Education & Experimentation(OLD)

Hopeless

Oo we have a co author, 2763milesaway helped write some of this chapter.

Paintbrush and Lightbulb were on thier way to Test Tube's room. They were planning on surprising her, she seemed pretty down about Fan for a while now.
They reached the dorm room, Lightbulb went
to knock on the door. No one responded.
Lightbulb Knocked again.

"Test Tube, I Know you're in there.. Open up!" Lightbulb said in a cheerful voice.
Still nothing.. Lightbulb looked at Paintbrush

"Maybe She's sleeping? " Paintbrush suggested.

"At 4pm?" Lightbulb questioned.

"She may be taking a nap, shes probably exhausted"

"Hmm," Lightbulb turned back to the door and rattled the handle, "It's unlocked!"

"Lightbulb don't you dare" Paintbrush quietly yelled
"It's not polite to barge into someone's ro-"

"I'm coming in!" Lightbulb loudly opened the door to Test Tube's place.

"LIGHTBULB WHAT DID I JUST TELL YOU!!" Paintbrush yelled before running after Lightbulb,
"Test Tube im so sorr-"

"She's not here..." Lightbulb interrupted Paintbrush.
"Huh..?" Paintbrush looked around the room, "you're actually right..."

(2763milesaway wrote the rest of this chapter from here)

"Well, where could she be?" Lightbulb asked.

"I.. I dont know." Paintbrush said, worried.

Lightbulb thought for a second, before speaking: "Maybe she went on an adventure to get rid of all those thoughts!"

"..Lightbulb, no."

"Awh..."

"Well, we should probably ask people if they've seen her around?"

"Good idea Painty!"

"Yeah.."

They left Test Tubes room, asking people around. But they got the same responses, 'Oh, I haven't actually seen her all day.' 'Nope, the last time I saw her was when she was heading to her dorm.' or something similar to those.

Paintbrush sighed, "What if she got into trouble, or she got kidnapped?!"

"No no, Painty! I'm sure shes fine, shes probably doing her little sciencey stuff outside!"

"Why would she be doing it outside of all places?"

"Maybe she needed some materials that were outside!"

"Lightbulb, I appreciate you trying to make me feel better, but it isn't working."

"Well, what if we go get ice cream?"

"Lightbulb.."

Paintbrush looked at Lightbulb, she looked at them with almost teary eyes.

"Please?" she pleaded.

"..Fine."

As if nothing happened, she jumped up, ecstatic.

"Yay!"

She then started dragging them to the nearest ice cream shop.

They groaned, "Why did I agree to this.." they mumbled, Lightbulb didn't notice it though.

~

"Fan?"

"FAN?!"

..

Test Tube sighed, still getting no response.

She checked the alleyway where Fan was supposedly last seen, Test Tube cringed at the sight of the alley, but entered it nonetheless.

"FAN!?"

..

"FAN!"

Still getting no response, she sighed. Hopeless, she wondered if Fan was ever gonna come back, heck, she was even thinking of giving up.

But she can't, it's her best friend afterall.

She continued walking in the alleyway, the walls were a mess. With paint of all colors splattered all over, spraypaint, a fork that was taped to the wall (for some reason.) And the floors weren't any better. There was trash scattered on the ground, empty bottles of beer.. Yeah, it was an absolute mess.

"Fan?" She said in a drawn out way, noticing something in front of her. Stopping, she took a moment to see what the figure looked like.

"..Who's there..?"

..

The figure looked like a phone as far as she could tell, perhaps a Mephone..?

"Mephone4?"