Was this the right way to go...? Should I turn back...?

Step one: find the fitting base for all of us.

Friday, November 24,2023.

It was a lazy rainy afternoon. Larry and Barry had eventually found Mary and were now looking for a place to call home. Or a base perhaps...? They walked day and night through muddy lakes and soggy branches but not a single shelter in sight. Barry was tired of walking complaining the whole way. "My feet hurt!! When will this adventure be over?!" Larry was giggling at his response, which made Barry smile because he was glad to know that Larry thought he was funny. And Mary was arguing with him. saying he's being a wimp and even Larry could stay quiet longer than Barry. Barry had finally stopped complaining which gave them some (much needed) silence. 

- An hour later - 

Larry ended up walking ahead of everyone. Faster than Mary and Barry combined. I guess his perfect attendance pace was getting used for good now. Larry had stopped to take a breath when he saw a building. A building with a door and a broken-down pizza car beside it. Larry fished a flashlight out of his black pantleg pocket and shined it on the structure. It had metal doors, safe wall like structure, and a....dog? The base was perfect! Larry had run off to go tell Mary and Barry, who were just now getting to the nearby lamppost at the end of the road. He was super excited that he could hardly get his words out. He expressed them by jumping and running at the same time while carefully steadying the flashlight on the structure till they were close enough to not use the light. Once they were close enough, this made Barry laugh very happily because him running and jumping was really funny. Larry put down his light in his back pocket and they stepped close to the giant metal door and gave it a few good knocks. 1....2....3...nothing. Mary gave them one big knock again. THUD! the noise was echoing in the distance of the rain and hail that had just started. "There's no hope with this place guys." Mary said. Mary started walking away but when she was an inch from the base someone opened the door.

..................

 A man with a purge mask, which had a smile printed on it and happily bolded eyes imprinted on it. He wore a tuxedo and an apron singling he was the chef of the house. he looked confused by tilting his head in a nice jester. Larry decided to speak up for everyone. "H-hi sir? My friends need a place to stay for a while until we can get a house of our own...can we stay here for a few nights?" Larry's hair was dripping wet, and his jacket was soaked. Larry had his phone in his hand so it wouldn't get more destroyed in his pocket. He also decided to pull out the flashlight for the same reason. The chef titled his head back to its original position and then back forward still looking down at them. He offered his hand out as a jester to come inside. The three teens stepped into the base, noticing how large it was they were left in awe. Especially Larry. Larry never had nearly this nice of a living condition but now he did.

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6:39pm, Friday

{Barry POV}

It was just then that we were welcomed into the big metal base. Larry looked starstruck, which made me admire him for a few seconds before I was nudged on the shoulder by Mary. "Dude just confess already you are admiring him, and I don't want him-". I responded with a nod followed by me walking away. The purge guy had given us all assigned rooms. He did ask if anyone wanted to be in a room with another individual. I wanted to raise my hand, but I held myself back from doing it. As it would be weird and counted as "too gay"...I got settled in my room and my first thought was how to sleep comfortably with the key in my back. The mattress was nicely padded, and pillows fluffed. I was struggling to get comfy so I just layed on my stomach with my face in a pillow as a sign of frustration. 

I then heard my glass door slide open to reveal Larry coming to check on me. He saw my frustration in getting comfortable and decided to help me. He first had me change into the comfy pjs that were provided for us by the personal butlers outside of our rooms. I then looked into what he was wearing. A nice pastel purple pajama set with dark purpled flowers, black hats and sparkly golden crowbars. Those were given to him by his personal Butler. Mine had a dark blue base to match my sweater, red roses, golden crowbars, and yellow feathers on black hats. Mary's apparently had a green base, red rose, a violin, and the same golden crowbar design that was on mine and Larry's. The pajamas felt like a warm plush blanket that was wrapped around you if you were in a bad situation to make you feel right at home. The pajamas that Larry was wearing made me go even crazier for him because it made him look really adorable. 

In the last few seconds, Larry and I's face had gotten closer together like we were about to kiss. I had started to blush until Mary had decided to pop her head into the room and saw me and Larry standing very close together, Mary gave me a wink and jumped down the stairs railing sliding down to go help herself to some food made by the pizza chef. I quickly hopped out of bed and grabbed Larry's hand to drag him to go eat the food. Once we were down there, we sat down side by side and started eating. Mary was the most elegant followed by me and lastly Larry. He was nervous to eat because he didn't want to get yelled at as he had never eaten fancy before. soon the (MADE UP) master of the base came down to greet us. he was happy we were wearing the pj's that were set out for us.

Master of the base had high expectations for us. but he was very pleased with our manners. 

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