Chapter 28
Not Everyone Can Be Perfect

"I think it was this one," I said, pointing to my left.
 "Oh yeah, why?" asked Frederick.
 "Eh, I was just guessing."
 "Well, no better then I can do."
 We headed off down the tunnel calling out to Alex. There was no reply so I figured he was off rescuing Stephanie. We kept screaming, just in case. Luckily, I had picked the right tunnel and we heard Alex calling back to us after a while. We followed the sound of his voice until we arrived back at the furnace room. He was standing there with Stephanie. I jumped behind Frederick when I saw her. He hugged me behind him and said "hello" to Stephanie.
 "Hi Frederick," she said back in reply. "Hey Andy."
 "Andrea," I said.
 "What?"
 "My name is Andrea, to you that is."
 "Oh, um, okay. Sorry."
 "Whatever."
 Frederick's hand found mine and he squeezed it. I pressed firmly back, and laid my head on his shoulder blade.
 "Um, what are you being so bitchy about?" Stephanie asked.
 I peered out from behind Frederick and shouted at her. "You deserted us you no good piece of junk!"
 "Wait! I had no other choice, I"
 "I don't wanna hear about it! I was there, I don't need a goddamn explanation!"
 "Fine then, whatever you wanna believe."
 "Damn straight, and don't try to tell me otherwise."
 "Girls, girls, girls!" Alex butted in. "Is all this really necessary?"
 "Yes!" we both shouted back. "Isn't it annoying when people who have nothing to do with the fight, come in and try and break it up?" I asked.
 "Yeah," said Stephanie. "It makes me even more pissed off then I was in the first place!"
 "Seriously! They think that they're being all good and we actually want them to mediate our fight. Why can't they just sit back and let us duke it out ourselves!"
 "I know! And you can just tell by the tone of their voices that they think they're better then you when they say it."
 "I totally agree. It's people like that that really get on my nerves." I glared at Alex.
 "Hey! I was only trying to help, I swear!"
 "Get him!" I shouted, and Stephanie and I pounced on him, knocking him to the ground. I started tickling him and he doubled over. Stephanie grabbed his feet, tore off a shoe and tickled his toes. We didn't stop until he started wheezing from lack of breath. I got up, dusted off my pants, and noticed Frederick laughing and watching us.
 "You got somethin' to say!" I joked with him.
 "Oh, no way! I'm fine," he backed up a step and held up his hands.
 "Good, then let's get goin' men." I turned to Alex. "Get off the floor boy, this aint no time for resting! We got places to git to,"
 The four of us got up, and began walking towards the tunnel entrances. "Now, which way?" we asked each other.
 "Well, where do we want to get to?" I asked.
 Just then we heard a horrible noise! It sounded like an elephant had just stepped on a thorny cat. We covered our ears and tried not to let the sound in. Once it was quieter we could actually make out words. Someone was singing, if you could call it that. It finally stopped, and became a quiet humming. We decided we'd better head toward the noise, and pray that they didn't start singing again once we were closer.
 We followed the humming until we felt we were directly over it. I found a vent and peered down. It was the same room I'd been in earlier, with Godiva! I crouched down low to get a better angle, and I could make out her fat figure, sitting on the thrown. The two guys were still fanning her, while trying to cover their ears at the same time. She was the one who was singing!
 "Guys!" I whispered. "It's Godiva, she's the one who's singing."
 "You're kidding! Let me see her," Stephanie said. She and Alex both looked into the grid and their eyes lit up when they saw her. "Oh God!" Alex shouted. "She's hideous!"
 "Terrence, Phillip, did I just hear one of you say I'm hideous?" Godiva suddenly asked, giving them both an evil eye.
 The guys stopped fanning and backed away a step. "Of course not, ma'am!" they said. "We would never,"
 "Well then what in my name was it?"
 "You probably just imagined it, ma'am."
 "Are you suggestin' I'm crazy?"
 "No ma'am, I'm just saying that this old places makes some pretty odd noises every now and again, you know?"
 "Hmmmph. She muttered, and started humming again.
 Frederick squeezed in to take a look at her and the three of them blocked my view. I crawled up on their backs to see down the grid. Our weight was too much for the vent cover, and I didn't have much time to realise what was happening before it gave way and we were falling down, towards the ground.