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What the hell does that mean? Do they have a clue? Do I have a clue? Maybe. The word 'host' starts with an H. I don't think anyone that is hiding their identity would keep a box with information on them. No one would have such a high level of stupidity.

James – Why is there an H?

Jen – Why is it so high up?

Bella – I have no idea. Jennifer, you're a flier, right?

Jen – Yeah why?

Bella – Do you trust me?

Jen – Not really, no. 

Bella – Doesn't matter. Do you mind me and James picking you up so you can get the box?

Jennifer – Sure. 

So we, well, James picks her up to grab the 'H' box. She grabs it and James lets her down. Jennifer places the box on the floor and we sat on the floor side by side by side and the box right in front of me. I was sitting in the middle, Jennifer was sitting on my left and James was sitting on my right. I was the first one to take something out of the box. The first thing that reached my hand id a folder. I opened it to find a picture of the house we are currently in followed by pictures of the eight of us. Not together, but separately. The next one to grab something out of the box is Jennifer. She grabbed another folder and opened it as we looked at her. She passed me the folder. It was filled with pictures of each room in the house. Including, a little hallway that none of us has ever seen before. James grabbed something out of the box, another folder. 

James – I don't think there are any more things in the box guys.

Jennifer looked inside and nodded meaning that he was right, the box was now empty. James opened the folder I looked over. Blueprints! Thank you, Lord!  I snatched the folder out of his hands. I need to see if there are more rooms. I check each one of them. It has the room's names on it, 'Library', 'Room A1' and the list goes on. When we get to the blueprint of the room we're on, the 'Storage room' according to the blueprint. We can see the walls and how thick they are and, near the black door, I can see what I think are stairs. So whatever is behind that door might be important to get us out of there.

James – What do we do now?

Bella – Make an entrance.

Jen – What do you mean?

Bella – James, do you think you can kick a door open?

Jen – Are you for real?

Bella – Yeah, I don't want to have to go upstairs again and go through the tunnel again. 

Jen – I either.

James – I think I do, which one?

Bella – Come on, I'll show you.

We run there! He looks at the door and says that he can most likely do it. I tell him to wait a moment or two so I can warn the other to protect themselves.

~through the walkie-talkies~

Bella – Aria, Nick, I need you guys to either just close the lab door or do whatever you guys can to keep everyone out of the way. Either in the lab, the kitchen, or upstairs.

Aria – We're all in the lab I'll close the door.

Nick – Why?

Bella – Don't get scared, you'll hear a strong bang. But it's okay. Just be ready for it.

 Vic – We are! Go for it.

I put the walkie-talkie back into my pocket and grabbed Jennifer's hand.

Bella – Through the fireplace, we go.

Jen – James, only kick the door when we get there. I'll tell you through the walkie-talkie.

We, once again run to the hole in the wall that leads us to the little room. Jen asks for my walkie-talkie so she can give the signal to James. I give it to her and she quickly. She says 'GO' and we soon hear a loud bang. 

James – I DID IT!

Jennifer and I were cheering so hard that we hugged. Weird, I know! We let go and we fly to meet James! We were jumping and hugging James. We were celebrating when one of them came from the lab.

 Aria – What the hell?

Bella – Hi!

Aria – I'm not even going to ask.

Jen – Yeah, we'll explain anyway.

James – I'll go get the box. 

Me and Jennifer get into the lab. They were looking at us like we were aliens, except for Thomas who was smiling for some reason. I'm not even mad at it, I love his smile. 

Jen – So, we were behind that door. How? You guys can now also do it for fun. 

James – Here's some of what we found. 

Bella – We know that in the boxes still in the storage room there's information about us but I didn't want to check them and I think none of them wanted to either. 

Jennifer – Yeah, I think we should trust each other. We can talk to each other about every and anything, right?

Thomas – Absolutely yes.

Alex – Yes.

Nick – A hundred percent.

Aria – Of course!

Vic – Without a doubt. 

James – Count on me.

Bella – Me too.

Jen – Me too. So we're good?

 Alex – Wait. What happened to you?

Jen – Me?

Alex – Yeah. I mean, not to call you out or anything but, we all know that since the beginning you didn't trust Bella and Aria. You didn't mind James and Nick. You got paired with Aria and now you guys are friends...? Now you got paired with Bella and all of the sudden you trust her too? I like this new Jennifer but I wasn't expecting that at all.

Jen – Me either, to be honest, but I'll talk to Bella about it later.

Bella – Are you sure? *I asked surprised*

Jen – Yeah. 

James – Anyway. Let's talk about the box, shall we?

Bella – Yes, so every box that was identified was obviously to us. There were boxes identified with 'J2', 'N', 'A1', and the rest of us. This one, on the other hand, had an 'H'. So, Jennifer took it down, and we opened the folders that we found inside. One had a picture of the front of the house and pictures of us. 

Vic – That's creepy.

Bella - Agreed, moving on, the next one had pictures of every single room in the house. Stay with me. So, among these pictures, there was this picture of this little hallway that we haven't seen before. *James grabs the picture and shows it to them* You must be thinking "There must be another room!" Well. there is another door and we have more evidence that there's another room. *Jennifer grabs the other folder and starts looking through the blueprints. * On our last folder we found all the blueprints for every room that we know. That includes the storage room and on the other side of the wall here, we have a staircase. 

Nick – That doesn't necessarily mean that it's a room.

 Jen – But It'd explain the hallway. It could be what you see when you first open the door. 

Vic – That does make sense. 

Aria – What do we do now?

Thomas – Dinner! I'm starving! It's already dark outside. 

Alex – I agree with Thomas. 

Aria – Alex, you can't eat much anyway. 

Alex – Don't care.

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