BANG!
He hit his head on the topside of the air duct for the fourth time.
"Ow!"
"Not again, Chuck. You really need to watch where you are going," Sarah chided.
"Being 6'4" makes it a little tight in here. Besides, I'm paying more attention to the tight little… um…," Chuck crawled up closer behind Sarah.
"Tight what?"
"Sorry, but after all this time, that cute little ass of yours is still very distracting."
Sarah blushed, "If you keep hurting yourself like this, you'll be in no shape to… UGH! Can we stay focused here, Chuck?" She continued down the air duct, Chuck followed closely behind.
"Which begs the question, why are we in here?"
"Casey said that there was an alarm on the Castle perimeter alerts indicating that a hostile had gained entry to the air ducts through the Buy More."
Chuck stopped and listened, "Do you hear giggling?"
He heard it again and Sarah nodded in agreement, she'd heard it that time.
"That was Morgan," Chuck smirked. Then they heard a deeper laughter; Casey!
Sarah's eyes widened, "I'm gonna kill that gnome!"
"I think we've been punked by John and Morgan!"
"Punk?"
Chuck smiled, "You've really led an isolated life. It's 'punked', as in 'pranked'. As in John and Morgan got us and got us good."
They heard louder laughter and giggling from directly below them.
Chuck pulled his legs under himself and opened a small door set into the side of the air duct. Sarah crawled back towards Chuck and took a look through the door. It was a small refrigerator.
"What the… Where did that come from?"
Chuck smiled, "We spend so much time in here, I figured I'd make it a little more comfy." He took a beer out and offered it to Sarah.
She shook her head, no.
He shrugged, closed the 'fridge door and screwed the top of the beer off.
Sarah frowned, "Great, now I have to go to the bathroom."
"Take the next left. The door on the right is the little girl's room." He laughed so hard he started crying. The laughter from below started up again.
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