The instant I got home from my orchestra rehearsal, in which I play viola, I began working on decoding the cipher in Lili's text to Tracy. To be fair this was a harder task than I had imagined, I hadn't quite thought of all the possibilities. It might not have even been a code. Either way I began slaving over it starting at 2:00 and went until 8:00

I was finally ready to give up when a I got a call from two of my friends Jacquelyn, and Joseph.

"Hansel, write your chapter," Jacquelyn greeted me into the call, "We haven't written anything since May 3rd, I think it's time we get writing again."

"Yeah, I need something to edit Brenton, sheesh, get on it!" Joseph laughed.

I guess now would be a good time to clarify, Jacquelyn and I wrote a remake of Hansel and Gretel, in which I told the point of view of Hansel and her Gretel. She took it a bit more seriously than I did. Joseph was our editor.

"Fine, I will, but first I have something a bit more important..." I shared the code with them, and the plans that Tracy and I had made with them.

"Awwww! You two are so cute, you are perfect for eachother." Jacquelyn raved, I don't think she really got the point of the conversation.

I sighed, "You know you love me Hansel, anyway, I think we can help you with this. Both Joseph and I took Comp Think, three mind are better than one," Jacquelyn said.

And that was when the pieces started to come together. What had started as a mix of numbers slowly but surely morphed into Lili's last message:

"Donuts and Churros"

"What the heck could that mean?" Joseph asked.

I was awestruck, as my friends had always had a running joke centered around donuts and churros (you are welcome to figure out the euphemism if you'd like), but Lili was never the kind of person to participate in that kind of thing. Was it all just some cruel joke, or was there really some sort of meaning behind all of it?

"Hmmm, well it looks like you have a pretty interesting case on your hands there Brenton," Joseph stated.

"Yup, well I just realized, it's one in the morning, and while I don't sleep, you need to, Hansel, night!" Jacquelyn said.

"Night," I replied pressing the red hang up button.

I laid down on my bed and looked up at the ceiling. What could she have meant by that? Donuts and Churros? I sighed, it was all making my head hurt. I let myself close my eyes and slowly drift off to sleep...