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The door slid open and my smile faded.
An alien wearing blue overalls stood on the other side of the door.
“Engineer to check on the sensors,” he said.
The engineer! I completely forgot about him!
And now he was standing there, looking at us.
Me flustered and Kren standing there butt naked with his… thing out!
The engineer peered between us and a smile lit his face.
“What sensors?” Kren said.
“I got a notification that I need to check on your sensors,” the engineer said. “Something about a fire?”
“As you can see, there’s no fire here!” I said. “You must have been sent to the wrong room!”
The engineer consulted a notebook he took from his pocket.
“Nope,” he said. “Cell six.”
“There’s no fire here,” Kren repeated.
The guard’s grin turned into a smirk at our naked and semi-naked bodies.
“Maybe there was but it’s been… put out.”
I’d never been so mortified my entire life.
Of course, that was when the guards showed up.
“It’s time for the Prize to return to the Pool,” one of them said.
Why couldn’t you guys have come a few minutes ago? Oh yeah, that’s why. The universe hates me.
“Well, adios!” I said to Kren, saluting, and quickly ducking out of the cell.
I left him to deal with the engineer. It would only be a matter of time before he twigged what’d happened.
I shook my head. Why did these things always happen to me?
Within fifteen minutes, I was back at the Prize Pool.
Harper was there to greet me.
She waited for the guards to turn and march away before she grabbed me by the arm and dragged me to one side.
“So? How was it?”
“How was what?”
Harper jammed a finger in my face.
“Now, don’t you start playing that game with me! I tell you everything that happens on my dates!”
“In excruciating detail,” I added. “And I never asked you to. And they’re not dates.”
