power outage (II AU)

false expectations

Lightbulb felt a wave of shame after she closed that door, but she couldn't tell if they were lying or not. She couldn't take it anymore. She wanted to leave... Wait, leave? That sounded like a good idea to her, she has a plan for surviving outside of the hotel if needed anyways.

Lightbulb put some stuff in her bag, she always had bright-ish clothes, but ever since she got in this depressed-like state, she started buying darker ones, but she never got any darker color than dark gray yet (just for the top, she has black pants n stuff already)  Her most normal outfit was a dark gray hoodie with some black shorts, she can leave the hotel with that.

She decided to write down a note telling specific people a message directly from her. She then had second thoughts, who'd care reading it in the first place? She checked the time, it was only 12:30, she could take a nap to pass time. Lightbulb set up the alarm for 8:30.

While lightbulb fell asleep, Baxter escaped somehow, nobody knew how but he just did. Nobody could find him

Once lightbulb woke up, she didn't get up immediately, but she was listening to whatever was happening outside. After about 10 minutes, she finally got up and changed into the clothes she prepared. Lightbulb left the keys in the room, but before she left through the window, she finally decided to write something down.

She got a pen and paper and started writing down her note.

"Hi to whoever might be reading this, I left the hotel because I'm tired of staying here and constantly hearing you guys talk shit about me outside thinking I can't hear it. If you wanted me out, then congrats, you got what you wanted"

That was literally everything, no goodbyes, no messages to any specific person. She put the note on the nightstand and put the keys on the note as a paperweight, now she just has to leave.. It was hard doing so, leaving some place you spent a lot of time in, but she didn't care anymore. She just went straight for it again.

The next morning, lightbulb was gone already. Nobody bothered checking up on her at all

Ok so uh paintbrush is the focus for now yay

Paintbrush suddenly walked passed lightbulb's door, they just remembered that they weren't done apologizing. Without a second thought, they knocked on the door

Paintbrush: ...lightbulb, I, uh... I need to talk to you

no answer.

Paintbrush: lightbulb? Are you there?

They opened the door, just to be greeted by nobody in the room. The room was all made up, soap doesn't go in her room and clean up anymore. most of lightbulb's stuff were gone (she didn't bring much bags) and thats the only time paintbrush realized they screwed up big time

Paintbrush: ... This.. This can't be happening, not now..

Paintbrush saw the note and read it, then saw the date. To their horror, it was a week ago and nobody noticed that she was gone. One damn week. They rushed out of her room and went looking for paper, stumbling into pickle while doing so

Paintbrush: ack- sorry, I-I gotta go find paper, it's really important!
Pickle: ... Damn, okay. You looked stressed though
Paintbrush: she's gone, out of the hotel, out for a week and I'm the first one to know after a damn week
Pickle: what are you-... Oh, her, uh, right
Paintbrush: *sigh* god, I screwed up, I should've known from the signs dang it-
Pickle: wait, signs?
Paintbrush: her mental health has dropped to a full on zero ever since, she barely even eats for fucks sake
Pickle: ... Yeah, okay. I'm no detective, but uh.. Good luck finding her because I have no idea how she's like nowadays- oh OH PAPER'S RIGHT THERE GO GET TO HIM
Paintbrush: HUH?? OH OKAY  THANKS A LOT-

paintbrush quite literally ran across the hallway just to catch up with paper

Paintbrush: PAPER, WAIT UP, THIS IS IMPORTANT
Paper: oh, paintbrush, I didn't see you there!
Paintbrush: I'm so damn tired from the running... Lightbulb left a week ago, I was the first one to know, a-and I just knew today-!
Paper: is.. Is that why the camera in her room wasn't working all of a sudden..?
Paintbrush: ... Camera..?
Paper: yeah, there's cameras
Paintbrush: no, I meant how did it stop working??
Paper: ... Lightbulb did something to it, oj wanted to fix it, but he didn't wanna go in
Paintbrush: ... Just go file a missing person report, tell mephone incase she dies, maybe..?
Paper: lightbulb blocked him, he just mentioned that to oj this afternoon
Paintbrush: No, she wouldn't do that. Please tell me you're joking
Paper: im not joking around here, paintbrush. She really did that
Paintbrush: ... I need to find her
Paper: oh, uh, okay.. Goodluck though!

Paintbrush walked away, it was a fast walk though. They HAD to find her before something happens

Paintbrush: ... God, I need someone to help me find her

For lightbulb, she didn't know if anyone would come and find her, but she expected that nobody would. That's a false expactation (get it? lol)
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WOOOOOO MORE COMMUNICATION!!!!!

So basically, nobody expected her to leave, they thought she'd be fine locked up, that's also a false expectation, hoo-RAYYYY!!!!

Take note that I write for fun, im not a poet, but I used to have an idea of starting my own object show myself (the writing style here is similar to how I wrote my scripts) but that show might be cancelled so uh ://

So basically

Paintbrush expected her to stay despite everything, that was false

Lightbulb expected everyone to no care, that was also false

So that's why it's called false expectations

BUT HEY THE ONLY THING I DIDN'T EXPECT IS FOR 13 PPL READING CHAPTER 1 AND IT RANDOMLY STARTS DECREASING AS TIME PASSES WHAT HAPPENED