Hours. Hours upon hours of searching. For him. For Scott. He was nowhere to be found. Not in the Rattic, not in the kitchen, not in his house, not in either of the farms. Nowhere. Like he had just- disappeared into thin air! It was just... nothing. Not a peep, not a squeak, just nothing... it made a grip of fear wrap around my chest, my ears twitching every few seconds as I anxiously paced back and forth with few steps.

"So. What's all... this for?" Tubbo asked boredly, a small flint knife in his hand loosely gesturing to my anxious state.
"The lack of our friend? The fact Scott just disappeared? Oh, maybe the fact we can't find him as well??" Eloise answered sharply, her voice underlying concern.
"Well, he has to be somewhere- it's not like he'll just go through the floor into nothingness or something." Bek shrugged, absentmindedly, almost sure we'd find him.
'That's just logic. No one can just go through the floor...' I murmured, still focused on pacing.
"Is he seriously nowhere? Like- not anywhere around here?" Martyn suggested.
'What're you implying?' I asked, though not glancing away from the floor, my face furrowed in concern no matter how many times I tried to relax the muscles- it just kept frowning.
"Have you checked the roof?" Martyn asks, rhetorically, as the roof was... never checked...

I paused my pacing, the roof was never checked. I immediately left the small mischief as I ran for the window, climbing up onto it and going to the outer ledge to look out across the roof's flat-facing slate. And visible against the dark colours roof, was Scott who was laying there without a single twitch of movement. I fled from the windows ledge and down onto the slate, reaching Scott's side-... he was asleep. Just asleep... he's fine, no injuries... he's fine. I gently nudged him to see if I could wake him up, no use to it. Scott remained asleep. I gently sighed, picking Scott's sleeping form up into my arms and walking back over to the window. Mild concern etched on my face. My ears where still twitching from my anxiety just a minute ago. I climbed up the window, with slight struggle as it's hard to climb while carrying a sleeping rat. I managed to get up anyways, making my way back inside and heading for Scott's house.

"You found him?" I heard Jimmy call out to me.
'Yeah... I did. I found him!' I replied, still walking onwards with the sleeping Scott in my arms.
"Hey! At least he didn't go through the floor!" Bek called jokingly.

I gave a light snicker to the statement, but the small smile on my face returned to a frown as anxiety slipped back into my mind. I sighed while continuing my walk to Scott's house, reassuring myself that he would be okay.

~time.

I placed Scott down on his bed, pulling the covers around him. Standing by for a little longer to be sure he didn't stir once. And as I went to turn...

"Do you remember your little session with the Farmer rat at all?" A voice suddenly asked.

I jumped in surprise, squeaking out of fear, once I had gained a small amount of courage I looked down at the rat that has spoken, it was Tubbo.

'Oh... Tubbo- uh... what're you talking about?' I asked, trying to calm down my fear.
"Oooh- you do remember???" Tubbo asked, with a quiet snicker at the end... uh oh.
"Well do I have the story to tell-" Tubbo began.
"Tubbo- what're you doing?" Bek said, her face furrowed in a way that made her seem angry, though she wasn't.
"I was just going to tell Owen that he and Scott made out!" Tubbo stated with a shrug. My face formed into a look of confusion... we what?
"Yeah... okay," Bek sarcastically noted, nodding in the end though.
"Come on, let's leave-" Bek said, turning to leave. Tubbo huffed, not wanting to move from where he was but had to begrudgingly follow along.
'Wait wait wait-!' I called out to the two, Bek turned back to me, Tubbo just continued leaving.
'What do you mean that... me and Scott...-' I started hesitantly.
"Made out?" Bek finished for me.
"Yeah, no clue. Tubbo came running back after going off the visit you two, and kept rambling on about how he saw you two making out. Every rat just assumed that you two where probably drunk, or Tubbo managed to get his hands on a little too much sugar and went a little bit crazy." Bek explained simply. I sighed in reply.
'Ah... okay, okay. Yeah. I don't remember that at all-...' I mumbled.
"Eh, I don't care." Bek shrugged, walking away.

I looked back at Scott to double check that he was asleep and comfortable where he was, Scott seemed fine. Though some concerns pulled at my mind, I believed he was fine and made my way out of Scott's house. At least he's back...

(I DID IT. I DID IT!!!! TRAPPED LOVE CHAPTER FINALLY!!!!!!)