So. It has come to my attention that we've haven't seen the residents at the hotel in a while. Not much has happened, but... you deserve to know!

Let me grab something real quick. Also, this isn't forth wall breaking, incase you were wondering!

*Grabs the important item*

Okay! I got it. Alrighty then!

Let's go back in time! To see what things we've missed since we've last seen the hotel residents!

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{Initiating Time Travel}

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{Time Travel Success}

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{Estimated Time Jumped: 3 weeks ago}

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{Newest Episode: E.P 13}

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{Starting Story}

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{Enjoy}

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*Paper's P.O.V*

Man. Even with Balloon gone, there have been some good things happening in the hotel!

The mood was still bleak, but spirits were being lifted, little by little. And I couldn't be more relived.

Other than me and OJ becoming boyfriends, some other good things have happened!

For instance, Knife and Pickle got together; duh. Paintbrush and Lightbulb recently got together, Lightbulb came crashing into the hotel one day and shouted that they were going on a date...

Yin-Yang; mainly Yang actually; are slowly becoming less chaotic. The Cherry twins are getting some education in and are learning how to express themselves without the pranks.

Pickle himself is is becoming more active, which is awesome! Bomb is going to a thearpist for his stuttering. He's improved a little bit, which everyone is super proud of!

With every good, however, there are bond to be bad still. The bad isn't as bad as you think however!

Fan was the most recent one eliminated and he looked so upset. Paintbrush, took it upon themselves to make him feel better. He and TestTube got into a fight and he was bummed about it.

Tissues was getting a little worse for wear, so OJ made him have his own room. Trophy was estatic about it, and now shares a room with Cheesy; like some cliche fanfic from Wattpad.

Speaking of Trophy. He was... Well.. a mix of good things and bad things.

He was working on his Anorexia, which I think is going smoothly. Still has trouble eating on certain days, but he's eating more than before.

On top of this, he's loosing that ego of his and becoming a new person all together! He and Cheesy are becoming closer than ever, and Trophy is making more friends!

Trophy is still upset about Balloon, but he's doing his best to keep his spirits up. It works at times, but there are times where he just breaks down. There were also times where he would hurt himself, but he's trying to stop that.

Everyone was getting alone nicely, and everyone was keeping their spirits up about Balloon. We still go out everyday in hopes we find Balloon soon.

Although, OJ made a new rule that we get one day out of the week to have a break. We all choose that Sunday would be the break day. So, right now, everyone is here having a break.

It's relaxing honestly. I'm so used to hearing chattering and chaos would be happening in the background. But nothing was going on right now, nobody was causing trouble. It was so peacful.

.... Actually, thinking on everything, I'm surprised by a little factor. Salt. She hasn't tried to make a move on OJ or caused any trouble with her rumors and gossiping ever since Trophy stood up for Balloon.

Above all, I don't see her or Pepper together as much which is unusual. Hmmm. Whenever I see Pepper, she looks really upset. Maybe I should ask Pepper is she's okay.

I'll go ahead and talk to her after I make lunch. Now, what am I making again? I got way off topic and-

"Paper! The pizza!!", I hear OJ shout.

"Huh?", I questioned.

Sniffing the air, I can smell burning. I look at the over, and see smoke coming out of it. Holy Crap!!

I open the oven and a huge cloud of black smoke blew out of my face. I had a coughing fit as I grabbed oven mits and grabbed the homade pizza.

"*Cough* *Cough* Oh man! *Cough* I burned them!", I cried.

I put the burnt pizzas on top of the stove and turned the stove off. Once the room was cleared of smoke, I got a clear look at the pizzas.

Most of them were covered in black others had black charcoal on them. Aw fiddlesticks, I really let my thoughts get the better of me.

"Awe man... They're burnt..", I whine.

"Hey. It's okay darling~, we all make mistakes.", OJ cooes.

I blush at the sudden nickname he gave me. I hide my face in my hands as I whine.

"OJ... don't do that! That's so embarrasing!", I pout.

"Sorry love. I just want to express my love for you!", he comments.

He takes my hands away from my face and kisses my on the cheek. I can feel my face growing more red from embarrasment.

"OJ!", I squeal.

"Hehe. That was cute.", he cooes some more.

My face is full on red from embarrasment. I hide my face again as he chuckles.

"Awe. Sorry love. I couldn't resist.", he apologizes.

"I-it's okay... Just d-don't flirt with me in the open.", I say.

"Heh. I make no promises, but I'll try.", he confess.

He then pulls out his phone and orders some food. I would've tried to make more, but we didn't have the ingredients for it. We need to do some shopping soon.

"Alright. I just placed an order for some Hispanic food. Since homemade pizza was a bust today, why not get some Hispanic food instead.", he said.

"Okay OJ. I should throw this away.", I stated.

I grab the burnt pizza attempt and threw it away. After that, I placed the pan in the sink so either me or Soap will wash it later. Oh, speaking of Soap, she's rushing into the kitchen with a fire extinguisher!

"I smelt smoke! is everything okay!?", she exclaimed in worry.

"Ah! Don't worry Soap. Everything is okay!", OJ tells her.

"Yea! Everything is okay. I just... burnt the homemade pizzas.", I confess, flustered.

"Oh. Phew. Heh. Sorry about that!", she apologizes.

She puts the fire extinguisher down as she walks out of the kitchen. I'm surprised the sprinklers haven't gone off yet. It would've the second I opened the oven, but nothing.... Hmmm...

And just like that, the whole room was being sprayed wit water. Great.

"Ah! Oh! I thought I had someone fix that!", OJ groaned.

"Ah! Oh geez! We need to shut it down!", I shout.

"On it!", he says.

OJ rushes to the switch for the sprinkler system, opens the case and pulls the lever down. Within seconds of the lever being pulled, the sprinklers die down and the water stops splashing down on us.

"Phew... The water stopped. Thanks OJ!", I thanked him.

"Heh. No problem. Now... We should go get changed into something dry. We're both soaking wet!", I commented.

"Yea. Let's go change.", OJ agreed.

We leave the kitchen and walk back to our room. We get some glances, but they probably understood what had happened. Us screaming and the sounds of the sprinkler system going off must've gave them that hint.

We make it back to our room and we go through our respective clothes to find something new to wear. OJ finds something first and heads to the restroom.

I continue to search until I find something suitable to wear. It's nothing special, just a nice white sweater that has light blue stripes. Along with that, I pull out some nice pants to wear with my sweater.

OJ comes out of the restroom a little later. He's sporting a nice white button up, that has a picture of some oranges on the front pocket. He also has some khakis on to complete the look. He also put his hair in a nice ponytail.

He looked so... handsome~. I can feel my face flush red. I quickly rush to the restroom and close the door.

'Calm down Paper... he was only wearing a nice shirt. No need to get flustered over it.', I calm myself.

After a good minute, I get changed into my new clothes. I fix my hair as well since it got wet too. Looking in the mirror, I decided that I looked good. So, I head back to the room.

I look around and see that OJ isn't in the room. I guess he went back down stairs. I decided to go search for Pepper, so I went to the pool. I make it, and is surprised to see nobody there, not even Salt.

So weird. I suppose I should go ask around the hotel if anyone's seen Pepper. I exit the pool area and head to the living area. I see Pickle and Bomb sitting on the couch. I should ask them if they've seen them.

I walk up towards them, when Pickle notices me.

"Oh. Hey Paper! What happened in the kitchen?", Pickle greeted.

"Hey. So, you did hear that. Heh. Sorry about that. I burnt the homeade pizza. we were cooking.", I confess.

"Oooh... Haha damn. How did you do that?", he asked me.

"I um... sort of got lost in thought.", I say all flustered.

"T-t-that s-s-sounds l-like y-y-you... Haha..", Bomb laughed.

"It sort of does! Sorry man.", Pickle agreed.

"None taken! Anyways. Have either of you guys seen Pepper?", I asked them.

"Pepper? Hmmm... nope. Sorry man.", Pickle says.

"I-I-I s-s-saw h-h-her g-g-going t-t-to t-t-the h-h-hangout r-r-room...", Bomb explains.

"The hangout room? Was this recently?", I asked.

"Y-y-y-yea.", he responds.

"Okay! Thanks Bomb!", I thanked.

I begin to walk away and head upstairs to the hangout room. I do hope that Pepper is okay. I haven't really seen her in a while.

After a few minutes, I make it to the hangout room. I slowly open the door and in there was...

Pepper. She was here.

I walk in the room and make my presence known.

"Um... Pepper?", I call out.

"H-huh? P-Paper?", she answered.

"Yea. Hey... um. Mind if I join you?", I asked.

"U-um.. Sure.", she says.

I walk further and sit on the couch with her. She looks pretty upset. I should ask her about it.

"Are you okay? I haven't seen you in a while. Or with Salt.", I asked her.

"O-oh... Um. *sigh* No. Not really. Everything has been, so stressful. I'm trying my best not to let it get to me, but..", she started.

"Hey. It's okay. I'm stressed too, but you need to learn to just not let it affect you. So. Could you tell me what's wrong?", I comfort.

"Well. Other than being worried about Balloon. Me and Salt had a bit of a fight. We we're just hanging out, when she started talking shit about Trophy and Balloon again. She did this for like 2 weeks after Balloon left.", she rants.

"Oh my... She never learns huh?", I respond.

"No. She never does. I didn't want to say anything, but I knew it was wrong! So wrong to be talking about them especially about somebody who ran away! So. I did. I scolded her about it. She was super pissed off and...", she continued.

She looked like she was going to cry. I scooted closer and put an arm around her, rubing her back. She calmed down a bit and continued.

"She looked so upset and she yelled at me. I yell back and it led to a fight. She was complaining about how Balloon was manipulative still and how I was being played. I fought back with saying how he's never done anything bad to any of us during the recent years.", she went on.

"She continued to yell about how I was betraying her by siding with everyone and being worried about Balloon. She said that we weren't going to be BCFFs anymore if I continued to be worried for Balloon. I was taken aback, and I was so heartbroken.", she rants.

"So. I turned my back on her. I spat 'why were we even BCFFs in the first place?'. I took off my necklace and dropped it on the floor. I walked out when I turned around and confessed my love for her. I said, 'why did I even fall in love for a selfish bitch like you?', and walked out.", she finished.

"Wait. You have feelings for Salt?", I asked shocked.

"Y-yea. Or... I did. Well. I still like her, but, I don't want to date a person who doesn't care about anyone but themselves you know?", she says.

"I suppose yea. Oh Pepper. I'm sorry about it.", I comfort.

"It's okay Paper. I just need some time alone from Salt. But talking to others couldn't hurt.", she says.

"Yea. Use this time to make new friends. Take the time to heal from the fight.", I told her.

"I think I will. Thanks for the help Paper. I need to get this out of my chest.", she thanked.

"No problem Pepper. Now. Let's head downstairs. I think the food is here.", I say.

"Huh? I thought you and OJ were making pizza?", she questioned.

"Oh. Haha... I... sort of.... burnt them. I got lost in thought.", I confess, all flustered.

"Oh my god.", she joked.

"Hey! I got distracted!", I protest.

She laughed and so did I. This was nice, and a different pace for Pepper. I'm glad she can get out of her comfort zone and make new friends.

We eventually go downstairs to get some lunch. Like I had thought, the food had came. Everyone had gotten some food and was eating and hanging out.

I part ways with Pepper and get some food. I grab some tacos and some empanadas. I walk to the fridge and grab a drink. As I walk to the living room, I see a shadow out the window. Huh?

I turn to look, but see nothing. That's weird. I could've sworn I saw a shadow. Oh well.

I continue walking to the living room to hangout with my friends. I see Pepper talking to Nickel and Soap. She looks happy! I'm glad.

I look around and eventually see Salt, standing in a corner alone. Huh... It reminds me of...

Balloon.

I can feel my face frown and sudden guilt rise up in me. I should talk to her, she looks likes she needs it. I can do that another day.

I sit on the couch and talk to Pickle and Paintbrush. I can feel myself beocoming better from the sudden guilt. We will find Balloon, we just have to.

Who knows how scared he could be. Or how hurt he could become! Just the thought of Balloon being hurt is sending chills up my spine. I just want him back.

We all do. We all want Balloon back. If there was one thing we could do, it's time travel. Travel back in time and prevent everything from happening.

Prevent Balloon from running away. Prevent Trophy from becoming depressed. Help them both with their problems head on. Help Balloon with his depression instead of making him worse.

Make things right with Balloon. Make amends with him. Make him feel welcomed. Make him feel wanted. Make him feel loved.

But we can't. I know we can't. I wish we could. But we can't. We have to suffer the consequences of our actions. We have to constantly worry about Balloon and his well-being.

For now, all we can do is hope for the best for Balloon. Hope that he's okay and is happy. Hope that he hasn't forgotten us. Hope that one day, he'll be found so we can welcome him back with open arms.

I just hope that one day. Balloon can forgive us all. Maybe then, we can all make things right.

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*End of -*

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{ERROR}

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{UNEXPECTED PASSAGE DETECTED}

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{NOW PLAYING PASSAGE}

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*???'s P.O.V*

I got the food from the hotel. Now, to make my way back to the cabin.

So, they ordered Hispanic food huh? [REDACTED] is going to love this! Before I do that however.

I need to leave this note for him. I put the food down and start climbing the side of the hotel. I've been spying a little bit, so I know which room is his.

Up on the 3rd floor, is where he resides. Room 308 is his room number. I make it inside without anyone seeing me. I stick the letter under his door.

I quickly leave through the empty bedroom I entered the hotel in. I make my way down to ground level and head out. I grab the food and make my way back home.

I hope [REDACTED] won't be too upset at me being a little late with lunch. He is understanding, so he might be forgiving to me.

I began my journey back to the cabin. I begin thinking of the old days with everyone from season 1. I felt a bunch of guilt creep up on me as I continued to think about the past.

Gosh. I'm such a fool. I shake my head, no. I'm NOT upset about the past. I did what I did for a reason!

I shouldn't feel pity over hurting people's feelings and betraying them!

But then... why did it hurt so much knowing I hurt them?

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[END OF PASSAGE]

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[TIME LEFT IN PAST: 0 min.]

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[NOW HEADING BACK TO THE PRESENT]

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[RETURNED TO PRESENT TIME]

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[INITATE LEAVING MESSAGE]

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*End of Chapter 26*

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Yay!

Phew.

I'm glad that the time travel worked!

I hope you liked the little change right there.

We'll stick with these guys for a little longer!

Until we hit our climax that is.

Maybe another chapter or two before we get to our fun~

>:D

Until then~

I'll see you tomorrow~

(Today technically. LATE CHAPTER AGAIN! DAMNIT!)