My Ex Next Door

In the hospital lobby.

The triplets crawled their way inside while their eyes were on alert looking at the nurses and guards around.

Thankfully, the lobby doesn't have any patient while the guards and nurses are busy running back and forth.

They hide behind the chairs and waited for the elevator to open, but the three elevators are not opening.

Alexa's patience is running out, she turned to Ethan and whistle to get his attention, when the boy looked at her, she pointed a finger to the direction of the fire exit and parted her lips to speak silently.

"We should take the fire exit" she muttered silently but their distance was being blocked by Leo which made it hard for Ethan to read her lips.

"I don't understand you," Ethan said back silently.

Alexa wrinkled her face and took a pen and a paper from her pink sling bag and wrote;

"FIRE EXIT"

When the two boys read it. They looked at the fire exit and nodded.

Ethan and Alexa peep their head to look at the guards while Leo was staring at the beautiful nurse sitting behind the reception area.

Alexa flattened her face when she finds out the Leo was not concentrating, she crawled to his direction and pinched his arm.

"Concentrate" then she pushed his body to follow Ethan.

They were the hospital for one reason, and that is to visit their uncle Ken.

When they closed the fire exit door the three cheered and ran upstairs.

"Ethan, where's Uncle Ken's room?" Alexa asked while catching her breath. They have reached the third floor and she's already tired.

"It's on the seventh floor" Ethan replied and removed the sweat from his glass.

Alexa put a hand on her chest and bent her body, she wiped her sweat and turned to her brothers with teary eyes.

"Can you carry me? I can't walk anymore" she spoke in between her breathing.

The two boys paled, there are still four more floors left and if they will carry Alexa it will slow them down and probably kill them.

"Leo carry Lexi" Ethan ordered in an authoritative tone.

Leo scratches his head and crinkled his nose in protest.

"Can't you do it?" he asked.

Ethan cleared his throat and put both hands on his hips.

"I am the oldest here, you need to listen to me" he made his voice deep to show his authority.

Leo stomped his feet but squatted on the floor. When Alexa wrapped her hand around his neck, he got up and balanced his body.

Leo grunted in every step he made while sweat stream down on his face like a river.

When they reached the fifth floor, Leo slumped his body on the floor and hastily remove Alexa hand around his neck.

"Can you walk now? I will die if I continue" he spoke in between his breathing.

Alexa nodded and helped clean Leo's pants after the dust stick on it.

"Ok, two more floors" Ethan spoke in a cheered voice.

The three giggled and continue with their journey.

When they reached the seventh floor. Their faces went poker. The whole floor was cold and dark, Alexa wrapped both of her hands to her brother's arm while her skin crawled.

"Wait. What is this place?" Alexa spoke in a shivering voice.

"Wait let me check one of the rooms" Ethan removed Alexa's hand and entered one of the room. When he came out, the two noticed his face, it was whiter than the sheet of paper.

"What happened? Is uncle Ken inside?" Leo asked.

Ethan looked at them with terror in his eyes.

"no... he's not here. The room was full of dead people" he spoke in horror.

There was a moment of silence, then the three started screaming while pushing the elevator button.

They kept on screaming like they were in a horror movie while their fingers keep on tapping the elevator.

When one of the doors finally open, Leo and Ethan ran inside while Alexa's body frost.

"Al come here" Leo shouted but Alexa was not moving.

Ethan immediately pushed the stop button and steps out.

They held both of Alexa's arms but the girl shivered and held her stomach.

"I need to pee" Alexa's hair skin rose, the two boys pushed her body inside the elevator and pressed the close button.

"Ethan check where is Uncle's room again" Leo spoke in an impatient tone.

Ethan took his table out of his bag and checked the hospital website. His face went poker when he realized his mistake.

"it's seventeenth floor" Leo looked at him in a flat face and shrieks.

"This is your fault. If Alexa pee in her pants you will need to wash it" Leo pouted and held Alexa's arm.

He stared at her and try to comfort her.

"hold on Al. We're almost there" Leo spoke, Alexa shifted her eyes to the elevator screen showing the floors they're in and find out they haven't reached the 10th floor.

"I really need to pee" Alexa squeal and ran back and forth around the four walls of the elevator.

The two boys watched her and felt helpless. There's a CCTV camera inside if Alexa pee, the scene will be caught in the video and they know that Alexa will not take it lightly.

"Mommy!!! Daddy!!!" Alexa screamed while holding her stomach.

Finally, the elevator door opened and Alexa ran outside and entered the first room she saw.

She ignored the people inside that was looking at her in surprise and entered the door with a toilet sign.

A relief flooded throughout her body when she realized that it was the restroom. She locked the door and sat on the toilet bowl.

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In the other side.

Novie just came out of Ken's room when she saw the familiar faces running inside the next door.

She twitched her lips while her face scrunched up in confusion.

"wait. Isn't that the triplets?" she asked herself.

She took a deep breath and knock on the door. When it opened, she saw Ethan holding the doorknob and Leo behind him.

She rose an eyebrow in confusion, her lips parted when she saw Alexa coming out of the toilet.

"what... What are you guys doing here?" she spoke in a troubled tone. The three smiled rigidly and bid their goodbye to the elder couple inside the room.

They stopped in the hallway, the triplets form a line in front of her with their head lowered at the floor.

Novie narrowed her eyes in suspicious, she knows the triplets, once they are acting like this, it means they've done something terrible.

She breathed and took her phone out to call Daniella.

"I will call your mommy" she tested them. She wants to know if their parents know that they are here.

The three looked at her with wide eyes. They all shook their heads at the same time while their faces paled.

Novie jammed her phone back in her pocket and squatted on the floor.

"Does anyone knows you're here?" she asked in a soft tone as she doesn't want to scare them.

The three bite their lips and shook their head. Novie softened her expression and exhaled. Their cute faces made it hard for her to call their parent and tell them what their kids have done.