Amanda

My eyes snapped open, and I was facing my white wall of my room. I did a sit up, and cringed as my back cracked. Apparently I slept wrong, well, not that I slept much. My hand instantly reached over to the floor and scooped up my phone. As I opened it, I heard Jess scribbling furiously with her pen on her paper. I paused, figuring I should probably explain to her what had happened before going to my own selfish pleasures.

"Jess, it wasn't a dream. I saw it too." I moved into this really awkward but functional position so that my back was flat on the bed and my legs were up against the wall, and when I looked up I could see the ceiling. Jess promptly leaned over the top bunk and I could see her jet black locks falling around her face. 

"What do you mean?" Jess asked, taking her hands off the railing and clutching her notebook to her chest.

"You're gonna fall." I joked, shaking the bunk. Jess lurched forward, but caught herself. As she let go of her journal to catch herself, it flew forward and landed open on a page. Normally I didn't invade on Jess's privacy, but I mean, it was right there! I took a glance at what was on the page and gasped. Jess looked over the railing- you would think she would've learned -and her breath caught. She raced down the ladder but the journal was in my hand before she could get to it. 

"Gimme that!" Jess chased me around the other girl's bunks, and they all glared at us for waking them. 

"Shh, we're gonna get caught!" I giggle-whispered, while trying to inspect what Jess had drawn on the move. 

"I don't care!" Jess growled, leaping towards me. I did a Charlene-esque jump through the space between beds on one of the bunks and landed on the floor, rolling under the next one. I breathed heavily, finally taking a good look at the page of the notebook.

What I saw was so not Jess. I couldn't tell if it was a vision or not, but it sure was interesting. All over the page was a drawing of the same boy, over and over. It was no one I've ever seen before. He had long dark hair and I was assuming pale skin because Jess had not even tried to give it tone with her pencil, as she often did with other drawings. He was lanky and wore what appeared to be dark jeans and a gray t-shirt with a dark- maybe leather -jacket. A name was written in Jess's chicken scratch cursive a few places on the page. It read Jared Whilner (flufftasticlatios). 

"Who's Jared Whilner?" I asked rolling out from under the bunk and handed the pink journal to Jess, who snatched it from me and held it close to her chest like a baby. 

Jess sighed. "He's been a reoccurring character in my visions. I have no idea who he is, I only know what he looks like and his name, which I saw written on a dog tag around his neck one time. Every time I see him he always has the DHI 1.whatever the Philby number is outline around him. Like, I think we might meet him soon, I don't know." Jess threw herself back onto the bed, defeated. 

"But... Why does this one have hearts around it?" I smirked, pointing to one of the Jared's on the page. Jess turned beet red and sharply turned the book away from me, slamming it shut.

"Nun'ya." Jess murmured. She was save from my wrath by my phone going off. I walked across to the next bunk over and turned my phone on. I came to find Maybeck making fun of me and Finn. Again. 

Finn

Don't look at me. 

Maybeck

Don't worry Finn, only Mandy does that ;)

My face turned scarlet as my fingers flew across the keys. 

To: Keepers Return (group)

Back off, Maydork. 

Maybeck

Awww, girlfriend to the rescue. 

I waited out the rest of the conversation until something helpful came up. 

Finn

Jelly's in 20?

Maybeck

Okay sure, invite yourselves over. 

"Jess, we're going to Jelly's." I whispered to Jess as I stood and walked over to my drawer. Yes, singular, drawer. It's a miracle I fit a teenage girl closet in this thing. 

"Why?" Jess wandered over to where I was and opened her drawer.

"Well, we have a lot to talk about, don't we?" I reminded her.

"Oh," She muttered. I laughed and pulled out an outfit. I threw on some dark jeans with a blue decorative tank top and a thin cardigan. Florida was a very unpredictable place. 

I cringed as Mrs. Nash's voice came over the intercom. "Amanda, you have a," She paused. "Visitor." The word visitor was unsure. My breath stiffened as I thought of the possibilities. With Mrs. Nash, you could never tell what her tone of voice met. It could be anyone from Luwouski to Brooklyn Beckham. 

My feet pounded on the steps as I raced downstairs and I tried to recall if I brushed my hair or not. "Who is-oh." I trailed off.

"Hi," Finn waved an unsure and awkward hand at me. 

"Who is-oh." Jess had the same reaction. I gave her my pleading 'Please let me and Finn talk' puppy dog eyes, and she rolled hers and gave in. "Go ahead, you two." Jess sighed and gave us a 'go forth' motion like a grandma that had just gotten dumped by her grandchildren. I felt my face turn a rosy blush as Finn held the door open for me and we strolled out. It shut, but about thirty seconds later I heard it open and close again, probably from Jess slipping out. 

"So... How's life been?" Finn tried to start a conversation. I kept my head face forward but looked at him out of the corner of my eye. His eyes were focused on the ground. 

"Not up to much, I suppose, you?" I stumbled over my words, my tongue feeling like it was swollen. 

"Nothing, really." Finn murmured. 

"What are we?" I blurted out, instantly regretting it.

"Um," Finn looked down at himself as if he was checking the facts. "Human?"

I laughed, despite the pain of starting a conversation that was bound to lead to the death of me. "No, like what are we?" I motioned to me and him. 

"Oh." Finn started to turn red. "I-I don't know, what are we?"

I groaned. Isn't he supposed to be a man and make the decisions here? "You tell me." 

"I mean, we can look at it as we can jump right back in where we left off- wherever that is -or take a minute to keep things Keeper based." 

"Where did we leave off?" I was trying to get as much Finn insight on us as I could.

"We were in a relationship. We were dating. I called. You didn't call back. We were over." Finn stated. Not said, he literally stated it, like a fact. 

"Oh." I muttered, looking at the ground. Finn lifted my chin so that I was looking at him.

"But we can go back." He whispered, inches away from my face, which was so hot doctors probably would've thought I had a fever of 110 degrees. 

"I'd like that." I stared to smile, before the most impromptu kiss of my life occurred, not that there were many. When we pulled away, neither of us said anything, just kinda awkwardly held hands and walked down the street. I forgot that Jess was even there until we got to Jelly's which made me both embarrassed and raged that she walked in on a moment I was excited to describe to her later and exaggerate without her knowing. 

After greeting everyone, we headed inside and just had a short starter conversation before we got to the good stuff. When Philby decided it would take him a whole week to get us up do DHI 2.0, we all sort of sighed. Not only was 1.0 an inconvenience, but it was also dangerous. 

"So how do we get into the Base ASAP?" I asked.

"During daylight hours would be the safest, but a lot of uninformed- like about us, I mean -Imagineers are in there during daytime, whereas during nighttime it's more dangerous to us but better for the secrecy of the Disney company.

"So, what do we choose?" Jess was trying to sort out all this information, I could tell by the 'thinking look' on her face. 

"Nighttime." Finn concluded. None of us wanted it, but knew that nighttime was the only option we had?

"So... What now?" Maybeck asked.

"Sleep, I guess. Long day ahead." Finn instructed. 

"Yesss," Charlene leaned back into her seat and closed her eyes.

"Not here, I ain't carrying you upstairs, if that's what you're thinking." Maybeck flicked some water from the paint pallet in the middle of the table at Charlene and her eyes snapped open.

"Hey!" She exclaimed, hopping up from her chair into a fighting stance. 

"Oohh, square up Terrance." Finn joked. 

"Whaddya gonna do? You wouldn't hit a girl?" Charlene smirked, hopping back and forth from foot to foot, still in a fighting stance.

"No, but I can do this." And with that, Maybeck proceeded to pick Charlene up bridal style and carry her through the doorway to outside. He put her down outside and closed the door behind him with a slam. We all busted out laughing when he turned the lock on the door. Charlene pulled at the door for about fifteen seconds before she realized what was going on and ran to the side of the store. Sixty seconds later, Charlene came running down the stairs and jumped onto Maybeck, wrapping her arms around his neck and legs around his stomach.

"What the-" Maybeck ran in circles like a dog chasing it's tail, trying to see what was going on. 

"Got cha!" Charlene smirked and gave Maybeck a noogie. He cringed as he shook her off his back. When Charlene got off, Maybeck patted his hair down and they both sat back in their seats as if nothing had ever happened. We all gave each other serious stares for about ten seconds before bursting into hysterics. Laughter filled the whole entire shop as we all clutched our sides and fell into one another in giggles. Finally the laughter died down and we were all left smiling at one another. And this, moments like these, is why I loved being a keeper. 

Hey everyone! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. We had everything from action to romance to laughs! I'd say this was a pretty good one ;)

Up at the top there we got a video with lyrics of one of my personal favorite songs, Boyfriend by Rae Lynn! Give it a listen, if you please:) I looked for a music video, but she hasn't made one! I'll put up another one of her songs next chapter with the music video if you all like it :)

Anyhoo, I've dedicated this chapter to flufftasticlatios because I used one of the characters we created in our upcoming book (Jared Whilner is the character)! Details about it have yet to be released, but we are getting there :) 

Sooo... That's pretty much all I have to say. Oh, and @madxgoon here was the Fimanda action you were asking for :) Goodbye for now friends, I'll see you later!

xoxo

~bcruzy_02