After a while of going down the stairs, she stumbled on across another door like the ones she had met during her adventure in the building.
She gently smirked in mild amusement, amused about what could be in store for her, as well as curious about what could happen next after her near experienced with the three fearsome creatures.
Reaching over to the door, she slowly unlocks it and opened the door.
When the door is almost open, she carefully inserts her head into the dark hallway from behind the door, to check if there are any other fierce monsters than the ones she had met before.
Expecting one of them to pop out from their hiding spot and bite her head off.
To her relief, there were no fearsome monsters on the other side of the door.
She sighed in relief and fully entered the hallway, closing the door behind her back.
After entering the hallway, she clicked her flashlight on in her right hand, revealing the dark and long hallway.
She stares thoughtfully down at the dark passage, wondering to herself about what could be on the 1st level after completing the 2nd level.
Stephanie took a cautious step forward, glancing side to side for a moment, before walking, heading to the exit on the other side of the hallway.
Just like last time, she checked every hallway as she passes, looking for either the Waiter or the Greeter.
Feeling like she was followed from behind, she turned around to the back of the hallway, clicking her flashlight on, only to notice the Follower was behind her back, hissing as he concealed his eyes with his ears, blocking the visible light out of his eyes.
After she had blinded the Follower, she continued walking, hearing cursing from behind her back.
She felt sorry, so, she stopped in front of the hallway and whispered, hoping that the Greeter would hear her, "Sorry." and continued walking.
When she was inches away from the Follower, he glanced up at her after blinking, looking confused about why she apologized, even though they are playing a dangerous game?
The Greeter popped out from the hallway to the left, hissing at her, but blinded from the flashlight in her hand.
She growled fiercely and moved out of her way.
Stephanie stepped forward to the front of the hallway, soft apologizing to her with a, "Sorry 'bout that."
She continued walking until a growl growled from inside the hallway to the right.
Stephanie stopped in her tracks and looked down in the hallway.
She clicked her flashlight on and saw the Waiter, sitting on the ground with its tail around the front of his body.
He was waiting for her to walk away from the hallway when she heard his growl.
But instead got blinded by the flashlight in her hand.
After blinding the Waiter, she was about to walk away, when she stopped, glancing down the hallway and said, "Sorry."
The Waiter did a confused snort as she walked away, blinking a couple of times to get the brightness out.
As she continued down the hallway, she did not even mind the Follower behind her back, as it crept stealthily closer to her.
But, before it could get closer to her to attack, something rang musically from her capacious pockets.
A confused snort came from it, as she stopped in her tracks, sighing in an annoyed tone.
Annoyed about who is calling her at this exact moment, while in the possible amount of danger she is in?
She shifted her position of the flashlight in her hand to a gripped army position, as another pair of arms popped out of her sides, underneath the first pair.
The Follower's jaw nearly dropped to the ground when he saw her second pair of arms.
They were hidden in her?!
But, how are they hidden from him?!
He did not feel them when he grabbed her around the middle!
He tried thinking of how they were hidden, as the tone of the ringing still continued, making him more confused as he listened.
She popped the bottom of the flashlight into her mouth, holding it in her mouth as she used her arms to get whatever could be that ringing noise.
With her first pair of arms, she gripped the edge of her sweater with both of her hands, lifting it up to the middle of her body.
Luckily is not revealing her bra.
Her second pair of arms reached into her blue jeans pockets and rummaged through her pockets.
The Follower watched in shock and awe as the hands moved around, searching through the front pockets, then the back pockets.
While he is watched, he noticed something on her skin.
A long silver piece down the middle of her back, as there were other scratch marks along the sides, as there were miniature screws.
He quietly winced to himself when he noticed that her back is metal too.
Not only that, but he also noticed some scars on the sides of her body, as well as some on her back, away from her metallic spine.
After a moment of rummaging, she perked a little when she found the object, pulling out a small phone in her left-hand side of her blue jeans' pocket.
The mobile phone was a mobile Galaxy phone, except the screen was wide and cracked from dropped a couple of times.
The color of the case is a light turquoise blue.
From where she is standing, he could not see the design of the case.
Since Greeter is so fascinated by collecting cute things from people who are women.
He noticed there was a phone charm dangling from it, on the corner of the case.
Curious, he carefully took a step forward, to see what is the charm.
The charm was a silver moon charm, decorated with miniature, light blue gems, as a star was on the bend.
The silver wire that holds the silver moon to the loop was decorated with two beads, turquoise stone, and a blue diamond, in the shape of spheres.
He felt interested someone like her actually likes the color blue.
After she had taken her phone out of her pocket, she pulled her sweater down from lifting it up.
Then, she moved her second pair of arms back into her sides, disappearing as she held her phone up to her face with her left hand, as her right hand was getting the flashlight out of her mouth, with a *pop* sound.
Feeling curious about who is calling her, he got closer to her, as she stared at the screen, with an annoyed look on her face.
When he got closer to her, he was nearly breathing down her neck, as he glanced at the screen.
On the screen said, "Bitch" over a picture, which is a picture of a brown female dog.
There were two buttons on each side at the bottom of the picture, as the green button means to answer the person's call and the red button to hang up on that person.
Stephanie gazes at the portable screen for a moment, as the phone buzzes continuously, before sighing.
She pressed the green button and lifted the phone up to her ear, sighing impatiently.
This is different from what he had expected.
She was calm, collected, not angry, and knows what to do when there is trouble.
"What?" she asked bluntly, her tone sounded annoyed.
There were hints of frustration too, according to the disappointed tone of her voice.
It was not like the other tones of her voice he heard before.
He was about to snap at her for tricking them into playing a little game she created when she moved the phone away from her ear, to the distance.
The Follower felt confused, so, he was about to lift his ear up to listen to what the person on the other line said when a shrieking voice shrieked from the phone.
"Don't you 'what' me!" a female's shrill voice loudly screeched, causing the Follower to jump almost 10 ft in the air.
Who or what was that shrill voice behind the phone?
He rubbed his ear for a moment, as she still had the phone away from her ear, listening to the woman on the other side of the phone, ranting at her.
She had a tired look on her phone as she listened, listening to her ranting.
"Tell me where the hell are you!" she screeched. "You better not be at a party, or else I might ground you for another year!"
She sighed as she moved the phone back over to her ear, as the Follower, listened to their conversation.
"Even though you have grounded me for about… 9 or 10 years from what I've heard." she bitterly spoke.
"Don't you even talk to me with that tone, young lady!" the voice screeched angrily, as she moved the phone away from her ear again.
'Jesus Christ…' The Follower thought to himself, as he continued hearing the young lady through the other side of the mobile phone screaming shrilly at her, as well as cussing her out too, as she angrily ranted terrible words at her. 'Does this always happen at home, too? No wonder why she seems to be calm at us while we were trying to scare here...'
She continued to rant at her through the phone, as she had the mobile phone away from her ear, listening impatiently to her ranting with an annoyed look on her face, as she merely continued ranting.
Having enough of the person on the other side of the line, she moved the mobile phone down to her face as the person continued to rant on the other side of the phone.
She touched the red button to rudely hang up on that person, as there was finally peace and quiet in the hallway, as she is sighing gently to herself as the Follower was rubbing both of his ears from all the screeching.
"Damn bitch…" she mumbled to herself as she placed the phone in the same pocket she pulled it out earlier.
The tone of her changed again, this time, she sounded angry than annoyed.
She gritted her teeth angrily, as a small fang appearing on the left-hand side of her teeth.
"Who the hell does she think she could command me around the fuckin' house like I am a fuckin' robot to her?!" she snapped, as her eyes turned into a ruby color, her hands gripping into fists.
She looked like she was ready to punch someone in the face.
The Follower felt confused and scared about what she could do.
So, he does not know what she could do next.
After a while of gritting her teeth and her hands clenched into fists, she calmed down, breathing in and out slowly.
The Follower was quiet as he watched her calmed down, repeating the process of breathing.
Her fang was gone as she calmed down, as the red ruby eye color was changed back into her steel-blue eye color.
After she calmed down from her anger, she felt like she was being watched from behind.
She turned around to the responsible person that is behind her back, only to notice it was the Follower standing behind her, looking confused as his eyes were steel-blue instead of glossy black with a red pinprick as his eyes.
"Did you listen to the conversation?" she asked.
The Follower nodded his head, yes, answering her question.
She facepalmed herself with her left hand when she realized she was being watched by the Follower.
The Follower was confused for a moment, before craning his body to the side, looking at the Greeter and the Waiter, at the other side of the hallway behind Stephanie.
They both shrugged their shoulders as if they do not know what is going on with her or that "Bitch" she spoke of.
A tired sigh escaped from her as she glanced back up at the Follower, as he glanced back at her, looking confused as she stared up at his eyes.
"I…" she glanced away from his eyes to the side, unsure about what she could say to someone else than the person she trusts.
She trusts herself of doing the dangerous adventures but never asking a different person of her troubles.
So, she wisely decided not to tell all three about her problems.
"Let's just keep playin' the game…" she sighed, glancing away from the Follower's gaze.
She turned back around to the front of the hallway, as the Greeter and the Waiter hid.
Continuing walking, she strode down the hallway as the Follower followed after her from behind, not even bothering to fiercely attack her with he got close to her, just following her in confusion.
Should people be worried about her since she is missing from home?
But, the "Bitch" on the other side of the mobile phone did sound too unhappy when she realized she was missing from her home.
She continued walking down the hallway, not even noticing that the other two monsters were not popping out to attack her when she passed one of them.
When she reached the exit, she was about to reach over to the doorknob to open, but stopped.
She instead moved her hand down.
The Follower stopped at where he is, staring at her as she stood there, doing nothing.
Stephanie turned around slightly, glancing at the Follower for a moment, as he noticed the sadness in her eyes.
They were filled with remorse and grief.
She looked away for a second, before glancing back at him, then turned back around, opening the door of the exit, entering the next flight of stairs.
When she left, she did not even bother closing the door behind, as the door creaked closed.
The Follower only stood there, his shoulders dropped from being hunched up, his black eyes turning to steel-blue.
Not only his eye turned back to normal, but his claws and his sharp teeth also went back to normal.
The blood stains on the corner of his lips were gone too, as his fur was normal.
'What was that…?' He thought to himself.
As for Stephanie, she stopped for a moment, leaning back against a wall, as she glanced down at her right metal hand.
Her arm was shaking as she stared at it, feeling angry for the way that "Bitch" on the other side of the phone was treating her.
She felt like she wants to punch something, but, stopped herself, placing her left hand on top of her fisted right hand.
Shakily sighing, she calmed herself down from her anger, slowly breathing in and out.
Like how she repeated the process back in the hallway after the frustrating call from the "Bitch."
After calming down, she moved a strand of her hair to the side, which was oddly black, until she touched it with her left hand, changing back to a normal brown color.
She turned back around to the next flight of stairs, stepping down as there was something left on the ground, as a drop of black substance.