No one knew whether it was a nice idea or not, considering what had happened in the last game. But Aziel was excited, and so was Tatiana.
��Yes, I want to play. I was not in the last video when all of you were there,�� Aziel said and looked at Danica with hopeful eyes.
Danica looked at Troy, who was thinking about what he should do.
��I agree with Aziel,�� supported Tatiana. ��I wasn��t there when this video was being made. The feeling sucks, so I don��t want to miss this opportunity. Besides, everyone is free today.��
��Great! I will bring the cameras,�� Kenji said and turned to Hernan. ��Babe, help me, will you?��
Aziel jumped in excitement and asked Kenji, ��Can I help you too?��
Kenji nodded his head.
��Of course,�� Hernan mumbled with a smile. ��This game will be more interesting than before.�� With that, he went inside the mansion to bring the cameras along with Kenji and Aziel.
��Are you sure it will be safe to play once again?�� Gabrielle asked.
��The last time after what happened to Dani, I will not take a risk. We are not playing it,�� Troy announced, and Trevor nodded his head, supporting him.
��Count me out,�� said Trevor.
��Guys,�� Tatiana started, ��This might be our chance to expose Kenji��s truth to Hernan. We can gather proof if Kenji makes a mistake. Then we will expose him in front of Hernan with proof. This is our golden opportunity.��
��But we didn��t make a plan,�� Gabrielle pointed out.
Trevor added, ��And if a proper plan is not made, things might go wrong, and the tables might turn to us.��
��Also, I am still sticking to my word. I am not risking Dani��s life once again,�� Troy said sternly.
Tatiana glanced at Danica, indicating with her eyes to convince Troy. After giving a thought, Danica understood it might be a golden opportunity to gather proof. It was worth giving a try.
��Tr���� Troy interrupted Danica.
��I am not listening to the words you say. You always end up convincing me.��
��This is why you should listen to her,�� Tatiana deadpanned, putting her hands over her hips.
Danica sighed and said, ��We can give it a try, and that way, Aziel can enjoy it as well. He really wants to play this because he saw the first game and he regretted not being here. I want to make this vacation the best for him so����
��Fine,�� Troy, Gabrielle, and Trevor said in unison.
Troy added, ��But you are staying next to me the entire time.��
Chortling, Danica said to him after entwining her hand with his, ��And you still want me to believe you don��t love me.��
He rolled his eyes, not replying to her comment.
��We believe in it so much,�� Tatiana said sarcastically.
��His temper is really long-lasting,�� Gabrielle commented. ��You know Dani, when we were four years old, Troy was angry at me for taking his pants and wearing them in the park because my one had mud on them. He didn��t talk to me for a week.��
��For God��s sake, you left me naked in the park just because your pants had mud,�� Troy grumbled, glaring at his sister who burst into laughter, along with Trevor, Danica, and Tatiana.
��What did we miss?�� Hernan asked, resulting in everyone stopping their laughter.
��Just talking about random stuff,�� Trevor told Hernan and then asked, ��Have you brought all the cameras?��
Kenji spoke from behind, ��Yes, and I have made sure that all of them are fully charged. I don��t want the same mistake to be repeated.��
��Dani, I chose this blue camera for myself. How is it?�� Aziel questioned, showing a royal blue colored camera in his hand.
��It is beautiful, but is it charged?�� she inquired, looking at Kenji.
��As I said, every camera is fully charged, Hazel. Don��t worry,�� replied Kenji.
��Okay, I will hand the cameras to everyone,�� Hernan said and checked every camera properly after handing it to every person one by one. Once he was done, they took their position to fit in one screen of the camera to do the intro.
Gabrielle shifted closer to Trevor, while Troy pulled Danica towards him by grabbing her waist, in order to avoid any bad touches from Kenji. Tatiana moved closer to Kenji when he held the camera.
��I always want to be in front,�� Tatiana reasoned out. ��If you put a beautiful woman like me on the thumbnail, you will be famous very soon.�� She fixed her hair.
Hernan chuckled at her words and stood next to her, keeping Aziel in front of him.
Kenji started the camera and introduced everyone. Then he said, ��Today, we have two new faces on my channel. One is Tatiana Holden, and the other one is this little munchkin, Aziel Waylon, the younger brother of Danica Waylon.��
Kenji explained the game rules over the camera once again and said that instead of prize money, the winner would get to grant three of his or her wishes which would be possible to fulfill.
��This time, Hernan will also play the game and I will be the one looking for all of them. So I will be counting till fifty in this garden and all of you can hide,�� Kenji informed everyone. ��One����
As soon as he started counting, everyone went in different directions. Gabrielle, Trevor, and Tatiana went in one place, Aziel and Hernan went to another place, while Troy and Danica headed towards Troy��s studio.
��Are you sure this is a good place to hide?�� Danica asked Troy, who just hummed in response. ��You can leave my hand now. We can find places to hi����
��We will hide in the same room. As I said, I don��t want you out of my vision. I mean each and every word, Dani. I don��t want to go through that phase again. The few minutes when I couldn��t find you, it felt like everything around me stopped and���� Troy closed his eyes and took a deep breath. ��Leave it. Let��s find a place to hide.��
Danica smiled seeing his concern. He was the cutest of all. Even though he didn��t want to let Danica know how he felt when she was missing, Troy eventually blurted out his emotions. She knew that in the same way, he would blurt out ��I love you�� and accept their relationship for real. She wouldn��t be the fake girlfriend anymore.
��You can hide beneath this desk, and I will cover it up with this cloth and the chair. So you won��t be spotted, while I will hide behind that couch. In that way, I can keep an eye on you,�� Troy explained to Danica, who was busy admiring him. ��What do you think?��
When Troy didn��t hear a response, he looked at her, only to find her staring at him. He liked it when she would just stare at him and get lost in deep thoughts, but at that moment, it was the time to hide, not to romanticize.
He flickered his fingers in front of her, bringing her out of the trance. ��We don��t have much time left. Go and hide. I have to cover you up and then hide as well,�� he informed her.
She nodded and followed his instructions obediently. After hiding Danica beneath the desk, Troy hid behind the couch as well. He could easily watch her from there. He couldn��t help but chuckle, finding Danica��s every action extremely cute. Bold Danica was indeed better than the quiet Danica. She would express her love for Troy openly, and Troy loved every time she would do that. Even if Danica never told Troy the reason behind why she left three years ago, still Troy would never let her leave him. His anger was temporary, but love wasn��t. Anger would vanish one day, but if love vanished, it wasn��t love in the first place; rather it was just an infatuation.
Meanwhile, Tatiana hid at the doorstep��s pillar so that she could keep an eye on Kenji. Gabrielle and Trevor were in the storeroom��making out instead of hiding.
��Weren��t we supposed to hide?�� Gabrielle breathed out, pulling out from the kiss.
Trevor cupped her cheeks and said, ��Fuck the game.��
Gabrielle smiled and said before kissing him once again, ��I would rather fuck you.��
In the meantime, Hernan hid in Danica��s closet room, leaving Aziel in Troy��s room to hide.
Aziel was looking for a suitable place to hide, but he thought he would get caught if he hid in Troy��s room. So Aziel got out of the room and looked around the mansion.
��If I hide inside the mansion, Kenji will find me easily. But if I hide outside, Kenji will enter the mansion at first to look for everyone. So I will be the last one he will find and then I will tell him to grant three wishes of mine,�� Aziel told himself. ��One is to bring my parents back to me from those stars in the sky. The second wish is to stop me from growing up as a big man. The third wish will be to make sure Dani stays with me forever.��
Thinking it was a good idea, Aziel ran towards the garden through the backdoor so that Kenji wouldn��t spot him. Aziel saw a big swimming pool in the backyard. He looked here and there to find a place to hide, but everything was open in the garden. It was an open space, there were barely any places to hide.
It confused Aziel. Kenji was already counting to number forty-eight. Would it be late if he went inside the mansion now to hide? Will he be caught by Kenji?
Aziel wanted to burst into tears in frustration. He was unable to decide what he was supposed to do.
��And... fifty,�� a voice spoke from behind.
Aziel could feel someone close, directly behind him.
Before Aziel could turn around to see the face of the person, he was pushed into the swimming pool, and Aziel didn��t know how to swim.
