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(No one's POV)
Skipper went to his room and changed immediately as he couldn't stand being in wet clothes. As he slipped on a blue T-shirt, his mind wandered to plan how he would go back into Private's room. He wanted to get to the box and find anything that would give him some insight on Private's past. He didn't understand why he was so bothered by this, or the fact that Private had other friends, or that he hasn't told them any of this before.
As he finished getting dressed, he stepped out of his room and quickly went towards Kowalski and Rico's rooms, wanting to discuss this matter with them. He walked into Kowalski's room and found both him and Rico already inside, talking about how strange everything was with Private. "Men, as you know, Private has been keeping some things from us for a while now. It's our priority as a team to know as much as we can from each other's lives in order to work with them better", Skipper says as he takes a seat on the bed.
"Yes, sir. In fact we were contemplating our options for infiltrating the room in order to gain access to the box again", Kowalski says, pulling out his clipboard. "So far we've gone through the option of going through the window at night, kidnapping him and taking him to the remote location of Kenya."
"And that helps, how?", Skipper asks raising an eyebrow.
"That's what I been tell him!", Rico exclaims while flailing his arms in emphasis.
"Well, then what about-", Kowalski began, but was interrupted by the sound of loud tapping in the next room. Private's room. The penguin team made their way out of Kowalski's room and walked towards Private's room. They creaked open the door and were greeted with the sound of orchestra music and the tapping of shoes. Opening the door a bit more, they saw Private dancing along to the music wearing his tap dancing shoes.
Private gracefully switched positions and was quick on his feet, shuffle, ball shift, broadway, brush, repeat. He began to spin on one foot and begin performing ballet, springing into the air. His movements continued to increase in speed, but remained gentle and elegant.
As the music began to raise in climax, Private jumped into the air landing into a perfect split on the ground. The rest of the team, who were watching intently from the door, let out a hiss and grimaced at the hard landing. Private's head whipped to them and his face flushed from embarrassment. "W-what… have y-you been watching me? This whole time?", Private said as he stood up. The others nodded, opening the door. Rico hesitated before he asked, "Did you, you know… 'urt yor… you know?" Private blushed and looked away to the side before responding, "No, it's… i'm fine."
"Since when do you know how to dance like that?", Kowalski inquired with slight awe edging at his face.
"Since I was little. It's just been awhile since i've danced… like this", Private says as rubbed his arm.
"Well, it was pretty impressive", Skipper said. Private smiled and looked at them and said, "Thank you Skipper. Oh! I just realized i've never shown you my room before! Come in, look around.", Private said as he gestured for them to enter. The team entered, relieved that the infiltration would be much easier than expected. Taking a good look around the room, they began to notice more items in the room than when they first entered.
A collection of instruments was now visible through Private's open closet. The collection composed of a guitar, a violin, a small electric piano, a flute, a trumpet and the ever-tragic triangle. Rico walked over to the guitar, throwing a questioning glance over to Private. Did he used to play this?, Rico thought as he lifted the wooden instrument. Bring it over to Private, both Kowalski and Skipper looked over to Private, as if they also wondered that. "Oh, that's my g'itar", Private said. He then glanced around the room, while the other looked back at him questioning if he could play it. "Would you guys like me to play something?", Private said to fill the silence in the room.
"Sure", the guys simultaneously responded with eagerness. Private took the guitar from Rico and sat on the bed. He began to play Labrinth- i'm jealous of the rain. The others looked in awe and amazement. Everything he played was perfect. Private's fingers moved skilfully over every string, hitting every note and striking every detail. Kowalski, Rico and Skipper listened to the melodic music and to slowly relax. Private looked up with a sad smile as he ended the song, meating the dazed gazes of his teammates.
"Did you guys like it?", Private asked as he set the guitar down.
"Affirmative, young Private, but who taught you how to play that?", Skipper asked, trying to squeeze more information out of Private.
"A few old friends", Private said hesitantly.
"Are they the people in the pictures?", Kowalski asked, trying to center the questions to their specific needed information.
"Yes", Private said feeling as if he were shrinking into himself, feeling cornered into talking about them, about it…
"Will we mit th'm at the partie?", Rico asked, trying to find out if they needed to look out for them at the celebration.
"I don't know", Private said as let a frown finally pull on his face. "Look guys, I have to get somethings prepared for tomorrow, and I really don't want to talk about this."
"Private, as a team we want to know as much about each other as we can", Skipper said in his authoritative voice.
"Skippah, please...I- somethings are just better left alone", Private said as he stood up. "I promise we can talk about this someday, but I don't want to yet." With that Private walked out of the room, leaving his flustered teammates without any further of explanation. The rest of the penguin team, still determined on discovering what Private was hiding, crouched down and looked under the bed. At least the box would still give them some information, but when the looked under, the old box was gone. Private moved it.
A/N- Hi guys sorry for another late update, I had a lot of stuff on my plate. Well better late than never, right? Please leave a review I would love to hear your thoughts on this story, and shout out to Penguin5689 and Kirby the Jolly Fellow for following and favoriteing this story. So thank you all for the support and I shall see you guys next time, bye!