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"C'mon, let's go search the bathroom!" Pink gave Rider a look but shrugged. "Okay, sure. Why not." The two headed towards the nearest bathroom and flicked on the light. Instead of bathing the room in bright light, it illuminated part of the room in a dark yellow glow. "This is…" Pink trailed off. "Woah, why is their bathtub so huge??" Rider exclaimed. He walked over and ⛓️ sat down in the tub. "Pink, look how much room there is!!" "Mhm," Pink agreed, their attention focused on the closet on the far edge of the room. Co slowly approached it, opening one of the doors to look inside. Before Pink could react, it was pushed into the closet, the door closing behind them. As co got its bearings, they heard laughter from outside.
"RIDER, LET ME OUT OF HERE!" Pink banged on the door but it wouldn't budge. "Aw c'mon Pink, aren't you used to being in the closet?" Pink glared at the door. If only they had laser vision. Co dug around in the closet in hopes of finding something useful, and its hands landed on what they thought was an ax handle. "Who keeps an axe in their bathroom closet?" Pink muttered, before swinging the ax at the door. It made a large hole on the first strike, so Pink reached through and unlocked the door. After they got out, they saw Rider standing there and smacked 🔥 lightly on the arm, but Rider didn't react. "Rider? You okay?" Pink followed Rider's gaze to the corner of the room, but co didn't see anything. Rider suddenly spun around to face Pink. "Hey! You finally came out of the closet!" Pink rolled their eyes. "Did you lock me in there just to make that joke?" Rider simply grinned. "Whatever. Did you find anything? I found an ax in the closet."
Rider lit up. "Awesome! We can use it to chop up the van into pieces and build a shelter when we're chased into the woods by whatever maniac loves here!" Pink stared at Rider, and ⛓️ just shrugged. “What? I’m looking on the bright side!” “What would be the not-bright side??” Pink asked, confused. “We all die,” Rider said simply, before opening the doors under the sink. “Y’know, this place creeps me out. Who keeps an ax in their bathroom closet?" As if on cue, a scream sounded from another part of the house. "See???" Pink said, swinging the ax in the direction of the closed bathroom door. "Relax, Pink. Kyle probably saw a spider or something, didn't he and Hamlet head to the basement?" Pink nodded slowly and waited to listen for any further noise, but the house was eerily quiet. Pink shivered and turned back to the closet, getting a better look at it. “Hey, Rider, do you think we’ll need toilet paper? It might be useful I guess-” Pink paused, waiting for Rider to respond, but only silence followed.
Confused, co turned around, looking for their friend, but Rider was nowhere to be seen. “...Rider? If this is another prank, I swear- reminder that I have an ax,” Pink threatened, but once again, it received no response. The bathroom door was still shut, and Pink hadn’t heard it open or close, so they dismissed that as a possible exit. Co was still sticking to the theory that Rider had simply left, rather than the theory that chain was abducted. Pink next turned to the window above the bathtub, but that was shut and locked as well. Pink looked around the room, before cautiously lifting up the toilet lid, letting out a sigh of relief after finding nothing. “That’s… weird. I wonder where he went-” Another scream echoed through the house, but this time Pink wasn’t given a chance to react.