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𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐅𝐈𝐕𝐄: 𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍 𝙽𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝

It was 2:50 am, Lake was walking around the empty park again, checking for trespassers and cleaning up any visible mess until Ross came up from behind and asked "Hey, you know that River kid, right?" Lake looked back at Ross with a broom in hand, stopping herself right in the middle of sweeping up trash. "Yeah, obviously." Lake laughed a little bit more than asked Ross. "Why'd you ask me that?" Ross then got up close to whisper. "I think there's something wrong with him. Like, really wrong. He got super up close and personal with us, and gave off weird looks like he knew something other than us being...well, y'know!" Lake then raised an eyebrow. "You're trying to bring back the accident topic again?" Lake asked. Ross awkwardly nodded his head. She then sighed. "You seriously think that he killed you?" Joe then barged in. "Obviously, what do you expect him to do? Sugarcoat it? Say something like 'a whittle boy twied to commit a swightwy small thing called people go bye-bye?'.."He then said harshly. "Uh, I was hoping that would happen, yeah." Lake joked as her voice trailed off, Joe was quite intimidating whenever he was pissed off about something. "It's not funny." Joe shook his head with a stone-faced expression. "I know that, it's just..." Lake took a deep breath after the pause. "Why do you guys still think about that accident? Is it gonna hold you guys back for the rest of your robot lives? I mean you guys get to live forever and see new generations be made. Unless someone tries to break you but other than that..." Lake continued to try to lift everyone. Silence still took up the area. Until a soft humming of a serene melody came from Joe, Lake instantly recognized the melody.  "Well, that's what you want me to think. Now, stop being so damn optimistic for once..." Joe commented roughly as he sat down. The silence was heavier than it was just a few minutes ago until Joe hummed a soft melody. Lake instantly recognized it as Stranded Lullaby, a song that he created under ミラクルミュージカル (Miracle Musical) from their only album, Hawaii Part II. He then got up with the same solemn expression, still humming that melody, and walked to Andrew's keyboard to play the song. Everyone stopped to stare at him. 

(A/N: you may scroll up yet again to play the song.)

Anchorless and unmoored set amiss

Awake would only prove the fantasy that made lucid sense

Sail on, Sail on

Lake closed her eyes for a few minutes, lifting her head as if she were hearing the sounds of the ocean. She felt a soft breeze go through her hair as the song kept playing, the song made her feel like she was sitting at the shore of a beach looking at the sunset. She imagined that while the song was playing. Then she asked while staying in that same position: "Does Joe always do this whenever he's angry?" Rob looked at Lake. "Y'know play his Miracle Musical songs?" Lake continued. "Yeah, he does that sometimes. It's the only thing he can do at this place, especially since we don't have our own spaces as we used to." Rob said softly. Zubin sat in a thinking position. "Say if River did kill us, then why would he do it?" Everyone stopped and stared at him. "Well, considering it happened a long time ago, he would have been like... 13 years old... So, maybe someone ordered him to do it! Kinda like the Death Wish skit we made on the Tally Hall Internet Show!" Ross exclaimed. "But in that episode, we did that after Zubin 'died.'" Andrew argued. "They could have been on their deathbed when they told him to kill us, you never really know!" Ross shrugged. Zubin then said, "You're right that could happen, but River is the one that chooses whether or not he wanted to kill us and he did. So I can also side with Andrew here." The music then stopped playing and Joe walked into the conversation, Lake turned to him. "You feelin' better, Joseph?" Lake asked him."Yeah, a little bit." Joe said with the same stone-faced expression he had when he played Stranded Lullaby on the piano. Lake gave an expression of confusion and concern this time, trying to be more serious and caring now, "Really? You don't look like it." 

"I am." Joe said with a tone that expressed honesty. "Okay." Lake smiled back at him. A silence went on for a few seconds. "Last one to the arcade is a rotten egg!" Rob yells as he was the first to start running to the arcade area. Everyone else followed after Rob while Andrew was zoned out, he then looked around to see everyone running for the arcade. "Hey! Wait up, guys!" He called out to them as he was the last to follow behind.