A Story of Betrayal

Cherry

"And we should all find somewhere to sleep, it's 20:00" Pink said. "We could just sleep in the pods." Blue suggested. "Yeah, that makes sense." Coconut agreed. "So everyone agrees to stay in the pods until 7:00, right." Orange said, making sure no one would be out, and there for no one could be murdered. Most of us agreed.

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This time the pods weren't sealed so we could dream and be aware of time. After about 7 minutes I feel asleep.

I was having a horribly nightmare about the impostor killing all of us, and woke up. Apparently it was two hours later. Out side the window of my pod I saw a girl wearing red converses, leggings, and a red hoodie, the hood was now off and I could she her blonde hair with red tips tied in a side pony tail with a green hair band. I opened the door "Hey, what are you doing?" I ask trying to find out why she wasn't following the agreement we made. She flinched slightly in surprise. "I was trying t-to do the tasks, sense I can't sleep." She explained. "Oh, ok. Maybe we could do our tasks together so its safer." I suggested. "Really! Thanks, I don't really want to go alone." She says now smiling. "I have trash chute in storage and then O2." "Ok" I say and then remember. "We never officially introduced our selves. I'm Lemon she/her, and you're Cherry, right?" "Yeah, she/her" She replied as we started to walk down to storage.

It was quite half the way to storage, but then I started to feel kinda awkward. I started a conversation "So, were did you get the space agency patches?" "Oh, you mean the ones on my hoodie. Some of them are from travelling, but the others I just bought online." She answered happily. It was quite for a few more seconds before she asked "The scrunchy in you bun is different from yesterday, do you have a lot of them?" "Wow you actually noticed that, and yeah." I responded, surprised that she was that observant. My scrunchy was light green with a bow that looked like a leaf, like on a real lemon. The one I was wearing yesterday was a slightly lighter green without a bow. "Do you notice things like that about every one." "Yeah, I usually notice small details. Sorry if I sounded weird or creepy." She said putting the hood of her hoodie over her head, and pulling the strings to hide her face.

We reached storage and she did the chute. It was silent except for the small humming of the engine and metallic creaking of the floor. It was awkward, walking silently to O2 with some one I barely knew. She looked sad, like she felt bad about the question she had asked earlier. I didn't really know how I should start a conversation, so I waited a little while longer. After a few minutes I decided to ask "Um, have you became friends with any one on the ship." "Yeah. Blackberry and Lime." She said now looking less sad. "Cool. Im friends with Cyan and Blackberry." I tried to keep the conversation going. "Blackberry's really cool, she's supper nice." Cherry said smiling "We were friends before this mission." "Really?" I didn't know any of us knew each other before, since we are all from around the world and from different countries. "Yeah we meet at training in Turkey. I know most of us are from different countries." She continued smiling. "Im from Canada and she's from Spain." "Cool, I've never been to Turkey." I said "It's really pretty and has a lot of mountains." She said, and then asked "Where are you from?" "I'm from the United States." I answered as we reached O2. She finished chute thee too.

By this time it was 00:00 "We have five or six more hours till we should go back, so no one knows we left and I kinda want to do wires in navigation." We walk across the the hall to nav still talking about random things. I fixed the wires quickly. Then we went to weapons. Cherry had the asteroid task next.

While she was at the weapon controls shooting any near by asteroids to protect the ship, I asked her "I got into the group by creating a communication devise, what got you in." "I created more ways of training for space." She said still looking at the site scope. "That's really cool! I wonder what the others did?" I accidentally asked out loud. "Blackberry invented environment friendly ways of protecting the ships on the new world, so we don't ruin another planet." She answered. "Yeah we'll make sure nothing like world war 3 ever happens again." I said, and then it was silent for a while. We headed to the cafeteria so I could fix the wires. I noticed that as we had been talking her hood gradually fell back, and was no longer covering her face.

"I think it's getting late, and I'm getting tired." Cherry said yawning. "Yeah me too, we should head back." I agreed. We chatted a little as we returned to our pods.

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At some point after I fell asleep, and it was already morning. I went to find Blackberry, I wanted to ask her why she never said she meet Cherry. I go through the door across from Med-bay and make my way to the cafeteria.

Blackberry and Cherry were already sitting at a table, wearing the same thing (the pods have sanitizers and we only have one change of cloths. there are washers and showers though.) they had different hair styles though. Blackberry's hair was tied in a pony tail with a black ribbon, she had a small peace of hair in her face next to her left eye. Cherry's hair was down and she had curtain bangs, her hood was off. They were both laughing. Maybe Blackberry just didn't have a good point to bring it up, they seemed like great friends. I didn't want to bug them, so I went to another table were Lime was sitting. I didn't see Cyan anywhere, they probably weren't awake yet.

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