Private The Great Spooking of 2020

Why would anyone want a box that could prevent echoes? As far as Sushi understood, echoes were a lot of fun. He was unfamiliar with recording, the word that is. He’d had a video of himself taken before and he’d seen videos of people on a television before.

“What is recording? Why do you not want an echo?” Hikaru was usually good at explaining stuff like this.

Sushi watched curiously as Hikaru did a few things that he didn’t totally understand. Then when the sound he’d recorded was played back, Sushi let out a quiet “Whoa.”

When Hikaru said he was going to act and not to worry, the fish boy nodded. Though he wasn’t particularly fond of Hikaru’s acting. It was a bit too realistic and still made him a bit uncomfortable hearing his friend so upset.

Regardless, he kept silent and made sure not to worry. With each successive time that Hikaru played or recorded the line he got a bit more comfortable. Hikaru seemed to snap back to normal each time. It was only an act.

With or without the echo, Sushi had a hard time telling much of a difference. For him, everything was played inside of his helmet as if it was coming through a walkie talkie, so sound quality was not something he had a firm grasp on.

“I am sorry Hikaru. I can not tell the difference. But I do like recording. It is cool, and you are good at acting. Too good, you give me worry even when you said not to.”

He was going to give something? Sushi curiously looked over at Hikaru and watched as he went through his drawers. It was hard to see what he got until he was shown the sticker. A person with a helmet just like his?

He didn't say much, trying to get a better look at it as Hikaru went ahead and put it on his coat. He then contently allowed himself to be brought to the mirror where he continued to look. The helmet on the sticker was pretty similar to his own aside from the lack of tubes and the addition of cat ears.

"Yes. I like it. Thank you Hikaru! They have a helmet like this." He pointed to his own helmet.

After admiring the sticker and giving the room another look around, he turned his helmet to face Hikaru. "Thank you for showing your room Hikaru. I can show my room too?"

Sushi's head bobbed up and down after he was asked if he knew the way back to his room. Truth be told, the little guy had a pretty strong sense of direction. He could get to and from the community center completely on his own and the same stood for all sorts of places around the school and park.

"Follow me." He made a turn down the hall and to the stairs, checking to make sure Hikaru was following. Then continued on through another hall on a lower floor for a long while before stopping in front of his room. "Here."

Without much hesitation, he then turned the knob and opened the door to reveal his room to Hikaru. "Ta da"

Sushi's room was certainly an odd one. The first thing someone would notice was the huge fish tank which seemed to take up almost half of the room. Inside the tank was a large clear bed that looked kind of like a jellyfish but bed shaped, as well as a special 1000 piece puzzle meant for underwater that was almost completed.

Outside of the tank were a great number of crafts and drawings. It was possible to tell what a few of the drawings were, but none of them were very impressive. Some could be recognizable as people such as Violet, Callie, Jeremiah's lich form, Xid and even one of Hikaru with glowing eyes and star shapes drawn around the rough picture. Aside from the drawings, most of the other artistic pieces were far more impressive sculptures made out of shells. There were also a lot of stray shells just kind of chilling everywhere, including inside the tank. Lastly, was a weird station that looked kind of like a shower in the corner of the room, meant for charging Sushi's helmet overnight and filling it with new water in the morning.

"Mhm! It is a water bed not a land bed." He looked at Hikaru who seemed to really like his room. "You can go swimming if you like. I know you do not need to be watered, but you can still go in for fun." He'd recently learned that while most people don't need to breathe water, they still enjoy going in and swimming for fun.

Sushi then headed to the corner of his room and got a scrapbook off of a little shelf. After flipping a few pages, he carefully peeled the sticker off of his coat and pressed it onto the page. Then he took a marker and wrote something under it. When he was finished, he held it up for Hikaru to see. "There. Now helmet girl will be good and safe." The writing underneath it was actually just a weird scribble that sort of looked like letters. Sushi couldn't write, but he knew that there was usually writing underneath the pictures of a scrapbook.