Twist and Shout (Choose Your Own Adventure)

Chapter Seventeen

You can feel Caroline's eyes watching as you stride past. She doesn't recognize you just yet, but you know she will. You have to do it. You have to take the risk. You feel incredibly anxious and there's a sick feeling in your stomach, the worst possible scenarios flash through your mind.

The kids at school have the ability of turning the most innocent situations into a scandal. If Caroline told them about any of this who knows what they would do to it?

You duck your head as you walk past, but out of the corner of your eye you can see Caroline waving frantically, happy tears streaming down her face. You awkwardly raise your arm halfway, as if you're hailing a taxi, and give a small wave. Caroline notices and her expression instantly changes from excitement to downright amazement. She stares at you, dumbfounded. Her eyes are narrowed, peering through her white-rimmed glasses, like she's making sure that you're real and she's not seeing things.

You wave again, a bit more jauntily this time, before you're whisked away and into the station. The screaming and shouting fades away into silence. You're more than relieved. 

"Right!" says Paul, releasing your hand. "There should be a car waiting around back."

As it turns out there are three cars waiting - one red, one green, one black. There is an impatient looking driver sitting at the wheel of each vehicle. You and the other three Beatles look at Paul, expecting him to point out which car is the right one. For once Paul looks at a loss. He's biting his lip and anxiously glancing from car to car.

"Well, genius?" John says impolitely. "Which one is our ride?"

"I, uh..." Paul hesitates. "I'm not sure which one is our car."

"I thought so!" John turns to you. "Which one looks the most promising?"

You're a bit taken aback by his sudden inquiry, yet you still examine each car and try to make a decision. The cars all look the same - they only differ in colour - but you have no other way of telling which is the right one. 

You have to decide quickly or the band will be late for their television debut.

If you choose the red car, go to Chapter Eighteen.

If you choose the green car, go to Chapter Nineteen.

If you choose the black car, go to Chapter Twenty.