7 Bathroom

Pov Gregory:

After I talked to Clowey I walked to where the other kids were playing, only to be stopped halfway through by Aunt Erica. "Hey Gregory I'm just curious, but what were you talking about with Clowey?". 'What a stupid move, this just puts her on my radar.' "We'll… I was sad that Drake was gone soo…" I say while sheepishly scratching my head. "Well ok" was all Aunt Erica said before she left to do whatever it is she does.

----------Later at midnight----------

Forcing myself to stay up till midnight, when I assumed Mom would be asleep, I got up and made my way to Cloweys bed. "Clowey… Clowey wake up" I whispered to Clowey while slightly shaking her. "I am up, what do you want" I got slightly embarrassed trying to wake someone up when they are already up. "Let's go talk in the bathroom, but only after 5 minutes of me being away, we don't want to go out together". I whisper as I make my way down the stairs as quietly as possible. 

*Creek* the wood creaked, and I tightened up. After nothing happened I continued my way to the bathroom. After getting to the bathroom, I sat in one of the stalls. After about 5 minutes I heard silent footsteps making their way through the bathroom. "Clowey in here" I tried to get her attention but she didn't hear me. Again I said "Clowey in here" but this time at a normal volume. She seemed to notice this time as she entered my stall.

"What do you want to talk about, we should be getting sleep." She whispered. "I think we should tell the Twins and Brian" after I said that she stood and thought for a while. "I think it's a good idea but we can't tell them the full truth, they would freak," she said while nodding. "I agree". "Is this all you wanted to say?" She questioned. "No, from what I gathered from our situation there are only 2 viable ways to escape". I say. "The wall and the Gate" Clowey finished my sentence for me.

"I say we scope out both, tomorrow we will inform the others, then we will try and find an escape for the next month, sound like a plan?" I inquire. "Ya sure sounds good, let's go to sleep," Clowey said, tired and stressed. *Tap* *Tap* *Tap*. The sound of rhythmic footsteps came from the entrance of the bathrooms. Hearing that Clowey jumped on my lap, I was currently sitting on the toilet, she did this to get her feet off of the ground.

The stepping kept coming closer and closer, we were both trying to be as quiet as possible. The stepping got closer and closer until it was right outside the other stall which was where it stopped, the door to the stall opened as the person stepped inside it. *Clunk* the person dropped on the toilet.

*Sigh* "If I don't find out who it was I won't get the job" Aunt Erica's Voice came from the stall next to ours. I was completely terrified and shocked, I was trying my hardest not to make a sound, I could tell Clowey was the same. 

"Come on Erica, if you keep being like this you definitely won't get the job, so let's go over the suspect list again, Clowey, Gregory, Adrian, Adriana, Brian, and maybe one of the 7-year-olds are a part of the list, I've checked through all of them but…" the voice of Erica seemed to cut off there, I was both happy to get some more information and horrified about the unlucky situation I'm in.

I waited with Clowey on my lap, both of us trying to be as silent as possible. *BAM!!!* The stall wall next to us was hit by what we could only assume is a first, we jumped at the unexpected noise. the ceramic toilet bowl shifted creating a slight noise, we were both scared of what might happen if Erica catches us, we didn't know what would happen but it probably wasn't good.

"FUCK!" Erica roared as she slammed the door to the stall open and stomped out of the bathroom, when she roared we both jumped again creating another noise from the toilet. Abruptly the steps stopped. "Did I hear something" we distinctly heard Aunt Erica say under her breath. Silence ensued as we waited scared for our lives, I felt Clowey vigorously shaking on my lap as we waited, what else could we do?

"It was probably nothing," Erica said as we heard her walk out of the bathroom. Huge sighs of relief came out of both mind and Cloweys mouth. "T-That was s-so unlucky, we should w-wait until we are sure she is g-gone before we go back" Clower stammered. I just nod my head not wanting to make any more noise. After about 10 minutes we felt we should leave. 

"You can get off of my lap now, my butt is hurting" I joked in a whisper to lighten the mood, she looked embarrassed so she got off my lap and walked out the door, unafraid. I looked at her with surprise as I followed behind her, I seemed to have cheered her up at least. We quietly made our way back to the bedroom, we were not faced with any more trouble and safely made it to our beds.

----------The Next Week---------

After the fiasco in the bathroom, we decided to slow down our activity. We had 2 months before the next child was set out/killed so we slowed down. During the day I would go to the library and read anything that would seem useful in a death game, there were even some psychology books. We didn't do anything over the week, just tried and threw off suspicion. 

From our interaction in the bathroom, we deemed Aunt Erica mentally unstable. It was now time to tell Adrian and Adriana, we told Adrian and Adriana to come to meet us during recess under the tree. Clowey and I were sitting on the ground waiting for them. From the distance we see Adrian walking toward us. 

"Hey guys what ya want to talk about" Adrian was a short boy, standing a head below both me and Clowey, his messy blonde hair covering his green eyes, he had a sharp jaw, weird for his age, and he looked to be in a bad mood.

"Where is Adriana?" I asked him, seeing that he was alone, but his mood got worse when I mentioned Adriana. "We got into another argument, it was about who makes better food, Aunt Erica or Mom, I said Aunt Erica's pancakes beat everything Mom could make, but Adriana said that although the pancakes were the best on average Mom's food was better than Aunt Ericas, it then got blown over and went into a huge argument". 

He looked slightly discouraged, but I could help but laugh thinking about the two yelling about food as if their life depended on it, "THE PANCAKES ARE BETTER THAN ALL OF MOMS FOOD COMBINED". "BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN AUNT ERICA IS A BETTER COOK THAN MOM, HER FOOD IS BETTER OVERALL" "THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE SHE HASN'T TRIED WORKING THAT HARD ON OTHER FOODS AS SHE DID PANCAKES"...

 "Hehehe" I chuckled thinking about the absurd argument. "What are you laughing about?" Adrian said as he looked at me with disdain. "Oh nothing, just the argument playing out in my mind, pff" it was funny,  "You two will make up like you always do," I say. "Well not this time," he says, "You say that every time" I fire back. He just blankly stared at me for a little bit before saying "whatever, what did you want to talk about anyway?" He asked.

"Let's not talk here, let's go in the forest… I'll beat you there," I say that last part before sprinting into the forest, Adrian and Clowey looked Dumbfounded, before Adrian got this malicious grin before chasing after me, Clowey just sighed. I didn't want to talk out in the open, we learned last time that it might be suspicious to talk out in the open, so we decided to talk in the forest. I didn't just say "I'll beat you there" for just the fun of it, it was a better way of getting to the forest without looking all brooding slowly walking there.

I had a head start but he was slowly catching up to me. I was surprised that he was catching up seeing that I had longer legs. "I win," I say as I'm the first to get to the forest, although Adrian was faster than me, I was able to get there faster due to the head start I had. Looking behind him I saw Clowey walking while massaging the bridge of her nose.

"Ok now, what did you guys want to tell me about?" He says while slightly gasping for breath. I turn serious and so does Clowey. "Well…"

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