Nothing was in that drawer.
“What the hell?” I whispered into the empty room.
I went through every drawer, but they were all the same - as bare as I was. I jogged around the room, looking for my clothes from the night before. But they weren’t there either.
I snapped my fingers, remembering that most of my clothes had been removed in the elevator. At least I think they were. My boxers should have still been in the room at least though.
Unless Keith took them as a joke when he left. He would do something like that.
The hall was empty of all clothing items. Shaking my head, I put my finger on the screen and called the elevator. But the light turned red instead of green. I tried again, same response.
Cursing, I went back to the room and searched for my phone. I couldn’t find it though. It seemed to be gone too.
I groaned and smacked my head when I remembered it was still in the back pocket of the pants I wore last night. I ran for the far corner where the stairs were, I stopped when my eyes landed on the note and money. I grabbed the money, since I didn’t know when I was going to get the elevator working again.
My eyes fell on the note for the third time, and I paused.
“Did she…” I laughed and ran for the stairs, note in hand.
The little minx must have taken my clothes. I half expected to find them sprawled through the stairs. She probably wasn’t thrilled about having to take all those stairs down this morning.
Oddly, the stairs were empty as well.
I stopped at the second floor and entered my office. Keith was sitting at the desk, probably getting ready to go over the books from the night before. The computer was still in the waking-up phase.
He laughed when he saw me. “Did you forget something?”
I snorted and headed straight for the small wardrobe I kept with extra clothes. One can never be too safe. “I’m guessing you're not the one who took all the clothes out of the studio.” I was pretty sure about that by this point, but…
He shook his head and laughed. “Did your little friend at least have clothes to wear?”
“Probably, she was gone when I woke up.” I dropped the envelope and note on the desk before pulling the pants up. “But she left these behind.”
He picked up the note and read it. “At least she left the money. What was the gift?”
“I’m thinking it was a set of the Emperor’s New Clothes.”
Keith laughed. “Possibly. Where do you think she put them?”
