The Black Infectious Thingy | Inanimate Insanity AU |

(43)Midnight chat with the girls

\\\CW: SWEARING\\\
///APPLE POV///
*knock knock*
Ghhhhhh...wwhy is someone knocking at the door soooo late in the nightt.. hhhuuuhh...
I rolled on my bed and grabbed the pillow, then, I smashed it against my ears so I didn't have to hear that annoyiiiinnngg knocking sound.
Marshy will probably go check it out soon enough.. ugghhhhhh.. I'm just gonna go back to sleep now..
....But wait. What if the person outside is.. Marshy-....nahhh..
I got comfortable in my bed again, when suddenly...
*KNOCK KNOCK*
GhhHHhhHhHhhh.. again?
Hhhhhh.. waaaaaa... Okey okey, I'll go check out whatever that is- ....right after I go get some cookies for myself.
I stood up and looked around, searching for something to wear.
Where are my boots.. uhhhhh-
Oh! Found them!
Okey... hmmmn.
I stood up right after I had put on my boots and walked over to the door.
Oh gosh, I hope my cookie jar is safe and safely hidden in the kitchen, Bow may be dead but GOSH does she enjoy eating all of them! Even if they're mine and not hers!!!
Kind of weird given the fact that her brother is literal cookie dough tho.. I wonder where he is too... Eh, it probably isn't important.
I extended my hand and as was just about to the reach the doorknob..
*KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK*
"EEP-" I shre -shrrrweash- sh- shrewaaiii... shriiieeekkeedded -shriekaadd.. Screamed in fear.
Gee- That sure was loud.
"I'm going, I'm going!" I heard Marshy shout from the corridor.
Oh, looks like I was right! Marshy had always been inside.. hmmmm. In that case.... I'm just gonna go get the cookies and maybe some warm milk, then, I'll go right back to sleep.
Oh! Or me and Marshy and whoever is outside could have a midnight tea party, ooohhhh yesyes I love that idea!
In that case, forget about the warm milk!!! I should probably go see who the person might be and have a tea party with them instead.
Hmmm.. I wonder if it's one of Marshys friends, or mine, or even if it's just some random person.. it doesn't really matter tho!
We will have fun either way
But before any of that... MY COOKIES.
I made my way out of my room and sneakily made my way to the kitchen
Now... time to set up THE BEST midnight tea party everrrr!
But as I was walking through the corridor... I bumped into someone else-
"Gah!-" I said as I fell to the floor
I looked up to see who i bumped into and saw no other than... Lite Bulb???
"L-Lite?"
She looked at me from the floor, oops, seems like she fell too.
I stood up and tried helping her up but she totally ignored my hand and stood up all by herself.
"What are you doing here, Lite?"
She didn't answer my question and instead went difectly over to the kitchen.
"Lite? What happened?"
She kept on ignoring me and went inside of the kitchen, as she started looking inside of the kitchen cabinets.
"Do youuuu... Want cookies? Will thatttt... Make you talk?
She looked at me and nodded very excitedly.
I reached over to the cabinet, grabbed my hidden cookie jar that I hide from Bow and gave it to her.
"Eat as many as you want, but don't eat them all! Just a few if you want"
She hesi. Hesi-tati. Heesssiittttaaaaaii- hes... hm. She didn't want to eat them at first but then she shook her head and took a single one.
She started at it for a while before she finally decided to eat it, instantly getting an overjoyed face almost instantly after the first bite!
"Is it good?"
She looked down at me and nodded... she looked relieved to eat them for some reason
"Okey great!!! Now... can you talk?"
She stared at me blankly.. and shook her head
"Oh."
"Umh.. and why?
"...."
"Uhhhhh..?"
"HEYYYY GIIIIIRRRLLLL IM HERE TO CHECK UP ON Y-"
"aaaAaAAHh!-" I fell to the floor because of how scared I got and looked up at Bow whom had bursted into the room.
"Kumquat..? What're you doing here?" She continued on saying as she looked confused at me.
"Uh... I heard knocking and got woken up so I went to grab a cookie and found Lite. I asked her why she's here but she just won't speak for some reason!"
"Oh, Marshy told me that like.. she ignored her too??? And I was like- Girl what the hell.. And decided to come check for myself"
"I've been here for a while with her and even gave her some of my cookies to try to bribe her into speaking... But she didn't do so! She did eat my cookies tho."
Bow looked with a strange look at Lite as she approached her, getting right in front of her face.
"Ayooo???? Can you talk????????????"
Lite immediately tried pushing her away but since Bow is a ghost she, instead, went right through her.
She fell onto the floor as Bow just floated and turned around to see her laying kn the floor
"Oop! Sorry girl, still dead. LOL!"
I sat down right in front of Lite.
"I was uh.. wondering... We were gonna do a small tea party, would doing one make you comfy enough to at least write down what happened?"
She looked at me and sighed, then she smiled as she nodded her head.
"NICE, OKAY!"
I grabbed her hand and guided her near to the small table in the kitchen
"I'm so glad that Marshy and I had this stuff set up so long ago!!!! I told her it was a great idea!!!!!!!"
Lite sat down on the table and Bow floated on top of a chair, as if m-me-miiiee..memik-imic... copying the action of actually sitting down on one.
"Would you like even more cookies, Lite?"
Lite nodded her head as she extended her hand for me to give her a cookie.
"So like, what's with the silent treatment?" Mentioned Bow as she was staring at both of us eat, since she wasnt able to do so herself, not because she can't, but because she isnt allowed to eat from my cookie jar since last time, where she ate the full jar without asking. Well, at least she isnt allowed to do so when I'm around.
Lite just looked over to me and sighed.
"Hmmm.. no words yet?" She continued on saying.
"Wait, Bow! What if we gave her a notebook and crayons???? I mean, she knows how to write and we- scratch that. YOU know how to read! Dont you?"
"Ooooohh, girl you sure had a great idea there, still gotta show ya how to read btw"
"Yes yes. But not now, do you uh. Know where Marshy left her writing qnd drawing stuff?"
"She has that kind of stuff?"
"..Yeah? In guessing that's a no tho..."
"Hmmm we can ask Marsh, can't we?"
"Yeah!!!"
"I can go get Marsh to ask for her stuff while you stay here wth Light if ya wanna"
"Oh! Yeah, that would be helpful!!"
"Okay then, cya in a min girl"
"Cya!"
As Bow left the room via wall I turned around to face Lite.
"So uhh.. you feeling better?"
Lite nodded her head as she kept smiling at me.
"Cool, cool... will you be able to explain to us how you got your arm injured? Or what happened to get you burnt?"
I noticed how Lite's smile quickly faded as I said the word 'burnt'.
"Huh? Why did you stop smiling? Does it have to do with your burnt marks?"
She nodded her head as she put on a saddened face.
"Awh.. was it really that horrible..?"
Lite brought herself into an embrace and nodded her head again.
I felt bad for her, she looked afraid and embarrassed.
I wonder what might've happened... I mean- getting burnt? Gosh..
Hm.. What if it was because of Paint?
I know assuming stuff is never good but the way Lite seems so afraid of something.. and the fact that Paint has always gotten mad so easily...
I though as I looked at Lite, she was fixing herself and getting comfortably sat down.
I mean- Paint and Lite were inseparable yet I haven't seen them together ever since... hm.. okay personally I it would be ever since I got eliminated, but I heard they stopped talking ever after Paint got eliminated...
So.. I guess it does make sense.. oh poor Lite..
As i was feeling lost in my own thoughts, Bow suddenly came back with a huge box of materials.
"Okay, so like, Marsh is kinda busy right now so I went into her room and found this box by myself" She said as she handed me the box and smiled.
"Nice! Now, Lite..." I began to say as I took the box of materials out of Bow's hands and placed it onto the table in front of Lite.
"..Question time!!!"
Lite decidingly picked up a colored crayon and nodded her head in excitement, ready to begin writing.
"Say.. Do you wanna elaborate on how you got so injured in the first place? Cuz' like.. y'know.. your arm?" Bow said as she placed her hands on her hips, in a bitch-ish kind of way.
Lite instantly began writing in a notebook that was inside of the box as we both stared at the speed of her writing.
"Jeez, fast-writer, I see.. Lol" Bow mentioned as we both giggled.
Once she finished writing she put down the pen and lifted up the notebook so we could easily read what she wrote down.
"Umh.. Bow?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you read it out for me, please?
"Sure! Ajem ajem... 'Me and Paintbrush got followd by Evil Fan cuz' we found out that he wuz evil. He and Taco cornered us and teletransported us to idiotic island to get rid of us but wii managed to escape from th island. I think i got hurt while trynna' fight off Evil Fan when he was aboutta send us away but i dont rlly know cuz' i was not focused on tha'"
"..."
We both looked over at eachother in shock.
What- Evil? I must've heard it incorrectly...
"Did i read that correctly, Kumquat?"
"Uhhh.. yeah?"
"Who's 'Evil Fan'? Wasn't Fan uhh.. that one nerd or something? At least that's what Marsh told me"
"OH! Wait, I thought I heard you incorrectly?"
We both turned over to Lite at the same time and stared at her.
"Lite... What do you mean with.. evil?" I asked her.
She stared blankly at me and then began writing again
Me and Bow had both an anxious look on our faces.
"That can't be right... Fan? Evil? It doesn't make much sense..."
"Yeah.. Gosh.. Just thinking that the nerd could be the evil gives me the creeps.. I just hope that was a typo or a joke or smth.."
We both waited anxiously for the answer Lite was writing down, and after a scary while... She lifted the notebook again and Bow immediately started reading it.
"'It's a very long story, maybe a few weeks old story already... But let me try to sum it up.. it all started with Test Tube appearing for some reason in the contestant battlegrounds. I found her and she explained to me how Taco had stolen a weird experiment of hers from the lab that could make Taco able to mind control anyone and how it was super necessary for her to get back to the hotel asap. She was very very weak so i offered going there for her and she ordered me to tell OJ to put the hotel under lockdown mode, so everyone would be kept safe and nobody else could enter the hotel till she was back. What nobody knew was that Fan had gotten mind controlled and we were now locked with him. Me and Paintbrush eventually figured it out but right before we could warn the others.. Fan got rid of us'"
"FAN IS EVIL?! AND TACO IS BACK!?"
"Hold up.. Wasn't Taco the one that was like- Pure non-sense and randomness? And like- always said 'Sour Cream' and other stupid-o stuff?"
"Yeah, she was.. but right after you permanently died she revealed that she had always been faking her personality and she was actually british!"
"Wait... So tag means that right now.. Taco is evil and able to mind control anyone.. And everyone in the hotel is unknowingly stuck with someone already mind-controlled by her?" Bow said and Lite sighed as she nodded her head.
"And why are you still here?!" Bow half-shouted, kind of annoyed at Lite who grabbed the notebook in a scared-ish manner, and quickly wrote down something, almost instantly lifting up the notebook.
"Uh, what does it say, Bow?"
"...'Paintbrush'"
"Wha- Huh?"
"It literally just says 'Paintbrush'"
"Wait, but why? Aren't they in the island or hotel or uh-"
"No??? They were with Marsh the last time I checked"
In that moment, realization hit me...That's why Lite wasn't talking! She was scared that Paint would hear her!
And now.. We know...
"OH I GET IT!" I said as i quickly stood up from my chair.
"Bow, we gotta help Lite escape and get to the hotel!"
Bow instantly tried covering my mouth but went right through me.
"Shhhh! Apple, quiet down!"
"Oops, sorry"
"It's fine, but we can't tell Marsh about this, as far as we know.. she'd absolutely freak out!"
"Nor Paintbrush..."
"Why not?"
"Didn't you hear? Lite can't leave because of them!"
"Hm.. Girl, we need a plan.."
"Maybe we can get her out tomorrow first thing in the morning? We can secretly get her a backpack full of stuff she might need like more notebooks or something so she'd be able to talk with the others. Oh! And probably some food, just in case"
"Yeah! I know exactly what we'll need, we can sneak her out tomorrow!"
"Yes!"
We smiled at each other and then looked over at Lite
"Are you ready to escape and save everyone tomorrow first thing in the morning, Lite?"
She stood up and smiled excitedly
"Then let's go sleep and get ready for tomorrow!!!"
"YASSS GIRLLLL!!!"