Winners Take All (On Hold)

Contest Winners

We're sitting in our basement and decide to play a game. We set it up and get it started, and we were trying to beat each other to win the game.

"Come on Kirby!" Lola says. 

"Ohhh no you don't!"

"Yeah-huh!"

"I don't think so!"

"Oh, but I do!"

"Noooo, I don't wanna die!" I say to the screen.

The timer ticks off and the game says 'Sudden death' in a deep voice.

"Ohhh you're in trouble now." She laughs. 

"Noooooo." I whine.

"Yesssss."

"Kirby's gonna get youuuuu." She sings. 

And sure enough, she does get me by walking up behind me and kicking me so I die. 

"Bahahahaha! I win!" She laughs loudly, throwing her arms up and doing a dance in the chair while singing part of the song 'Chelsea Dagger'. I shake my head amusedly at her dancing and singing and I happen to glance over by the basement stairs and my eyes go wide.

"Um, Lola?"

"Hmm?" She pauses and looks at me. 

All I can do is point towards the stairs, speechless. She frowns a little in confusion before looking. Once she does, her eyes go wide too and she's absolutely silent. Then we see our friend poke her head out from behind them, waving innocently.

"Wow, they're speechless. This almost never happens." She laughs.

"Are you two gonna talk or stand there all day?" She asks us.

"Give it a second to sink in." Lola says weakly. 

 "Okay, so what's going on here exactly?" I ask after a few moments.

"I entered you guys in a contest. You get to travel with these two for a whole month." She says, smiling brightly.

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

"I think you two have some packing to do." She adds. 

"Um...yeah..."   

"Oh, by the way Mike and Alex, that's Jazzy and that's Aeryn."

"Well I'll leave you 4 to get acquainted, have fun." She adds, before disappearing back up the stairs.

Lola and I look at each other. 

"So um....packing..."

"Right." She nods slowly. 

"First....when are we leaving?" I ask, turning to face the guys.

"Hour and a half." Mike replies.

"Then we should get packing now then."

We both get up and walk over. 

"You're welcome to help us if you guys want." We offer.

"Sure." Mike agrees after he and Alex exchange a glance.

We all walk up the stairs and then go upstairs to where our rooms are. We stop on the main level. 

"Her room is on this level, mine is up on the next." Lola says. 

"So you each have your own floor?"

"Yeah."

"That's pretty cool."