The Luna Choosing Game

Chapter 0582

The rain poured down so heavily that it was even starting to reach us in the covered deck. Elva dove to cover her precious coloring book pages.

"Everyone, inside!" Nicholas said.

We grabbed our things and hurried inside. I helped Elva with her crayons and coloring pages, careful not to get them any damper than they already were.

The moment we were inside, the storm truly began outside. Lightning struck and wind howled.

"So much for volleyball," Jessica grumbled.

A particularly loud thunderclap made Elva jump. She cuddled closer to me, hugging my thigh.

As we were standing around there, watching the storm outside the windowed sliding glass door, Selma came out from the kitchen. When she saw us - or rather, when she saw Elva crying, she came forward, leaned down, and asked her, "How would you like some ice cream, little one?"

As I came with Elva into the kitchen, I quickly learned from the excess of ice cream in the fridge, that Selma was looking for ways to get rid of the ice cream. She had planned many big desserts for our remaining nights, but with our trip ending early, there was no longer any need for such surplus.

If the ice cream stayed after we all left, it would just go to waste and have to be thrown away.

Because of this, twenty minutes later, all of the candidates, even Bridget, and the princes and Elva, had a pint of ice cream each as we lounged around in the living room.

The sugary ice cream was helping with everyone's mood somewhat. No one was mad about the storm anymore. Jessica had even put on a couple of records, upbeat dance music.

Yet still the overall mood was still glum. What was supposed to be a fun island beach vacation had turned into more or less a nightmare.

I was still determined to lift up everyone's mood.

"Since we're all already here, why don't we play a game?" I asked.

"We can't play volleyball," Jessica said.

"It doesn't have to be athletic," I said. Especially not with us feeding our faces with ice cream. "We could play something else... like... charades!"

Everyone looked around.

"I don't know..." Veronica said.

"I think it's a

looking at her. "You

"That could be great fun! It's the best rainy

I guess it could

looked at Veronica. She shrugged.

want to, Piper," Julian

at Elva. "I just want to color," she said. She stretched herself on the floor, her coloring pages and crayons in the space before her.

and Veronica on a separate team."

sure what she was taking charge so adamantly. It was just a silly party game, not a

written on scraps of paper,

terrible behavior. This must have been some new plan

a word about it. Let her do whatever she wanted

separated into our teams, sitting together. Nicholas, when choosing where to sit, picked the spot outside of Jessica, farthest from Bridget and closest

said. "I'll go

cameras recording, she seemed over enthusiastic. Veronica gave her a flat, bored look. I just barely caught myself before I could roll my eyes. With

of words and pulled out one. She wasn't allowed to tell

"Now, don't feel back, Piper's team, if you don't do as well as us. Keep in mind that I'm an actress, after all. I'm naturally more

and I looked at each

"Get

Jessica started the kitchen timer Selma had brought them. The

"Go!" Jessica said.

wasn't sure what she was trying to do? She was gyrating her body, kind of like a fish

"Dancing?" Jessica said.

moving, which meant that guess

in sync. That was exactly

stopped moving to

shrugged, and

Jessica shouted, calling one quickly after

her strange fluid

shook

"Bubbles? Mermaids? Trying on

dinged. Bridget groaned as she stopped her strange movements. "Come

his mouth. He immediately closed

up in confusion. "You didn't even move