Yogurt -Chapter 3-

Chapter 3
After we finished dyeing their hair, Jacob and I stood back to examine our work. For our first time dyeing hair, we did a pretty good job.
"How does it look?" Lightning asked.
I gave her a mirror and let her look for herself.
"Hmm, not bad." Lightning said, turning her head from side to side.
Hope stayed noticeably silent, but I ignored it and moved on to making dinner, it was already 7:00 PM and I hadn't started on dinner. I would have given everyone TV dinners, but we didn't have enough for everyone. Since I was tired and didn't wanna spend too much time making dinner, I just threw together a tossed salad for everyone and took my food to my room. I told Jacob to come get me when everyone was ready to go to bed. I ate my food in my room and played around on my old (and slow) desktop computer for a while until Jacob came in my room and said everyone was tired. I went back down stairs and started showing everyone to their bedroom. Inside my head, I was thanking the lord that this house had two guest bedrooms. Light and Vanille could share one, while Snow and Hope shared the other. Wait a minute...
I looked around the room and my heart suddenly dropped. "Where's Hope?"
Everyone else looked around the room for the teenager, but he was nowhere in sight. We all decided to search the house, but we came up with nothing. I went downstairs and checked the lock on the front door and sure enough, it was unlocked. But how could he have escaped without anyone noticing?
"Sarah, we're gonna have to go out and look for him." Jacob suggested after we met back up in the living.
"Guess we've got no choice." I mumbled and jogged out of the living room and back into my room. I retrieved the weapons I had hidden from our guests and went back downstairs. "We'll need protection when we go out, but I'll want them back once we find Hope." I said, passing them out.
Lightning and Snow were quick to take their weapons and Vanille retrieved her weapon from the living room coffee table, since I forgot to take it from her when she got here. Once I got a few flashlights and the car keys out of the kitchen, we all left the house and started our search. We decided that we'd drive through the neighbor hood and if we come up short, we'll get out of the car and continue on foot. I swear to god when we find him, I'm going to slap him into next week. Maybe even next month.
We searched around the neighbor hood for a little while and then continued on foot later on, as planned. Everything was nice and fine until Snow knocked over a mailbox.
"Are you an idiot?!" I snapped quietly while looking around to see if anyone had heard the noisy crash.
"He is an idiot." Lightning said bluntly, crossing her arms.
"Oops, sorry." Snow said with an embarrassed grin, scratching the back of his head.
At that moment, one of the lights in the house we were standing outside of flicked on. I panicked and quickly ushered everyone to run down the street. Snow picked Lizzie up over his shoulder and sprinted down the street, Vanille ran down the street the exact same way she did in the game and Lightning, of course, jogged ahead of the rest of us but occasionally glanced back at me for a signal to stop. Jacob was sprinting behind her and from the looks of it, he was trying to out run her. Once I was sure the coast was clear, I told everyone to stop so we (me and Jacob) could catch our breath. I started to regret bringing Lizzie with us. I probably should've made Vanille and Jacob stay behind with her, but it was too late turn back now. God knows who or what could be lurking in the shadows this time of night.
Once we caught out breath, we continue our search. While everyone else silently chattered, I kept racking my brain as to why he left or where he may have gone. He should've known he wouldn't last long in a world he's not familiar with, but he left anyway.
"Hey, look at that." Lightning pointing down the street.
We looked into the distance and saw a short figure running down the street, brunette hair shining in the moonlight. He looked back and emerald eyes locked with mine for a brief moment before he turned around and ran faster.
"That's him! Let's go!" I said, taking off immediately.
You would've thought Lightning would've out run me, but either she was slowing around or I was that angry. I was starting to gain on him, but he was still too fast for me. I suddenly remembered I was holding the flashlight and I reared my arm back and prepared to throw it at him. I have bad aim, so I had to really hope and pray that it hit him and managed to slow him down. I threw the flash light with all my might and thankfully, it hit him right on the head. Hope let out a yelp and slowed to a stop and held his head in his hands, but I wasn't done with him yet. Once I got close enough to him, I pounced on him and put him in a head lock.
"What do you think you're doing you idiot?! I told you not to leave the house!" I snapped as he struggled.
"Let go of me!" He cried, trying to free himself.
"Sarah, calm down!" Jacob said, pulling on my waist along with Lightning. They managed to pull me off the boy and he stood up with a deep frown, rubbing his neck.
"What were you thinking?! Did you ACTUALLY think you could survive in a world you are completely unfamiliar with?" I yelled.
Hope just stood there and stared at me with a somewhat hurt expression. Vanille stood behind him with her hands on her shoulders and a worried look on her face.
"Sarah, quiet down, its 10 o'clock at night!" Jacob quietly snapped.
I started glaring at him, but stopped and sighed, forcing myself to calm down. Yelling at Hope wasn't gonna get us anywhere, nor send these guys back where they belong.
"Let me go." I said lowly. Jacob and Lightning reluctantly did as I asked and slowly let go of me. I picked up the flashlight and looked at my two family members and guests, who were afraid to utter a word after my melt down. "Let's go home." I said, before grabbing Lizzie's hand and starting down the sidewalk with the sound of footsteps reassuring me that everyone was following.
Once we reached the car, we all loaded in and drove home. The ride was silent and no one said a word. All I could think about was my temper tantrum. The hurt look on his face as I yelled at him. I actually felt bad now. I mean yes, I'm tired, annoyed, and still shocked at the fact that I've got to take care of a couple of video game characters for who knows how long, but that's no reason for me to take my anger and stress out on Hope.
I pulled into the driveway and everyone started to unload. I walked up the front steps, unlocked the door and let everyone in. Before Hope could go inside, I tugged on his arm and pulled him to the side.
"Look... I'm...I'm sorry for being ugly to you today. A lot's happened today and I guess I just lost it back there." I said, trying my hardest to make eye contact with him.
"It... it's okay. I'm sorry for leaving and making things harder for you." Hope apologized, suddenly becoming interest in the ground.
"We good?" I said, holding a hand out for him to shake.
"Yeah, we're good... I guess." Hope said, smiling and shaking my hand.
"Good, let's go then." I said, opening the door and stepping to the side so Hope could go in.
After I locked the door, I went into the living room. "Okay guys, it's time to turn in for the night." I said.
"I'll take Lizzie upstairs and get her settled in. Goodnight everyone." Jacob yawned, grabbed Lizzie's hand and they both went upstairs.
I turned to our guests "Alright, follow me."