Chapter 3
IM SO SORRY ITS BEEN OVER A MONTH SINCE I LAST UPDATED. I KNOW I SAID IT WOULD BE FOUR DAYS BUT UGHHH I HAD A LOT TO DO IM SORRY IM HORRIBLE. I've been rly busy and imp also working on another thing so I never got the chance to write chapter three...its pretty long to make up for my inactiveness so... hERE U GO
It was a few rounds later, and they were all exhausted from running around and laughing so much. Keefe sighed,
"What time is it?" he grumbled.
"It's nine thirty." Sophie answered.
"Nine thirty?!" Keefe yelled, startling everyone, "And we still haven't eaten dinner? Bye guys, I'm getting food." He got up, stumbling in the process.
"We literally just had snacks." Fitz countered.
"Uhh… Not really. It's been about four hours since Della brought in food." Said Tam.
"Really? It's been that long? Wow, we've been playing truth or dare for quite a while." Dex said.
"Exactly. Now bye." Keefe said, and he loudly walked down the stairs.
"Honestly, I'm pretty hungry too." Fitz said and followed Keefe.
"Yeah, same." Biana declared, as she and the others got up as well.
After a few minutes, they all came back upstairs, sat down, and began to eat mallowmelt.
"Mmmm. Delicious." Said Sophie, taking a big bite.
"I'm so tireddddd." Complained Linh, lying down. A few of the others muttered 'same' and snuggled in their onesies.
"Come on guys, it's early." Said Keefe, the only one still sitting.
"Too bad." Sophie responded.
"Why don't we play base quest?" Keefe asked.
"Base quest?" Tam said, incredulous, "When it's this dark?"
"Fiiiine." Keefe grumbled. Right then, Sophie shot up.
"I know!" she cried, "We can play hide and seek!"
"Hide and seek? What's that?" Linh questioned. Sophie explained the game to them and convinced them all to play.
"We'll use the bottom four floors to play. That's ok right Fitz?" Sophie asked.
"Yeah, of course." He answered.
And so, they began to play. Dex chose to seek first, so the rest hid.
"…Twenty-nine, thirty! Ready or not, here I come!" he said.
Dex found Biana first, she was hiding behind the door to her room, which was pretty obvious. Next, they found Linh hiding in a cupboard next to the stairs on the third floor. Together they finished searching the third floor and proceeded to the fourth floor, but they didn't find anyone.
"This is actually harder than I imagined." Mentioned Biana.
"I know right?" said Dex, "Let's search the second floor."
They quietly stalked down the staircase and stopped in front of a bathroom.
"I'm gonna check in here, you guys check the other rooms." Linh said. They split up, and a few moments later they found each other. Beside Dex was standing Fitz.
"I found Fitz in one of the guest rooms, but he was just standing in the middle of the room." Chuckled Dex.
"Ha, not much of a good hider, are you Fitz?" teased Biana.
"Hey, at least I didn't get discovered first." He countered. Biana rolled her eyes,
"Let's find the others." They looked in each room on the second floor, and since they found no one they went down.
"Hey! I see Tam!" cried Fitz, pointing at a figure lurking in the shadows. The figure sighed and stepped out.
"Awww, you found me. Who's left?" Tam said.
"We need to find Keefe and Sophie." replied Dex.
"Of course, Sophie. She's an expert at this game." said Linh. They continued the search, checking in every corner and every closet. Finally, they heard a cough coming from above them. They all looked up, and sitting on top of a wardrobe was Sophie.
"Sophie! Oh my gosh, what are you doing up there?" laughed Biana. Dex and Fitz chuckled, surprised to find her up there.
"Ugh. All this effort and you didn't even find me last." Sophie grumbled.
"Eh, it was a pretty cool hiding spot – Fitz was just standing in the middle of a room." said Dex.
"You guys are so mean." joked Fitz.
Tam shrugged and said, "Why don't we find Keefe, he's the last one."
Each floor was searched, each room was looked in, each cupboard was checked, and each closet was opened, but nobody could find Keefe. Everyone listened out for any noise that could indicate where he was, but they got nothing.
"I give up. This is impossible." announced Sophie once they had searched over half an hour.
"If we give up, will Keefe get mad at us?" Tam asked.
"Yup." The rest said in unison.
"Okay then, let's keep searching."
No matter how hard they looked, they couldn't find Keefe. After another twenty minutes, Biana sat down,
"I'm done. I don't feel like searching anymore." Linh plopped down beside her,
"Same." Suddenly, Sophie gasped.
"What?!" Fitz asked, worried.
"Worried about your girlfriend, are you?" Tam teased.
"Taaaam. Shut up. She's not my gir-" Fitz began, only to be interrupted by Sophie.
"Guys! Shush. I have an idea, what if Keefe went outside?"
"Outside? It's dark though!" Linh argued.
"I know, but he did say that he wanted to play base quest, and we play that outside. I think he doesn't care that it's dark." said Sophie.
"Yeah, true." Thought Biana, "Do we have flashlights?" she asked Fitz.
"No, I don't think so." He said.
"I can make them pretty quickly." Dex declared. In a few minutes Dex came back down and handed everyone a flashlight.
"Let's go outside and find Keefe!" he said.
Six powerful flashlights lit up the kids' ways. They split apart, looking behind trees and in bushes, the only other movement being small animals scurrying away. Everyone was quiet until they heard a scream.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!" the voice was coming from behind them, so together they ran across the field.
"Wait, where's Sophie?" Fitz asked when they were running.
"I don't know, maybe she was the one who screamed." Replied Linh. Horrible possibilities were racing in everyone's heads, could the Neverseen have come? They really hoped not.
Sophie? Are you OK? Fitz reached out telepathically.
He tried a few more times before he got an answer.
Yeah Fitz, I'm fine. Sorry if I scared you. Fitz relaxed a bit.
It's fine, where are you?
I'm at the right side of your house. Also, I found Keefe.
OK, we're coming.
"Guys, she's this way!" Fitz shouted to the others, leading them to where Sophie was.
Once they reached a tree, they found a very angry Sophie and a hysterically laughing Keefe.
"What happened?" Dex chuckled when he saw them.
"Well, I was looking for Keefe when this bastard just decided to jump down from this tree right next to me." Sophie said angrily.
"Aw, come on. Your reaction was priceless!" Keefe said between laughs.
"We've been searching for you for, like, an hour! And all this time you were hiding in a tree?!" Biana cried.
"Nope." Keefe smirked, "I was moving around from place to place. When I heard you come down to the second floor, I moved down to the first, and when you came there, I went outside. I was also still running when you guys decided to come here. I settled on this tree, and when I got bored I climbed it."
"That's not fair! It would've been so much harder if everyone did that." Complained Fitz.
"You guys never said anything against it." Argued Keefe.
"Come on guys, let's go back inside. I think your parents might get worried, Biana." Said Sophie before they made their way to Fitz and Biana's home.
I'm not gonna say when i'm gonna post the next chapter, because as u can see im absolutely horrible at keeping to my deadlines. so, since i most likely won't update until after new year's, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
hope u all have a great break before school starts :)