"Have fun sharing a room with all the other palace guests!" Jenny said as she scurried into her own room.
Max just scowled at her and turned to Sarah saying, "Come on, let's go inside."
He reached into his pocket, pulled out the key card maid Lacy had given him and pushed it into the slot in the door. There was a subtle beep and a flash of green light. The door unlocked and opened slightly so Sarah and Max pushed their way inside. The inside of the room was not as luxurious as Sarah had imagined for being inside a palace. There was no kitchen, unlike the hotel room. Although there was a living room, not many people were in. # boys sat on the couch, playing some video games and 2 girls sat on another couch gossiping and looking at their phones. Many doors were on the walls and Sarah assumed that they led to multiple separate bedrooms.
When they walked in only the girls looked up as the boys were too focused on their game. The girl with blonde hair and round, blue eyes spoke to them first. She stood up and curtsied saying, "Hello, my name is Emily Batter, it's nice to meet you!"
"Hello" Max responded. "My name is… Max. And this here is Sarah."
"Hi" Said another girl. She had black hair with a red streak. Her eyes were the color brown. Although she had greeted them she hadn't looked up from her phone. Emily pointed to the girl and said "This is Tenna, she's antisocial. Don't mind her." She then turned to the 3 boys sitting on the other couch, still playing a game. Emily picked up a pillow and walked over to the boy on the left who had blonde hair. She raised the pillow high over her head and brought it smashing down, right onto the blonde boy.
The force of the blow made him slide to the side, the controller falling out of hands. Instead of reacting how Sarah expected him to, the boy just said "Emily! How could You! You just made me lose a game!"
"Oh get over yourself!" Emily said through her teeth. "Greet the people who just walked in!" Emily turned to the other 2 boys, still playing their game. "You guys do it too! Just because you are not my brother, doesn't mean that I won't smash your head in with a pillow as well!"
The boys sighed and paused their game. The boy in the middle turned around and said "Wassup? My name is Alex." Alex had Short, brown hair and sharp eyes. A small hoop earring hung from one ear.
Sarah stood there with her mouth wide open. "Alex Metel?"
Alex took a closer look at Sarah and said "Sarah Benson?"
Emily gave them a confused look and said "You two now each other?"
"Yea." Alex said with a chuckle "We go to school together." Alex turned to Max and said "Who're you?"
"My name is Max. Sarah is my plus one. I live in the same district as you but I am home schooled so you wouldn't recognize me." Max responded
"Oh ok. That's cool." He turned back to Sarah and said "Viv misses you, she wants you to babysit again soon."
"Aww, I've missed Vivian, I'll visit her soon." Sarah promised. Alex just replied with a simple "ok" and turned back to the game on the TV. Then the 3rd boy turned around and said "Hey. My name is Daniel Farr" Sarah didn't get a good look at his face because music started coming from the TV again, causing Daniel to whip his head around, yelling at Alex for starting the game without him.
Emily looked at them and said "If you guys wanna room you have to sign up for them. They put the signup sheet right next to the door, you will have to share tho. The sheet is so they know who is staying in what room and to see what rooms are vacant."
"Thanks Emily!" Sarah said as she and Max walked up to the door. Sarah grabbed the pen and wrote their names down on the first vacant room that she saw. When looking at the list, you would have noticed that there were 10 bedrooms in their section and after they had signed up, only one empty room had remained. Turning to Max, Sarah said "We got room 7. Let's go."
Max and Sarah walked up to their bedroom and opened it up. The inside was not as big as the one at the hotel but it still had 2 beds, a tv, walk in closet, private bathroom and beautiful paintings. The room may not be the same in size but the quality of everything was even better. Everything was so extravagant, upon closer look, you would have noticed that all the paintings were the originals of famous artists. Suddenly there was a knock on their bedroom door. "Luggage for Max and Sarah?" Said a male voice from outside the room.
Max walked up to the door and accepted their suitcases. Jenny had been right, they had brung their stuff for them. "Let's unpack now." Said Max as he walked into the closet to put his clothes away.
"Ok." Sarah replied.
After hanging their stuff up and putting their suitcases in the corner of the closets, Max said "Now what do we do?"
"Ummm" Said Sarah
Then they looked around the room, then at each other. In usion they shrugged and said "TV?" They laughed at sharing the same thoughts and sat down on one of the beds to watch a movie. After scrolling through the channels and finally agreeing on a movie, Sarah said "You want popcorn?"
"Yesss!" Said Max, dragging out the word, Sarah imagined that if a snake could take, that's what they would have sounded like. "Ok, i'll go see if they have any." Sarah said, getting up and walking out of the room. Although the collection of rooms didn't have a full kitchen, there was a little area with snacks, a microwave, sink, ice machine and fridge. Sarah dug through the pile of snacks and finally found the popcorn. She looked at the directions and popped a bag into the microwave. As the popcorn popped, she walked over to the fridge and grabbed 2 bottles of water.
Soon the air was filled with the heavenly smell of freshly popped popcorn. Suddenly there was a voice behind her saying "Is that popcorn I smell?"