Painting the Roses Red (An Ib AU)

Chapter 12: Sketch Book

Ocean's Point of View

We walked into a long hallway of pink steps, the walls around were narrow and dark.

"This place needs light." Jack whispered. The colorless walls were messed up, soon it showed a galaxy-like world. Tommy's eyes seemed to brighten, and Toby looked like an infant girl in a toy store. He jumped around, almost falling off the stairs. Barry and Rick then stopped at the bottom.

"Uh... Guys?" Rick asked us.

"The end is like yarn." Barry yelled as Rick slowly stepped on the yarn surface.

"I-it's alright." He said as he stepped down with Jack following. Toby, Tommy, and I took a minute to watch the galaxy before stepping down.

We were walking along until the path looked like it was made of crayon; we saw more pictures along the wall. They looked like they were drawn by a child, the flowers were my height and drawn in messy crayon. 

"I've never liked kids' drawings." Jack said in a shaky voice.

"I used to draw hands coming out of the eyes." Barry added.

"Never. Nope. Nuh uh." Tommy shook his head with Rick and Toby just laughed.

"Weirdos." I jokingly said, causing the rest to giggle. Then huge words the size of my legs spelled something on the wall.

'<--- S K E T C H B O O K' Was written on the wall. It was like a child's heaven, unless you were Jack. We quickly arrived in the 'sketchbook'; a crayon home was in front of us. I stepped inside. A brown table sat before me, along with two stools. A drawing of a man gave me the feeling as if I was being watched.

I spotted a bookcase with nothing but story books, I quickly left. We walked along the upwards path into a forest, the trees bare of leaves. I then saw a small pink house in the distance; but something caught my eye. A hanging girl... Soon I realized the girl was me. Her hoodie dropped off of her hoodie and landed on Rick, which surprised him/

"Fff-oh!" He started, seeing my hoodie on his head.

"I already... uh... have a hoodie. Thanks...?" He said as he looked at me.

"I didn't throw that on you. I'm not that rude." I said as I smiled. Rick then looked at me in confusion and looked up to see the hanging girl.

"AH!" He said as he nearly jumped off the path.

"What?" Tommy asked, since he didn't see the hanging girl above his head. Rick then looked through the pockets of the hoodie.

"What are you doing?" Toby asked in confusion.

"Robbing Ocean's hoodie." Rick said jokingly.

"I wanna help!" Jack said as he smiled jokingly. Then I looked down to see my real hoodie tied around my waist. Toby did too but looked at the others surprised. Somehow, they found a bunch of candy.

"Anyway..." Tommy said as he smiled. He read the messy crayon on the pink house's wall.

"The Pink Key is always kept in the Toy Box." He read.

"What does that mean?" Toby looked confused as we walked into a more peaceful area; butterflies floated about, the leaves on the tree was green as Toby's hair and a simple house sat in front of the tree, we walked inside. 

The inside of the house was still quiet. A coat rack stood beside the door we entered from, a bowl of grapes sat on the table, and a small window showed the tree. I saw a small and hidden room, everyone pilling inside it. I snatched up a bucket while Jack smiled at a pink stuffed rabbit. I walked towards the exit....

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...The door opened.