Lavender Town ( English Version )

Chapter IV: "It in this specific case means you're dead."

February 15th, 2015, Dermatology Area, 11:00

"Dude, the history of this place is..." Johnny said, then paused, tried to think of a word to describe, but awkwardly failed.

"Amazingly creepy?" Geeta tossed some more documents that they'd finished back to the drawer, but still, she kept a small notebook of a random dermatology doctor for herself "Tell me that you were about to say that." She hit her elbow playfully on Johnny's belly.

"Ouch, ouch, that hurts!"

"Come on, say it!"

"Fine, the history of this place is amazingly creepy, now give me a break, won't you?" Johnny turned to another direction "Besides, we'd better get going, this room's getting boring because we've discovered everything." It was then that he felt a sudden shiver. Is someone looking at us?

"You're scared aren't you?"

"I'm not. It's just getting boring here, and I just got a feeling that someone's looking. That's it."

"Tell her the truth dude! You're way behind schedule! You shoud've told her that by now!"

A shout came from behind them. Johnny turned back, slowly walked to the door, where he heard some giggles and whispers. He looked outside and saw Jack standing with Einstein, trying hard not to laugh, as if spying on other people and pathetically failed was really entertaining (even though it actually was).

"What-are-you-doing-here!?" Johnny spoke through his teeth, clenched his fist and resisted the urge to punch Jack in the face "Why are you spying on us?"

"Chill!" Jack naturally walked out, facing Geeta, both of his hands were raised. He looked like he was surrendering, his mouth created a grin "I, my dear friend." He wrapped his arm around Johnny's shoulders while faking Emily's Beverly Hills accent "am just checking out on how my bro was doing telling the g..." But Johnny stopped him by covering his mouth.

"Does this have anything to do with me?" Geeta asked, raised an eyebrow.

"I don't see why it should." Johnny said before Jack or Einstein had the chance to say anything. Speaking of Einstein, where is he? He thought, but then quickly managed to put that thought away, maybe he was just wandering around a little but they didn't notice.

...

The Main Hospital Building, the Sixth Floor, 11:05

The dude sitting in front of a bunch of screens yawned and farted a little. His name was Steve. He was in charge of watching the kids, making sure they were safe and didn't cheat or got lost. It was a huge hospital after all, with four large buildings, so it would take a lot of time for all of them to explore the whole place. His job also included announcing the eliminated ones. But, as usual, he didn't notice a thing, all he did was being on his phone. Steve nearly muted the sound from the cameras set almost everywhere in the buildings.

Dude, I'll only give a shit when those hormonal teenagers decide to give me some live pornos. He comfortably thought.

However, everything has its own exceptions.

Steve, after yawning and farting, glanced at the screen which showed the camera image of the lobby. He took his earphones out of his ears. There was something weird there and that something weird had caught his attention. Steve looked closer, and closer. He still couldn't figure out what was shown on the screen.

And Steve realized something as his eyes glanced pass the time shown on his phone.

It was 11 am. It couldn't posibly be that dark.