Zombiestuck- Not Okay

Chapter 38

A/N: I hope you enjoy this little break from feels, because it's probably the last one you're going to get.

Jake

A couple days later, we had made it to yet another abandoned house. It was already getting dark because we decided to fight more than usual that day so we could get there sooner.

Dirk dropped his things onto the floor of the foyer, not caring about the noise, and collapsed sideways across the nearest chair. "I'm so sick of this," he groaned.

"Me too," John muttered as we put our things down more lightly and followed him into the living room.

"I swear if I see one more of those things I'm going to lose it," Jade said.

After a couple minutes full of more complaining, Roxy decided to interrupt one of Karkat's obligatory post-zombie-hunting rants.

"Why don't we take a break for a day?" She suggested. "We stay here all day tomorrow and leave early the next morning. I think that's what we all need, right?"

We all nodded. Nobody was going to disagree with that after a nonstop pattern of fight, sleep, fight, sleep for what felt like weeks on end.

"It'll give us all a chance to keep our sanity," she said, glaring not-so-subtly at Dirk, who made an unamused noise and continued staring at the ceiling.

"Well what exactly do you expect us to do?" Karkat asked impatiently.

Roxy paused for a minute before her face lit up. "I think I have an idea!" She said, pulling her backpack off and shuffling through it.

I swear if she takes out those cards again...

"Who knows how to play war?!" She called.

"Roxy not again!" I shouted. She sighed and put the pack of cards back in her bag.

"Well what else do you suggest we do?" She asked, sounding very disappointed. I felt sort of bad, but she really needed to give it a rest. It seemed like every five minutes she was whipping those things out to try and lighten the mood, and it wasn't quite working anymore.

We all shrugged, and Nepeta dropped onto the floor and started rolling around. We glanced at her for a second, then looked away because by now we were used to Nepeta just being Nepeta.

"Well if nobody has anything to do that's worth my time, I'm going to bed," Karkat said, turning to walk down the hallway.

Suddenly Nepeta gasped and jumped up to whisper something in Equius's ear. He gave her a look like he was tired of her nonsense but didn't want to complain.

"Nepeta would like to request that we play a game," he sighed.

"As I said, if nobody has anything to do that's worth my time, bye!" Karkat moaned.

"Oh shut up Karkat!" Roxy said, impressing all of us by the fact that she dared to yell back at him. "What game?" she asked Nepeta.

"Hide and seek?"

Roxy gasped. "Yes! We're doing it!" She decided with no input from the others. "You, me, and Equius can seek first! Counting to thirty, go!"

"What?" I thought out loud. But everyone was already dashing out of the room to go hide and Roxy, Nepeta, and Equius were already turned to face the wall counting. Dave was dragging Karkat out of the room by the collar of his shirt, and all of a sudden it was just me and Dirk.