Eighteen

"Spencer, are you okay?" Tillie asked as he walked up to the group. Spencer rubbed the back of Bravestone's head in shock, "Uh I think so."

"You do still have the jewel though, right?" Tillie responded.

Spencer reached into his pocket, pulling out the jewel. "Yeah."

Alex spoke, "Oh thank god."

Fridge looked at him, "Dude what happened?"

Spencer shook his head, "I don't want to talk about it."

Tillie lightly smacked Fridge's arm.

Fridge looked at her, and remained silent.

Bethany spoke, "Okay we need to come up with a new plan."

Spencer looked down at his life count in silence. The tattoo on his arm showing one left.

"Yeah we do."

"Spencer, have any ideas?"

He stood for a moment, before pointing at Fridge. "Can we speak for a moment?"

From where he stood next to Tillie, he looked at him in surprise. "Uh, you want to speak now?"

Spencer turned and walked away from the group a bit. Fridge followed him.

"What's wrong Spencer?"

Spencer shook his head in panic, "I can't do this Fridge."

"What do you mean?"

"I can not do this. Who am I kidding? I'm not an adventurer like Bravestone. I'm not actually brave like he is."

"Spencer, I saw you hanging from the helicopter."

"That's a lot easier when you have multiple lives to spare. It's harder when you only have one life left."

"We will always only have one life dude, just listen. One life is all we get, that's all we're worth. The question you need to ask yourself is, how are you gonna live your life? What type of guy are you going to decide that you wanna be." He paused, "Wait, did I just quote our principal? What the hell is this game doing to me? I got to get out of here. We can do this dude. We can both do it together."

Spencer took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. "Together."

"Yes, together."

Spencer spoke, "You're a good friend Fridge."

They both stared at each other, before walking back towards the group.

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