"So Evelyn. Since you seem to know this game, what are we suppose to do?" Mark asked her.
Completely ignoring his question, Evelyn looked at her boots and said, "Did I tell you that the situation is bad? Like, worse than Slenderman bad?"
"How could this be worse than Slender?" Cry asked.
"No one be mad at me, please." Evelyn said.
"Why would we be mad at you?" Jack asked.
"Because I watched Pewd's play through once around a year ago and I forget almost everything about it." Evelyn tensed up, bracing herself for people to start yelling at her.
"That's all that's the problem?" Evelyn looked up to see Abigail chuckling. "I thought it was something really bad, like we only had half an hour to do this or we explode or something." She looked at the ceiling. "You'd better not make that happen." The air remained note free.
"But this is really bad. We have no idea where we are going or what we're doing." Evelyn said, throwing her arms up into the air.
"You mean any new game that we play?" Mark said. "We have the mental capacity to go through a game we don't know. There are seven of us."
"Yeah. We'll be able to figure it out." Pewds said, a smile on his face.
"So no one is mad at me?"
"No!" Everyone said in unison.
Evelyn gave a shy smile. She looked around. "So, any idea what we are suppose to do?"
"Well despite what some people think," Pewds glared at Cry, "I do remember a bit of the game."
Cry raised his hands. "Hey, I never said that you didn't remember anything. Shoot, I probably wouldn't remember anything."
"Moving on from that, Pewds, what do you remember?" Mark asked.
"Well one thing I really remember was that the controls were really crappy and I could barely turn my character around-" Abigail cut him off.
"What about the gameplay do you remember?" Abigail asked impatiently.
He glared at her. "I was getting to that. Ok, somewhere around here should be a flashlight." Everyone started to search the ground, boxes, and shelves for a flashlight.
Abigail saw one on the edge of the top ledge of a shelf. Being 5' 2", (AN: Lilli- I'm 5' 2 3/4"! Katherine- Shut up!) the 6' 5" shelf was a bit high for her. Not one to ask for help, she started to try and climb the shelf.
Jack turned around to look on another shelf and saw Abigail struggling to climb a shelf. "Uh, Abbi... What are you doing?" He asked. This made the others turn to see what she was doing.
"What does it look like?" She asked, trying to find a foothold. "I'm trying to get a flashlight from the top shelf."
"You know you could have asked one of us to get it." Jack said, motioning to himself, the other YouTubers and Evelyn.
Noticing that she wasn't included in the "one of us" category, Scarlette said, "Hey! I could have helped her."
When none of the YouTubers responded to that, Evelyn stepped up to put her friend back in her place. "Scarlette, how could you have helped? You're like an inch shorter than her."
Scarlette made that "phhht" gesture (AN better explanation at the end of the chapter) "By using the Force. Duh." She then proceeded to try to "use the Force" to get the flashlight.
Evelyn looked at the ground and rubbed her temples. "Why are you guys my friends?" She asked.
"You know you love us." Abigail said, reaching her hand up to grab the flashlight, but she was an inch too short.
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Mark asked, watching Abigail struggle to reach the flashlight.
"I'm sure," She said, gritting her teeth. The tips of her fingers brushed past the flashlight. "I almost... have it." Abigail shifted her weight a bit to try and gain that extra inch of reach, but the box that she was balancing on shifted, making her lose her balance and fall onto Scarlette. "Motherfucker!" Abigail yelled.
"No! The Force betrayed me!" Scarlette cried woefully. The others started to laugh at their fail.
"Hey! We can't all be 5' 10"." Abigail whined, getting off of Scarlette.
"Im actually 5' 8"." Evelyn corrected, smirking.
"Same difference."
"I got the flashlight." Cry said, still chuckling. He reached up with his hand, but Abigail had knocked the flashlight back, so he was a bit too short. He jumped to try and get it, but his hand slipped and and he knocked the flashlight towards the ground.
Scarlette, who was too lazy to get off of the ground, saw the flashlight falling towards her. She raised her hand and, miraculously, caught it. "Haha!" She yelled as she stood up, holding the flashlight like the Olympic torch. "The Force did work! I am the future!"
Cry was about to say that he was the one who got it, but Evelyn shook her head. She motioned to Cry like, "Let her have her moment."
After her moment was over, Scarlette lowered the flashlight and turned it on. Suddenly, everything except for was illuminated by the flashlight was thrown into pitch blackness. Unfortunately, the flashlight wasn't very strong.
"What happened to the lights?" Evelyn squeaked.
Jack felt something grab his arm. "Ah!" He yelled, ripping his arm out of the grasp.
"Sorry," Evelyn said, sounding embarrassed. "I got scared." Scarlette shone the light at the ground and the bit of light reflected back up slightly illuminated everyone, but their surroundings were still in pitch blackness.
"It's fine." Jack said, rubbing his arm. "Just never do that again." He looked around. "So now what?"
*You know that hand motion that you make where you kinda wave your hand down. It is usually used with "Naw!" or "Phht!" It's kinda like you are throwing a basketball. Ok, that was a terrible explanation but I don't know how to explain it better.