Beautiful Ocean Depth

Part 3

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The next morning, Colby woke up on the couch with Ellie and the twins looking over him worried.

"Thank god you woke up!" Ellie cried, wrapping her arms around his neck as she hid her teary eyed face into his shoulder.

"We were so worried about you." The twins echoed one another. Inviting themselves into the hug. Colby of course returned the hug his childhood friend's gave him.

"I'm sorry.. My paranoia got the best of me" he murmured solemnly.

"Forget your paranoia!!! What the heck was that thing?!" she screamed, pulling away. Colby only looked at her confused.

"What do you mean?"

"That.. Phantom Jellyfish, thing.. that attacked you last night" Ellie exclaimed. "Well, not necessarily attacked? More like rushed at you, then started making small things around the kitchen float. So it didn't touch you." She added. Colby didn't understand at first. Until a rush of memories filled his aching head with the events of last night. Making his body quiver and his eyes once again fill with shaken tears. Suddenly the twins whipped their heads around to face the nerdy girl.

"How do you know if it was a giant jellyfish?!"

" We only saw it for a brief second before it wisped away!" They yelled. Ellie only returned her gaze to the traumatized male and wiped his tears away.

"Fluid movements, four oral arms, lappets, and a bell. Just the basics. Plus, I said Phantom Jellyfish "thing". It's not frankly an actual jellyfish. That's insane." She stated. Oliver just nodded. Oscar was taken aback, but shook it off as he gazed down at the smooth sand colored tiles. "But what is it? What does it want?" Ellie asked, barely above a whisper. Oscar and Oilver glanced at each other and shrugged,

"We don't know." They chimed.

"But we do know that, whatever it is, or was. It has a form to match the ocean theme around the house. Why?" Oscar asked.

Colby, who had been silent for most of their conversation. Let out a frustrated groan, gripping his black hair.

"I knew something felt off! When the walls got darker, now this?" He let out a shaky sigh. Ellie crossed her arms,

"Well, we can't leave now. We just moved in and already unpacked almost everything! So maybe.. We can figure something out?" She wondered. Making Colby shake his head.

"NO! I wanna leave.. Can't we just call that moving company again?" Ellie shook her head. Then the twins stepped in.

"We don't have enough money to pay them again."

"We need what we still have to get a few things around the house." Making Colby whine in dissatisfaction. Ellie then stood up, grabbing the boys' attention.

"Well, let's just finish unpacking what we have left. Then try to figure out what we do about our problem." The trio hestiatedly nodded and got up to finish emptying the rest of the boxes laying around the house. So throughout the day they unpacked, but were also cautious of everything just in case their unwanted visitor came by again.