Pay managed to unlock the cell in a few minutes with the plastic spoon.

It wasn't until the next day we escaped. Trivia still needed more time for her disguise, and we needed the food the Defendants provided us before we escaped. It was free food! Who could say no to free food!

Unless it was mushrooms. Those were gross.

So Pay had locked the door again by the time the food came around. He hid the key behind him as the Defendants came near us and pushed the trays into our cell. Trivia, however, kept her back to the prison cell and made sure her face wasn't spotted.

"I'll let you know when we're ready," Pay had said when Lemonhead asked why he didn't unlock the door.

That night, Pay slid the spoon towards me, which meant that the door was unlocked. If he threw it, then it would mean he failed. But if he handed it to me, it meant it was unlocked, but we weren't ready to escape.

All three gestures were completely different from one another.

Trivia was finally ready. No one could tell it was her. She spent all of her time in the prison applying makeup. And her disguise was finally complete. (Spoiler alert: she looked nothing like Trivia. That was a good thing, so the guards won't put her back in jail).

However, we couldn't escape. Not yet. The guards were watching. So, we had to wait. And wait. And wait some more.

"Mr. Guards, when can you leave?" I asked them.

"Why? For you guys to escape?" the left-guard asked.

"No..." I stretched out, twiddling my thumbs. "It's so you guys can sleep. Isn't it twenty-two o'clock?"

"It's seven in the night." That was right-guard.

"I mean, I wouldn't know. You guys don't keep a watch in here, so how would anyone know?" I reminded them.

One of the guard's eyes twitched. If I'm not wrong, then I'm sure it's the guard on the right. It was hard to tell with the tiny candle light coming from two candles on either side of the door. The other guard was glaring at me like I did something wrong. Though I'm not sure why. All I was doing was talking with them, just like how I've been doing this entire day.

I guess we'd never know why the guards were randomly annoyed at me.

"Trivia," I whispered to her, who had moved to sit underneath the window, where her face was cloaked by the shadows. "They're not going away. Can you make them go away?"

"Why me?" she asked. "You're the one who annoys people to death."

"But you're the one who can strike deals and stuff. They won't listen to me!"

"You realize how childish you sound, right Target?" Pay joined in.

I stopped talking to Trivia and Pay after that. I turned back to the guards, who still haven't moved.

"Do you guys ever leave your spots?" I asked the guards again.

"No."

"Oh," I loosely replied. "That must suck, not being able to eat or anything. You guys just have to watch us the entire day. And I'm guessing they don't raise your salary."

Still no answer. I think they were ignoring me. But I kept talking to the guards. "Have you guys had any other prisoners before us? Or are we the first?"

Still no answer. That was normal. People ignore me a lot, making it hard to talk with others and make friends and use the power of friendship.

But what was strange was the fact that the guard-people weren't even moving. No eye-blinks, no chests moving up and down like they were breathing. They were as still as statues. But this time, like actual statues, not statue hybrids or anything. More statuey-than before.

"Hello... anyone there?" I asked, waving my hands. At the exact moment, the two guards fell down, face first.

"Ooh, that must've hurt," Trivia appeared from the places where the guards were standing, before they were knocked over. "I should feel sorry... but then again, I'm not."

"Target, you should get out of there. We don't have much time," Pay said, scooping up the keys from the guards belt in one quick, swift move.

"Wait, how did you guys get there? I didn't even hear you unlock the door!" I asked, as I grabbed the broken spoons and pushed opened the door, stepping outside the cell.

"Your voice is really loud. Covered up our escape," Pay explained.

"Thanks for the distraction, by the way," Trivia added to me from the top of the stairs, before opening the door and stepping out.

"So I am useful!" I pointed at Trivia, who rolled her eyes but smiled.

Pay and I followed Trivia, who was leading the way. Pay had given the keys to Trivia, which now dangled from her belt. Now, her disguise made much more sense: she was one of those mature-adulty people from the Defendant's base. With the white lab coat with their seal that Pay somehow managed to steal while he stole the key-card, and the keys dangling from her belt, it was perfect.

"Out of the way," Trivia ordered, in a not-so-Trivia voice. It sounded deeper and more mature. "Move it, prisoners coming through."

Most of the time, people would move. Sometimes, they would look at both Pay and I funnily. So, for the special effect, I looked very miserable, and Pay also looked salty. Though, that's how his face always looked.

Trivia was giving us freedom, Pay was looking for exits, and I was getting ready to attack anyone who decides to attack us first with my broken spoon. Yet nothing had stopped us yet. And, as Pay pointed out, we were almost to an exit. Just a few more feet.

This was going perfectly well. Almost too well. And as one might say after reading and watching a lot of storylines, that is never a good sign.

I was getting ready to throw my broken spoon the moment everyone figured out that they've never seen disguised-Trivia in their lab and that she wasn't actually they're coworker. When, what seemed out of almost nowhere, they came: Axis , Acra, and Driver-Guy.

All three of them. In our direction.

Acra spotted us, a look of confusion on her face. She turned to her partners and said something to them (I could tell because she was moving her mouth and Axis and Driver-Dude immediately turned our way). The three started to walk towards the moment we took five more steps towards the exit.

Trivia and Pay were completely aware of that. I knew this because Trivia had stopped after those five steps, instead of darting towards the exit (when it was only 10 steps away), like any other member of the Crowns would do.

"What are you doing?" Axis 's voice came from behind.