Danganronpa: Despair Camp

Chapter 10- More Deaths

   Things were pretty quiet when me and Autumn arrived at The Lodge. I swear the girl was too paranoid. She'd taken to making sure I wasn't dead every morning, and making me go to breakfast and socialize. I mean, I didn't totally mind. My friends were like family away from family, and I really appreciated hanging out with them. I just acted like I didn't. Anyhow, everything was relatively quiet. Meaning no deaths, no Monokuma, nothing like that.

   "Hey Autumn, Jordan." Liz said, giving us a look as we sat down, "did you guys walk down here together again?"

   "Uh, yeah?" I said, hoping that I wasn't blushing, "why?"

   "Oh, nothing." Liz said, eating her mountain of sugar and toast.

   "If you keep eating like that, you're gonna get fat. Or diabetes. Or both." I added, changing the subject*.

   "I can live with that." Liz said.

   Mason was chowing down on some cereal next to her, completely oblivious to the conversation around him.

   "Are you guys coming with me to explore the new area of camp after breakfast?" Emi asked.

   "Of course!" Autumn exclaimed.

   "Wouldn't dream of going alone." Liz said.

    "Yeah, I don't see why not." I said.

   "Ya!" Mason chirped in, tuning into our conversation.

   "Welp, seems like we're a group." Emi said with a smile, "I can't seem to get rid of you can I?"

  "Nope" Autumn, Liz, and I said in unison, then we laughed.

   After breakfast, we made our way to the most recent part of camp. Our group was the first to go there. We found counselor cabins seven and eight, the final two. Emi and Autumn seemed to keep their eyes on them most. The other two things were, irritating and intriguing at the same time. There was the Exit Gate and the Mastermind's Cabin. Both were locked. So this is where whoever's pulling Monokumas strings has been hiding... I thought, looking up at the Mastermind's Cabin, which was a little bigger than the counselor cabins.

   "Do you think Counselor keys would work?" Autumn asked, reaching into her pocket. She pulled out a key with the number eight on it, and tried to fit it in the lock of the Mastermind's Cabin. It went in, but she couldn't turn it. Emi pulled out Counselor key seven, and tried that. Liz and I tried ours too. No luck. By now the others had come out to where we were.

   "Hey Jordan," Mark said, back to normal Mark, "And you guys, I already told everyone else this, but I am so sorry that I let Dark out. I think the Despair made me weak enough for him to get out..."

   "Hey no problem man," Liz said.

   "Yeah! It's ok." Autumn cried, ever the optimist.

   "It's ok, just try to keep him under control." I said.

   "I'll definitely try." Mark agreed.

   "We've been trying to see if our counselor lets work on this lock." Emi explained.

   "Aren't we supposed to keep the fact that we're counselors a secret?" Mousie asked.