Paper ran up to Microphone and hugged her, which made both of them very happy. The two of them hadn't seen each other in weeks and were very close with each other. Paper wasn't upset that Microphone had been working with Taco, in fact, he had already found out.

Paper found out after overseeing some of their actions for an evening. He knew that Microphone meant no harm while Taco did, so he was fully supportive of Microphone's decisions.

"I'm sorry about this...I didn't want to-", Microphone tried saying, with Paper hugging harder in excitement. Microphone decided to end her sentence early, realizing that Paper didn't care about Taco, he had cared for her safety, not who she had worked with.

Even though Paper was already dating someone else, he thought that one tiny kiss should be fine, so they shared one between each other.

Luckily, nobody alive saw them.

Unfortunately...

Yang had climbed the ladder leading to the tree house and, in a panic, Microphone threw Paper off of her and used a spear to stab through Yang. The result of that spear stab sent him walking backwards, eventually falling back on the ground, which temporarily killed his reincarnated state.

Unfortunately...

Cheesy then broke free of his restraints and toppled Microphone, violently clawing at her faces. She screamed and Paper ran, unable to help Microphone even if he wanted to. Paper left the tree house and quickly ran away, hoping her screams wouldn't attract other infected.

Paper tried helping for the first couple seconds, but when he saw the remaining pieces of Taco start limping, he bolted as fast as possible.

Unfortunately...

Soap and Suitcase were running at the tree house, so he quickly and quietly hid, as the infected used sound to track their victims. Paper successfully hid as Taco, Microphone, Cheesy, Soap, and Suitcase walked away from the tree house.

Paper knew that if he made any noise within the next ten seconds, he would literally be dead. Paper quietly entered the bushes and walked towards the hotel.

[Hotel Perspective]

Paintbrush, Knife, and Pickle sat around OJ, who was sleeping on the couch with a bandage on his face. The three were exhausted and were about to fall asleep. 

Pickle decided to check the cabinet for blankets, finding three thick and long blankets. He put one on OJ, gave one to Paintbrush, and put the other one over Knife and himself, considering they were dating, he knew that Knife wouldn't mind.

Unfortunately...

They were quickly disturbed by something knocking at one of the living room (the room they were in) windows, it was Suitcase's head. Suitcase had repeatedly slammed her head into the window, cracking it.

Paintbrush ran with the blankets, Pickle grabbed food and water and put it in bags before running with Paintbrush, with Knife, who was carrying OJ, following behind. They heard the sound of window glass crash and entered the first hotel room open.

Unfortunately...

They found the hanging body of Trophy, who, presumably, ran into that room and hung himself, considering that he had no escape as there was no window, no way to leave the room as the infected were outside, and no food or water.

It was a disturbing sight for the free awake survivors, as seeing a hanging dead body was not on any of their wish lists, but they would have to deal with it as Suitcase was trying to find them.

Knife quietly boarded up the door as Paintbrush removed the hanging body from sight. Pickle placed everything down; the food, water, blankets, spare pillows, and OJ.

Unfortunately...