It was a bright and sunny day in Orlando. Each of the kingdom keepers was sitting in their ninth period class anxiously awaiting the final bell. Out of all the kingdom keepers, none wanted that bell to ring more than Willa. Willa was sitting in algebra listening to the most boring teacher in the world, Mr. Lickman, drone on and on. It was the last day of school. Nobody in that building wanted to be listening to a lecture about the history of arithmetic. Willa always got high grades in algebra, but it bored her to death. She still wanted to know when she was going to have to know how to graph a linear inequality in real life. Finally, the bell rang marking the end of the day. She raced off to her locker to meet the other keepers. She still couldn't believe what Wayne had accomplished. Not only had he gotten all of the kids into the same school, but he had also made sure that they all had the same lunch period, and that their lockers were all right near each other. It took her five minutes to locate her locker. Two weeks and she still hadn't figured out how to navigate her new school. She was sure that she was the only one of her friends still having trouble. When she got to her locker she saw her friends waiting. Charlene was in her cheerleading uniform, with her hair in pigtails stretching. She was obviously getting ready to go to cheerleading practice. Finn and Philby were leaning up against their lockers talking about a TV show that they had watched last night. Jess was listening to her I-pod and Amanda was putting the last of her notebooks into her backpack. She leaned left and right, trying to spot Maybeck, but she couldn't find him. This concerned her.
"Hey guys!" Willa shouted. All of the keepers looked up from what they were doing and waved. "Sorry I'm late; I'm still having trouble finding my way around. Where's Maybeck?" she said.
"Absent." said Finn.
"Anyway." said Jess. "Don't forget to come over our house at eight tonight. It's great that you're spending the summer with us."
"Sure thing!" said Charlene. "Hey does anyone have Maybeck's number?" she asked. "Just so we can remind him."
"I do!" said Jess. "When I was still under Maleficent's spell, I called him to ask him out so the overtakers could capture him, remember? The day still haunts me."
"Good thinking sis!" said Amanda. "See you tonight!" they all shouted and they walked off. Willa didn't want to say anything and scare everybody, but she was worried. Maybeck was never absent. What if something was wrong?
At five o'clock that night, Finn was in his bedroom packing his suitcase. Suddenly, the phone rang.
"Hello?" he said.
"Hey Finn. It's Jess. You have to get over here right away! I've already called everyone else."
"Why?" he asked. "WHAT'S WRONG?"
"Here's the thing." said Jess. "We called Maybeck's house and he wasn't home!" Oh no Finn thought. This cannot be good.
"Jelly said that he walked to school and never came home." said Amanda. "Hurry Finn, This is really bad!"