Maintenance Afore

We all had to wait for a while in the elevator to reach the floor. Inside the elevator, Benjamin kept reading the book to understand the G. Andrew saw John was troubled in his thoughts, So, he went up to him and asked, "Hey! You okay?"

John looked at Andrew and whispered and asked, "Hey...! Do you think Alexa likes me? Or am I not good enough for it, since I started to get shy around her even more than before and she can notice it she probably might know by now, right?", John said that doubtfully.

Andrew whispered saying putting his right over his shoulders, "Don't worry about that Alexa already sees you as a person she is proud to call a friend and she is a selective person, SO, that means you've got a chance there if you are going for it, go for it when you think it is time". After Andrew said that he gave John a thumbs-up to show a gesture of "You can do this!".

John was fired up after the talk with Andrew that he came up to me and said, "Hey! Hi...", And he already started to shiver after just having eye contact with me.

I was confused why he had said a "Hi" so I asked, "What is it, John?"

Benjamin heard John speak so he looked back and saw John shivering and standing in front of me, He knew something was about to go wrong. He tapped on Andrew's leg, standing next to Benjamin and rooting for John. John looked back and saw Benjamin tapping his legs and said, "Stop him before it goes the wrong way!", Benjamin said softly to Andrew. Andrew didn't understand but did what must be that was to stop him from saying another word.

Andrew shouted saying, "I really want to pee, Guy!", they all diverted their attention to Andrew. Benjamin closed the book and decided that he will check on it later, So, the other also could help him with it and deal with it later and check on John. Benjamin tapped John on the top of his head with his right hand. John after the pain said, "Ouch! I know I would have screwed up, Hooky!"

Benjamin replied, "That wasn't for that! She isn't ready for anything, wait until your chance comes. She just had her heart broken, she can't skip over that feeling", They were talking softly to each other there and thereafter. I could hear it even if they did keep their voices down, I was happy hearing that John had feelings for me, I was a bit flustered there but I kept it in.

Meanwhile, when Andrew made the distraction Diana headed toward him and asked, "Are you okay?", Andrew knew he had to act like it was severe to give them more time.

Andrew looked up and saw that Diana knew he was faking it, So, She looked pissed at Andrew. Andrew knew there was nothing getting past Diana. Andrew said acting with the pain, "I... really can't hold it in any longer!", He had to still help Benjamin giving the time. As he was thinking, "I know this is stupid but anything for the boys, If Benjamin has a plan, that is, well if he doesn't... I am screwed here!", while he looked at Benjamin and John having a conversation and smiling at each other. He knew it was over so he got up and said, "I feel well for now because I think I can hold it in a little longer", Diana felt the acting was a little overboard, So, she took him down with a low blow with her left knee then after it he just stood down till Benjamin intervened in and asked, "What just happened here?"

Andrew replied, "She took me out... just because I didn't give her enough attention and she is just like that!", Diana gave Andrew the death stare and Andrew gave her the "I Don't Care" stare. I knew something would go wrong there so I had to intervene and calm Diana and ask, "Why did you get haeted there? There was no need for all that!"

Diana replied, "He interrupted in something that you wanted so badly! Sorry about him"

I blushed and said, "What?! No! How do you you know?... Forget it! I can wait"

Diana put her both hands on either side and smirked at me, I couldn't keep it away from her so I gave a smile and said, "Ya! I kinda wanted him to say it but..."

Diana then finished my sentence by saying, "I get it! It is not the right time. I heard what Benjamin had said", Then we kept talking and talking since it was taking us forever to reach the 39th floor.

Then the G beeped for all of us. The difference between an HG and G is the answering system, In HG we all are compelled to hear the Overseer speak at the same time which makes it so loud now in G we have an answering system that only one of us can attend the call.

Benjamin put his arm up and showed that he would pick up the call we all were ok with it. The Overseer said, "I see that it worked for you all, the coordination is off the charts in 1st Piece. The next floor is called Roof, It is basically like the floor before that you all have been on, the luxurious safe house. The difference is you can move between the Pieces, there is a room in the middle of all the Pieces, The room will be in the shape of a hexagon. If you think in one way all the pieces are triangle which is connected on either side by another triangle. That is Since there are 6 Pieces you are in a Hexagon basically since the room is connected but the thing is you go into the other Piece but you have to return back to your own Piece eventually before you move down to the next floor. You all will be reshuffled again but the list is in the hexagon room. Oh! I didn't tell you what all rooms are there. There are 9 rooms excluding the hexagon room... Let's call that room the Hexagon. The first room you all enter is the Hall...", That was when the elevator and the door opened.

The Overseer continued, "...there is a clock system on the ceiling like the previous one same as it with light mode and dark mode, second the bathhouse with a sauna in it and a dressing room since in the previous one there was none, third a dining room with a long table and 10 chairs with it and if the food in the table is over you don't have to worry about it because it will certainly be refilled since it is a priority of mine to keep you all to survive...", That statement left us all confused but the Overseer continued on, "...forth the doctor's office, that is, if he or she is alive since some of you killed them but the office is still there, fifth and finally the bedrooms there are 5 of them with 2 sets of bed in each room you can attach it if want. That's all can say for now and ya watch out for the tapes"

Then the G beeped off. We were all amazed how the floor looked so beautiful even better than the previous one. That was where Alexa's Diary ended as she didn't have any more pages to write, Allan closed the Diary and said, "Dame! She wrote it like a story. Now I get why she kept going around to talk to the others, Lara do you wanna read it now?"

It has been 2 months since they arrived on the floor none of them had decided to move down till now. They all feel when it is time at least one of them should feel like it and then they all together will have a talk on the subject. When they arrived on the floor Benjamin, Alexa and Andrew learned the way to communicate with the other Pieces through the G and have a discussion with them, It took them 1 day to learn to use it by trying to communicate with each other first and they discussed how G works to all. After that, they all went around to meet the others who they missed after they all went into the Hexagon and meet everyone and know their names. After that, they didn't where they could know which Piece are they assigned to, Rebecca felt a bit weird about the table in the middle and had a suspicion that the table could be digital so she tapped it to check and it wasn't digital. Meanwhile, Benjamin and John were searching around the Hexagon to find any clues while the others were talking around with each other to get to know everyone. After 1 hour of continuously searching around finding nothing, Benjamin and John decided to call quits searching and join the others, that was when Benjamin realised that it could be the G and looked at it and saw both the gloves looked like there was no change, Benjamin clapped his hands once that was when everyone noticed him, the HG on Benjamin's neck came off and so they all tried it except the adults since they didn't have an HG on them. All the HGs came off and the lights in the room went a bit dim and the table had blue light radiating around it. The Table had text on it written, "Leaderboard of Top Survivors", and the text vanished, another text appeared, "1. Danny, 2. Takashi, 3. Josh, 4. Benjamin, 5. James and Rebecca, 6. Allan and Augustine, 7. Dean, 8. Rose, 9. Lucas, 10. Sarah, Diana, Jean, Alexa and John, 11. Hassan, 12. Andrew, 13. Katie, 14. Ben and Harry, 15. Dexter, 16. Noella, 17. George and 18. Lara", The positions did anger them a bit but they had to let go due to the next text appearing, "1st Piece: Sarah, Dexter, Noella and Josh. 2nd Piece: Lara, Allan, Dean and Takashi. 3rd Piece: Diana, Augustine, Andrew and Katie. 4th Piece: Hassan, Rose, Danny and Lucas. 5th Piece: Rebecca, George, Jean and James. 6th Piece: John, Benjamin, Harry, Alexa and Ben", they were angry but afraid to move on ahead with the people they got for the next phase.

They all kept quiet for 2 days not going in for any discussion, even the adults were afraid that some of them couldn't make it. In the adults, there were only Rebecca, James, Danny and Takashi remained calm and they didn't understand why they all haven't talked it out together to help each other, So, they decided they go separately to talk to the others.

Rebecca went to talk to Alexa, Jean, Diana and Sarah who were in the 3rd Piece in the 5th bedroom. Alexa was writing in her diary at this time kneeling on the floor with the diary on the bed, Diana was with Jean and Sarah they were comforting Sarah about Xavier's death. Rebecca joined in the conversation and said, "Xavier, you mean the kid who used to be with us before, right?", Diana nodded while the others were silently seating in the bed, Alexa joined in to hear what Rebecca had to say.

Rebecca continued, "On the Table, a text appeared yesterday it was written, "One of the eliminated contestants will join us since we have something planned with them" That made me realise how many of us were there at the start. So, I asked the others in the other Pieces they said in total... 4 including Xavier, that is"

Sarah asked, "So, what does this have to do with him?"

Rebecca replied, "In the table, it was written, "7 were eliminated, 5 killed and 2 barely alive" how was Xavier at that time?"

Sarah said, "At that time, I saw he was alive before getting away from there and joining Ben and the others. I... don't know if he died or went unconscious"

Rebecca said, "I get it, the pain of seeing him suffer would have got you if stayed there any longer. I was trying to say... Lucas had a friend who was barely alive but Rose told him to abandon the guy and move on because she felt he would slow Lucas down if he had to look after them, she saw this all as a challenge. I asked Rose and Lucas about him they said his name was Samuel and had nothing special to offer when they had been together, So, the other person who was also alive was likely the one. I feel it could be Xavier"

They all were surprised by her deduction and felt that might the case too, Sarah smiled with tears of relief. Rebecca told them to join her in the discussion they will be having in the Hexagon. They got up and joined her relieved Rebecca was there to confront them...