The Babysitter

Early Start

Lime's PoV:

I wouldn't exactly recommend waking up to two children leaping across the three small beds like a pair of monkeys and another kid jumping up and down on your chest to get you up, but hey, you don't get a choice when you're me.

"Ow- good morning Chocolate" I wince as I sit up. "Rose, Peach, be careful please."

"But I'm a ninjaaaaa" Peach complains, showing off her karate moves.

"Very good, but do you know what time it is?"

"Uhh it's time you learned how to tell the time?" Rose replies whilst sniggering

That was supposed to be a rhetorical question... :'c

"Basically, it's too early" I tell them.

"But I'm hungry!" Chocolate yells, grabbing my arm, trying and failing to drag me out of my bed and towards the door.

It's only just 5:42... I give up. "Okay, I'll get you something. Come on you three."

All at once, they stop bouncing and all sit down on my bed. From chaos to calm, if only for 5 seconds.

I reach forwards to open the door, but just as my finger touches the door handle, there is a quiet knock coming from the other side. Oh, well that can't be Pink, he knocks really loudly, so maybe Orange?

I open the door, to find... nobody standing here. "Hey Lime" a small, wavering voice exclaims, drawing my gaze to the ground.

"Oh... Emerald!" I laugh. "Hey buddy, you okay?"

The child nods, gazing up into my eyes. "I was going to ask pwease can I stay with you today?"

"Oh of course you can!" I happily beam, but upon the fearful look in his eyes, fall silent once more.

"But then when I was coming here... I s-saw..." tears begin rolling down his cheeks as he spoke. "It's... in th-the hallway"

Gulping, I hug Emerald close to me as I walk out into the hallway. That's where I see it, the dead body of... Pink...

Oh this is bloody great - another one dead, that's three in total, we still have no clue who it is and people have suspected me already, and this time I have NO ALIBIS, Black won't even be able to lie for me because we were all in our rooms...

But at least Pink is off my back.

Yeah okay! Fine! I sound kinda heartless, but he was the one who was accusing me the most, and, well... you already know about what a bully he was.

Well, it's time to let the others know.

*uhh, insert emergency meeting noise*

After a moment or two, the crew stumble out of their rooms, clearly tired, and squinting from the bright light in the hallway, not quite registering what was going on. It was weird to see people's faces because we usually had to wear our helmets unless we were eating or sleeping. 

Blue stifled a yawn as she demanded, "Lime... what happened this time, couldn't it have waited until morning?"

Well, how do I put this... "Pink is dead" I mutter.

All traces of sleepiness left Blue's face in an instant, replaced by a mixture of determination and seriousness. "Everyone, to cafeteria now."

All of the children who still have living parents went with their parents, the rest of them were with me. I attempted to carry Rose, but she hissed "don't touch me I am able enough to walk. I'm going back to my dad"

She... she hadn't seen it yet...

"Rose... I'm sorry but you can't..." I murmur, hating having to be the bearer of bad news.

"What?" She snapped, pushing past me and walking a few steps down the corridor. "No- no he can't be gone!"

I was sat at the table rather than on the floor this time, Emerald, Chocolate and Rose were sitting on the edge of the table in front of me. Rose seemed to be deep in angered thought, and I can't say I blame her.

"So what happened?" Blue interrogates, "what were you even doing outside of your room before 8:00 anyway?"

"Well," I begin, "I was just looking after the kids, when Emerald knocked at the door, and then I found it..."

"Well it couldn't have been anyone else, as we were in our rooms" White declares. "We were all asleep, right?" Everyone nods in response.

"Well I don't think it could have been Lime" Black reasons

Why was he even defending me? Not that I'm complaining, just curious why ANYONE would care about me.

Either way, I had my own suspicions, but couldn't get a word in to express them to everyone.

"What about the vents? Chocolate said something about that!" Red pipes up, "maybe that could be how they did it!"

"I don't think it was" Orange states, "there aren't many vents that lead to this hallway, most of them are in the actual HQ, not the sleeping quarters"

This makes Cyan skeptical. "And you know so much about the vents because..?"

"Well what was Pink doing out of his room that early either anyway?" Blue asks, staring into the eyes of each crewmate in turn.
"We. Have. Rules. They exist for a reason, even if it wasn't the reason they were originally intended for."

"Well it must have been Lime!" Orange exclaims whilst scowling at me. "he hated Pink!"

"That's true." Yellow agrees, "out of everyone, he has the most motivation to do it"

"I agree" Red nods, "also, Pink thought it was Lime, so Lime could have killed him so that he wasn't under suspicion any more"

"Well that didn't work, did it Lime?" Purple glared across the table at me, his face scrunched up in complete and utter disgust.

"Okay, are we finished discussion? If so, we can vote" Blue declares

Finally, people were quiet again. "Excuse me," I say, "I...I have a reason to believe that the murderer is Orange"