Neil groaned as his eyes slowly fluttered open. He rolled over onto his back and rubbed his eyes. When he reopened his eyes, everything was white for a couple of seconds, before he regained his vision. He got up off the floor, where he had been sleeping, and checked the digital alarm clock on top of a chest of drawers. Eleven O'clock in the morning. As he turned around, his arms swung low due to his exhaustion. He was immediately greeted by the sight of an unfamiliar room with Allen, Rod and Amir asleep on the floor.
He clapped his hands together and shouted, "Alright lads, get up!" However, this was a bad idea as it hurt his ears and everyone else's to.
Struggling to get up, Allen spoke, whilst holding onto his ringing ears, "Not so damn loud!" After scolding Neil, he adjusted his glasses and looked around. "Where on Earth are we?"
"I think we are in an inn," said Rod. Everyone turned to him. He shrugged. "Just saying."
"Actually, you could be right," said Neil.
Amir spoke up for the first time, "Let's go check!" He began to leave when he was stopped by Neil.
"Hey, hey! Put a shirt on first!"
Amir looked down, noticed his lack of shirt and quickly grabbed one to put on. The others checked to be sure they had everything. The four of them left the room they had been in and descended the stairs to lobby.
"God do I feel sorry for whoever has to clean up our room, eh?" chuckled Rod. "I mean seriously, what happened last night."
"I haven't the faintest goddamn idea," Neil replied, equally as confused.
Allen was the one to speak to the tall, muscular man of about thirty years of age, behind the front desk, "Excuse me, sir, but where exactly are we?"
"Why you're in the Inner Inn," he chuckled. "You boys were the main event in the bar last night! I'm the innkeeper, Rock, by the way."
"So what town are we in?"
"Forget-Me-Not Valley, of course! You didn't forget did you?" Rock laughed at his own joke and then continued to speak. "There is a large train station out of town; you should be able to get a train from there."
"Thank you!" the boys said, in unison.
The four of them left to walk up to the station, which they could see from inside of the town. Once they made it in, they checked the board for forthcoming trains.
"There it is!" shouted Rod, pointing at the board. "The next train to Bluebell-Konohana is in two minutes!"
"Yeah but we live in Echo Village, remember?" said Amir, scolding Rod.
Then Neil, spoke up, "Wait," he paused. "Rod's right. We can take a western-bound train from there to get home.
"Then let's go!" said Allen.
They all bought tickets and ran towards the train, barely making it on board. They found their seats and sat down. They didn't speak much for the entire journey but Rod made the occasional comment. Neil sat by the window and rested his head on it, staring out at the scrolling landscape. Damn, he thought. We're going to be late!
