Marella's P.O.V

"How are those pancakes?" Marella asked Dex, pointing at his delicious breakfast plate.

"They're so good," Dex said, his eyes lighting up.

Marella shook her head and looked down at her plate which had some weird pastry she ordered that tasted like card board. "I regret not getting pancakes," she mumbled.

Dex shrugged. "Maybe they like me better."

Marella rolled her eyes and smiled. "Oh, is that how it is?"

Before Dex could respond, a waitress came over and game them some cinnamon rolls and croissants.

"Ooo thanks!" Dex exclaimed, stuffing a bunch of the cinnamon rolls in his mouth.

"We should come back here for lunch and see what they have," Marella suggested.

They were currently at the cafe that was on the main floor of the hotel they were staying at.

Edaline was busy with Grady back in the hotel room, constantly giving him lectures about how he shouldn't have done what he did back at the marketplace and how he needed to seriously stop constantly bringing out his spiked metal bat in public.

And Wylie had left to go searching near the area, asking locals about any suspicious activity. He made Marella and Dex stay back because they needed a "break."

And then that just left Marella and Dex to do absolutely nothing. They were just stuck where they were at.

"I feel like we should do something," Marella said, stirring the creamer in her coffee.

"Like?" Dex asked.

"I don't know...just something other than just sitting here. Even if we can't go searching at the moment...maybe we could go check this place out or something? Like what activities or events they have," Marella suggested.

"Okay, but we can't get too distracted," Dex reminded.

"Right, of course," Marella agreed.

Marella's gaze moved to the area near the bathrooms and she narrowed her eyes when she could have sworn she saw something flash by there.

"What's wrong?" Dex asked.

"Oh um nothing," Marella lied.

"Look, I'll be right back. I have to use the bathroom," Dex said, getting up.

"Um okay, I'll be right here," Marella said, not moving her gaze from the bathroom area.

It wasn't until a few seconds later when Dex got up and left when Marella realized he was going right where she had been looking at.

Relax, quit being so paranoid, Marella told herself.

As Marella waited, she saw a couple nearby that were being real romantic and mushy.

She couldn't help thinking how her and Dex were different. Sometimes, Marella felt like her and Dex almost acted more as friends than what they actually were.

And Marella really liked Dex...she just wished that what they used to have wasn't fading away.

Right then, Marella heard a buzz come from Dex's phone on the table and she looked to see it was a text that said, "hey," from Linda.

Oh how the universe hated her.

Marella narrowed her eyes and looked to see if Dex had come back. But he was still gone.

Marella looked back at Dex's phone and saw that Linda had now texted, "what are you doing at the moment?"

AND THERE WAS A WINKY FACE!

Now Marella couldn't deny the fact that she was now feeling a bit angry and wanted to so badly go into Dex's phone.

She knew his password and all she would have to do is go to his conversations with Linda and see what was up with her but Marella controlled herself.

She forced herself not to grab his phone.

She was probably just overreacting...

Marella looked back up at the bathroom area and Dex still hadn't come out. She waited another five minutes, constantly looking from her phone and back at the bathrooms.

Dex still wasn't back.

Now she was worried.

Marella looked back down and suddenly she heard a loud clash nearby. Her head snapped up and she realized it had come from where the bathrooms were.

Marella's heart stopped for a second before she stood up and sprinted towards the bathrooms.

"DEX?!" Marella called, fear rising in her.

"Ughhh...I'm right here," Marella heard Dex's voice groan from her right side.

Marella looked to see Dex was flat on the floor with a bunch of cleaning supplies all over him.

Marella then saw that a janitor was there and she realized the janitor and Dex must have bumped into each other.

The janitor looking like he was ready to hit Dex—

"Oh Dex, I was worried. You were taking long and I thought something happened!" Marella exclaimed, helping Dex up.

"Something did happen. Actually two things. One, it turns out those pancakes did not do me well and it wasn't going too well in the bathroom. That's why I took so long," Dex explained, shuddering. "And then I end up crashing into a janitor and now my clothes are soaking in dirty water."

Marella looked down to see that Dex was in fact soaked from head to toe. Marella cringed.

"I'm so sorry about that," Dex apologized to the janitor. Marella then realized that a bunch of the janitor's supplies had been broken.

"Kid...this is a huge mess and I have a lot of rooms to clean and I have places to be," the janitor said, looking like he was about to fight Dex.

"Uhm— sir how can I help?! What if I help clean a few of those rooms for you or something?!" Dex asked nervously.

"Alright, you better do it quick. If you don't finish the rooms I give you by tonight, I will come find you and you won't like what happens," the janitor warned, raising a fist in the air.

Dex and gulped and nodded his head quickly.

"Okay, I'll get you the supplies," the janitor said after a few seconds, walking away.

"Is he even allowed to make you do that?" Marella asked.

Seriously, why was everyone so weird here in Tennessee?!

Dex shrugged. "I don't know, but that guy scares me. Something tells me I don't want to be on his bad side." Marella nodded.

"Marella, can you go back to our room and grab me some clothes I can change into?" Dex asked.

"Uh sure," Marella said. She then spun around made her way out of the cafe and into a long hall with an elevator at the end of it.

She was about to go in when she realized the elevator was out of order and she had to go up the stairs.

Great.

Marella groaned as she started to hurry her way up the long staircases.

By the time she reached the second floor, she stopped to catch her breath and that's when she heard footsteps above her.

Marella then started to further make her way up the stairs and that allowed her to see that she was hearing some dude in a black hoodie making his way up too.

Wait...

Marella gasped loudly and ducked when she saw the man spin around towards where she was at.

She held her breath as she nervously watched the man look forward again and to continue climbing the stairs.

That had to be the Neverseen member that had been following them.

What was he even doing here?!

Marella, without thinking, decided to quietly follow him up the stairs.

She made sure she was far enough behind so he didn't see her.

At one point, the man stopped to do a quick stretch and Marella was able to see a flame tattoo on his wrist when his sleeves lifted up.

Yup, that was definitely him.

Eventually, on the fifth floor, the man stopped and started to walk past the rooms.

Marella knew she couldn't follow him anymore but she watched as he made it to his room. She looked to see it was room 517.

Marella then retreated back down the stairs to go back to the cafe to tell Dex.

She had completely forgotten to even get Dex's change of clothes.

But it didn't matter now though. They were in danger now that the guy was staying at the same place as them.

But Marella had a plan.

HMMMM WHATS GONNA HAPPEN????

We have Linda coming back again and now we have that Neverseen Dude staying at their hotel!

What are they gonna do??

We shall see...

Next update is on Sunday!