"Really?" Miya said to me as we took off our headsets and got ready to leave.
"What?" I looked at her confused.
"Think fast chucklenuts!" She mocked me in this irritating way.
"Isn't that a bit outdated?"
"Whatever-" I got up from my seat and soon the others followed.
The crowd went wild as we walked off the stage.
That game gave me confidence, confidence that i never had before..it's kinda nice-
"Isn't that amazing??" Jerry said hyped.
"He actually won!"
Tom rested his hand over the device he had in his pockets and sighed.
"Yeah…."
"Hey! You're the team that won right?" A small girl walked up to us.
She had white hair and a big blue ribbon in it.
The minute she appeared Miya froze up, standing behind all of us.
"Yup!" I said proudly.
"I mean i basically carried but-"
When I said that Miya looked at me with judging eyes though I didn't turn to see the look she gave me I felt them burning the back of my scalp.
"Wonderful~" The girl walked away.
"Follow me~" She said as she walked.
We followed her to a part of the building with alot of rooms, we could only assume the rest was for the other contestants.
"It's one room per team by the way." She said in a sweet voice.
I was confused when I saw this.
"So..we'll be living here?"
The girl grinned.
"Basically."
"You did let your mom know..right?" She teased us before leaving, allowing us to choose a room.
"I did." Oli cheerfully said, answering her question.
Miya crossed her arms as if she was unsure about what was going on now, and honestly I don't blame her I didn't know we had to stay here!
I sighed.
"Ok, let's choose a room."
Gabriel said, picking one randomly.
We nodded and followed him.
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Tom and Jerry were waiting for the next round to start because there really wasn't anything else they could do and they already paid for the tickets.
"THE NEXT ROUND WILL START SOON!" The announcer said from his microphone.
As they waited Tom's phone started to ring.
…
..
"Hello?" He said, picking up the phone.
"TOM!!" A group of voices said simultaneously the minute he answered.
"Oh no-" He sighed to himself.
He covered his phone microphone with his hand.
"I'll be right back, Jerry."
Jerry nodded and Tom left.
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"What do you four want-" Tom said, slightly irritated.
"You never said we had to live here!" Miya spoke up.
"Yeah!" The rest of us followed up on what she said.
"Look." Tom began, holding his forehead frustrated.
"Don't you want to clear your name?"
"It's only for a week, you all will be back after that." He explained. We all looked at eachother.
"But what about my mom-" I spoke up with a face of genuine worry.
She doesn't know im here and I don't want her to worry about me-
The room was silent for a while.
"Don't tell me you forgot about that-" Miya said, breaking the silence.
Tom looked as if he was in a corner at this point.
It's not gonna be easy to tell a kid's mom that they're playing video games to see if they'll be in jail or not-
"Look- I'll come up with something-" Tom said reassuring us.
"But you four focus on the game."
He goes to leave.
"Tom-" I said, He stopped and looked at me.
"Why are you trying so hard to help us-" I said.
Tom looked at me for a solid minute, eyes as if he just saw his son who went missing for years.
"It's classified-" He said before finally leaving.