The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sound of mumbling, Annie and Jenna I recognize.
They are talking in hushed whispers as I sleep, I hear someone step around me walking toward...somewhere, probably the toilets or something.
Soon enough I realize that yes. Yes lud you'll need to wake up, time to do something.
Blinking my sleep away, Jenna is the first one who notice my eyes climbing up from the my blanket.
Not in a whisper this time, but in a soft voice, she speak "awake?"
"No" I have no better joke in stock, I just woke up give me time!
Annie suddenly pop in front of me, squatting, she stare right into my soul and lift her finger up, my gaze focus on her finger, her index precisely, she start moving it around, like a plane, what is she doing? Answering my question she let out a small "boop" as she boop my nose.
Did she fucking booped my nose?
I blink even faster as I start to assimilate this, it's without hesitation however that I find my hand popping out of my covers with surprising speed toward her own head.
"You little shi-!" Falling on her ass she scramble up and start running away from me while screaming "SEE HE'S AWAKE" I myself scramble up off the bed ignoring my sore muscles just to catch this little mouse like human.
Throwing my blanket off I jump at her and pursue her as I hear Jenna mumble behind me "Don't kill her" her tone is lighthearted, as if it was more of a joke than anything.
BUT I'M NOT JOKING NO I'M NOT, SHE'S MY WORST ENNEMY, THE CREATOR OF MY HATE FOR BOOPING, AND THE DOER OF BOOPS!
"I WILL COMMIT MURDER" My voice just make the booper run away faster but she cannot escape my wrath, grabbing her mid run, I lift her up, she's still light as fuck before throwing her on my bed "Dieeeeee boooooper!"
As I stand above my defeated pr-! Oh who's that, hello balrow, I look at balrow, oh I didn't speak out loud my bad balrow, still looking at him he hand me a small cereal bar, one in a packaging that say.
'System 300371! The most refilling snack you'll ever taste!'
Thanks you balrow, I take it, and again I forgot to say that out loud, but that doesn't seems to bother him.
"Are we gonna stare at each other until I finish the bar?" I say while half munching.
He doesn't answer, is that a challenge? That sounds like a challenge to me, I squint my eyes as malfoy come closer to us and just stare at what's happening "what are you both doing?" is he blind? We're obviously fighting here, I keep squinting, my eyes burn, and without concious control I blink.
"Fuck" I wipe my eyes and turn toward malfoy in defeat, not before hearing balrow snort though.
This fucker, I knew we were fighting.
Matthew look at me like a goldfish, lips a bit open and blinking way too many times, not calming his curiosity I ask "how's your shoulder?" Balrow leave who know where as malfoy answer "it is getting better, how are your own wounds"
I look back at my relatively clean body, my pants still has some bloody and brown marks that just doesn't want to go no matter how much I wipe them "Eh, I can barely feel them, they are a bit of a bother of course but nothing that would stop me from commiting goblins genocide again" "Good to hear, you slept quite a lot, I was starting to wonder if you weren't it a coma."
"I can't go in a coma"
"Why?"
I chew on my bar again, I take a big bite and chew, as long as I can, building up suspense.
Then I raise one of my hands and lick my lips when I'm done, to finish my joke. "Well you see, I was actually gaining time right now, to figure out an ending for my joke, but I don't got any right now, so....just act like I said a super funny punchline now"
He look at me, do a fake smile "Ha. Ha. Ha."
I frown "you're bad at fake laughing" "is there even a good way to fake laugh?" "Of course there is" I take a bite.
"you breath deep and then HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA-!" I start coughing until I swallow the bite I took earlier.
"I understand now, next time I will choke myself when I try to fake laugh"
This little fucker, still coughing I raise my finger.
"Th-" damn I'm dying from a cereal bar of all things, coughing a bit more, I finish my sentence "That's not what I was trying to explain here"
"but is it not what you did?" I'm gonna commit murder again, taking me out of my thought Jenna suddenly appear behind me, and almost make me jump in fright.
I however keep very still, I still have a demeanour to maintain after all...wait, why did I do some of my dumb jokes out loud, I look at malfoy and Jenna and quickly realize that my concern about bonding is getting true really quick.
Jenna however calm my concern and ask me "So what do we do now?" And that's a great question, what do we do now?
The day...well the light, is getting up. Yes getting up. Like the sun. This room is weird. Just don't ask.
We need to take a decision, we have food, water, and even beds, we could just rest a little more, malfoy answer Jenna before I can.
"What do you mean? What do we do? I would like us to rest however, even if our source of water is seemingly illimited we do not know if that box or snacks will refill itself too, we need to move."
That's a good point but Jenna speak up again.
"I think taking a rest would do us good even more though, we barely had the time to sleep..." She then stare at me "and do a water war" WHY SHE LOOKING AT ME AS IF I STARTED IT!
Mousy voice come from my left "I won"
Fuck no she didn't
"The fuck you mean. I won!"
She look at me and say "I won"
Double murder incoming "No I won"
As we bicker malfoy answer Jenna "And what? we will rest, get lazy and stay here as long as possible by using other excuses if we start resting" After he said, whatever he said.
Look I'm busy proving my victory here wait a sec.
Anyway as I was saying, after this, the mouse go to malfoy poke him on his shoulder and point at me "tell him we won"
She dare, malfoy not understanding what's happening frown down at her, before tilting his head in my direction, I answer "I won the water war"
Jenna sigh before mumbling something like "why did I talked about it?"
Malfoy blink and almost go back to goldfish mode before going back to mousy side.
"No we won."
Mousy smirk like a little devil and with that devilish tone of her, support malfoy "Yes we won"
Two against one, I turn my head toward Jenna for support but she's already talking to balrow about quote on quote important things, what's more important that ASSERTING MY TOTAL VICTORY IN THE WATER WAR
I turn my head back as I hear Jenna and balrow talk "Lazyness may become a problem." Gruff voice number one say "Yes, but still, we need to be careful about our health." Timid voice number one say.
I tune them out.
"In which world did you won, I was alone, you were four" mousy shake her finger and mumble something like nanana, showing her dissaproval.
"from what I saw, balrow was almost always sitting back in our fight" malfoy nod at that answer.
"whhhhhaaaaat? He attacked me first, not my fault your ally didn't helped you"
Malfoy answer this time "it is, it was practically only a three against one" "Yep it was!" Mousy back up.
"It's still three versus one" I relent, fuck, I need support.
Jenna and balrow still try to find a solution I grab Jenna shoulder, she's closest to me and say "We're gonna rest a bit, perhaps until malfoy shoulder get better, at the same time we'll rest mentally too"
I look at balrow
"it wouldn't take too long to exhaust our ressources too much, and we'll familiarize ourself with our weapons a bit more while we wait, so lazyness is taken care off"
They look at each other and nod, agreeing with that plan.
Great, now time for serious business, I lean forward and grab both of Jenna shoulders, our eyes are now at the same height, and with the most serious voice I can mutter, I speak "tell me Jenna, tell them that I won the water war"
I look at balrow, asking the same, he look at me too and like a boum of thunder, my support come to the rescu-! "Sorry ludger but we won" Balrow nod at Jenna sentence.
I'M BEING FRAMED!