Night Terrors

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Prompt: Lee and and Carley are a bit noisy when they do their business. They get loud in the middle of the night, and it wakes the entire Motor Inn up. They are pissed.

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It must have been 3 in the morning when they heard the woman's scream. It woke most of the Motor Inn up, and they didn't know what was going on. Ben, who was sitting atop the RV doing late night watch, looked terrified to hear the scream. He didn't know what or who it was, and he had no idea what to do about it. Was it someone inside the hotel? Someone around the perimeter?

Everyone looked at each other, readying their weapons. They were going to be ready for whatever this was, and whoever was getting attacked.

"What's going on?" Little Clementine asked.

"It'll be okay." Kenny assured her. "Ben you come down here and watch Clementine and make sure nothing happens to her."

Ben climbed down the RV at this order. He approached Clementine and grabbed her hand. "Where's Lee?" She asked the kid, looking up at him. There was sadness in her eyes. She was worried.

"Oh yeah. Lee." Kenny said. Lee wasn't up like the rest of the group.

"And Carley." Lilly added.

"Maybe they're still asleep. Who knows. We shouldn't freak out." Mark said. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"I swear to god, I'm gonna find whoever woke us up and I'll beat the s-" Larry started.

"Dad! Calm down!" Lilly scolded her father. As she said this, another scream rang out. Lilly looked up, knowing the exact source. She began to walk ahead of everyone.

"Where are you goin', princess?" Kenny asked. Lilly scowled at him.

"I know what's going on." She said, walking up to the door of Carley's room. At that moment, Kenny knew what was happening too.

"We need to find Lee, too." Clementine told Ben, pulling on his arm.

"He's fine." Ben told her, but that wasn't enough. She still looked terribly sad.

Lilly approached Carley's door. She knocked on the door loudly. She wanted to make sure that she heard. There was shuffling about in the room, and then there were footsteps coming towards the door. As Lilly had thought, there was more than one person. Lee.

Carley was the one to open the door. Her clothes were on crooked and her hair was a mess. Lilly looked past her, and saw Lee. Carley looked embarrassed.

"What do you want?" She snapped at Lilly.

"Can you and your boyfriend tone it down a bit?" Lilly said, stepping away from the door, revealing the rest of the group. They looked pissed. Carley wanted to shut the door and hide.

Kenny approached the door. "Move." He told Lilly. She rolled her eyes and stepped out of the way.

"Listen. It's great that you two love each other, but show your uh... Love for one another without waking the whole group. Okay? No hard feelings though." Kenny said in the nicest way possible.

"Okay, fine." Carley said, shutting the door. The embarrassment was too much for her. She felt bad for waking them up, but did they really have to all gather at the door to mortify her?

She sunk down on the bed beside Lee.

"Screw them, we'll be as loud as we want." He said, turning to her and smiling.

Carley returned the smirk. Lee was right. It didn't matter what the rest of the group said or thought. As a matter of fact, she could care the less.

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