so tired. The recording session had taken a lot out of her.
She and Colton were talking about the Noah situation, and Kaylee was telling Colton about her brother's past with this girl. She was so frustrated with the situation that she knew it was time to take some desperate measures.
"Hey Colton, I need you to come with me and be my lookout," she said as she got an idea in her head.
"Why, what are you going to do?" he asked.
"I'm going to get some answers," Kaylee said over her shoulder, as she walked towards Noah's room.
Colton followed behind her, nervous about what Kaylee was going to do. He didn't want her to do something stupid, and he definitely didn't want to get caught trying to help her with whatever it was. "What are you doing?" he asked again.
"I'm just going to go through her stuff to get some answers. Relax, it's not that big a deal!" she said, almost too calmly. It was as if she had done this before.
Colton situated himself in the hallway, watching for any signs of Noah or Brittany, while Kaylee made her way through the room. As much as he didn't like this idea, he had to chuckle at Kaylee's 'Ah-ha' cry when she found Brittany's suitcase.
Kaylee carefully opened the suitcase, trying not to move it from its original spot on the floor. She knew that delicacy was of utmost importance. She needed to make sure that no one would ever be able to tell that she had been snooping.
Once inside the suitcase, Kaylee carefully searched through all the clothes, not finding anything of importance. But at the very bottom lay a day planner and a statue. She opened the day planner first, and took out one of Brittany's business cards, putting it in her back pocket for later use. Then she flipped open to the current date and found it blank, along with all of the pages following it. The pages leading up to the current date did have different meetings and appointments listed on them. After reading a few meaningless pages, she put the planner back in the suitcase exactly how she had found it.
Next was the statue. Why would she be carrying a statue of an ape with her? It was so ugly, about ten inches tall, with its big lips exaggerated, and with a fat, round belly. There had to be a reason why it was there. Kaylee turned it in her hands, front to back, top to bottom. Something just wasn't right about that statue.
Thinking for a minute, Kaylee began playing with its arms. They moved easily in her hands, causing the overly large lips to open. Inside the mouth was a button that opened the fat belly of the ape. Out tumbled some small baggies with a white powdery substance. Still stuck inside the ape was a misshapen spoon and a few needles.
"Colton," Kaylee gasped, trying to get his attention. When he didn't answer her, Kaylee called for him again, a little louder this time.
He finally came into the room, hesitantly, to see what she wanted. He looked from her shocked face, to the statue in her hands, to the baggies in her lap. "No shit!" he said, never thinking for a minute that Brittany would be involved with drugs.
Before either could say anything, they heard a door slam, and voices calling out hellos to Noah and Brittany. Both looked at each other, panic-stricken, as they scrambled to put everything back into the statue. Neither one was having much luck with their fingers since they were so nervous. They finally got everything back into the ape, and closed it up. Kaylee told Colton to go stall them while she put the room back as she found it.
Looking around, it appeared that everything was back in the right spot as she calmly walked out of the room towards the kitchen. As she passed by the bathroom, she reached in and flushed the toilet, intent on using that as her excuse for being in their hallway.
No matter how calm she looked on the outside, Kaylee was freaking out inside. Drugs! She just hoped that Noah wasn't involved. She smiled at the group when she walked into the kitchen and said hello to everyone. Ashton grabbed her by the waist and kissed her, whispering in her ear and asking her what was going on. She smiled at him, and gave an almost imperceptible shake of her head. He knew right then that