Notes

Ah! Stalker!

Kevin was woken from his extremely pleasant dream by a loud crash in the room. He jumped, and swiftly moved to the other side of the beds, which they had pushed together last night, and sighed when he heard Elder Cunningham mumbling to himself.

"Oh, I should always remember to leave the stool by the window, oh but wait that's too obvious they'll know I snuck out, but then at least I won't fall next time..." Arnold brushed down his pants and turned to find his mission companion still in bed. Maybe he was quiet enough then. He then realised that Kevin was sleeping in the wrong bed, and then noticed that there was someone else sleeping in Kevin's own.

"Ah! Stalker!" Arnold exclaimed loudly, grabbing the nearest thing to him, which was a broom, and waving it around frantically.

"Oh!" Connor woke up with a shout and fell backwards off the bed, landing on the floor with a dull thud. Arnold relaxed upon seeing that it wasn't in fact a stalker, and was actually Elder McKinley. He forgot that sometimes the elder liked to come into their room. He had his suspicions as to why, but for the sake of his and probably also Kevin's embarrassment, he had kept them to himself. That was, until, today.

After he was called upon by the district leader to help sort out the issue with the water pump, and before they left, he had quickly forged a little note to 'My dearest Kevin' from 'Connor xx <3'. Well, he assumed that 'Connor' was referring to Elder McKinley; he didn't know who else's name Kevin would shout out (or occasionally moan) during the night. He had noticed that both of them were pretty close, often noticing both elders constantly checking on each other, and spending time together seemingly whenever possible. He thought he'd seen them hold hands once, but Kevin had quickly assured him they hadn't.

"Oh!" Arnold exclaimed. "I'm so sorry Elder McKinley, I didn't know it was you! Naba's always telling me about spiders and snakes and... Uh... zombies getting in through the windows so I just kinda summed you were one, y'know... seeing as this isn't your room or anything... Oh but that's fine, I mean you were probably just checking Kevin or something right? Sleeping here alone is terrifying..." Arnold realised he was rambling, and trailed off. The only thing he was doing right now was making it more awkward.

Connor rubbed his head and sat up. Kevin had leaned across to look over the side of the bed, to check if he was okay. "It's okay elder." Connor assured Elder Cunningham, getting up and walking across to the poor man who was still waving the broom around. Connor took the broom and stood it back up in the corner. "Besides, in my letter, I did say that it would be beneficial for us to all stay in this room overnight, what with getting the right hours of sleep and discussing yesterday's issues. Though, I don't think there's much to discuss..." He frowned for a second, crossing his arms in thought.

"Anyway, I'm sure it's fine if we wake up now." Kevin mumbled from the bed, sitting up and running a hand through his hair.

"Well alright then," Connor hastily made the bed and threw on his crumpled clothes, which Arnold had managed to land on when he fell. Sighing, he brushed himself down and leant against the door waiting for the other Elders.

Once everyone was ready (Elder Price had spent 20 minutes doing his hair and Arnold had to drag him or of the bathroom), the trio went down to the small living room to greet the others.