The room was dark when they got in. Kurt found a flashlight in a drawer and turned it on so they got some light.
Rachel went to the window and threw back the long and heavy curtains. Doing that didn't let much light in because the sky was really dark with storm clouds and because it was late. Also, all street lights outside were out due to the power outage.
"Wow, look at it pour" Finn said, watching the rain. It came down very fast. So fast, that the streets looked like they were getting a bit flooded. The pitch black sky often lit up by large bolts of lightning, followed by extraordinarily loud rumble of thunder that shook the buildings.
"Yikes!" Rachel jumped up when the thunder came.
Finn protectively put an arm around her. "It's okay. We're indoors."
Their eyes adjusted to the darkness.
"So now what?" Puck asked, sitting on the bed.
"I dunno" Tina said.
Finn picked up the TV remote. "I wish we could watch TV."
"Oh!" Santana jumped up. "I almost forgot!"
"What?" Rachel asked.
Santana gave a sly smile. "For those who didn't come with us to our part of Universal, you missed out on a great little show."
"What do you mean?" Kurt asked.
Puck paled.
Santana pulled out her cell phone. "You see, we had a little contest."
Tina giggled. "Mike won."
"Hold up" Mercedes said. "I'm super confused."
"Just watch this" Santana smirked and handed the phone over to Finn. Blaine, Kurt, Rory, Quinn, Sam, Mercedes and Rachel all crowded around Finn to see the small screen. Finn hit play. They watched Puck on the screen stop passing people and give his speech to them. By the end of the video, everyone was laughing hysterically.
"Oh my gosh" Sam said. "That's the funniest thing I've seen in my life!"
"I think I just died from laughing too hard" Quinn said.
Rachel fell off the bed. "Play it again!"
Finn hit play again and the video began again.
"Guys, you watched it like twenty times. When are you gonna stop?" Puck growled fifteen minutes later. Technically, they were all laughing at him.
"We'll stop watching when it stops being so freaking hilarious" Finn snickered.
Rachel jumped up and stood on a bed so she was higher than everyone else and so everyone could see her. "He is clearly superior and I am not!" she said, quoting the video.
Blaine grinned and jumped up next to her. "I am the worst alien killer of life! Thank you. That is all" he said, finishing the quote and laughing so hard he had to lean on Rachel for support.
Everyone burst out laughing again. Except Puck.
"Are you done now?" Puck asked, getting annoyed now.
Mercedes took a deep breath. "Yes, I think so."
"Wait" Rory held up a finger and paused. Then he burst out laughing again. "Now I am done" he said when he stopped laughing. Puck rolled his eyes and hit Rory's arm.
"Boss dare, bro" Finn said, patting Mike's shoulder. Mike beamed.
"Speaking of dares..." Finn began. "Who wants to play Truth or Dare?"
"Oooh! I will!" Kurt said.
"Same" Tina nodded.
"I think we all will" Mercedes said.
"Great!" Santana said.
Half an hour later, the game was still going on. They were all having a great time. Rachel lay next to Finn, who had an arm slung around her lovingly. Quinn and her new beau Rory, also sat together. Quinn sat on the bed next to Rory with her head resting on his shoulder and her hands clasped together with his. Santana sat in the arm chair with her arms wrapped around Brittany who sat on her lap. Sam lay on one of the beds and Mercedes lay perpendicular to him, with her head resting on his chest. Kurt and Blaine sat together on the bed, their hands clasped together too and Blaine's head on Kurt's shoulder. Puck sat on the end of one bed too. Sugar sat on the floor and Artie sat in between the beds in his wheelchair. Mike sat on the desk with his back to the wall next to Tina. They too, were holding hands.
"Mercedes. Truth or Dare?" Finn asked.
"Dare."
"Describe someone in this room in ten words and we have to guess who it is" Finn said.
Mercedes nodded and looked around the room, finding her target. "Okay. Ready? Funny, pretty, hyper, unique, dancer, optimistic, kind, smiley, nice and blonde."
"Brittany" Rachel said. "Quinn isn't hyper."
"Correct" Mercedes nodded. "Okay, Rory. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" Rory said.
"Who, in this room, is your least favourite person?" Mercedes smiled.
Rory's smile fell and he looked around the room. "Santana."
"Charming" Santana said, not insulted by this at all.
"Blaine. Truth or Dare?" Rory asked.
"Dare" Blaine answered.
"Um...give Sugar an eskimo kiss" Rory said.
"Okay" Blaine said. He let go of Kurt's hands and scooted off the bed to where Sugar sat. He completed the dare and went back into Kurt's embrace.
"Quinn. Truth or Dare?" Blaine asked.
"Truth."
"What is your best quality?"
"Um...determination, I guess" Quinn said slowly. "Sam. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" Sam said.
"If you could get plastic surgery, where would it be?" Quinn smiled.
"My mouth" Sam said as if it was obvious. "Puck. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" Puck said.
"Who in here, has the nicest eyes?" Sam asked.
"Let's see..." Puck said. He jumped up and raced around the room, staring into everyone's eyes. "Quinn. They're a pretty green colour."
"Awww, thank you!" Quinn smiled and batted her eyelashes.
"Santana. Truth or Dare?" Puck asked.
"Dare" Santana smirked.
"Lick Rachel's face" Puck said.
"Ew" Santana frowned. "I might catch a case of the hideous fashion sense."
"I resent that!" Rachel screeched.
"Do it! Do it! Do it!" Puck chanted.
"Ugh, fine!" Santana huffed. Brittany got off her so Santana could get up. Santana went over to where Rachel sat. She grabbed Rachel's head and licked her right cheek from her jaw bone to her right eyebrow.
"Ewww" Rachel said and wiped her face when Santana was done the dare.
"You taste bad" Santana said. "Like peaches."
"Peaches are good" Artie said.
"Whatever" Santana said. "Kurt. Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" Kurt said.
"Who in this room, and you can't pick Blaine, is the kindest?" Santana said.
"Um... Tina" Kurt said. "She hasn't said a mean thing in her entire life, I'm sure.
Tina blushed. "Aw thanks Kurt!"
"Brittany. Truth or Dare?" Kurt asked with a smile.
"Truth" Brittany said.
"Who here makes you laugh the most?" Kurt asked.
"Oh, Mike Chang" Brittany said happily. "He is a laugh riot!"
"Yeah!" Mike smiled triumphantly.
"Tina. Dare or Truth?" Brittany asked.
"It's called Truth or Dare, Brittany" Rachel said.
"What's the difference?" Brittany asked.
"Well...there is none. But that's beyond the point..." Rachel fumbled for the answer.
"If there's no difference, I'm pretty sure it's okay" Brittany said with a straight face. "Tina, answer it."
"Dare" Tina smiled.
"Okay. You gotta let Puck style your hair" Brittany said.
"Puck?" Tina gasped. "What does he know about hair styling? He has no hair!"
"This mohawk begs to differ" Puck smirked. He sat up and patted the bed next to him for Tina to come sit.
"Can't Kurt or Blaine do it instead?" Tina asked.
"You don't want Blaine to style your hair" Kurt said. "All he'll do is gel it up!"
"It's probably better than Puck can do" Tina grumbled and jumped off the desk she sat on to sit next to Puck.
"While he does that, move on" Santana said as Puck started separating Tina's hair into clumps.
"Okay... Rachel. Truth or Dare?" Tina asked. She winced when Puck accidentally pulled her hair.
"Truth" Rachel said.
"Um... Who is your most embarrassing crush?" Tina asked with a smirk.
"Can I have a new question?" Rachel asked.
"Ooooh she's got an answer she doesn't want to share!" Mercedes cackled.
"Nope. Answer the question!" Tina grinned.
Rachel blushed. "I'd rather not..."
"You have to" Blaine said.
"And I'm actually interested to hear the answer too" Finn smile.
"Thanks, Finn. You are so supportive" Rachel said sarcastically.
"Love you too, dear" Finn smiled and kissed her cheek. "Now answer the question."
Rachel sighed. "Mr. Schuster."
"Where?" Brittany looked around for him.
"No, I mean Mr. Schue is the answer" Rachel said, her face turning red.
"Really?" Quinn yelled excitedly.
"Yes" Rachel mumbled and hid her face in her hands.
"That's hilarious!" Sugar laughed.
"Really Rachel?" Kurt looked both disgusted and creeped out.
"Yes it was two years ago. When we did those ballads, remember?" Rachel said.
"Did he know?" Mike asked.
Rachel nodded. "I made it more than obvious."
Everyone laughed.
"If this ever leaves the room, I will find and hurt you" Rachel warned.
"Don't worry. Games like these have a stay-in-the-room-rule" Mercedes said. "Right?"
Everyone nodded.
"Artie. Truth or Dare?" Rachel asked with a sigh.
"Dare" Artie said.
"You must draw detailed pictures of each of us" Rachel said.
"Not stick figures" Blaine piped up.
"Fine, fine. Got any paper?" Artie asked.
Kurt nodded and reached into the night side table drawer. He pulled out a pad of hotel paper and a hotel pen. "Complimentary pen and paper" he said and handed it to Artie.
"Thanks" Artie said and began to draw.
"Yo, do any of you ladies have a few hair elastics that I could use?" Puck asked. He was still working on Tina's hair.
Rachel, Brittany, Mercedes and Sugar all gave him one that they had on their wrists.
"Does it look okay?" Tina asked.
"Yeah" Quinn said with a giggle.
Tina rolled her eyes. "Can you say that without laughing?"
"Who's turn is it?" Finn asked.
"Artie has to pick someone" Rory said.
Artie looked up from his drawing. "Oh, yeah... Sugar! Truth or Dare?"
"Truth" Sugar said.
"What is your biggest fear?" Artie asked.
Sugar thought about it. "That one day I'll be ugly and no boys will like me so I'll die alone."
"Most people pick clowns or snakes" Mercedes laughed.
"Mike. Truth or Dare?" Sugar asked.
"Dare" Mike answered.
"You gotta melt an ice cube in your armpit" Sugar said.
"Do you have an ice cube for me to melt?" Mike asked.
Sugar looked sad. "No."
"Yes we do!" Blaine said. "In the mini fridge!"
"True dat!" Brittany said. She reached down and swung open the small white fridge door. There was a small ice cube tray on the top rack. Brittany pulled it out and popped out the largest ice cube. She handed it to Mike and put the tray back in the fridge.
"It may be a bit melted already because the fridge isn't cold because of the power outage" Quinn said.
"Go ahead, Chang" Finn said. Mike put the ice cube under his arm.
"That's cold!" Mike said, shivering.
"Tell us when it's all melted" Sugar said.
Mike nodded. "I will!"
Ten minutes later, it was melted.
"All melted!" Mike announced, lifting up his arm.
"Congrats" Sam smiled.
"It's done!" Puck said. "Tina's hair is done!"
Puck removed his hands from Tina's wacky hair. It was separated into four parts. One part was suppose to be braided but it was poorly done. Another part was in a very messy bun that hung off the side of her head. The other part was hanging loose in the back like a mullet and the last part was in a ponytail on the top of her head, but it was so long it flopped in her face. It was a truly hideous mess.
Everyone laughed. Mercedes pulled out her camera and took several pictures of it.
"Can I see now?" Tina asked.
"Nice job, Puck" Rachel giggled.
"I'm almost afraid to see" Tina said. She stood up and walked to the large mirror by the closet. When she stepped in view and saw the monstrosity on her head, she screamed.
"It looks hot!" Puck grinned and winked at her.
"It's horrible! Puck, this is a mess! Don't ever go into a career in this!" Tina screeched.
"It looks fine" Puck laughed. "But, in my defense, it was dark."
"Ugh, no!" Tina rolled her eyes. She turned around. "Kurt, help me fix it, please?"
She walked to where Kurt sat with his arms wrapped around Blaine.
"Sorry. Kurt's busy" Blaine smiled.
Tina paused. "Doing what?"
"Hugging me. And keeping me warm" Blaine replied.
Tina rolled her eyes and pointed to her hair. "It's an emergency!"
"I'll fix it for you, Tina" Puck laughed.
"I'm not letting you within twenty feet of my hair!"
"Come on! Don't you trust me?" Puck asked.
"No!" Tina said. "Blaine, I'll hug you while Kurt fixes my hair."
"Okay" Blaine said. Tina sat on the bed in front of Kurt. Blaine sat next to Tina, who threw her arms around him.
"You're much warmer than Kurt!" Blaine said.
"Blaine, you're like my cat! He won't sit on my lap unless it's warm. And if someone else has a warmer lap, he'll go there. Usually that's Rory, but he doesn't even like Lord Tubbington, so I get sad" Brittany said.
Blaine opened his mouth to say something but a really bright flash of lightning lit up the room. And only a second later a really, really loud clap of thunder came and shook the building.
Mercedes jumped. "That scared me!"
"You jumped so high!" Quinn laughed.
Sam laughed and hugged Mercedes. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah" Mercedes nodded. "Just a bit startled..."
"Thunder is scary" Sugar said.
"I'm pretty sure the rain will break the window, the way it is hitting it" Finn said, eyeing the window.
"Okay who wants to see?" Artie said, setting down the pen. "My masterpiece is finished.
"I think Puck said the same thing and we all know how that turned out" Tina said as Kurt fixed her hair.
"Well, this is true brilliance" Artie said. He held up the picture. He had actually drawn pictures of everyone. Plus, the pictures were good, too.
"You're a good artist" Mercedes smiled.
"Yeah" Rory nodded.
"Thanks" Artie said.
Mercedes snapped a picture of that too.
"Guys!" Mike said and picked up the flashlight. He held it upright at his chin so it cast long, dark shadows on his face. "Who knows a scary story?"
"I'll give it a shot" Mercedes said. Mike tossed her the flashlight and Mercedes caught it with one hand.
"Good catch" Finn smiled.
"Thanks. Okay, ready? Once upon a time in an old house lived a woman. She lived alone. One day, a twisted man found a secret passage way into her house through a loose floorboard. And every night when the woman was fast asleep he would creep in and take something from her house. Like a book or a lamp or a fork. He did this for two years and the woman never noticed. Then one night when he came in and found the woman dead on the floor. He put the body in a closet and lived in the house for a week. No one would notice that she was dead or that he took over her house. Then, two weeks later, when the man was getting ready to fall asleep, the closet door slowly opened. The man only noticed when the door was fully open. And in the closet, was the woman...as a zombie. She took a shotgun and shot the man and then she fell dead again, for real and forever. No one noticed that he died too. People only knew many, many, many years later when the house was torn down so a mall could be built. And that mall is the Lima Mall..." Mercedes whispered. "The end..."
Rory clapped. "That was good."
"I'm sorta scared to back to the mall now" Rachel said.
"I think I'll have to check all my floor boards at my house" Kurt said with a shudder. "Tina, I am done. You hair is returned to its original state."
"Thanks Kurt!" Tina smiled and let go of Blaine to hop across the room and sit with Mike.
"Good job, Mercedes" Finn said. "Anyone have another scary story?"
"Ooh ooh, me!" Brittany said, waving her hand.
"Is this a legit scary story?" Quinn asked, doubt in her voice.
Brittany nodded. "It's based on a dream I had." She held the flashlight that Mercedes passed to her to her face. "One night in a cold small house that was built on an old graveyard, there was a storm. There was lots of lightning and it kept hitting the house. And then, the lightning brought one of the buried things back to life. Only, it wasn't a human bean..."
"Being" Kurt corrected.
"...instead, it was a cat corpse. And the cat, who died by getting run over by a pink convertible, was possessed and haunted the little girl who lived in the house. The cat's name was Sir Lord Tubbington and he had claws. And he was going to claw out the little girl's eyes but then more lightning came and it zapped Sir Lord Tubbington and he died again. Then the little girl took the dead cat corpse and reburied it. And the next day when she told her friend, he didn't believe her. So she took a shovel and dug up the cat corpse, but it wasn't there! So the other person thought she was loony and took her to a mental hospital where she lived alone and never got married. And people say she still sees the cat when storms happen. Then she died suddenly thirty years later. And when the person found her, she had claw marks on her eyes. The end!" Brittany said, flicking off the flashlight so the room got darker.
KNOCK!
A loud pounding on the door startled everyone and more than usual due to the scary stories. Everyone screamed.
"What was that?" Rachel asked with a hand on her rapidly rising and falling chest.
"I...don't know" Artie said. He too took deep breaths.
"The door?" Santana asked.
"I think so" Blaine nodded and held Kurt tight.
"Finn, you're closest to the door" Mercedes said. "You see who it is."
"What?" Finn whined. "Why me?"
"You're the tallest" Brittany piped up.
"Fine. If I die, remember me as the cool tall guy with the great personality who loves Rachel" Finn said, slowly standing up.
"Oh, stop being so dramatic" Puck said.
Finn walked to the door.
"Use the peep hole!" Rachel said.
Finn nodded and did as instructed.
"It's too dark to see out there!" Finn whispered.
"Don't open the door!" Sugar gasped.
"No, do it!" Santana said. "Who is it?"
Finn put his hand on the cool metal door handle and took a deep breath. Slowly, he twisted the door handle and then swung the door open. There, in the hallway, holding a flashlight, was Mr. Schuster.
"Hello Finn."
"Oh, it's just you" Finn said, very relieved. He turned back to the teens. "It's all okay. It's just Mr. Schue!" Several sighs of relief were heard.
Will chuckled. "Yes, it's me. I heard screaming in here. You all okay?"
"Yes, yes. We're fine. We just got a bit startled when you knocked" Finn said.
"Oh, sorry" Will apologized. "How are you all managing without TV or internet or whatever other electonics you teens are addicted to?"
"We're doing fine" Finn said. "In fact, we're telling scary stories. Do you wanna try?"
Will laughed. "No thank you. I just came to check up on you guys. If you need us, we'll be in room 512, okay?"
"Okay" Finn nodded. "Thanks for stopping by!"
"Bye" Will laughed and walked away, letting the flashlight in his hand illuminate the hall.
Finn shut the door and returned to the group.
They talked and laughed for another hour and a half.
"I'm tired" Kurt said, closing his eyes and falling limp in Blaine's arms. Conversation had reached a awkward silence and all they could hear was the rain and thunder outside.
"Seriously?" Santana asked.
"Yeah" Kurt said, without opening his eyes. "We went to Universal, prepared to do a show, fought with the enemy glee club and more. I am tired."
Rory yawned. Quinn yawned. Sam yawned.
"Yawning is contagious" Rachel gigged as Mercedes promptly yawned too.
"It proves you're all tired too" Kurt mumbled.
"I am" Tina agreed.
"The storm is still going strong" Puck pointed out as thunder rumbled and rain was pelted against the window.
"I hope it stops soon" Sugar said. "Rain means no sun and no sun means no tan."
"My cousin once used a spray tan" Quinn said. "But she turned out orange."
Everyone laughed.
"Guys! Guys!" Blaine whispered urgently. "Can you keep it down? I think Kurt's asleep."
"Oh, sorry Blaine. Why don't you take him back to your room where he can sleep in peace?" Mercedes suggested nicely.
"This is our room" Blaine rolled his eyes.
"Ooops" Mercedes giggled quietly.
"We'll leave" Quinn said, swinging her legs off the bed.
"You don't have to. Just keep your voices down" Blaine said.
"No, no" Rachel said. "We'll go."
They all nodded, stood up and stretched.
"Whenever I stretch, I think of Lord Tubbington because he stretches too" Brittany said quietly as Santana ushered her out of the room.
"Bye Blaine!" Rachel waved as she walked out of the room. "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite!"
Blaine laughed. "We won't. Kurt made sure there were none as soon as we got into the room."
They all quietly exited the room.
Blaine heard the door click shut. Silence. Then he noticed two things. One, the window's curtains were still wide open. And two, both he and Kurt were still in their outfits from the show. Blaine decided to leave the outfits on. It wouldn't be worth waking Kurt up so he could avoid a few wrinkles the next morning. But the window defiantly bugged him. He slowly shifted his position and Kurt in his arms so he could gently lay Kurt on the bed. Once Kurt was out of his arms he hopped off the bed and pulled the heavy curtains shut. He picked up the flashlight that Rory had left on the bedside table and turned it off so complete darkness engulfed the whole room. Carefully and quietly, Blaine crept on the bed and lay next to Kurt, trying to wake him. Fail.
"Blaine?" Kurt mumbled, half asleep.
"Sorry, did I wake you?" Blaine asked, pulling the warm blanket up.
"Yeah" Kurt admitted.
"I'm so sorry. I just went to close the curtains, I didn't mean to wake you!" Blaine said.
"S'okay" Kurt said with a large yawn. "I'm not mad at you."
"I'm so sorry" Blaine said again and kissed Kurt's forehead.
"Did everyone leave?" Kurt asked, noticing that it was darker and quiet.
"Yeah" Blaine nodded and wrapped his arms around Kurt as he shuffled closer so his head was on Blaine's chest.
"Okay. I love you" Kurt said, closing his eyes again and sighing with content.
"I love you too. Good night. Or actually, good morning" Blaine said, glancing at the small light-up watch on the bed side table.
"G'night" Kurt whispered and with that they both fell asleep.
"So is this goodbye?" Quinn asked. They had all shuffled out of Kurt and Blaine's room and were standing in the dark hallway. There was a window at the end of the hall. The only light source was the exit sign on the other end of the hallway.
"We could just chill in another room" Puck suggested.
"Naw, I'm tired" Rachel said.
"Me too" Sam said.
"It is kinda late. And we had a busy day" Tina said.
"So goodnight then" Finn said. He leaned down and kissed Rachel.
"Night y'all" Mercedes said and kissed Sam.
"This is gonna be one big kiss-fest, isn't it?" Artie asked.
"Yup" Sugar answered and Tina kissed Mike and Rory and Quinn shared their second kiss.
Finally, everyone broke apart and went to their designated door.
The last thing Rachel and Mercedes heard before they shut their door was Finn.
"Hey Puck, what room are we in again?"
A/N
Hello Gleeks!
I'm so glad you peeps all approved of the Rory/Quinn relationship. I do too! :) Anyways, one reader 'BwayAngel1296' suggested that the group play Truth or Dare. I liked the idea but I am actually th worst player of life. I can't think of a good question to save my life. So I downloaded an Truth or Dare app, so if you recognize some of the questions, it's from the app. I tried to change some up or make up some of my own, but...
You may be asking 'A power out in a hotel? What an obscure idea! Where on earth did she get the idea for such randomness?' Well, true story, it happened to me. Yes, many years back my family and I went to a hotel and there was a storm and the power was knocked out. And the hotel couldn't get the backup generator going. Luckily, it was during the day so we could see without lights and actually it was fun. We got to run around the lobby and chase the 2 bats that flew inside the hotel. Yes, legit bats. XD. So long random story short, I got the idea for a power outage in the story from my real life. Hahaha! :)
Thanks to all who reviewed and saved me and my story to favourites. I love you all so much, you have no idea how much I love you. A LOT. ;)
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