#movertober

Weekends are for resting. Smitty had always needed more alone time than the others to recharge, but having company in his home once in a while was nice. It never felt draining with his friends around.

"I saw a bird today," Smitty said, already sitting down on the couch with a book in hand.

"Really?" Rich asked from across the room. Plates clattered gently as he arranged them on the dish rack, then dried his hands on a towel. "What kind?"

"I don't know," Smitty replied plainly. He flipped open to the bookmarked page.

"Did you get a picture?"

"No, it flew away right after I saw it."

Smitty peered over the book to see Rich, who was rummaging through a bag he brought with him when he first arrived. The drummer then disappeared from Smitty's line of sight, so the cowboy focused back to his book.

"What colour was it?" Smitty heard his friend ask, even if he was nowhere to be seen.

"Not sure."

Minutes later, Rich stood next to the couch. "Was it blue?"

Smitty shrugged. "I didn't get a good look at it. It was really fast." He glanced up to his friend; Rich was typing something in his phone.

"Let's see, could it be a shiny blue?" He then brought his phone down to Smitty's eye level. There were search results for "blue birds in New Orleans" and on the top of the page was a picture of a blue jay.

"Maybe. I couldn't see it clearly but it was pretty." Smitty looked back at his friend, who gave him a smile. Rich pulled the phone to him and walked away.

Smitty continued reading, and shortly after, Rich came back with a notebook in hand.

"Mind if I sit here?"

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Scott pulled the door as it closed with a click.

"That Maze Room was a lot of fun!" Nina cheered.

"I forgot there was even a prize if we get to the middle. Usually we just get lost," the mover added, holding up a shiny coin to Nina, who held one in her hand as well. They unwrapped the golden cover, revealing the coin-shaped chocolate inside and taking a bite out of it. "Good thing you were here, or I would've needed someone to come save me."

The two started walking along the hallway, passing various rooms they've already entered. Nina hummed a tune as she looked around. She observed some of the doors and signs, realizing she'd already forgotten a lot the room locations. "Sometimes it feels like these rooms are endless. I think I'd get lost in these hallways if you weren't here to guide me, Scott. How do you guys even keep track of where everything is? It's almost like going through a maze."

"That's easy! We just uh..." Scott thought for a moment, "well, it's not that easy. We do have the Warehouse map if we ever forget. But sometimes it's not accurate. We update it every time there's a new room, but we might miss one or two."

"Wouldn't you just update the map every time you make a new room?"

"Yeah but there's rooms that we haven't found out yet too."

"What do you mean?" Nina stopped in her tracks to look at Scott, giving him a puzzled expression.

"I mean, we don't know where some of the rooms are until we find it," Scott explained, which only caused Nina's eyebrows to furrow deeper.

"Wait, you mean that some of the rooms just.. appear?"

"Yup, I think, maybe." Scott shrugged.

Nina continued her steps as her friend followed close. "Wow, this place is just full of surprises."

"That's why it's fun to explore the Idea Warehouse!" Scott beamed, earning a giggle from Nina.

"What were some of those rooms?"

"Let's see.. oh!" Scott jogged over to one of the rooms and pointed towards the sign on it. "The Sun Room! We saw this room was really sunny, so we added things that you could do under the sun, like..." He opened the door, the sunlight causing them to shielded their eyes. Scott backed away from the blinding rays and caught a beach ball flying out from the room. "...having fun at the beach!" he continued. The ball was promptly tossed back in, then Scott closed the door.

"So some rooms naturally have special features. This place is amazing!" Nina twirled around. "It's so magical, I can't wait to do more exploring."