In exchange for a Nickel

is this the end? [pt1]

Clover looked at the sharp knife at her hand.. she was done lying to herself, she took it and sliced one of her leafs off, her left one technically, she felt like she had gone blind in her left eye which she did since she cut her left eye with her left leaf.
She felt happy doing so. As she threw her leaf on the ground, she heard a notification go on her phone.
Cobs.
What did he want.. ruin her life again?

<cobs : if the others still didn't forgive you, I'll still accept you working with me, head back to meeple if you still want to aswell, Nickel has been changed into a new location, I'll show you when you get here.>

Maybe I can help Nickel without him knowing..

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"W-what!?"
Nickel stuttered

"There's always consequences for people's stupid actions."
Cob said

He covered Nickels mouth as he ran off downstairs in an empty basement with a singular cell, he tossed Nickel in the cell aggressively as he sat down on his desk infront of the cell while typing something inside his computer, he seemed angry but he kinda wasn't..? What was he up to?

Nickel held in his breath, the atmosphere made him feel uneasy, and the smell was horrible, I think this cell was abandoned, Nickel just stared at cobs typing in his computer with a dumb smirk on his face, what was he doing!?

Nickels breathing became shakey and unstable. It was cold, and he was scared, Cobs was done typing whatever he wrote.

"You'll be getting a visitor soon. Also, maybe your faith.."
He mumbled the last part, which Nickel couldn't hear

"And I don't want to see you run off again."

He left the room as he slammed the door, Nickel let out a big breath. He felt like he was gonna faint, but he took his chance to look around the room, with pictures.. of HIM!? was cobs stalking him!?

He couldn't help but feel like this was all planned. Maybe this is why no one is here yet.

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"I'm sorry, Mephone.."

"Louder!"

"IM SORRY!!"

Paper forced Oj to say sorry to Mephone after his false allegation of him working with cobs all along, Mephone was still a bit sad but he let out a giggle, as he sat in the dining room, he want to help track cobs aswell, For Nickel.

"Alright, let's set this aside. Have you gotten any info on cobs?"
Oj asked

"Plenty."
Mephone answered

He hands him over the meeple companies' locations of each room in every story in the building, and a mark on where Nickel is, he recognised that room.

"Let's not waste any time. We should go now!"
Oj exclaimed

"I know we want to find Nickel as fast as possible, but.. won't there be security..?"
Paper questioned

"Oh please, just tap them once, and they'll dissappear. "
Mephone said

"Great, then it's settled, I have a list of people who want to come."
Oj said as he pulled out the list.

"We should keep some people back in case we need help."
Mephone ordered.

Today was gonna be a long day, I just hope we get Nickel out safely. We all decided that we were gonna go tomorrow since some people weren't sure about going, but baseball really wants Nickel back as soon as possible, but hey, that's for tomorrow.
Paper thought to himself.

"Hey, paper!"
Oj called out.

"OH, oj hi!"
Paper replied.

Oj gave paper a small kiss on the cheek before going up to his room. paper felt less stressed at the moment as he also went upstairs to go to sleep.
Before he went to his room, he took a small glance at baseball, who was sleeping obviously. paper knew what he had to do to help Nickel for baseball.