Dumbstruck

Chapter 7

(Picture of Omar and Kat above)

They showed me around their house for a while before settling on their living room, which I may add, is fricking awesome! It was sort of a game room-slash-living room kind of thing 'cause this is where they usually play.

"Shouldn't we be heading back now? It's almost ten o'clock. Kat's gonna start to worry." I said.

"Oh no, honey. We'll be staying here for tonight." Omar said with a smile.

"What? Why? Kat's gonna be worried sick if we don't."

"I've already got that covered." Oscar said as stood up and pulled out his phone.

"Heeey, Kat." He greeted cheerfully while putting the phone on speaker.

"Where the heck are you? It's getting late! You should be home by now. Where's Tyvvah? Is she with you? Is she okay? Nothing better have happened to her or else i'll-" Kat said but was cut off by Oscar.

"Don't worry, she's fine. Jeez. Don't you have any faith in us? She's with us in the cabin. We'll be staying here for the night since it's pretty dark to travel now." He explained.

"Why didn't you tell us earlier? Is she there with you?"

"Hi Katti!" I yelled from the couch.

"Hey, Abee." She said. "You boys better take good care of my sister or else i'll have your balls barbequed."

"Oh, don't worry! We won't let anything happen to her." Olly shouted.

After assuring Kat that we'll be fine here for the night, we decided to watch "Dora the Explorer".

What? It's entertaining.

"How can her parents not give a donkey's crap about her whereabouts? She's like, what? Seven? And yet she just goes wherever she wants." Oscar said.

"Duh, that's why it's called Dora the Explorer. She travels and goes to different places and stuff." I told him.

"I just realized how sad our life really is. She can go wherever she wants without her parents permission or something while we're here, teenagers, and yet we can't go anywhere without Kat's permission." Felix sighed.

"At least we have our Foooers. That's something." Olly said.

After that, nobody said anything. We just watched as Dora kept on shooing Swiper away, who keeps on reaching for her stuff. It was close to midnight when Felix spoke up.

"Hey, guys. Wanna do something?"

"It's almost midnight, Felix. What would you possibly wanna do in this time of the night?" Omar said.

"Explore."

"What?" I raised an eyebrow at him.

"You know, like go out and stuff."

"Dude, what are you on about?" Olly asked.

"You guys are so slow, I swear. Like Dora! I wanna explore like she did!" The blonde said as he threw his arms in the air.

"Basically, you wanna be like her?" Omar raised an eyebrow at him.

"Well, not exactly like her, duh. I'm fab as it is. I ain't trading this hot bod over a seven year olds life. Nuh-uh." He flipped his non-existent hair with a hand on his hip.

"You're so weird." Oscar shook hos head with a laugh.

"You love me anyway." Felix blew a kiss towards his friend. "But anyway, since we're all still awake, why don't we show her around?"

"We already have." Omar said.

"Not in the house." Felix slapped a hand on his face. "I meant the forest!"

"Isn't it a little late to be out in the woods though?" Olly said.

"Never stopped us." Felix shrugged as he got up.

"You up for it, Ty?" Oscar looked at me.

"Yeah, sure. Why not?" I shrugged.

"Atta girl! Now c'mon, we don't have all night." Felix said as he handed us each a flashlight.

"We're just gonna leave your house like this?" I asked.

"Like what?" Omar asked.

"Like, open and stuff. What if someone would just stroll right in with the door unlocked or something."

"We'rw obviously going to lock it." Felix said in a 'duh' tone. "It's thief-proof anyway, so we have nothing to worry about."

Without saying a word, I just nodded my head, showing that I understood as I put on my shoes.

...

"Dude, would you stop pointing your flashlight at me?" Oscar said irritated.

"If you weren't standing infront of me then maybe It wouldn't be pointed at you." Felix said.

Oscar moved to the right, but Felix moved to point his torch at him. Oscar moved the left this time, but Felix also pointed his torch at him, again.

"I swear to God you are so-" Oscar was cut off with a howl that made shivers run down my spine.

The three of them immediately stiffened as soon as they heard the sound. Wait, three?

"Uh, guys. Where's Olly?" I asked trying my best not to panic.

"What? He was beside you. How would we know?" Omar said as he looked around.

"Should we be worried?" I asked them copying Omar.

"I don't know. He must've went and dumped his crap somewhere." Felix snickered.

"He's not like you, bro." Oscar snickered 'causing us to laugh.

Snap!

All of us immediately stopped laughing and looked at each other. Felix had his eyes wide open as he stiffened like a statue. Oscar held on tightly to his flashlight all the while looking around. Omar and I just stood there looking at each other.

"It's probably just Olly." I shrugged.

"Or Swiper." Felix added.

"Man, we watched Dora the Explorer once and you're already starting to get addicted to it?" Oscar shook his head.

We just stood there silently. If it's Olly walking towards us then he's taking his dang sweet time.

"Ogge?" Omar called out.

Snap!

"Ogge, c'mon man. We don't have time for this." Felix said.

"And we have time to play Dora?" Oscar raised an eyebrow at him.

Incase you're wondering why I can see their expressions, the forest isn't really pitch black. It's dark but for some reason we can still see eachother a bit.

"Well guys, thanks for waiting." Olly sudden appeared beside.

Surprised, all of jumped up with a scream - literally. Felix jumped into Oscars arms as they hugged eachother. Meanwhile Omar tripped and landed on his butt.

"What the heck was that for?!" Felix screamed at Olly.

"What was what?" Olly asked.

"For scaring the sheet out of us!" Felix said letting go of Oscar.

Olly just laughed at his friend while helping Omar up. After our scream fest, we carried on "exploring".

"F-f-f-f-f-Felix! Felix the explorer!" Felix sang.

Laughing, I just carried on walking. Being, the clumsy idiot that I am, I didn't notice the branch in front of me causing me trip and fall forwards. What I didn't expect was that I was falling off a cliff.

"Tyvvah!" I heard Omar scream.