Papercuts || Empires S1 - HIATUS

16: Closet

They had stopped talking a long time ago, Sausage found it to be very uncomfortable... but the other seemed to be more than comfortable in the silence. Sausage heard a squeak, the male flinched, his leg moved quickly, gosh, if the lights were on he would've seemed so—

The lights were on!

He was more than relieved, standing in the dark was genuinely scary. No matter how much the brunette wanted this irrational fear to stop haunting him, it just won't! Sausage looked to the other in the closet, Fwhip rubbed his eyes. "The switch is at our legs? That's dumb..."

Sausage was adjusting to the new light, "Do you have a watch...? Oh wait... the janitor should have a clock..." Fwhip turned around so his back was facing the taller, taking a small step back to try and find a clock within the shelves of the cleaning supplies. Sausage found himself zoning out.

"2:34... dammit we still have like 40 minutes before school ends and nobody's come to find us yet! What kind of lockdown is this?!" The dragon hybird's wings were starting to get sore from the lack of space to stretch, and he was guessing the same for Sausage's wings. Sausage let out a breathy sigh, had it really been 2 hours of just day dreaming?

"I wanna sleep, honestly— like I don't even care about my public image when they find us or whatever my parents care about. I just wanna sleep... Sausage?" Fwhip turned back around to look at the brunette, "Yeah, same. I kinda wanna sleep too."

"We should've gone into the washroom. Gem said there's benches in there. Very unsanitary, but Pops' wants me to 'get a feel for the work environment' this afternoon so I can't sleep later..." Sausage honestly wasn't interested in Fwhip's future business ventures. It was weird to him.

On one hand it was expected, they're 16 now and they had to start structuring their paths. Fwhip had most of his path already carved out for him, all he had to do was take it. On the other, Sausage only knew Fwhip as the kid who he told scary made up stories to when he couldn't fall asleep.

"You can sleep now I guess—? If you fall I'll catch you...?" The ginger laughed at his suggestion, "Really? I'm not that light, just saying." Sausage nodded, seemingly serious about his offer. Fwhip sighed before standing against one of the free walls, leaning towards the shelf as to not lean on Sausage.

The male closed his eyes to 'go to sleep.' Not that he was expecting to be able to go to sleep like this.

"Where the heck is he?!" Gemini asked the teal haired male, who just shrugged as he turned back to Jimmy. "What does that mean?! We gotta find him somehow!" Gemini grabbed Scott, who in turn grabbed the blonde he was talking to. Gemini dragged the two back to the school building from the bus station they were waiting at, she pressed the front door button to buzz the office.

"Hello! This is Gemini Tay Spark, I need to go find my brother, you don't understand—" Click.

Gem opened the door, walking inside, not bothering to go to the office to further explain herself. Instead, she stomped down the east-hallway, down to whereever. Jimmy ran to catch up with her, "Aren't we supposed to go to the office?" Gemini sighed in frustration, "It doesn't matter, okay? I need to find him, he left his dumb phone in his backpack."

Gemini fumbled with her brother's phone, "Where did you say he was sent to? Did nobody go look for them?!" She asked as she kept walking to seemingly nowhere. "Janitor's closet— walk slower!" For once the wizard was running in the halls, something she would never do during school.

She stopped upon seeing a door, keys hanging outside. "I swear— if they're fucking behind this door together they're so much dumber together than I initially thought—" Gem gasped as the door opened, she was speechless. "They are dumber than you thought, Gem."

Sausage stumbled out of the janitor holding the other who was with him with his hands. The brunette stretched his wings, relief evident on his face. "How? You couldn't have thought of an easier place? Or like, at least take the key with you?" Gem asked as she hung the keys back on the wall.

"What time is it? I couldn't see the clock in there, also— how the heck does he produce so much body heat?" Sausage promptly ignored the questions Gemini gave him, instead looking around as he 'passed' Fwhip over to his sister. "Wake up idiot! How did you fall asleep standing up, yet you can't lying down— You still have a meeting later, don't fall into your slumber yet!" Gemini shook him, waking the male up.

"What...? Oh, I'm still in the hell hole." Was all the male managed to mumble out, steadying his posture as he stopped leaning on his sister. "Yes you're still here, do you understand how worried I was that you had died?!" Gemini asked, her voicing growing louder as she was agitated.

"I wish... Sausage locked us in there in the dark for like 2 hours until we found the switch near the ground for 'easy access.'" Fwhip explained, Gemini looked to Sausage, silent. "What Gem really wants to know is why you guys had to pretend to get locked in a closet together just to fuc—" The wizard covered the taller's mouth, "I do not want to know anything of that sort, Scott."

"I think it's a perfectly valid question, just saying." Scott continued after he removed the sleeve that was trying to muffle his voice. "As if— I don't think Sausage would even consider that, he's too pure and innocent." Fwhip ruffled his own hair so it wasn't all to one side. "You'd be surprised..." Sausage whispered, not loud enough for Fwhip to hear, but Scott and Jimmy heard it clearly.

Scott snorted, with the blonde beside him covering his mouth as to not laugh. "What was that?" Fwhip's serious expression staring at Jimmy was enough for the taller to look away, trying to stifle his laughs. "Come on, we don't have time for this. You look like you got mauled by a bear, you need to fix yourself up before the meeting— lets go Fwhip." The male took one last look at the three before walking ahead of Gemini.

"I heard that Sausage." Gem giggled quietly before going to follow her brother out of the school. "That was pretty funny to me only because—"

"—where are my things?" Sausage interrupted Scott, who rolled his eyes in response. "Your locker, where else do you think it is?"

haha sorry for the long wait guys 😗