Fast Food Madness: The Epic Return V2

Roxas frowned, moving his head away from the door as he stared at it. "...They're not in there," he finally realized, suddenly getting a sense of deja vu. This had happened before...

 

Sora arched a brow, surprised. "Then where are they?" he asked, speaking the question on his mind. If they weren't in Namine's room, where the door was locked and they couldn't get in, then where were the girls?

 

Roxas ran his hand through his hair as he tried to remember when this happened. Namine hadn't answered the door, and when he walked into her room she wasn't there. She had managed to sneak out, and then she went to the backyard and climbed up the... Roxas's eyes found Sora then, the boy remebering the situation clearly now. "I've got an idea," he said. "But we'll need our shoes."

 

Sora arched a brow, but he didn't question what Roxas said. He turned around and started towards the entrance hall, going through the living room to reach the room where his shoes and coat were.

 

Roxas trailed behind Sora, shaking his head in disbelief. He fell for this trick again? He was obviously very easy for Namine to fool.

 

"They sneak out through the window or something?" Sora asked, bending down and putting on his shoes when they were in the entrance hall. That was the only thing he could come up with for them needing to put on their shoes.

 

"Yup," Roxas said, grabbing his coat and slipping it on. "I hope Namine doesn't make a habit out of this. She's done it to me before." He smiled to himself in amusement, knowing that it wasn't that long ago. This time, though, she was really in trouble; he was not letting her keep that tape.

 

Sora arched a brow, putting on his coat at the same time. "She's done this before?" he repeated, looking over at his best friend. "Why?" Sneaking out of a window seems like something Namine would never do, but she had done it twice now? Strange.

 

Roxas pulled his shoes on as he answered. "I threatened to tickle her and she ran away...to the backyard," he said, looking up at Sora after tying his second shoe. He straightened and stood, recalling that day. He had to go inside before she would come down from the treehouse. He bet that was where she was now.

 

"To the backyard, then," Sora said with a slight nod. Surely the girls were back there; where else would they have gone? He couldn't think of any other place, but then again, he didn't know Namine's house nearly as well as Roxas did.

 

Roxas nodded and turned, heading away from the entrance hall and walking through the house to reach the back door. Namine... She was in even deeper trouble now, sneaking out on him again.

 

Sora followed behind Roxas, zipping up his coat as he walked. The girls were going to be in deep trouble when they were found; that recording was going to be destroyed, if not by Sora, then by Roxas. It was too humiliating to keep sitting around.

 

After a brief moment of traveling through Namine's house, Roxas reached the back door. He opened it and went down the stairs before stepping into the snow, trusting Sora to follow. The few steps into the yard didn't give him any sight of Namine. Of course, when he saw something in the snow, he walked forward a few feet and smiled in triumph when he saw two sets of footsteps. Just as he predicted--they were back here.

 

Sora shut the door behind him before he continued after Roxas, the brunet looking for any sign of the girls. Like his best friend, he noticed the footsteps in the snow and smiled. The girls definitely came back here, and surely they had the video on them.

 

"Heh, one of the reasons I love snow," Roxas said with confidence, turning to glance at Sora with a grin. It was easy to track somebody because of footsteps left behind. Finding the girls was no biggie now; they just had to follow the girls' footsteps.

 

Sora smirked, agreeing. "It makes our job a lot easier," he said, his eyes following the trail of footsteps. Tracking down the girls would be a cinch now that they had a clear trail to follow, and besides, Roxas seemed to have a good idea of where they were from past experience.

 

Roxas turned his eyes back down to the snow-covered ground, starting to follow the footsteps as he trudged through the snow. "I bet you these lead through the garden," he said, remembering the path Namine took last time to reach the treehouse. That was where he assumed they were, like last time.

 

"Are they hiding in there?" Sora asked, arching a brow as he trailed behind Roxas. There would be some places to hide, but not many, considering that none of the plants were alive or tall and bushy enough to hide them.

 

"Nope," Roxas said as he looked up, seeing the garden up ahead. Yup, he was right. "Last time Namine took this route to the treehouse. That's probably where they are." And knowing Namine and her fear of getting that video camera taken away, she probably pulled up the ladder. Roxas had a feeling that wasn't going to stop him or Sora, though.

 

"Oh," Sora said, nodding faintly. That would make sense; a treehouse was out of reach to those on the ground, unless there was a ladder down. Of course, he doubted that the girls would let things be that easy; they probably wouldn't allow the boys to come up without any work.