don’t know, find something.” Blake replied as he went into a cell.
“Oh my gosh. I’m not bringing anything cause’ I don’t see anything that I can use” Paige said.
“Oh yeah!” Aoi said as she walked back to the cell we slept in. When she came out she had her bag. “Here, we can use this” she said.
That reminded me of the staffs she gave us to use, I went back to the cell, and grabbed the staff out from under the bed. I came out and I guess everyone else remembered so they all went to get theirs.
Aoi already had hers in her hand, while she put the bag on her back. “Let’s go.” she said as she pulled the door our way and walked out.
I followed behind.
“Ay! Don’t you leave us!” Kaelinda said jogging up to us while we walked down the white hallway.
“I’m surprised he didn’t close this.” I said as we walked past the parallel doors.
“Oh well, whatever.” Aoi said as we walked down the stairs.
I turned my head to look behind me. I saw Edmund, Paige, Kaelinda, and Hana-yon.
“What are you lookin’ at?” Edmund said.
“I don’t know yet.” I said as I turned my head forward and smirked.
Paige, Kaelinda, and Hana-yon laughed.
We reached the heavily locked door that led to the room full of doors.
“Edmund, come unlock this.” I said.
“Don’t tell me what to do,” he said as he came to the door with the keys, trying to figure out which key went in the locks. After five minutes, he managed to get the fifth lock, and it only took a minute to get the sixth lock. He opened the door, and we all walked into the room.
“We need the code, so that when we return, we can get inside the building” I said, remembering when Blake tapped in the code to enter the building.
“I’ll text your phone so Lequisha can give it to us” Aoi said as she went into her contacts and clicked my name. There was a picture of me in a bathing suit standing next to Aoi who was also in a bathing suit, smiling, while we were in front of a big pool that had a lot of other kids in it.
“Is that picture from fun world universe?” I asked Aoi.
“Yup, it is” she replied as she sent my phone a text message asking, Lequisha to get the code from Blake.
“Now let’s go. Hopefully, she replies. Then Aoi’s phone rang. Her ringtone was another nice sounding Japanese song. It sounded soft and sad, like it was about a heart break. Aoi sang along with it. I had no idea what she was saying, but I liked how the song sounded. She looked at the message. It read:
“ Alright, let’s go!” she said walking toward the door we used to enter the building.
We walked out the building.
***
“Hey, there is a light in the woods” Edmund said while trying to catch his breath.
I turned my head to look into the woods and saw a light too.
“We shouldn’t approach it.” Aoi said in a cautious tone.
“Whatever, but it looks like they might have food! I haven’t eaten at all today. So bye.” Edmund said as he ran toward the light in the woods.
That’s how he always gets when he’s hungry. He forgets about everything, and eats whatever can be eaten.
I ran after him. This boy always needs me to help him whenever he gets in this state. He almost ate a dead mouse that
the janitor killed. That’s a whole different story. I rolled my eyes as I ran after him. He was pretty fast.
“Edmund slow down!” I yelled as I tried to speed up so that I would be right behind him.
BAM! A smaller tree branch hit my face. I grunted as I kept running. I think it left a splinter in my face. I shook my head and kept running after him.
“Slow down Kaelor. You don’t know what you’re doing! Just leave him!” I heard
them yell as they came running after me. As we got closer to the light, Edmund disappeared from my eyesight.
I was nearing the light. I didn’t stop, because I didn’t want him to go missing. As I got even closer to the
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