the other side.

10

(NOELS POV)

"We can explore again?" Ricky suggests. "I guess we could... but that's boring!" ocean responded with her usual whiny tone that I usually hated, but I don't seem to mind now. "But what if we find something new!"  Constance replied enthusiastically, trying to convince her. "Fine...." She reluctantly gave in. "But how would it work? Do we split up again?" At this, I side eyed Mischa. He smirked at me knowingly, the last thing I want is to split up with him again. Or is it? I confuse myself. I hate him but I don't, but if I don't hate him WHAT IS IT? WHATEVERRRRRRR.......  I do NOT Like him.  "Noel? You there?" oceans voice interrupts my crisis. "𝑶𝑯! 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕" I ask "Have you not been listening? Do you wanna split up or not?-" "𝑵𝑶." I respond almost immediately. The group looks a little weirded out by my sudden outburst. "Okay...?" Ocean says suspiciously. "𝑰 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑! 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘?" I CANT BE ALONE WITH MISCHA AGAIN, IM GONNA MESS EVERYTHING UP. this is literally gonna be the death of me. "We will go in a group then jeez...." She says while giving me a suspicious look.  THANK GOD.

After a while, we start walking all together this time. And for some reason, THIS WAREHOUSE KEEPS GETTING SCARIER. As we keep walking, I find myself clinging to Mischa's arm. ITS NOT MY FAULT, THIS WAREHOUSE IS JUST SCARY AS FUCK. "Scared?" He asks with an amused smirk. "𝑶𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕." I reply trying to sound annoyed, but not denying it. Strangely, he makes no move to push me off of him. "It's okay to be scared you know." He says, his tone changing from teasing to a little serious. What the hell 🤨 Suddenly, the floorboard creaks which causes Me, Ocean, and Constance to collectively scream loudly. "Oh my god." Mischa says sounding annoyed, his comforting attitude quickly vanishing at the sound of the girls screams. "You two are very dramatic" he says to Ocean and Constance, but not me. THATS WEIRD. why is he not annoyed by me 🤨🤨 Oh well, he probably just didn't hear my scream? "NOEL SCREAMED TOO!!" Ocean says defensively. "Don't care" he says with a shrug which causes me to laugh a bit. "What's so funny Noel" "𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈!!" I say still laughing.

We continue walking and I am STILL holding onto Mischa's arm for dear life. "𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏?" I ask "I mean, it's better then staying cooped up in one spot..."  "𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕!" Doesn't change how scary this warehouse is. "We aren't even finding anything!" Ocean exclaims annoyed "Just be patient!!!" Constance says "What is there to even find?" Mischa asks. "I dunno...food...?"  Mischa just gives her an "Are you serious?" look.  We just walk in silence for a bit "Should we just go back?" I guess we should, we all don't want to explore it's obvious. But something inside me wants us to continue. Wait.... Do I want to continue or do I just want to have an excuse to hold onto Mischa like this. NOPE NOPE NOPE, WE NEED TO STOP EXPLORING. God, why did I have to die on the cyclone and not my thoughts. "𝑰 𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌..." the group all comes to an agreement and we turn back and walk towards the way we came from.

Finally, we arrive back at the main area. I reluctantly release Mischa's arm. The group continues talking for a bit before ocean approaches me "Hey Noel, can I talk to you?"

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I FINALLY UPLOADED AGAIN ‼️‼️‼️ I know this chapter is SHIT. Idk how to write that well don't judge 🥲 TYSM FOR YOUR REQUESTS IM GONNA TRY AND DO THEM! If I forget any, LMK. But I have some plans 😈 I'm gonna try and upload more frequently! BUT TYSM FOR READING THIS!!! Im sorry for such a Short chapter too idk how to write long chapters 😭 OK ENOUGH YAPPING BYEEE TY!!!! 🫶🫶