The Arks: Over Heaven (by Ben)

Chapter 55.5: In Vain

Part 5/7

The three made their way out of the bedroom and headed down the hall. In the middle of the wall there lay a lone door that led to the infamous closet. Possibly the worst hiding spot in the entire house, no one bothered to hide here since it was easy to look through for potential hiders, that was, except for…

“Emma, really? Couldn’t you have found a better hiding spot?” Connor said as Big Brother opened the closet door to reveal Emma standing there mindlessly. She stomped her foot into the floor.

“Erghhh, I thought I’d fool you!” Emma screamed. Everyone laughed, some things never changed.

The four made their way down the hallway and into the kitchen, where a woman was cooking up dinner. She wore an apron, a black shirt and gray sweatpants. She was fiddling with a pot and pan, and was chopping vegetables on a chopping board. She was humming a tune to herself, but for some reason she was shorter than Big Brother and definitely didn’t look like an adult.

“Hey, whoever you are, can you turn around?”

“Hmm?” the lady responded with an unusually deep voice, “Sorry, can’t do that, I’m busy cooking.”

Big Brother squinted his eyes and walked forward. He put a hand on her shoulder, and she turned back. She was a stranger. She was wearing fake glasses, and she had a pretty gnarly mustache for a woman. She seemed a bit familiar though.

“Hey, have you seen Little Kayla or Jeffrey or Tanya anywhere?” Big Brother asked her. She scratched her chin and shrugged.

“Ermm, I dunno who that is. Sorry Boss- I mean, boy.”

“Hmm, okay, thanks.”

Big Brother let go of her shoulder, but as he was about to walk away, a gust of wind blew the stranger’s mustache and glasses off. Big Brother turned around, and gasped. It was Little Kayla all along!

“What the- I found you, ha ha!” Big Brother laughed. Everyone else did too, and Little Kayla groaned.

“Come on, I put so much effort into that disguise!”

“Yeah right Little Kayla, it was so obvious it was you the whole time!” Connor roared.

Big Brother and his crew continued to search their house in pursuit of Jeffrey and Tanya. Where could those two have gone? Franklin could’ve sworn they checked the whole house up and down, so where could they have been?

As they were going through the quartz hallway a fourth time, footsteps suddenly rang behind them. Big Brother turned around and saw a flash of magenta.

“Hey, I saw that!” Big Brother cried. He ran after the runner, and everyone followed suit. As they ran out of the quartz hallway and back into the dining room where they first started their game, they could see Jeffrey just about make it to the next doorway.

“Jeffrey, stop, stop we found you!” Big Brother yelled aloud. Jeffrey stopped in his tracks, and cursed to himself.

“Dang it, I was so close!”

Jeffrey turned around, sweat pouring down from his face. He looked out of breath.

“Where were you hiding man? Why’d you run, I don’t think you would’ve been found for a while if you just stayed put!” Big Brother asked.

“I wasn’t hiding, I was on the move the whole time,” Jeffrey revealed. Everyone let out gasps of awe. No one had ever thought of that one before. Big Brother grinned.

“Heh, clever. You really have learned from me. So uh, that’s the end of the game?”

“I think so,” Connor said, tapping his foot on the ground. Little Kayla suddenly slapped him on the back of the head.

“Ow!”

“You dingus, we still need to find Tanya!”

“Ohhhh,” everyone realized.

“Well, there’s no one left, so she wins,” Big Brother declared. He put his hands to his lips and yelled out, “TANYA YOU WIN YOU CAN COME OUT NOW.”

A giggle suddenly echoed through the dining room, and everyone turned to the plant, where the noise had come from. The plant rustled, and afterward Tanya came out from behind it. Everyone began to cheer and applause as she made her way to them. Big Brother held his hand out, and she high-fived him.