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Formation: The Story of SIX - Chapter One - Three Is Company

Wet hair, oversized t-shirt, sweatpants, and wine. A normal Friday night in the Parr apartment. Cathy stumbled out of the bathroom and flicked her hair back then moved towards the kitchen before being stopped by a knock at the door. She walked towards the door slowly, placed her hands softly against the frame and lifted herself up on to the tips of her toes to see through the peephole.

“Hello?” She said confused as to who would be coming to her apartment. There was no answer. “Hello?” She asked again a bit more forcefully. Cathy turned around to the clock on her wall. “It is nine o’clock. Who is knocking on my damned door this late?” she said to herself quietly. Then as she moved back towards the kitchen something slid beneath her door. It was a piece of paper.

Cathy spun around and ran to the door to open it up. She peered up and down the hallway but no one was in sight. She turned and moved back into her apartment, picked up the piece of paper, latched the door and once again moved into the kitchen. Sitting the piece of paper on the counter, she grabbed a glass and poured herself a well-deserved wine.

Picking up the glass she took a sip, she let out a sigh as she swallowed and then looked down at the piece of paper. Cathy studied it with intrigue and took it into her studio. With the swipe of the mouse, the entire room lit up as all her recording equipment powered on. She tapped at her keyboard and logged in.

Taking another sip Cathy placed the glass on the coaster next to her monitor and held the paper in her hands. Slowly opening it up to see a messily written note:

I think we have a “mutual” friend.

Please help me.

You’re the only one I can trust.

Confused, intrigued and a little worried Cathy opened her Facebook on her computer. “A. Who the hell signs their name with a single letter?” she said as she scrolled through her friends and suggested friends list. “If she needed my help why did she disappear?” with so many questions running through her mind Cathy started writing down the names of every possible A she could find.

Two hours passed and Cathy looked at her computer’s clock. “SHIT!” she screamed realizing it was almost midnight, she picked up her phone and called her friend Lucy. “Yo, Luc. You aight? I need your help! I have a track due by six and I am missing some lyrics! Can you come help me out? You are the best! See you soon!” Cathy hung up the phone and started to organize the studio.

Ten minutes later there is a knock at the door, Cathy flew out of the studio and slid across the floorboards into the door frame with a bang. “Jesus P, you aight?” a voice said from the other side of the door. Cathy unlatched the door and opened it up. Lucy walks through the door in a hoodie and jeans, “Honestly, you think you would know better by now to call me a lot earlier than six hours before a deadline. I got snacks and I also brought a friend with me to help us out.” another figure followed Lucy through the door “P, this is Toby, Toby this is Cathy Parr my number one hot mess of a friend who is trying to make it big in the music biz.” Toby nodded politely in Cathy’s direction.

Lucy made herself at home, kicked off her shoes and headed straight to the studio. Toby doesn’t say a word. “Alight you, what are we working with here? Where is your pad?” Lucy walked around the studio looking for Cathy’s lyric book. “Ahh! Here!” she held up a tatty brown leather-bound diary. Toby giggled.

“It make look stupid but this contains some of the best lyrics we have ever written I tell ya.” Lucy scoffs at Toby as Cathy returned to the studio. Lucy took a seat at the console and Toby slumped into the lounge as Cathy made her way to the microphone. “Guessing you have a track ready?” Lucy spun around to the computer as Cathy coughed. “P! YOU ARE JOKING RIGHT?”

“Look I am sorry aight! I just have been s….” Cathy went to defend herself when there was another bump on the door. “You guys get started, I will be right back!” Cathy sprinted to the door, opened it up and stared once again at an empty hallway. She heard footsteps going down the stairs so she ran to the stairs in time to see a girl in a green sweatshirt and jeans sprint out the complex door.

Cathy took off down the hallway, leaving her apartment door wide open, she jumps down the steps and catches the door just before it closes. Cathy headed out onto the street, looked left then right and sees a figure dart around a corner. “Hey! Stop!” Cathy yelled as she ran down the footpath.

“Is your friend alright?” Toby says looking out the window down to the street watching Cathy run past. Lucy confused about Toby’s comment moves away from the computer and over to the window just in time to see Cathy disappear behind the corner.

Lucy sighed and turned towards the door. “You keep writing, I will be right back.” Toby nods and Lucy walked quickly back to the lounge room, she noticed the door wide open and begun to run after Cathy. “P! Where are you?” she yelled as she approached the corner. As she turned around the corner she is met with darkness.

Cathy is standing still about ten meters away with her hands on her head breathing deeply. She turned around to face Lucy and looked like she has seen a ghost. “Woah! What has happened?” Lucy said moving towards Cathy giving her a hug.

They slowly walked back to the apartment in silence. Cathy trudged up the stairs, pushed the sleeves of her sweatshirt up to her elbows and went back into the apartment. Toby met them in the living room with her wine glass. Cathy took it in her left hand and gulped the whole thing down before finally breaking the silence.

“Luc, I think someone is following me.” Cathy went to the kitchen pulled out another two glasses and topped them up. Toby and Lucy joined her at the counter. Lucy put her arm around Cathy’s shoulder and took a sip from the glass.

“Following you? Are you sure? What makes you think that?” Lucy pulled up a stool and awaited Cathy’s response. Cathy didn’t say anything, she set her glass back on the counter and went back into the studio to grab the paper.

She returned back to the kitchen a few seconds later and handed the note to Lucy. Lucy’s eyes skimmed over the note she flipped that paper back and forth before handing it off to Toby. “So they just slid this under the door and bolted?” Lucy said intrigued by the situation.

Cathy shrugged. “All I saw was a green hoodie running away. Nothing was said. She just slid this under the door and ran. I picked up the note came back to the studio, tried to figure it out then realized what time it was and called you.” she said getting worked up.

“It’s okay! Breathe! I will call Henry and let him know what is going on and get this deadline pushed back.” Lucy said calmly then she turned to Toby, “Toby can you please make up some social graphics for P to put up to let everyone know there won’t be new content tomorrow.” Toby nodded and pulled his phone out to start making the posts.

Lucy walked back to the studio and closed the door. She pulled out her phone and called Henry. “Henry, its Luc. Hey. Look P is really shaken up at the moment. No please don’t come over. Toby and I are here we will look after her. I wanted to let you know that there won’t be a new song tomorrow because of all this. NO! Henry listen to me! She isn’t in a good place! Just give her a few more days! Thank you.” frustrated Lucy hangs up the phone. She tucked her hair behind her ears and walked back to the lounge room.

Toby sees how flustered Lucy was and broke his silence “graphics are ready. Cathy open your phone and I will airdrop them to you.” he looks at Cathy with a smile. She obliged, pulled out her phone and a few seconds later her phone vibrated. “There ya go!” Cathy thanked him with a nod. “So all you saw was a green hoodie? Nothing else stood out?” Toby asked prying for a little more information.

“Not really, oh wait… her hair… it was really oddly put up… umm” lost for words Cathy gestured to the top of her head to try and think of the right word, suddenly “SPACE BUNS! She had space buns, the whole time I was running down the street all I could think of is who wears space buns” everyone laughed, except Toby.

Lucy looks Toby dead in the eye. Toby looks back at her like a deer in headlights. “P, Toby and I have bags in the car. We will crash here the night, let us go grab them yeah?” Cathy noded. “Come on Toby. Here boy.” She giggles as she taped her leg like she was calling a dog. Toby let out a small grin as he followed her into the hall. “Okay mister no sense of humor, what’s going on?” Lucy asks as they make their way down the stairs.

“I know who A is.” Lucy goes to say something “and before you go making a wisecrack about me thinking I do because I have watched Pretty Little Liars a million times, you are wrong. I actually know who she is.” That put Lucy in her place. The exited the complex out onto the street where they parked their car.

“Well then Dr. Seuss, care to enlighten me?” Toby looked at Lucy a little confused by her attempted analogy. He popped the trunk of his car and pulled out a black duffle bag and also threw a backpack over his shoulder.

“Before I hit you with all my wisdom. This Henry guy you were talking to. He wouldn’t happen to be Henry Tudor would he?” Lucy threw her bags over her shoulders and then stopped in her tracks as Toby finished his sentence. Toby closed the trunk and locked the car.

“Yes, T how did you know that?” Lucy dropped her bags just inside the complex door.

“Because Ms. Mysterious, used to be my best friend in college and dated Henry and things didn’t end well. So my question to you how does Cathy know Henry?” Toby started to trudge up the stairs as Lucy collected her bags and follows.

They approached the top of the stairs, “we are married” a voice says from above. Toby looked up to see Cathy standing there. He gestured his head towards the door and they all headed inside. “So, care to tell me what is going on Toby?” Cathy said sternly watching them place their bags near the sofa.

“Grab your wine sis, you are gonna need it I think,” Toby said patting the sofa beside him silently asking Cathy to sit next to him. Cathy grabbed her glass and took up his offer.

“Alright Toby, let’s go. What do you know that we don’t?” Cathy crossed her legs on the couch next to Toby as Lucy sat on the coffee table in front of him. It was almost like an interrogation. The girls were breathing down his neck.

“Okay, so Henry. Your husband. Did he tell you about the others?” Toby anxiously watched the girl's faces as they processed his comment. Lucy got up and moved to the armchair, Cathy swung her legs back around and placed her glass on the table.

“Others? Like more than one? He told me about his last relationship but nothing else.” Toby bent forward to be inline with Cathy’s face.

“If I am right. You are the sixth. How much would you like to know? You see I know who A is, and I have a pretty good idea as to why she is trying to reach out. BUT! And that is a big but, you need to be prepared to hear it.” Toby placed his hand on her shoulder.

“Let’s wait till morning. Try and get some rest.” Lucy interjected quickly. Everyone agreed. Toby and Lucy bunked in the spare room and Cathy slowly made her way to her room, tired and worn out.

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