powers around Jet and Gina. Ashlyn swore she saw a white flash as Maddox fixed it but brushed it off,
‘hmm weird street light i guess’
“That’s so interesting how that works”
Ashlyn said breathlessly,
“By the way I’m sorry about telling Kourtney, we’ve never kept anything from each other before but now I can promise she’ll be the first and last person I’ll tell”
“Yeah it’s totally okay if anything Jet was the most upset but now looking at him he doesn’t look too mad”
Maddox said with a knowing glance towards Jet who was talking to Kourtney playing with his rings and laughing with her.
They all got in the car and started to drive back to drop off Gina, Jet, and Maddox while Ashlyn responded to Big Red,
Hey I just saw this right now,
I’m having a slumber party with Kourtney sorry :(
By the way can you tell your dad that I suddenly remembered how to change a tire after looking at it long enough and thank him for being so understanding I really appreciate it<3
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They made it to Maddox and Jet’s house, Jet was talking with Kourtney while Ashlyn was saying goodbye to Maddox
“well I’ll see you tomorrow?”
“Yeah of course”
Maddox stayed smiling at Ashlyn while she rocked back and forth on her feet with her hands in her pockets waiting for Jet to say bye to Kourtney.
After he finally did, he turned to Ashlyn and said,
“Unfortunately see ya caswell”
While he walked inside the house looking slightly giddy after talking to Kourtney, Ashlyn just laughed and shared a knowing look with Maddox.
“See you later Ash” Maddox said sweetly.
“See you later Maddie”