Rebecca looked around the hallway while listening for a response to her inquiry. She ducked into the room to her right to see if Jim or Rick were hiding inside trying to play a trick on her.
Jim remained silent while Rebecca tried to deduce where the human grunt came from. The last thing that he needed to do was scare the living daylights out of the poor girl by suddenly revealing that she had been rolling her brother's best friend around. He had to tell her before she started to take him apart and make "snakes" and "pancakes" out of him but he had to do it gently.
Content that she was the only person in the house, Rebecca walked back into the hallway and resumed to roll Jim across the floor again. Seeing an opportunity, Jim cleared his throat loudly, startling Rebecca in the process.
"Rick is that you," yelled Rebecca, she was often the butt of her brothers pranks and she couldn't help but feel like she was smack dab in the middle of one right now. She looked around the hallway and still saw no trace of anybody else around her. After her second scan of the hallway she realized that both times she heard the grunting noises they didn't come from behind her, they came from in front of her and pretty low to the ground too.
Rebecca returned to the giant ball of putty and turned it over so she could see if anything was attached to it that could be making that noise.
"I don't see anything on the outside that could be causing that noise," thought the young girl, "Maybe Rick has a tape player or speaker buried inside of it to make weird sounds come from it."
Rebecca continued to study the ball when she suddenly noticed an odd shape from the swirls of color that made up the ball's surface. It almost looked like a stretched and distorted human face.
Rebecca moved closer to the "face" on the ball to see if she could make out any more features.
Seeing his chance, Jim opened his eyes and let a "hi" escape his lips in the lowest and softest whisper so as not to scare Rebecca.
Unfortunately, Jim's efforts proved to be in vain as the teenage girl's face twisted in fear and disgust and let out a high pitched scream that echoed throughout the house.
