The Next Chapter (NEW VERSION)

Chapter 22

—Emily's POV—

We had one hour on us to solve the entire thing, it's been fifteen minutes and we're still in the small room. I'm getting frustrated.

"He said that most people solve this room after ten minutes. Are we that stupid?"

"You are."

"Hey!" I glare at him.

"Sorry, forgot how competitive you get." He puts his hand up in surrender.

"Just get back to looking for clues." I tell him. We've found some things and put them all in one place, but I can't connect them.

"Hey, I-I think I've found something." He says and moves a painting. "It's four colors."

Colors? We don't have anything- "What colors?!"

"Fuck, you scared me."

"What colors?!" I yell again.

"Blue, red, green and purple."

"In that order?" I ask and he nods. "Finally!" I put the colors in one of the locks on a box and it opens. Jake makes his way here to see what's inside. It's a key. I pick it up. "It's too small for the door."

He takes the key from me and unlocks another clue we found. "But it's not too small for this... Thing. It's the key to the door!"

"Yes!" I jump in his arms and he catches me with such ease. I quickly get off him and we stand there awkwardly staring at the floor. I snap out of it and open the other door. "Okay, we have to focus. How much time did we spend in there?"

He looks at the timer above the door. "Eighteen minutes."

"Eight- Hurry, look through everything!"

He starts laughing. "Calm down, we still have-" I glare at him again. "Never mind... I'll start over here." We both start looking around for clues and once we find some we look at them and put them away in a corner so we have them all in one place.

We have a lock with three numbers on it that we have to solve, then we have another color combination, a lock with four letters and one more with numbers. How on earth are we going to solve this?

"I think I've found something." Jake says and looks at a paper. "It says something about two people."

"That's it? Doesn't it say anything else?"

"Nope. Just two people and then there's nothing." Two people? That's what we have to go on?

"Okay... Put it with the other clues and keep looking."

After another ten minutes pass, we have nothing. I go over to where we keep all the clues and look at them again.

Two people...

Red...

"Help me with this." I hear Jake say from across the room. "It's a two-person job." I walk over to him and I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking at.

"What is this?"

"Don't know yet, but when I moved this magnet over here I heard something on the other side, but I can't reach it and move the magnet at the same time. Stand here." He points to a specific stop and I do as he says. We look at it some more and we've figured out that when I move the magnet there's a ball on the other side that moves too. But one person has to stand there and instruct what way to go. "Okay, I think I know which way to go now." He says. "Move the magnet up till I say stop." I do that. "Now move it to the left, but just a little."

I start moving it but he stops me. "My left." I scoff and do that too. "Now go down about two inches and go to the left again. My left. It's this way." He gestures with his hand.