[here we go, it's time to see how everyone is adjusting to the new scene, first up is Remmie's group, enjoy]
1:00, Remmie and his group had just arrived at his house and parted ways with Lisa and Petunia. Remmie turned to take a head count. Everyone seemed to be present and he silently cursed his luck again. This group made him hope for the best but expect the worst. He had already picked out the problem refugees. Twitch for one, what the hell were these pills for hr thought to himself. The next was the Panther, maybe not as problematic as the other two but she seemed somewhat nuts. That's when he remembered that he had no name for her. He looked into his letter looking for any names that he didn't recognize. The only one was Midnight that had not told Remmie their name and assumed that this panther was her. He didn't even want to think about Tiny who didn't shut up for a minute on the walk over there and he insisted that everyone stop to watch him juggle chainsaws. Fortunately for Remmie at least Chunky was a friend. Remmie took a breath, turned, and opened his door.
inside, his house was kept quite clean. When they entered they were immediately in the living room it was quite an interesting sight. At the back of the room was a set of stairs to lead to the second floor. The floor its self consisted of two separate environments. Part of it was beige carpeting with an end table in the corner beside a large white couch and a chair. It was fairly plain there as it was only around the edge of the room. The other part started at the center of the room and filled the rest of the room. It was a black carpet with four beanbag chairs each one color coded to it's used. There was a brown one, yellow one, purple one, red one and a mix of purple and red. The walls in that spot were painted red to give the area a darker look. It was possibly the most decorated area in the house. It' focus point was a large T.V with numerous game systems scattered about.
"Well" started Remmie "this is my house umm… this is the living room. The door to the left leads to the kitchen. There is a hall in between with a bathroom, the door to the basement and a spare room. Up stairs is another bathroom and my room… so umm. Yea just figure out where you wanna sleep."
Everyone began to look around and went their separate ways to explore the house as Remmie watched feeling awkward.
"Well Remmie" Chunky started "I'll be fine here in the living room, I'll just sleep on the couch like I usually do when I stay over."
"Alright then" said Remmie "guess I'll go get your stuff."
Remmie began walking to the spare room to retrieve Chunky's blankets when he heard noise coming from the closet. He approached curiously and opened the door to see the yellow rabbit Twitch pulling cloths off of the hangers.
"what the hell are you doing?" asked Remmie to the rabbit.
"I'm stay'n in here" Replied Twitch with his right eye twitching rapidly and left eye facing off to who knows where. His meds had clearly begun to ware off.
"You're gonna be staying in my closet?" Remmie asked.
"Better than the attic" Twitch started "no no not the attic no more, never!"
His expression seemed to be changing with every slight change of emotion he experienced. He also seemed quite jittery.
"yep I'll just sleep in here for a while"
"Umm… I guess that's fine" said Remmie wanting no more to do with this guy and continued on his way.
He entered the hallway, the bathroom was to his right and the others to his left. He walked down and opened a door to his left. Inside was a number of miscellaneous objects. However Twitchy was also here un packing her stuff.
"Twitchy?" Remmie asked.
"Oh hey Remmie" she started. "I hope you don't mind me staying in here, I need a place to set my stuff up and where hopefully nobody will mess it up, oh, you want some candy" she said, throwing Remmie a green pop."
"Thanks" said Remmie catching the flying pop "no, I don't mind, I think there's a mattress somewhere in here, you can use that for now."
"Really" she said looking around the room and noticing it under a few boxes.
Remmie walked over to the mattress as she did and began to help her take them off.
"Thanks Remmie" she said with a wide smile, she was quite a bit spunkier now than when they met.
"So" Remmie asked "what's all that stuff for anyway?"
"Oh, yes, I'm a biologist. I just like to keep an operation set up wherever I am, just in case something comes up. Speaking of which I have a little place around here that has some stuff I want to get."
"A biologist, what are you studying?" Remmie asked intrigued.
"Ah I like to study whatever strikes my fancy at the time. Torch helps me with my work a lot too, he's a doctor so we kind of go hand and hand. I started though to study the nature of this curse, more so how we return to life afterwards. My studies went cold for a while though; tch like I had much progress to begin with. But more on topic that's why I found myself in Birch Tree Town, ironic that I got my lead about the time that the curse seemed to finally lift"
"I see, so have you found out anything?"
"Not much I'm afraid" Said twitchy looking somewhat disappointed "But you can bet your boots I'll find out more soon, I've got a good feeling… I probably would have found something out though but then we got flooded."
"So" started the now curious Remmie as the two of them sat on the mattress eating their candy "What was it that brought you there exactly?"
"Well" she started again "it was actually a couple of things, you see a while ago I heard of somebody immune to the curse of death, the person just never died. As it was she is another of the flood victims, I though if I could get a sample of her DNA I'd be able to crack something, I still haven't tried though. Oh yes, the main reason I went there was because I heard that somebody from here actually resurrected in that town, I've never heard of that happening before so I figured something must be going on, as it turns out it was Chunky. But even with all that I'm no closer to my answer."
At the mention of Chunky Remmie recalled why he had gone to the spare room to begin with.
"oh, sorry Twitchy" Remmie apologized "I've gotta bring some blankets out to Chunky, I'll talk to you later though."
"Right O' see ya Remmie" she said as he grabbed a bundle of blankets and brought them out to Chunky.
When Remmie returned to the living room Chunky was not there. Remmie walked over to the couch and dropped the blankets onto it. He glanced around the room and noticed Chunky in the kitchen which made him remember to check on something. Remmie hurried to the kitchen to see Chunky searching for a snack. Remmie however headed straight for the refrigerator and swung it open. To his dismay there was not much food inside.
"Damnit, I'm gonna have to go shopping later" said Remmie somewhat distraught.
"Ok, I'll go with you" said Chunky excited at the thought of picking out everyone's meals.
Remmie smiled and thought about bringing Lisa and Petunia along. That of course made him curious about how they were doing with their refugees.
"Yea, I'll probably go tomorrow" Remmie said "I'd rather avoid having to leave today."
Remmie looked to his right to see Twisty, Trippy, and Tiny in his sun room and moved to investigate. Twisty and Trippy were wandering the room observing the workmanship and Tiny was staring out of it to a tree fort in the back.
"How are you three doing?" asked Remmie to the group.
Each one turned their head and Tiny was the first to approach him. Remmie briefly considered going back into the house but it was too late.
"that's awesome, I'm totally gonna sleep out there. you don't mind do ya?" asked the hamster.
Remmie suddenly felt overcome with relief. This hamster didn't have to stay in the house, he could stay in the tree fort.
"Of course" said Remmie trying to muffle his excitement "go right ahead."
"Sweet, thanks Rems" said Tiny as he dropped his dirty skateboard to the floor and rode it out of the house leaving a dirt trail.
"Umm, you don't mind if Twisty and I stay in here do you Remmie?" asked Trippy.
Remmie observed the room. It was completely made of glass and has full of patio furniture with a door leading outside, it only had one place to sleep however and it was a thick hedgehog proof hammock. It had not occurred to Remmie to mention this room.
"Yea, I don't mind" started Remmie "but there's only one place to sleep in here."
"That's ok, I'll manage" Said Trippy.
"Oh, c'mon Trippy you can have the hammock, I'll sleep on the floor" requested Twisty.
"Don't worry about it Twisty I don't mind sleeping on the floor." rebuttaled Trippy, clearly caring more for her sisters sake than her own.
"Well you guys decide what you're gonna do, I'll see what I've got in the spare room for you" said Remmie.
Remmie turned and entered the kitchen which no longer had Chunky raiding it for he was now in the living room getting a game started. Remmie returned to the spare room to see Twitchy staring transfixed at a hurricane in a bottle. He walked over to an area of the room which he knew held camping supplies. He rummaged around for a bit and captured the attention of Twitchy.
"Hey Rems, need some help?" she asked.
Remmie continued digging until he found some blankets, a bedroll, and a sleeping bag.
"actually yea, if you wouldn't mind" Remmie responded "I might need some help checking up on everyone and getting their stuff together."
"No prob. Remmie" she said happily as she grabbed the bedroll.
The two exited the room to hear something in the basement.
"Should we see who it is?" asked Twitchy.
"We'll check after, let's just bring these to Twisty and Trippy first" Remmie responded
The two walked into the kitchen to see Twitch climbing into a cupboard. The two chose to ignore him and continued on their way to the sun room.
"we got you your stuff" Remmie informed as he and Twitchy entered the room.
The two were sitting in white chairs around a glass table sorting through their belongings. Trippy had a notebook with a number of writing and drawing tools in front of her. Twisty had finished wrapping a red ribbon around her neck and ha some sort of stuffed animal with pure blue eyes, pointy ears, arms, and no legs in front of her. They turned to see Remmie and Twitchy setting their stuff up on the floor.
"Thanks you guys" Trippy said gratefully.
"No problem" said Remmie "hopefully I'll be able to find something better, I don't want you to have to sleep on the floor the entire time you're here."
"Don't worry about it, I'm just thankful that you took us in" Said Trippy
Remmie smiled, the thought of making them happy made him feel good, as well as sympathetic, he almost teared.
"C'mon, don't be shy you two, if you need anything just ask" Remmie informed.
He and Twitchy exited the room and moved towards the basement. When they opened the door they noticed that the lights were on and music was playing. They began to walk down the stairs to see the pale yellow chipmunk Eme moving boxes and other objects aside. She was setting up a room down there.
"Everything alright down here Eme?" Remmie asked.
She turned her head, somewhat surprised, to see Remmie and Twitchy walking down the stairs.
"Hey you guys" she said spiritedly "what's up?"
"You have everything you need down here?" Remmie asked.
"I think so, you really have a lot of stuff down here" she said while probing the room.
The basement was fairly spacious with a number of un opened boxes and seldom used objects. It appeared that Eme had found an old black couch, a few small wooden tables and an old radio that was playing her music.
"Well feel free to use whatever you find, I really have no idea what I've got down here but it looks like you've got things covered" Remmie said surprised to see some of the stuff she found.
"Yea, it's fun trying to find things to use, it's like I'm decorating my room" she said joyfully.
"Well, I'll come back to check up later, see you Eme" said Remmie as he and Twitchy ascended the stairs.
"So what's up with Twitch?" Remmie asked, suddenly curious.
"I don't really know" Replied Twitchy "Torch has been curious about his condition for a while. Apparently he has tri polar disorder and Torch has been trying to figure out a cure, so far all we've been able to make are those pills that Lilith gave you, it seems to even him out, even if he's out of it most of the time afterwards."
"Do I have anything to worry about with him?" asked Remmie concerned.
"Don't know really, he used to enter bloodthirsty and murderous episodes but hasn't in a while. He's usually just sort of a nuisance, he's usually crazy and hyperactive."
Remmie scratched his head at the lack of predictability with this guy… at least now he knew why he chose to sleep on a pile of clothes in the closet. The two entered the living room to see everyone but Tiny there. Remmie realized that he hadn't checked on Midnight who was sitting on the chair examining the sword she had been carrying, her duffle bag sat next to the chair. Remmie seen that and assumed that she hadn't selected a room yet.
"You find anywhere you wanted to stay?" asked Remmie to the panther. She glanced up at Remmie.
"Not yet, could stay anywhere, I'm looking for the place I like best for now" she declared in her southern accent.
Remmie turned to see chunky playing a game eating a baggie of what looked like chocolate covered raisins and Remmie found himself compelled to join him. He walked over and sat down in his purple and red beanbag chair, he was careful not to poke another hole in it as it had already been stuck a number of times by him and filled with resin. Remmie picked up a controller and waited.
"Hang on a sec Remmie" requested Chunky "I'm almost at a part where you can join."
As Remmie waited he thought he'd check to see how everyone was doing. On the couch sat Twisty and Trippy. Twisty was hugging her stuffed animal while Trippy drew. Midnight had started to sharpen her katana. Twitch was lazily watching the game being played from on top of the end table which he had moved for a better view. Twitchy sat beside Remmie in Toothy's purple beanbag chair and watched Chunky frantically search for the location where he could add another player. Eme also entered the room and began to examine a shelf in the corner of the room where Remmie had a collection of CD's, she seemed to have also found a guitar in the basement which she had strapped to her back. Tiny was still absent.
"Ah ha, made it, press start Remmie" Chunky said excitedly.
Without delay Remmie turned his full attention to the game and pressed start. Moments later his pupils grew to nearly fill his eyes as he became fully engrossed in the game. A couple minutes had passed before anybody said anything until Trippy finally said something.
"Hey Remmie, do you have any snacks?" she asked.
Remmie briefly remembered to go shopping before giving her an answer.
"Yea, I think there's some cookies in the cupboard next to the fridge" he responded quickly.
"Thanks" she said as she left the living room.
Remmie's complete attention returned to the game. It was a game that required you to fight hordes of enemies with created characters. They had just moved forward when another horde appeared.
"Ok Remmie" started Chunky "kill them, the ones in red, I'll take care of the ones in purple."
In that instant something came over Twisty. Her carefree smile became expressionless and her gentle eyes had become blank and their whites had turned red. She stood up from the couch, her arms to her sides and she limply held her stuffed animal by its arm. She approached Remmie and turned her head to see a controller laying at the base of a small table that had a phone and paper on it which she moved over to. She had reached down and replaced her stuffed animal with a controller. This had caught the attention of Twitchy.
"Twisty?" Twitchy said curiously.
She returned to her position behind Remmie and un wound the controller. Remmie could feel her standing there. As a hedgehog training that sense was necessary to avoid impaling on accident. Remmie turned his head to see who it was. when he seen her he noticed something wrong with her eyes but was too engrossed in the game to care.
" if you wanna play" Remmie requested, turning his head back to the game "you can sit in cuddle's seat."
He pointed to the yellow beanbag chair but she didn't move. moments after Remmie invited her to play she swung the cord around Remmie's neck and pulled tightly while avoiding his spikes. In a flash Remmies eyes shrank to the size of peas, his eyes became bloodshot, and a primal rage burned in his head. Remmie's hands shot up immediately to the cord around his neck as he attempted to snap it. On impulse Chunky paused the game and jumped up from his seat. He swung around Twisty and grabbed her in a powerful bear hug causing her to drop the controller. In an instant Remmie had tossed the cord off, swung around, and throttled Twisty. With her heck in his hand he charged her into the wall near the phone.
"What the hell is the matter with you!" shouted the furious Remmie, it surprised everyone in the room.
Se did not react and only tried to dig her nails into his arm to rip away the skin… but to no avail.
Remmie responded by pulling her away from the wall and slamming her against it again, rattling the house and knocking the breath out of her. Without a second to spare Remmie dropped her to the floor and pinned her with his left hand. He then proceeded to rip off one of his spikes and held it to her throat. At some point in the struggle Trippy was drawn into the room.
"Remmie, what are you doing!" she shouted, terrified.
"Stay back Trippy" shouted Remmie in a frenzy "I don't know what the hell's wrong with her but she just tried to kill me!"
"No please Remmie don't hurt her, it's not her fault" pleaded Trippy, tears beginning to well from her eyes.
Remmie returned his attention to Twisty. What he seen was not what he expected. The red, empty eyes that he had stared into before had returned to white and were filled with tears of fear. Remmie's expression changed in an instant and the rage filling his head had subsided. He didn't know what it was but at some point in the struggle she had returned to her senses. Seeing this, Remmie released her and rubbed the back of his neck. He was really at a loss for words but then again this isn't the first time someone had gone crazy like that.
Trippy had begun to console her sister who hugged her.
"So Trippy" Remmie asked "why did she go nuts like that?"
Trippy was silent for a moment but then spoke.
"someone must have used one of the trigger words" said the fox rubbing the back of her sisters head.
"Care to enlighten me?" asked Remmie.
Trippy looked around and grabbed a pen and piece of paper. She them began to write something down and handed it to Remmie. It read "kill them" and "strawberry jam".
"Trigger words" Remmie started "what's that all about?"
"I really don't know" replied Trippy who had grabbed Twisty's doll and handed it to her "we adopted her and found out these words the hard way. All we know about her past is that she was part of some project."
Remmie showed the note around so people would know not to say those things.
"Well so long as she's not like this all the time we probably not have to worry too much" said Remmie.
"Damn, you're more of a fighter than I took you for" declared Midnight.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Remmie.
"it means that that was a pretty nice show, you really got balls, you looked like you really were gonna kill her" she said bluntly.
Trippy didn't seem to like this conversation much.
Remmie looked away, thinking to himself when the doorbell rang.
"I've got it" Remmie said wanting to move away from these unpleasantries.
Remmie had gone to the door and opened it to see that it had been Flaky who had been knocking.
"Hey Flaky" Remmie said "what brings you here?"
"Hi Remmie, umm. I just thought that, well since you have to take care of all these people I thought that you might need some help. Umm… I thought you should have this" said the porcupine handing him a bag of something metallic "it's the money I won from the dance, I just thought that you would need it more than me."
Remmie smiled and accepted, he did need it, especially if he intended to feed all these people.
"Thanks Flaky… you wanna come in?" Remmie asked.
Flaky looked around the room at all of the people inside and walked through the front door. Everyone seemed to have recovered from the shakeup and returned to their business. Chunky was even back at the game, beckoning for them to join. Remmie returned to his beanbag chair and Flaky sat in hers, the pure red one and picked up a controller. They had begun to play again, this time Chunky watched what he said. Twitchy sat back down in Toothy's seat to continue watching.
"Hey, you guys want some of these?" Chunky asked holding up his baggie of chocolaty treats.
Flaky held out her hands and received a couple handfuls to pass down the row. They each popped a couple into their mouths and ate them. To Remmie's surprise they weren't soft but crunchy. Remmie paused the game and stared into space.
"Chunky…" Remmie started "what were those?"
"Chocolate covered peanut…" said chunky, stopping mid sentence.
Remmies pupils shrank and he dropped his handful of peanuts, as did Flaky. The two looked at each other and got up from their seats, stepping back over the beanbag chairs. Their eyes locked onto each other as they observed their own inevitable processes through each other. First came the purple rash that Remmie could see covering Flaky. He was able to feel his own. Next Flaky's lips puffed up to about four to five times their original size. With an uncomfortable heating sensation Remmie felt his do the same. Everyone stared in astonishment, at a loss for words, except for Twitch who was laughing his ass off. Then in a flash Flaky bloated to about twice the size of chunky and a fraction of a second later Remmie did the same. This resulted in Remmie bumping Twitchy to the ground and his and Flaky's stomachs colliding. As a result they rolled over to their sides barely able to move. Remmie reached desperately for the phone while Twitchy rose to her feet. As Twitchy was about to grab it Twitch jumped in and took it.
"Give me the phone Twitch" Twitchy demanded.
"Ha ha ha, but why, don't you think they're more hilarious like this" he said in a maniacal tone.
Twitchy lunged for the phone but Twitch hoped away from her.
"C'mon, if they want it so bad they'll come get it" he said laughing all the while.
In that instant everyone in the room engaged in pursuing the deranged rabbit up the stairs. Flaky was whimpering fearfully. Moments later the last person Remmie wanted to see entered the house. In his hand was a half empty bottle of whiskey as he staggered around the room.
"h-hey, wha- what happened to you guys huh" said the Tiny as he poked Flakys bloated stomach "heh heh heh, you- you guys… gotta watch what yo- you eat huh, heh heh heh, cuz, you guys ish- ish gett'n fat, heh heh."
The sauced hamster staggered over to Remmie and threw himself into his stomach making Remmie feel sicker than he already was.
"Ahhhh, niesh and comfy" he said settling down against a swollen Remmie "you- you know what guysh, you guysh would make an awesome… couch you know what I'm shay'n, yea, I'd bet that if someone sewed you together you'd make the best couch… in the whole world, you guys know what I'm shay'n"
Remmie desperately wanted to strangle this guy but he could barely move his arms. What Remmie experienced next was a gamers worst nightmare as he watched Tiny un pause the game and begin to play it. Almost immediately Chunky's idle character was killed and Remmie's was crouching over dead enemies faces.
"Ha ha ha, howdya like that you… bastard" shouted Tiny just before he was killed. "Ahh son of a bitch this game is sssshhhhhtupid"
At that he swigged the rest of the whisky and stood up, pushing against Remmie for support.
"Hey, I'm gonna go see what- what you got for food in- in this house" Said Tiny as he staggered out of the room, tossing the whisky bottle onto the floor.
Remmie couldn't turn his head to see where he was going but he notices Flaky still nervously whimpering. Remmie tried to give her a re assuring smile but he could barely move his lips. What he could make out however she seemed to be able to read as she tried to return one with her whimpering subsiding. To their relief they heard the sirens of an ambulance outside meaning that they must have finally gotten the phone away from Twitch.
As the two were loaded into the ambulance with there being barely enough room for them chunky came rushing out of the door to check on his friends. He asked the driver Sniffles if it would be ok to go with them and Sniffles allowed it.
An hour or so later in the hospital room after having been required to drink a rancid cocktail of un identifiable liquid medicines and dissolved pills Remmie and Flaky were returning to their normal states. Chunky soon entered the room to check on his friends.
"I'm sorry guys" said Chunky feeling quite angry with himself "I forgot you were allergic to peanuts."
"Don't worry about it chunky, it's not like that's the first time it's happened" Replied Remmie trying to re assure his friend "besides it's my fault too, I assumed that they were chocolate covered raisins."
"Come on guys, it's neither of your faults, it was just a mistake" said Flaky not wanting to hear them blame themselves.
"Yea I know.. But I could have killed you two" he said feeling terrible.
"Have we ever died from that before chunky" started Remmie "no, only alternate factors afterwards caused that, left alone, we'd just be stuck like that for a few days."
Chunky had never known the statistics behind it and felt somewhat better. He looked to Flaky who gave him the same re-assuring look.
"Jeez though, you've been through a lot today" Chunky started "I mean someone did try to kill you, and now… thanks to me… you're at the hospital. Not to mention it's gotta be awkward having so many people you barely know living in your house."
Remmie thought to himself about his crowd.
"They're not too bad" started Remmie "I'm sure twitch is gonna be a problem, and definitely Tiny, but the others are fine. Now that we know what not to say around Twisty, she shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, I'm just glad to have someone I'm good friends with living there too… oh yes that reminds me, Twitchy told me that you found yourself resurrected in Birch Tree Town, how did that work out?
"No idea, I was there for a couple days until I got enough money to head back here, then we ended up getting flooded." replied Chunky.
Remmie thought to himself and remembered something, he remembered chunky as the last person he seen die before the death rate dropped.
"Sorry I can't tell you more, I've been trying to figure this out myself ever since it happened" said the Koala.
"Umm guys" started Flaky "if it helps at all I found myself resurrected in the woods a day or so before chunky died."
Remmie contemplated on this, when they returned to life it was usually in their own house, he had never heard of people being brought to these random locations before… for now he knew too little of things to get a theory so he decided to stop worrying about it.
"So, how did you guys manage to get the phone from Twitch?" Asked Remmie.
"it was Midnight who did most of it, she can be pretty crazy herself, we pretty much just cornered him in your room… made quite a mess too. Midnight's the one who got him though, Twitchy's the one who managed to make the call. In fact that's why they didn't come to see you, they figured they'd clean up the mess in your room for you for when you got back."
This made Remmie feel good, knowing that his group can be dependable and seemed to care about him.
A little while later they had left the hospital and began the trek home. Remmie and Flaky were still a bit groggy from the meds but they'd get over it. When Remmie opened the door the only ones in the living room were Eme who was listening to music and Twitchy who was trying out the games.
"Hey you two, feeling better?" asked and greeted Eme
This caught the attention of Twitchy who was previously engrossed in the game.
"Hey, you guys are ok, awesome" she said excitedly.
"Umm Remmie…" asked Flaky "do you mind if I stay here tonight, it's getting late and I don't really feel too good."
"Yea, go ahead, I'll get you your stuff" replied Remmie.
"That's alright Remmie, I'll get her stuff for her" said Twitchy "you've had a rough day."
"Hang on a minute Twitchy, I'll help you" requested Eme.
The two went to the spare room. Remmie was feeling tired from his hellish day but figured he'd check on everyone before he went to bed. His first stop was the basement, though Eme wasn't down there the work she had done was impressive, her style was definitely present in it given what she had to work with, she had managed to find a large rug and an old coffee table to set her stuff on. She even found an old TV to use, it looked quite cozy… for a basement.
"Wow, she really did all this with junk she found down here" said Chunky surprised.
The next stop was the sun room, both Twisty and Trippy were present, Trippy was drawing and Twisty was watching her.
"Hey Remmie" said Trippy , noticing the three entering "umm… sorry about what happened earlier, I shouldn't have been so irresponsible, I should have told you guys earlier about her condition… I just didn't want you to reject her."
She sounded quite solemn and apologetic.
"Don't worry about it" said Remmie "I know how it must have felt, it's all out in the open now and we can move on. I'm not one to hold a grudge from a mistake."
Flaky smiled at his forgiveness.
"Well… thank you." she said shyly.
"Sorry" said Twisty, she still didn't feel forgiven and had to apologize herself.
Remmie walked over to her and patted her head, she flinched a little but then grew relaxed.
"it's ok" he said "like your sister said, it's not your fault, you're free to stay here."
She smiled from behind the stuffed animals head. Remmie then turned to leave.
"Well I'm glad you're better Remmie" said Trippy "maybe tomorrow will be normal huh?"
Remmie turned and smiled as well as noticed the tree fort which he had no intention of checking on. He felt it would be safe to assume that it had been carved into, vomited on, and strewn with empty whiskey bottles.
Next Remmie cautiously opened the closet door to see the pale yellow Rabbit sitting on the pile of clothes in a daze. Remmie had guessed that they had gotten medicine into him. He proceeded to close the door. The girls had also begun to set up Flaky's bedding.
"Hey you three, just give us a minute and we'll have your bed ready Flaky" said Eme.
Remmie was glad to see their knowledge of the situation and that they grabbed hedgehog proof bedding instead of the regular stuff filling the spare room. Flaky wandered over to it feeling exhausted while Chunky began to play the game.
"I take it you'll be going to bed now Remmie?" asked Chunky.
Remmie nodded and began to ascend the stairs. On his way up he heard the girls shout out that they'd take care of the lights before they went to bed. Remmie opened the door to his bedroom only to be surprised yet again. Suspended in the corner of his room, across from his bed was a hammock, and an empty duffle bag on the floor. Inside the hammock was the panther Midnight.
"umm… midnight… why are you in here?" Remmie asked
"Huh" she said looking over the hammock "you told me I could stay anywhere so I chose here."
"This is my room you know" said Remmie.
"and now it's our room" she said casually "C'mon no need to be so selfish, did your mother ever teach you to share."
Remmie tried to think of something to say but decided to find out why she was there.
"I'll just ask it then, why did you pick my room?" he asked.
"What can I say, I like the view from that giant window, I also like that wall of weapons you have over there and how well they contrast with the cute little critter posters over there, says a lot about you" she told him.
Remmie blushed, he really didn't care to argue with the girl and decided to just go to bed.
"Well, alright" said Remmie, still feeling a bit awkward.
"Don't worry about me, just think of me as an early warning system in case someone else tries to kill you tonight" she said.
Remmie didn't want to think about anything else bad happening tonight and laid down on his bed and turned off the lights. He stared into the ceiling for a bit before thinking his final phrase of the night
"I hate my life."
[you made it to the end again, for that you have been thanked. There are two more houses that need to get settled so be sure to read and laugh at everyone's misfortune as the mayhem continues. Merry Christmas/ Xmas/ Happy holidays to you all.]