(Alex's Pov)
I was writing anything and basically everything down in my journal. I didn't want to believe anything that the Olm had said but it was hard. It was starting to get to me but I couldn't let it show. I just couldn't. I know Anne had come up to talk to me at some point but I didn't really respond to her only making a hum sound to her but not actually listening.
"Alex, you need some sleep." I hear and I shake my head as I wrote a sentence down.
"No sleep." I mutter and keep writing.
"Hey it's still going to be there in the morning, you've been writing and sketching for hours." Anne says and I shake my head.
"I need to write it, what if it changes like Marcy's temple, it's better to know this now." I say quickly and I start sketching a drawing on the wall.
"Trust me, this place won't change like Marcy's temple." She says and I looked up then down and then to Anne and then back to the drawing.
"I just need to get this one thing-."
"No sleep now." She says and I groaned a bit and then looked to Anne.
"Just let me sketch this and then I can go to bed." I tell her and she sighed and I looked to my journal.
"Just like Marcy." Anne says and I stopped and stared at the sketch a bit then looked to Anne.
"I'm sorry." I tell her and shut the book and placed it in my pouch and looked to Anne. She looked to me a bit and placed her hand on my cheek and I look to the ground a bit as I take a breath.
"Sorry I just… I don't know why but I just… I felt bad when we were in Marcy's temple and I just… it's not that I want to be right but, I just… would like to know what we are getting into." I tell her and she rubbed my cheek with her thumb and I place my hand on top of hers.
"It's ok, I get it." She tells me and I nod a little and look up to see her as she smiled at me gently and I take a breath and smiled a bit at her.
"Come on, I think you should eat something then sleep, you missed lunch and dinner." She tells me.
"I was writing that long?" I asked and she nods and we go and take a seat by the others.
"Been writing much?" HopPop asked and I nod and he hands me a bowl and nod to him.
"Thank you." I say and see that it was some soup and I eat it.
"So, what have you got written down?" Sprig asked and I looked to him a bit and then to Anne who looked to me. I felt a little uncomfortable talking to Sprig after what I had herd them talk about. I just pull my journal out and hand it to him and he takes it and opens the book. I know I need to get a new one soon since I only had about ten pages left. I finished eating my food and I helped clean my bowl and placed it and the spoon back in the proper place in the bags. I then go and take a seat next to Anne and I looked to Sprig as he showed Polly my journal and I looked down to the ground a bit.
"Hey you, ok?" I hear Anne asked and I nod at this but I had kept quiet and kept my eyes to the ground. She put her hand to my back and I stiffened up a bit as her hand had been placed where my scar was and I feel her move her hand away.
"Sorry did I hit your scar?" She whispered and I nod a bit at this.
"Does it hurt?" She asked and I shook my head a bit.
"No just… it's sensitive, nothing bad though just feels weird you know." I tell her and she nods at this.
"Yea I get it, and with how big it looks it's got to feel really weird… I'm sorry for touching it." She says and I shake my head.
"No, not your fault just… never really got touched there… you didn't know and I didn't know it would… feel like that." I tell her and I chuckled a bit at this as she nods.
"Is it ok if I… put my hand on your back?" She asked and I nod and she placed her hand there again and rubbed my back a bit and it felt nice. It was comforting and relaxing.
"What's all this?" Sprig asked and he showed me the sketch I made and I think a bit.
"Um… drawing on wall… something to do with our gems, but this must have been when we were thirteen." I mutter and I looked to the ground again and I felt Anne rub my back some more.
"Oh… ok." He says and I nod and kept quiet. I know I started to nod off a bit at this and I felt my eyes grow heavy at the soothing feeling on my back and I don't know when but I finally fell asleep. Now I don't know how long I was asleep but I woke up at one point to hear Anne and the others talking but I kept silent and my eye closed to not show them I was awake. I felt that Anne was still rubbing my back gently and I noticed that my head was leaning on her shoulder a bit.
"I didn't mean what I said to him." Sprig says.
"You have to tell him that." I hear Anne say to him.
"But I can't if he won't talk to me." Sprig says.
"It's not that easy Sprig, you were mean to him, he thinks you don't like him, you wouldn't listen when I told you about how he has changed, he probably heard everything and just doesn't want to upset you or Polly or HopPop." Anne tells him.
"How can I trust him when the last thing he did was betray you and Marcy." He says to her.
"Marcy betrayed us too; do you trust her still?" Anne asked.
"She was nice, she helped us, she didn't know she was being betrayed by the king, you can't compare the two, she didn't know she was tricked." He tells her.
"But you still trust her… after she basically got us sent here, just because she didn't want to move-."
"You're comparing the two, you can't do that, Alex knew what he was doing, he manipulated you, he tried to get HopPop killed just because people liked him and what he had to say, he caused Toad Tower to fall just because you were standing up for yourself and for us because you knew what he was doing was wrong, then he starts fighting with you, with actual swords mind you, all Marcy did was get you transported here, you and I would have never met, you would have never known of this place and I would have never known about your world, heck we now know there are many other worlds out there to explore, and she just got scared because she was moving away which you said to me that you could understand." He tells her. He was right though, about Marcy and I being vastly different, even if we did make a mistake she didn't do it intentionally, she even said herself that she didn't know the box would actually work. All I did was try to kill his grandfather and cause Anne more pain and trust issues.
"But look at what he's done now, he's got everyone working together, he's trying to help us get to my temple-."
"What if he's just using you again though?" He asked her.
"He isn't, what makes you think that?" She asked.
"He went to find his temple, which for some reason he said ended up destroyed? Marcy's temple is still standing, yours is frog knows where." He says.
"What does that have to do with him supposedly manipulating me right now?" She asked.
"He just wants more power, now that there are new temples." He says.
"He can't take our powers, he didn't try to take Marcy's powers either, there is some holes in your theory Sprig, besides we don't know anything about my temple it might not work because I still technically have my powers." She says.
"It says here that it's possible, why didn't he say anything when he wrote it down?" He asked.
"He was busy writing lots of stuff down, he let you read the journal, so he wasn't hiding it, it's literally written on the walls, I can go look at it and read it right now if he wasn't asleep on me right now, you're just making things worse by trying to find excuses on why we shouldn't trust him even though he hasn't done anything bad to us, to anyone else in Wartwood, he hasn't hurt anyone and everyone there look up to him at least they have his trust, so why can't you?" She asked him. She sounded a bit agitated and I wanted to help calm her down but I couldn't.
"But you are forgiving him way to easily that's the problem, you're acting as if he wasn't a jerk the last time you saw him, he threw us in jail." He tells her.
"Sprig-."
"You're dating him too, you're forgiving him way to easily to the point that you're ok with dating him." Sprig interrupted her.
"Sprig I… I don't want to have this conversation any more, I told you I didn't want you involved when it comes to my choice to be with him. You wouldn't like it if I got involved with who you date." She says.
"What do you even see in him?" He asked.
"He is nice in his own way, he has changed but you don't want to see that, I've liked him for a long time-."
"Back when he was manipulative." I hear and I felt terrible at this.
"Sprig… stop." She says.
"But if you liked him back then doesn't that mean something? Shouldn't you be thinking about how that affects you? If you liked him when he was manipulative, he would use it against you and try it again." Sprig says to her.
"No, he wouldn't he hasn't and he never will, you have no idea the life he had, there are things that I still don't know about him and how his homelife is, geez you read the message his mom sent me before we got here, she was a bitch and didn't care that her son was missing for ten god damn years." She says.
"How do you know he wouldn't? Yea his mom was a jerk but where do you think he got that from?" He asked.
"Because I know and you are acting like a jerk Sprig, give him a chance that's all I am asking, I'm not telling you that you automatically have to like him and forget everything he had done but you have to think and look at all he's done to try and help people since he's been here… Sprig he's scared to even go home, he has nothing, literally nothing, he's probably freaking out on the inside about what would happen if he does go back home, it's hard for us humans we can't do anything without even having some form of education, and a degree or diploma to show for it, I couldn't be a herpetologist if I didn't go to school for it, they wouldn't let me work at the aquarium without it." She says.
"He's going to end up leaving you anyway, he wants to stay here so there is no point in dating him, he doesn't need to worry about getting all that back in your world if he doesn't even want to go back home to begin with, like you said he has nothing." He says to her.
"I can come visit, and I want to help him Sprig, we have to help each other out… and even if he doesn't come home I can still visit if we have the box with us." She tells him.
"What if for some unknown reason you can't… what would you do?" He asked.
"Not going to happen." She tells him.
"But what if that does happen? He shows that he doesn't care about your feelings if he's just going to stay here and not even try to go home with you, he's not taking your feelings into account, he's just using you." He says and I decided to end this so I shift a bit and they kept quite as I moved a bit and pretended to wipe the sleep from my eye and I ended up yawning a bit.
"Hey, had a nice sleep?" Anne asked and I nod a bit and I looked around for my journal and I grabbed it from the side and I went back over to the wall and started to write and sketch again.
"See he didn't even try to talk." I hear Sprig whisper harshly.
"Sprig stop now." I hear Anne say and I just tuned them out a bit as I kept writing. The ground shook a bit and I turn my head to the side as we see the Mother Olm pop up from her cavern and I go over to her as does Anne and Sprig.
"I just remembered something interesting… want to hear about it?" She asked us.
"Yea, anything would be good." I say to her.
"Seems I made a mistake on the moon." She says and I groaned a bit.
"It's not wrong that it's at a blood moon that part is true, but seeing as she has her powers still… well." She says then stops and then shrugged.
"I forgot." She says and I turn the pages a bit in my journal.
"So, it's still on a blood moon, in the ocean, Anne still has her powers… could affect the temple?" I asked.
"Seems right and you and the other girl have your powers?" She asked me and I nod a bit.
"Yea we do… will that affect the temple?" I asked.
"More than likely." She says and I write this down on the finale page of my journal and I look to Anne and the others.
"I think we have all the information we need." I say and look to Mother Olm.
"We can try and patch up the holes in the main city area if you'd like… at least for the other Olms to show up." I suggested.
"That would be wonderful thank you." Mother Olm says and I nod as we head on out and I began to get to work. Anne would help me here and there and I would move some stones to the holes and made sure it would fit perfectly. We grabbed some dirt to patch around the areas too and finished up after a few hours. I wiped the sweat from my face and looked to Anne and smiled a bit to her and I head on down to the cave and checked to make sure it was structurally ok, at least for now before I could come back later on and work on it more. I went over to Anne and we all started to head back to Wartwood and I read over my journal a bit to find anything that Mother Olm was talking about.
"Wonder what she meant by you not having a gem." Sprig says and I look to him then back to my book as I try to think about it. I heard him mutter a bit and I look to see him hop away from me and over to his family and I felt bad that I didn't respond fast enough, but I didn't know what to say I really didn't. I stopped reading my journal and I put it in my pouch and I just walked for a bit and looked around. I look over to Anne a bit and I go over to her and grabbed her hand gently and she looked to me and I nod my head to the side a bit to indicate that I wanted to talk to her alone a bit and she nods as we step back from the Planters a bit and I feel that we were far enough from them to talk in private.
"Something wrong?" She asked.
"No… no I just… remember when we talked about me staying here or going back home?" I asked her and she nods.
"Yea… do you want to talk about that?" She asked and I nodded a bit at this.
"Ok… what about?" She asked.
"How… do you feel about me staying here?" I asked her.
"A little sad but we can visit when we get the music box back of course." She tells me and I look to her.
"Would you still want to be in a relationship with me if I stay here?" I asked her.
"Yea… why are you asking?" She asked me and I held her hand a bit.
"Just had a dream and… I wanted to figure something out." I tell her.
"Oh, one of those dreams… your teeth fall out too?" She jokes and I smiled and chuckled a bit.
"No, God no just… I don't know it just… I just wanted to know." I tell her truthfully.
"It's alright." She says and think.
"Do… you know any programs that… could help me… if I were to go back home?" I asked her quietly and I look to the ground.
"Are you serious?" She asked and I shrugged.
"Just… I just… don't know… I want to make you happy but then I want to… not deal with stuff back home… I don't know Anne I just." I stopped and look at her.
"I want to try something… I want you happy but I don't… want to seem like I'm an ass to you." I tell her.
"I can find some programs for you to look at, I can help you if you want to come home, help you get a job too." She tells me and I nod.
"Just options if you do come home that is." She tells me and I nod again as we keep walking. It took us a few days to get back and we finally get to Wartwood. The planters head on over to their home and I went to a makeshift hut that Grime and I had made a while back. This was before Loggle told us about the Planters secret room in their house. Once I had gotten to my hut I sat at my desk and wrote a quick letter to the king and sent out a messenger fly to head to Newtopia and give the letter to Darcy and Andrias. I pinched the bridge of my nose a bit and then looked to my journal and read it a bit.
"To the ocean you will see, during a blood moon a temple shall rise, though it may seem strange for the temple to be here but it must be hidden for the fear of being found." I read to myself and think a bit and rubbed my head and I feel a hand on my shoulder and look up to see Anne reading.
"Why does it say it will show up only when I'm nearby?" She asked and I read it over.
"Hu… The temple will show when the blue gem owner comes nearby." I read and think.
"Maybe she was confused." I state and I look to Anne as she reads more.
"She seemed like she was confused… but it's fine." Anne says and I nod at this and looked through a few pages.
"I just don't understand if a prophecy says we were supposed to defeat this thing ten years ago then at some point ten years ago I was supposed to come back." She says as she took a seat on my bed and I look to her.
"Prophecies aren't always right, it could have been wrong or didn't think you would have been gone that long… it's confusing but sometimes it's like a fifty, fifty chance of it happening… well more like sixty, forty." I try to explain.
"So, there was a chance of it happening but then a chance of it not happening." She says and I nod.
"Yea, but it's a bit tricky." I say and watch her as she looked through my other journals, the once she had in her had didn't have any personal thoughts in it since the covering was black and I knew it didn't have any personal thoughts in it.
"Oh ok… you did a lot of planning while I was gone." She says as she showed me my journal and I nodded at this.
"Yea, actually if I remember this plan was made to keep the robots from coming near the Planters house, it worked really well for a few years." I tell her.
"Interesting." She says and I nod at this and she asked about other plans in the book. I had gotten up from my chair and went to take a seat on the bed next to Anne and we looked to the book together.
"Oh, that one didn't go so well, we ended up just flinging boomshrooms at the robots, in this catapult, Wally was happy to pull the rope." I tell her as I remember that day.
"I see that you stopped dating your entries." She says and shows me.
"Hm… wonder what the last date I wrote was." I say as I looked through the book with her and found the last few dates and chuckled.
"I guess I really wanted to remember our birthdays." I joke as I look to her and she reads it a bit and then look to me.
"You worked so hard all these years." I hear her say quietly and I look to the side a bit then back to her.
"Yea… uh anyway I sent a letter to Darcy and them… more than likely they're going to make us take a ship to go look around or something… these temples are so confusing though it's going to give me a headache." I say to her as I rubbed my head a bit and Anne laughed a bit.
"I know, I think they didn't think these through when they made them… I think they were hoping the first prophecy would have been it." She says and I think about this and nod.
"Yea… I can see that now." I mutter and stood up a bit and I paced around the room a bit.
"Wonder what your temple will do to us." I wondered out loud.
"It'll probably make you finally eat my spicy Thai food to the max." She says and I laughed at this.
"To the max." I say and flex a bit with her and we both laughed at this. I look to her for a bit and I sit back down on the bed and looked to my book and then to her as I think for a bit.
"Do you want to… stay here for the night or." I stopped for a bit and I rubbed my neck a bit.
"I think I should go back to the Planters house." She says and I nod at this.
"Understood… would you like to… grab a bite to eat at Stumpy's?" I asked her and she smiled at me and nods and we both get up and I grabbed my book and set it on my desk and we head over to Stumpy's. It seems that everyone had gotten to work on fixing up the town with the past few days we had been gone which was amazing. Though it seems like it might not last long with how the Core might act if they think we might try something.
"Hello Anne, want to try some new recipes?" Stumpy asked and Anne nods as we go and take a seat at a booth and I see the menu and read it a bit. Stumpy had come by and handed some samples for Anne to try and I look at her as she tried one dish.
"Oh, that has some kick to it." She says and I chuckle.
"Your sensitive California stomach?" I joked and she looked to me.
"Hey… I can kick your ass." She says and I chuckled and nodded as I raised my hands up in surrender and looked to Stumpy as I ordered a simple veggie sandwich, just a light meal for me. Anne also orders the same thing and I lean back a bit in the seat and I think.
"When you get the letter back from… the Core, what would we do next?" She asked and I take a breath.
"Well more than likely we would be asked to come back to Newtopia and they would give us a ship to go look for said temple, though if we need Marcy with us, I don't know what they will do in order for us to not… plan an escape or attack." I explained.
"You think they would try and threaten the town?" She asked and I think and nod sadly.
"Yea they might do just that… unless we can get them all into hiding again, but the planters house wouldn't be a great idea, Toad Tower is a major no go." I list off a few places.
"I would suggest the Dry Lands but uh… not a great idea." She says and I nod.
"Yea no one warned me that you should travel in groups when heading out there." I say to her and she looked to me and we were given our food and I eat my sandwich. We ate in silence for a bit and after we finished up, I paid for the food and we go on a bit of a walk.
"This is nice… Calming actually." I state and looked around and Anne takes my hand into hers and I rubbed my thumb to her hand and I look at her.
"I heard you and Sprig." I tell her.
"What?" She asked.
"I heard you and Sprig… talking to each other when you thought I was sleeping… I overheard you two talking." I tell her.
"You…. I." She stopped and I look to her.
"I didn't want to interrupt and I just… want to say I think he's kind of right… and I want to say that I'm sorry for listening in, I just… I don't know why I didn't just move or anything it's just… emotions are bullshit." I muttered the last part as I tried to think about what I was going to say to her.
"You… shouldn't have heard that." She says and I nod.
"I know I'm sorry I should have not done that." I say to her.
"Is that why you asked me about my feelings on you staying?" She asked.
"A little… I didn't think of your emotions at the time and how it would affect you but now that I heard that, I just wanted to know how you would feel and Squeak toy was right… I wasn't thinking about how you felt… not really at the time I just… didn't think you would want to date me to begin with, hell I wouldn't even date myself if I met me." I told her and tried to joke about it.
"Alex… look I get it I… jumped the gun on kissing you and asking to be in a relationship with you… no this is not me breaking up with you that is not my intentions when I said that, but right now we are in a bit of a stressful situation and aren't thinking all that clearly, that is on me and I am sorry." She says.
"No, don't be sorry about it-."
"But I am… see talking is healthy." She says and I nod at this as we keep walking.
"Yea it is." I say quietly and I scratched my head a bit with my free hand and I look at her.
"What else did you hear?" She asked.
"Just how he thinks I'm manipulating you… he is right though; you shouldn't compare Marcy and me when it comes to betraying you… vastly different." I tell her.
"Yea I shouldn't have done that." She says and I nod at this.
"I don't know… I'd have to take some time on that it was just a in the moment situation where I wanted to try and defend you." She says.
"I'd just say don't… I can defend myself for now… especially against squeak toy." I tell her and she sighs.
"Sprig." She says and I look at her and nod.
"Sorry." I mutter and we head on over to the Planters house. She kissed my cheek and heads inside as I wave a bit to her and then I head on over to my hut and get ready for bed. I went and took my shirt off and washed my face a bit in the makeshift sink and shake my head a bit as I think.
"Ok… got to get a new journal, got to make a plan, and figure out how to get Marcy back… and get them home… and what I'm going to do." I mutter as I leaned on the sink a bit and looked at the water a bit. I look at my reflection a bit and I stand up and wash my face again and when I finished cleaning up, I go over to my bed and lay on it for a bit as I look to the ceiling. Many thoughts were going through my head as I tried to get some form of rest but it was getting to me as I sit up in the bed and went over to my desk and grabbed the map and started to map out from what information I have in my journal with where Anne's temple could possibly be. I don't know how long I was up for but once I saw some light shining through the window, I rubbed my face a bit and I went and laid on my bed and closed my eyes feeling tired.
"I can get some sleep… then ask Maddie for something." I mutter to myself and before I know it there was a knock on my door and I quickly get up and answer the door and look to see Anne as she looked to me.
"Oh uh…. No shirt." She says and I smirked a bit.
"Hey you have bags under your eye." She says and I nod.
"Stayed up all night trying to map out where your temple could be… was literally about to got to bed just now." I tell her truthfully.
"Ok, you need some sleep." She says as she pushed me into the hut.
"Nah it's fine, I just need to talk to Maddie." I tell her.
"No, she is not going to make you anything to keep you up, you need sleep." She tells me as she makes me sit on the bed.
"It's not that bad." I tell her.
"It is, you need sleep, or you'll end up hurting yourself."
"I have gone a few days without sleep, it's fine." I tell her.
"No, sleep… you would like to be well rest up when we see Marcy again." She tells me and I nod at this and I sighed a bit.
"Want me to lay with you?" She asked and I nod a bit and we both lay in the bed and I look at the ceiling again. I had my arm laid out on the bed a bit to where her head was placed on it and I rubbed her shoulder gently as I tried to get some sleep by closing my eye but I just couldn't stop thinking. It was becoming a bit of an issue so I opened my eye and sighed a bit at this.
"I don't think I'll be able to sleep." I tell her honestly.
"To much on the mind?" She asked and I nod at this.
"Yea." I mutter and tried to stop thinking but it was hard.
"Oh, I have some music, would you like to listen to it?" She asked.
"K-pop?" I asked.
"No, just some soft guitar music it helps me sleep I don't know if it'll help you but worth a try, right?" She asked and I nod a bit as she pulled her phone out and played some of the music. It was nice and calming but it still didn't help me to sleep so I just rubbed her shoulder some more. It was a while before I felt some movement and I looked to Anne and she was awake too.
"I'm sorry I didn't come back earlier." She says as she looked up to me to see I was still awake. Music still playing.
"It's fine… I don't blame you, things happen, it's not your fault." I tell her. I keep rubbing her shoulder gently and I look over to her phone and saw the time and as time kept going by and I closed my eye a bit finally trying to sleep. But of course, I couldn't get any sleep because there was a knock on the door and I look to see Anne get up and I look to see her phone to show that thirty minutes had passed and I get up.
"Hey we were looking for you." I hear Sprig say and I lay back on the bed and tried to go back to sleep.
"Hey, sorry I'm trying to get Alex to sleep, he was up all night." I hear.
"Oh well HopPop has this tea that can wake a person up-."
"No, no last time I had that tea and HopPop had my energy drink we hallucinated remember?" I hear her say and I chuckled a bit at this.
"He's awake." Sprig says.
"Yes, again I am trying to get him to sleep… let's just give him a day off." Anne says and I shake my head and I get up and grabbed a light fitted shirt and I moved the door a bit.
"It's fine… what do I need to do?" I asked.
"No, go back to bed, now." Anne orders and I look to her.
"Bed now." She says and I shake my head.
"Alex Waybright, do not make me bring up your middle name." She tells and I look down a bit and I head back over to the bed.
"Sprig tell Grime and the others that Alex needs a day off, I've got him and we can wait till we get a letter back from Andrias." I hear Anne explained and I lay back onto the bed and I hear the door close and I look back to see Anne come over to me and look down at me.
"I'm going to get you something to eat, ok? Just stay here and try to go to sleep." She says quietly and I nod at this and she heads out the door and I close my eye as I tried to just focus on the music to try and go back to sleep. I open my eye again and I look at the ceiling. It was starting to feel way too hot again so I take my shirt off again and placed my shirt on my face to try and trick myself into thinking it was night. Though it seemed to have worked I just couldn't sleep. I did feel tired but I just couldn't sleep. I hear the door open but I don't move my shirt but I placed my hands on my stomach and took a deep breath. I don't hear anyone ask me anything so I moved my shirt and saw Anne with her back turned to me as she set something on my desk. She turned around and saw me looking at her and she sighed.
"Thought you finally fell asleep." She says quietly and I chuckled.
"Sorry, I tried but… I don't know." I tell her and she takes a seat on the bed and I look to her. She stopped the music on her phone and thought a bit.
"Felicia might have some tea that might work… if you want to try?" She asked.
"Honestly I'll try anything at this point." I say and she nods.
"Ok I'll go-."
"I'll come with… maybe I can tire myself out by walking or something." I suggest and I see her thinking about it wanting to say no but she seemed to have given up on it and I smiled a bit as I put the shirt back on and I grabbed my sword and we head out over to the tea shop and I look around a bit as Anne went over to Felicia and Ivy and I go over to them.
"Oh yes we do have some teas that can help him sleep, anything you like in particular?" She asked me and I think a bit.
"I think… Chamomile… I think that's what it was." I say quietly and I rubbed my neck.
"Ok, we can make it for you, did you want anything Anne?" She asked her and Anne orders a drink for herself and I pull out some coppers.
"Nah it's on the house Alex." Ivy tells me and I look to her and she nods and I nod too as I put the coppers away.
"Thank you." I say and she nods then hops away for us to help her mom.
"When do you think we will hear back from the Core?" Anne asked and I think for a bit.
"It shouldn't take long… we need to plan what we can do to get Marcy away from that thing… maybe we can have a ship on standby with us?" I question myself and I rubbed my arm a bit. they both come back with the teas and I nod to them as we leave and head back to my hut. I drink the tea and smiled a bit.
"Tastes really good." I say quietly as I take a seat on the bed.
"Oh, yea Felicia's tea is the best, I just hope it helps you." She says and I nod as I drink some more of the tea and I lean back on the bed a bit and finish it off and look over to Anne and she looked to me. I looked to the cup in my hand and took a breath and looked back up to her as she drank her tea as well and I looked to my desk.
"Hey, no thinking of work." She says and I look at her.
"I wasn't just… looking around… honest." I say to her and she nods.
"I could play some music again for you?" She asked and I nod at this as she pulled her phone out and started to play some music.
"Dang your phone must have the best battery life." I joked.
"Dude let me tell you when I had my old phone it took years before it finally died on me, like the battery was hanging on for nine years." She says and I chuckled and looked to her.
"How the heck did that happen?" I asked and she explained to me that HopPop had watched her videos on the phone for hours and ended up killing the battery and they went to go find a way to charge it, which resulted in everyone getting electrocuted and the phone's battery basically being on God mode.
"I've just had my phone off for the past few years haven't turned it on in so long." I tell her.
"Still got some juice?" She asked and I think and go into the pouch I had and grabbed the phone and handed it to her. She turns the phone on completely since I had fully shut it off and it turns on only showing about five percent battery life.
"Yea Grime misses watching suspicious island." I tell her as I lean back a bit and Anne grabbed a charger.
"Thank god it's still the same charger." She says and I look to her.
"You don't need to charge it; I have no use for it." I tell her.
"Eh it's fine, besides the pocket charger, charges over ten times so it's not a problem." She explained to me.
"So, any advance technology I missed out on?" I asked.
"Hmm not really, just people coming out with supposedly better phones but it's all the same? Then people are really trying to make flying cars but none are able to be sold… legally… everything pretty much stayed the same, oh but there is a new arcade in the downtown area, cool VR machine I think Marcy would love that." She tells me and I smiled and I closed my eye a bit.
"I think I'm… starting to get tired." I yawned and shook my head a bit.
"And all it took was me talking about how boring life is back home." She joked and I laughed a little at this and looked to her as she grabbed my cup and she went and put it over on the desk and I closed my eye again.
"I'll be back in a bit." She tells me and I nod and feel a kiss to my head. It was after I heard the door close before I had actually fallen asleep. I woke up to the sound of banging on my door and I groaned a bit at this and I honestly wanted to cry when I saw it was only ten minutes that I had slept. I get up and because I was angry and tired, I opened the door which slammed into my wall and I see Sprig looking at me.
"What… do you want?" I asked as calmly as I could. I look at him as he looked to me.
"I just wanted to talk, but jeez." He says and I take a breath.
"Squeak toy… I haven't slept… I have only slept forty minutes in total since we got back and I am very… very tired… and I can get angry very… very easily… I'm not trying to be mean but could you please wait till I have had at least a few hours of sleep?" I asked as nicely as I could and he looked to me.
"Yea… sorry I didn't mean-."
"It's ok… but you need to go before Anne-."
"Before Anne what?" I hear and turn my head to the side to see said girl.
"Nothing I was just about to go for a walk and sprig stopped me." I lied to her an she looked to the pink frog and then back to me.
"Really now? Good job Sprig." She says and rubs his head a bit and she looked to me.
"Inside now." She tells me.
"Yea, um… can I talk to him really quick?" I asked and she looked to the both of us and nods.
"Please make it quick." She tells me and I nod and she goes inside an I closed the door quickly and take sprig over to the side.
"Why did you lie?" He asked quietly.
"Didn't want you to deal with Anne's wrath, she's been trying to help me sleep all day and if she found out you woke me up then we all would be in trouble." I tell him and he nods.
"We can talk tomorrow I don't know if I'm going to be going back to sleep soon." I say and he nods and hops away and I go back into the hut and I go and lay back on the bed and look to see Anne sitting by my desk and I look to her a bit then take my blanket and I covered my face a bit as I listened to the music. Anne didn't say anything to me and I just keep listening to the music before I was able to finally go right back to sleep.