"Maybe it's all a misunderstanding." I could hear Jade talking in the room. I held my breath and tried to stay as quiet as possible.
"Maybe so," said an unfamiliar voice, "but we can't afford to take that chance. We can't let him go anywhere until we're sure. Do you have the paper?"
"It's around here somewhere," said Jade. I could hear her walking towards the closet. I scooted as far back as I could, pressing my back into the wall. I could see a shadow just outside the door.
"Oh, wait!" she said. "There it is on the table." She walked away from the closet. "Yeah, that's it. It's a map of some place. We're not sure where. Chris said he knew someone who could help us with it. I just hope we have time to get in touch him. This incident has really slowed things down."
"So once Chris gets back what are you going to do about the kid?" asked the other voice.
"We'll have to take him with us. Like you said, we can't afford to take chances."
I heard some other sounds. Someone typing on a computer, curtains being closed and, after a few minutes, two sets of footsteps leaving the room. After the door shut, I waited a few seconds. Satisfied that I was once again alone, I slowly opened the closet door. Just before leaving the room I took one last look around. Everything was just like it was before, except for one something sitting on a table near the closet. At first I thought I was imagining things. I examined it closer and almost yelled with surprise.
It was my old digital camcorder!

I waited around for a few minutes, allowing my mind to run off in all directions. Before long I had pieced together all sorts of scenarios explaining why Chris had left so suddenly. None of them satisfied my curiosity, though, and I decided to ask Jade if she could tell me anything more about it.
I walked down to her room and knocked on the door. Nobody answered. The door was slightly open, so I pushed my head in and looked around. I didn't see anyone and I was about to leave when I noticed something on the floor inside the closet. It was a piece of paper. I normally wouldn't have been so interested, but something about this paper caught my attention. I quietly walked in and picked it up. It took me a minute to realize what it was. It was the paper that I had found in the debris from the exploding warehouse! The one about the Halekuni Resort. The one with Jade's name on it. I had had it in my pocket the day we arrived at the hotel, but I had forgotten about it by the time I changed clothes. I figured Chris must have found it and shown it to Jade. I wondered if it could've somehow been linked to Chris' mysterious disappearance. It certainly didn't look good for me to be keeping secret papers with Jade's name on them.
Suddenly I heard Jade talking to someone in the hall. I didn't have time to get out of the room, so I ducked into the closet and closed the door. Within a few seconds, Jade walked in.