London, 2008
The four are sitting in the hotel, consuming their delicious dinner of microwave-cooked oven-bake pizza. just as they're finishing, three very large men enter the building.
now, keep in mind, the hotel consisted of at least three buildings. one contained the main desk, the breakfast area, and several rooms, while the other two only had rooms and one little kitchen each.
the men entered the room, one carrying a baseball bat, one carrying an enormous chain and the third wearing an expression that plainly said "i'm the boss, b***h."
we, sitting in the kitchen area (outside of our room), were cowering.
"have you paid your rent this month?" the obvious boss asked. we looked at each other (still cowering) and then looked back at the boss.
"we're with the hotel."
"ah, okay!' he motioned for his boys to follow and he started up the stairs to the next floor of rooms.
what happened next, none of us actually saw, but the sounds were audible to understand certain parts. i don't know all of what happened, but i know it involved filling the bathtub upstairs, knocking on several peoples' doors, and using a fire extinguisher excessively. throughout the course of this, people were coming downstairs and leaving. when the men got back downstairs, the boss looked at us (and the cronies just looked intimidating) and he asked
"are you french?" at that point, i really wanted to say
"non, non!" (with a very french accent), but something in my gut told me not to. "no," we replied. he shrugged and started to go, then asked if anyone was french staying there.
my sister, who had just earlier walked in on two people having sex, then watched them hurriedly leave, said she'd thought they were french and told the fierce men which direction they'd gone in. the big men thanked us and explained that "it was reported that a group of french people were smoking of the drugs here." after that, they left.
not even ten minutes later, a group of maybe six people walked through the kitchen towards the exit. we had thought the building was empty at this point.
"'allo," said each one as they passed. it's difficult to explain exactly how this next bit occurred, but pretty much, the four of us were standing in a line, at one end were the twins, then myself and my sister. as the group of six people were starting to leave, both of the twins (not seeing each other) turned to my sister and i and mouthed, very obviously "FRENCH!!!!!"
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