World Of Silhouettes

Thirty-One

After one whole hour of tireless searching, we find a hotel to stay in. 

"Thank goodness," I say, absolutely done with this. Way too early and I am way too tired. I have nothing against waking up early, but even I have my limits. Grey walks in and nearly startles the lady at the desk awake. She was not expecting people. 

"Um, can I help you?" She asks, fixing her glasses. Customers must be rare here. 

"I would like a room." He states. 

"How many beds?" She asks nonchalantly. 

"Two." He says. She looks around at us and shakes her head. 

"Two?" She questions. "You sure? These are all friends, I assume?" 

"Two," HE confirms smugly. I almost roll my eyes at how attractive he is. Its sad. 

"ill give you four. On the house." She hands Grey a piece of paper and a set of keys. He hands her some payment, most likely given to him by Knowledge. Oh, just thinking of her makes me want to go back. We barely have even started yet and I want to leave. I am such a loser. Then again, I've never been wanted by soldiers for good reasons. 

"Each of us get our own bedroom except someone." 

"Me and Ben," Katie announces. I gape at her. Now that was something I would not expect them doing. 

"He can sleep on the floor maybe, but we can share the same room." 

"Okay," I say. "I miss sleeping alone actually. Not that you guys are bad roommates." 

"Night," Abbey says through a yawn. Her and Bruce immediately shuffle into one of the bedrooms. I wave to the remaining awake people:Katie and Ben, and go into one of the bedrooms. The room is relatively big. Its much bigger than anything I've ever slept in. The bed is about a queen size. I am about to jump into it, until I decide to check under the covers. I throw them open, and sure enough, a mouse is there, staring at me. I gasp slightly and wait for the mouse to get off. It doesn't. I roll my eyes. Whatever, Im not scared of them, I'm scared of snakes. I grab the mouse with my hand, open the window, and release the creature back outside. I change to sheets with a sigh and lie down. The bed is so soft, oh, it feels wonderful. I love this stuff. Oh yeah. 

"Wake up," A voice says, I moan and roll over to the other side of the bed. "Scarlet!" Its Bruce. He shakes me but I don't pay attention, I settle into a deeper sleep. 

"Fine," He walks out of the room, and I close my heavy eyes, not wanting to ever wake up again. Out of the blue, I feel cold water splash onto me, I wake up, sputtering words I had no idea existed. 

"Br-bruce!" I yell. "That is not funny!" 

"But its a surefire way to wake you up!" He laughs and walks out of the room, leaving me to change my soaked shirt. I trade it in for a Simple long sleeve shirt of Abbeys. She rolls my eyes when she sees me. 

As I walk to my room to change, Grey bumps past me. He turns around to say good morning, most likely, but stops when he lays his eyes on me.

"What happened to you?" He asks, a look of surprise and humor on his face. I can't say I blame him really. Its not every day you see a poor soul like me soaked to the bone. 

"Bruce happened to me." I say. "I just had to wake up, didn't I? Like come on, sometimes, I am a pretty deep sleeper. This is how Im repaid for saving him the other day?" I roll my eyes in mock anger. He just laughs. 

"Go change," He says. I run off to my room and do so. I peel the shirt off of me and slip on the warm and comfortable one that fits me now. It is slightly big on me, but I don't care. Its warm, too.  I put on my sword belt and put on the cloak. MY stomach rumbles loudly as I exit the bedroom.