Wisper couldn't believe how totally
awful her friends were being right now! Playing hide and seek with the adults,
without telling her first? Oh, they were going to be in
so much trouble when she found them!
...
If she found them at all. It felt like ages since she'd seen hide or tail of any of them, like
five whole minutes, and to her that was
forever and ever ago! Where could they have gone, and so quickly? Were they all secretly superheroes or something? Honestly, how rude of them not to tell her! She could keep a secret! ...
Maybe.
Okay, she had to focus! She'd snuck into the art room when the adults weren't looking because it was the biggest room with the most spots for hiding. She knew that because she was smart and totally not because she'd hidden in one of the closets before nap time once and didn't get found until lunch time! The teachers weren't very happy, but she thought that was very clever!
Anyway, after they'd found her, the teachers always kept the key to the closets in their aprons and hung them up when they left. If one of her friends had snuck inside the closet earlier, like a
rotten little copy-cat, all she had to do was grab the key and bust them out! Then she could tell them off for hiding without her!
It took a bit of strength, but she successfully nudged a table across the floor and over to the coat rack, wiggled her way on top, and stuck a paw into the big center apron pocket. However, instead of pulling out the key she'd been hoping for, she found some...
Pretty buttons?
"Ooh-"
No! They weren't hers! She couldn't take them. Besides, pretty buttons couldn't open a closet door. She'd have to keep looking.