"Oh my God!" I exclaimed, stunned. "It's the men's room!"
"Damn it!" my friend said with a snort.
Without wasting time with any more regrets, we went running towards the final module. But my friend stopped suddenly and went back to the booth we had just examined.
"Wait a moment!" he exclaimed.
"What are you doing?" I asked, confused.
"Nothing, yet."
To my surprise he opened the door to the bathroom and went in. Hurry up! Was the only thing I managed to say to him, and I continued with the task of inspecting. The doors and windows again offered their impenetrable look.
"Gordo?" you could hear a little bit later.
It was the doctor's voice. I turned around.
"Doctor?"
The doctor appeared from the left side of the row of modules, where there was a hand-rail to one side of him.
"Did you find the entrance?" Vanessa was asking, running after him. "Gordo! You're..."
"Gordo," the doctor interrupted her, "You're a genius!"
"Well, I only..."
I had to tell them the truth at once. I began trotting towards them.
"Doctor," I started, taking a breath, "it turns out that..."
"Where's the entrance!"
"It was..."
"Is it a door?"
"No! No! There's no..."
"What door?"
They weren't letting me speak! The doctor held his flashlight up to the narrow wall of the fifth module. It was the bathroom door.
"No!" I tried to dissuade, speeding up.
Neither the doctor nor his niece paid me any attention. Vanessa opened the door.
"No!" I exclaimed. "That's not it!"
Too late for explanations.
Felix appeared, coming out from the corridor between the little huts.
"What's going on?" he asked, as detached as ever.
"We managed to open a door," I informed, upset. "But I don't think it goes anywhere."
We went into the room. My flashlight found Darwin's face. He looked scared.
"This is the place," Felix confirmed, totally oblivious to the scandal.
I shone the light around. He walked with conviction towards the opposite end of the washbowl. He went into a narrow corridor that led to a door. I had to admit that neither, Vanessa, Darwin nor I had noticed that the passageway existed.
Suddenly a creaking of hinges was heard.
"The door's open," Felix declared from inside. "Let's go."
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SUNGLASSES AND ROCKETS Part 1 : New Moon
Science FictionGordo -a shy high school boy- tries to make a beautiful exchange student, Vanessa, fall in love with him; however, he ends up in the middle of a dangerous adventure to save humankind from a threat coming from the dark side of the Moon.
