Carter:
“What do we do now? We can’t just leave some weirdo in the middle of the woods by their house! Who knows who she is, what she can do, where she’s supposed to be…” I eventually zone out of whatever Blake is stressing out about.
“Okay, how about this,” I start with an idea that, if it works, will let me stay inside and not have to go on an adventure to find this girl. “One of us stays inside and watches the others so they don’t escape, because, clearly, if we keep leaving them, something is gonna happen, and we’re gonna lose all of them! I will stay inside, and you two can fine Ginge” I suggest.
“Actually, Carter, that’s a great idea. But you have to watch them as if you were babysitting, because, right now, they pretty much all have the mental stability of a toddler” Blake says, not surprising me. He always take Chase with him, so I knew I would be able to bail out.
“Okay, see you later then” I say, turning to go back into the house.
“Don’t fall asleep, Carter. You’re watching them, not getting a free break!” Chase yells. I nod my head.
I get inside, and, surprise surprise, the girls are not where we left them. Well, I know that they’re inside, because I didn’t hear any doors open. But come on! Now I have to search the house, and it’s a really, really big house to search through, it’s like a big, unintentional game of hide and seek, and hopefully they all hid together.
It’s a big, three story house with a basement and a pool. Who knows why they need all the space, but they do. The first floor has the living room, the kitchen, a dining room, a bathroom, and a sunroom, the second floor has all the bedrooms, each with a balcony door, one for each girl, a bathroom, and a guest room, where me, Blake, Chase, and Miles sometimes stay, and the third story is just an attic with a tv and a bathroom, and another part sectioned off as an art room. The basement has the laundry room, and I’ll admit that it’s pretty scary down there, so I’ll check there last. I just really doubt that they’re down there, though.
I run through the first story one more time, but I find any trace of them. I get to the staircase, where a long trail of blood is, which either means Amber’s bandages didn’t work, or it’s that time of the month.
The trail stops at the end of the staircase, and I’m careful not to step on any of it. I don’t care where it’s actually from, but for all I know it could be from one of their lady pocket regions. I’m not taking any chances.
All the doors are shut, so I have a feeling that they’re all in one. I open the first door that is painted a violet color. Violet’s room, of course. They painted their doors corresponding to their names, which I think is pretty cool. I also think it’s pretty cool that they’ve formed a little clique where everyone has a color name.
Well, I open Violet’s door, only to find a passed out Violet on her bed. She looks fine, so I close the door. She’s the only one I can trust alone right now. I lock the door from the outside, just temporarily, until I can find the rest. I hope she doesn’t wake up.
I open the next two doors down: The scarlet painted door, and the ebony painted door, where no one is to be found. I go back to the beginning of the hallway and start on the other side to find an empty raven colored room, an empty sapphire colored room, and a locked amber colored room. What does that mean? Oh, I don’t know. (a/n: hear the sarcasm in my writing?)
I go through Sapphires room and on to the balcony, and walk back over to Amber’s room. Her door is unlocked, and when I get in there, they’re all sleeping in the bed together. It’s only a queen sized bed, so they’re pretty much all piled on top of each other, though Raven is shirtless on the edge of the bed, falling off. I put her back on the bed enough so that she isn’t going to fall off, but so her chest is still covered. Then I go to get Violet and bring her back to Ambers room.
After the six of them are all in bed, the front door slams, meaning that either they found Ginge, or they gave up. I walk down the stairs, and it’s not Chase or Blake, but Ginge, and just Ginge.
She’s crawling on all fours, and I pick her up and throw her over my shoulder. She starts hissing like a snake, but I won’t let go. I lock her in Amber’s room, but I realize that Scarlett has pissed everywhere. I refuse to clean that.
I text Chase, and in they return immediately.
“She just showed up,” I explain to them. “And I locked the seven of them in Amber’s room. Scarlett pissed everywhere. Other than that, I think they’re fine. But we should stay over, just in case” The others nod their heads, yawning. It’s five am, and none of us have slept at all.
“I agree with Carter” Chase yawns. “I call bed!” And, somehow, he finds enough energy to run up the stairs, leaving me and Blake.
“I call couch!” I say, and I try to run to the couch, but Blake pulls me back.
“Oh, no. I get couch. You,” He spins me around, facing the living room. “May sleep on the floor”
“Fine” I say, grunting, then I make a bed on the ground with some pillows and blankets that were in the hallway closet. Blake and I fall asleep in the living room with the tv on. Finally, it’s over.
Or that’s what we thought.
Take our first shot: Check.
Sleep in the back of a truck: Check
Get drunk: Check
