Chapter 9. A tense moment.

After being welcomed by my other team, everything went back to as they were when I got into trouble here. Keeping still at my chair while not trying to interrupt them with their important task at coming with a plan.

"Since I stopped acting like a brat," looking over at them to get their attention, "Could you let me in on your plan? I'm bored just sitting here all day long without anything to do in here!" now once again acting like a brat, "I don't really want to explain it to him..." hearing mumbling between the three members.

"Well Grey," hearing a familiar voice between them, "We've been expecting their attack for quite some time," seeing Nicole take the task of letting me in their plan, "So we've been stocking up on all the defenses we can make throughout this time they given us." she'd turned her laptop to show me everything they been working on, "As you can see, we've been keeping count of our equipments our students been making since we've ordered them to do so." taking a look at the laptop she tried to show me, it was instead a chart showing the progress they had since the beginning and now, "We've slowing been progressing our items since they first attacked us, with the shields they made too the arrows we've used to defend ourselves with if anyone got bold enough to come close to the school," now seeing the chart of arrows going up and down throughout our time here.

"We've tried to minimize our losses on our arrows as much as possible, but they proven they needed more extreme force when dealing with them given our injuries with our scouters and lookout keep piling up; which in terms given those jobs a reputation of the most dangerous job to have when assigning them to people." she only looked down in silence for a moment when remembering something, "A necessary sacrifices for the many I'll say." she only finished her moment of silence as she raised her head up to look at me, "So we've must continue on for the fallen who couldn't stand with us today, or tomorrow."

"Uhhh," questioning her as she seat back down, "You still haven't answered my question on our plan?" confused by her only explaining what happened and more of the lore I didn't understood about our weapons and defense, but it still left me in the dark on our plan, "You'll figure out our plan as we continued on, I've already given you all the hints." was all she said as they all went back to her laptop with her mates, "But I've already proven myself already, like twice in actuality!" confused I'm still needed to prove myself in her eyes at this point.

"Oh, this isn't a test whatsoever on your part." she quickly quill my confusion and anger, "We just really need to finish making this presentation before tomorrow is all." once said; now feeling slightly embarrassed by myself for thinking I was the cause for her riddle or her testing my mental ability and cognitive skills with little information she given me to see her full plan, but nope.

Seeing how all of them were working very hard on making the presentation for the leaders in probably hours, I've seen a perfect chance for myself to step out for a bit while they continue working tirelessly, so to not get in their way for the time being, or so I would have liked anyways.

"Horrible attempt by your part Grey."

Hearing Nicole voice instantly made me stopped in my tracks as the clicking on their laptop stopped while they all gave out this eerie present as they stare at me from a far.

"Fine!" raising my arms up for being caught so quickly, "I'll just sleep at this corner okay!" frustration at how they actually plan on making me stay here for a day without me doing anything whatsoever in here while they plan out our final stand or whatever.

Once lying on the cold hard floor while facing the corner, it's felt awful, sad, and quite lonely once being here alone , but strangely comfortable once I stopped thinking about it and accepted my place here. Feeling my body become heavier as time went on while lying down, my eyes started to become heavy as well with my body as it began to start off heavy, but then it started turning into a blissful feeling as my body was starting to relax on it own.

Trying my best to fight off this drowsiness, so to not make me look like a actually brat if I actually circum to my desire to sleep right now while in the corner, but one eyelid couldn't stand anymore as it closed permanently as I've tried to open it again but failed in the process. Seeing I couldn't escape my exhaustion body anymore at this point. I just simply went into the darkness quickly as I thought when relaxing.

"..."

"...."

"....."

"we're still here."

Hearing that disembodied voice coming from nowhere while still being everywhere in my mind, I'd quickly shot up my eyes to see I was once again in the darkness. About to run away from this darkness instead of facing it, because it'll be much more easier then facing it like last time. But that idea quickly got shot down as my face hit the wall I remembered being at when I fell asleep. Confuse that I managed to get some sleep for once without being stalked by those monsters in my head, but mostly confused that I'm in a actually dark room.

Even more confused that my body felt much better then before was a pleasant surprise while also having a blanket covering me was the best thing anything else in this world right now. Taking this blanket with me as I've roses from the floor to see where's everyone else was or to probably find out if they abandoned me in this dark room with only a single blanket for myself to show for my minimum contribution to this team. But shuffling around the room quietly, I've finally managed to make my way to the table in the room to give myself the surroundings in this room and somewhat find the exits without tripping myself on something in this room.

"..mmmh.."

About to get into the fighting position to fight this unknown sound in this room where only the leaders were allowed in, but slowly stopped my idiotic actions once I've remembered that this room was only meant for the leaders and nobody else. Now adjusted to the darkness of the room; seeing a familiar silhouette sleeping in the dark as well. About to wake Nicole up and see how to get out of the room, but once getting closer to her. I've seen just how hard they all worked while I was out with all the papers scattered around the table, with more showing of their effort was that Nicole was sleeping beside the laptop they been using to show off all their plans and stuff.

But the difference between the both of us when sleeping was that I had a blanket to keep myself warm during my sleep while she only kept herself warm by shivering. And probably taking a guess that she gave me her blanket so I would sleep peacefully for the entire day, and as grateful to her for her generous gifted, I simply only moved to the door once I finally gotten my eyesight well adjusted to the dark.

Taking a few steps away from her to make my way to the door and out of this cold room with this warm blanket I was given, but was quickly stopped as I managed to trip on the blanket while leaving her.

"mmh.."

Sighing out that I didn't manage to wake her up from my falling, but now seeing the error of my way as karma instantly came after me when I tried to leave her in the cold; so with a generous gift from me to her, I gently place the blanket on her without waking her up luckily. But now feeling the coldness in this room actually was, it was just terrifying to feel the cold without the blanket on me anymore as chilling and empty in was here.

As I placed my blanket over her, she only gave out this smile when feeling the warm blanket on her; smiling at this unexpected moment of her actually being cute and wholesome without the whole part of her trying to kill me and my friends over talking about some random company or something that's out there lurking in the shadows. But saddened by the fact that I left my only source of warmth in this place here, I quickly shook that feeling away as I decided to continue my journey on finding my friends once again and apologize to them for whatever I've done.

Walking away from Nicole and now feeling good about myself somewhat; and making my way to the door without anything stopping me like karma or anything magical like karma. But as I opened the door, it was surprising to see that nobody was working on the system for the speaker anymore, and when getting closer to it; it's looked ready as the damage when I first came here were all gone but still looking a bit damaged at the same time. About to give into curiosity and poke at it for fun...

'Don't even try it Grey.' But something deep inside imagined if Nix was here or what he'll say to me if I tried to touch their hard work. And only smirking at how accurate he'd be if I tried messing with this, I only listened to my head as I turned my back from their work and instead make my way to the others door.

Opening the door, I was expecting somebody to guard the door to the office, but was quickly dismissive to that idea as nobody was on the other say of the door. And about to question why, but then slapped myself in the head as I remembered we're in a war and apocalyptic world now so of course our guards are going to be guarding something more important then a place like this.

'I think I'm getting more stupid without those two around...'

Not wanting to think of my own intellect right now, I wandered through the hallway to a particular hallway that'll give me meaning, but the difference between these hallways in just a week ago was that they had a look of purpose and class that was made for students of the next generation who'd managed to get into this school, but that image and purpose quickly became this reality of this world as these hallways now, had them with scattered filth from our waste of food or some random body left to rot for some sad reason, but all of them shared the similarities between all them with each other; that they had cracks from our constant war. As I walked through the hallway that looked to be the same one when I first wandered through these hallways on the first day here, it only felt empty here and inside of me when seeing all the rumbles scattered through this hallway.

And unsurprisingly when I got to the hallway with my locker, it was only rumbles with another side of the building crumbled by our enemies. Now looking at the rumbles that probably had my winter jacket in it, and the only thing that felt right after finding this was sighing out loud with a audible sound that could be heard for some distance.

Seeing no point in staying here while freezing myself to dead as the snow continues coming down on me thanks to the strip of the school gone. The only thing that probably made me want to stay for a bit was the moon shimmering through the clouds a bit brighter then before from my point of view. But the moon wasn't enough to make me get my clothes wet and me sick from standing in the snowfall sadly, so with a hardened heart; I'd abandoned my locker and this hallway as a whole to instead serious find my friends without any distractions getting in my way now since I don't have anything left to find here anymore, I just walked away into the hellish hallways once again.

Walking through the hallway was as eventful as watching paint drying off, but the view wasn't as hellish when walking closer to the center as the deaths and rumbles started minimizing as I felt I was getting closer to others students.

'So going for the school sides huh?' seeing nobody was here or anything to talk to, decided to just voice my thoughts out in my head instead of thinking of them silently like usual, 'Guess when he said 'he'll tear this place down', he wasn't lying at all.' as I thought that, I've seen first hand what been going on now that I wasn't sleeping through this war anymore.

When getting closer to the center of our base here, the first thing people would see or smell was the death of our students, teachers, or those who called themselves our protector. And I didn't have that much strong feeling about the teachers or those guards considering I wasn't around that long to care for them, but the sight of those students who either was caught in between our fight or gave their life for the fight was the most sickening thing I seen in awhile.

"Hey," waving my hand for the people who was sitting around a fire in our base of operation here in the center of the school, but they weren't that kind of my introduction as all of them grabbed their weapon or something beside them to arm theirselves, "Friendly." raising my arms up to see I didn't mean any harm to them or our base.

"Ohh!" out of all of them, one person seem to recognize me despite me somewhat being in the darkness, "Grey!" as that person came out from the pack of anger students, I've finally gotten why that person recognizes me, "I thought you'd died since I haven't seen you after you save my life!"

"Yeah! you're....you're," snapping my fingers on trying to figure his name, but as my pause was going longer than it should have been; all the anger students now turned into confused students as they were looking at me trying to remember, "I wanna say Jayden...?"

"It's Jackie!" he only looked mad

"ehh," giving him a smile, "At least I got the 'Jay' right."

Seeing him only pout at my comment, and seeing that all the others stopped their unwelcoming behavior now. I slowly walked over to Jackie and the others for the fire they had.

"Good to see you're still kicking Jack," deciding to sit by him to probably get some information from him once again, "I see Lance got you here just in time." I tried to take talking to him serious this time, but the warm fire they got while water and food was here was just more important then focusing on him entirety, "Yup!" hearing him chipper away from behind me, "They said he was so fast on getting me here, and once he gotten me here safely without causing my injuries to open too badly; he instantly collapsed from exhaustion once they starting working on me." only hearing laughing from him as I tried really hard to pay attention to him, but the water and food was shouting at me for their attention more.

"But Grey." feeling a tag on my shirt from him, but not wanting to be a asshole to someone who was sharing their resources to me, I gladly turned around to face him, "I wanted to thank you properly.." and once again going to be thanks I felt, and annoyed already about the whole thing because of those before, "No problem," quickly waving what ever he was about to say or do, "I was there at the right time okay." hoping that I worded right for him, "And besides," showing him what I been doing the whole time he been talking to me, "I been eating and drinking your stuff already." smiling in hopes that this was already enough for thanks.

At first when he seen me eating these ration, he had this looked that I couldn't understand, but quickly sighed out, "Yeah you can have those..." he genuinely sounded sad by this fact. And now seeing there wasn't any problem with this fact anymore, I gladly continued feeding myself.

But that all stopped as I felt those glazes all over me once again, confused that I had the same bandage over my arms so they won't see my scars was confusing me the most. But the answer quickly showed itself as something been thrown at me to get my attention to look over, and what wanted my attention was more than just one person; as everyone near our fire looked at me with eyes of disappointment or disgust at me.

Sighing now at what they wanted me to do, "Hey, Jackie, since there much more than I expected. How about you come over and get some as well?" baiting him out, "It's not that Grey..." he once again sighed out, "It's more then that sadly..." he only gave out this vague answer while continuing staring at something in the distance.

"I get the gest of it now." continuing eating said food and drinking water, "You're waiting for a friend, but they haven't shown right?"

"h..how..?" he only looked surprised at me.

"It literally write on your face." answering him, and to his response, he only covered his face up while looking embarrassed, "I was joking," now stopping my eating as I think I'm full, "I just looked at everything that been going on." now answering him seriously, "What?" he needed more information from me, "The extra food, you saving a place for someone, and also you looking like a lost puppy right now." listing everything I picked up since I gotten here, "I am wrong or did I miss something else?"

"n..no.." he only looked more sad, "It's just that-"

Cutting him off as I turned back to the fire, "Look Jackie," deciding to give him some advice, "You can wait for your friend to return peaceful, or you can take a chance to look for them right now." giving him sound advice, "'Them?' No it's only one person." he corrected me.

'Maybe I should listen to my own advice sometimes?'

"Either way Jackie," shaking that mishap off, "It's your choice on acting like a puppy right now or finding your friend." After saying that as well, I took my own advice as I took the rations he still gave me technically and gotten up from this comfortable spot to now be standing up while looking around, "Like what I'm doing right now."

Without caring about what he'll say next or do, I'd started walking by nearby fires pit in the center in hopes of finding them or Greylin in this matter. And when looking around the students, they all were hiding together for warmth while the rare few that had blanket were fighting each other for it but luckily not savagely-

"Enough!"

After hearing that, looking at the source of the sounds out of confusion. But to only get a look of a student being gang up on more students that were 'guards' for us in this poor excuse of a school we're shacked up with for the time being. And watching this poor show unfold in front of my eyes wasn't pleasant when seeing just how everyone actually felt or acted in our case here.

"I'm just cold..!" getting closer to see this brutal outcome because of curiosity filled me to how far they'll go on this person instead of looking around like I should be, "..why..." but once seeing his face, it felt only worse as he started to tearing up in front of us, "I USED TO BE SOMEONE!" as he shouted at them, and seeing his face more clearly then before; it was only embarrassing to me once I recognize that said person, "We all used to be somebody!" it only got more embarrassing as he desperately looked towards the crowd in front of him trying to win their favor, "Now we're bowing down to people who are lesser than us in status-" His speech only came to a stop as one of those guards smacked him down even harder then he needed too.

"How the table have turned, you sliver spoon fuck." was all the guard spat out to him while once again placing much more force then needed to keep him down. Seeing that this wasn't relevant to me finding my friends whatsoever in this moment in time while watching police brutality. But then now thinking if this is considered police brutalit if they aren't technically 'police' but guards here that watch over these tense students since they built this little guard job.

"Hey! I know you!"

Once in deep concentration about the thing I thought about now, to then be pulled out of that state when the pinned person looked at me. And a thought passed through me to just walk away from him and continue looking and leaving him for his mistakes, but the thought of karma instantly coming after me before flooded my mind; and with a heavy sigh.

"Hey...Hunter?" pulling up on them casual with a grin at seeing him getting a taste of his medicine? I wasn't sure since I only met him once on a kinda bad term, "Your his friend sliver spoon?" said the same guard that been pinning poor Hunter down for a while now, "I'll say acquaintance," correcting him on our actually relationship, "And I'm sorry to say this about me, but my noble facial features might say I'm a nobleman of high quality, but I'm just a lonely orphan who lives like a common folks." smiling at the confusion he place on my status in life.

As I finished that, everyone only continued to watching us, "And you know?" looking at him, "What?" he only shot back with a hardened glare of annoyance at me, "Doesn't really seem you value our poor students here if you're going to such length in harming one poor student who only felt cold." seeing that his glare was a challenge, it'll be wrong if I didn't accept him in a duel of mind, "There are rules to follow here, and if anyone breaks those rules, I'm the person who you'll be answering from." he quit looking at me to only glare angrily at Hunter, "I wasn't here to see his crime at hand, but surely he'd reconsider his poor choice by now once you'd slapped him on the wrist." trying to resolve this peaceful with a smile, "A criminal is a criminal, and I'm only doing my duty in keeping our society together and making sure these trash don't muk it up."

"But to go to such length," pausing a little to show him a sickening smile as my set up is done.

"It's respectable to see you're conviction to keeping our small society a float," actually happy to know some students were clinging onto their morals, "But let's be real with each others now," once wearing a smile were I actually meant it, to only coldly look at him, "We're all criminals if that's your ideologies you've so believe in." once saying that, everyone was stunned by my accusation, but more importantly by the person I was glaring at, "We sit here like we've done nothing wrong and that we're in the morally right," questioning everyone who been intrigued by our debate on the topic, but mostly our guard here, "We've killed peoples so we can survive. We've watched our own people be killed and sigh a relief that it wasn't us that been slayed! We've been standing on top of those who died in this pointless war and pretend we're in the right!"

As I been yelling out my ideals to him. More guards been shifting towards me slowly while in the crowd as I seen while I been circling around so I can seem like I've been speaking to everyone. And now getting their attention

"Or maybe the both of us been blowing this whole argument over this poor person's mistake a bit too highly?" As saying that. The people who been sharking me within the crowd suddenly stopped once I afford a away out from this disaster, "Like I said earlier, aren't we all a bit tense about this?" giving them a pretty good fake smile for them, " I surely am, not gonna lie, and he was as well no?" now questioning our friend in need.

And with a disheartening expression he gave out to me, he only nodded at what I said in a agreement.

"See? He was just in stress and couldn't fully understand his own actions." now smiling at Hunter with a smug grin, "And you know what? I'll take him off your hand since I'm probably trained in the field of a therapist to help the lad out with his stress?" reaching out my hand so he'd accept my offer.

With a audible grunt from him, he only comply as he fully understood what I done to him, he had no choice but to accept my request as he let go of Hunter, "Watch your patient next time 'Doctor'." he spoke with venom in the 'doctor' part of his sentence, but ultimately letting Hunter out from his grasp.

"Hunter." walking up towards him in happiness over my outstanding victory, "Glad to see your not dead bud." helping him up on his feet.

"..can't say the same..." hearing him mumbling that out, "Harsh, but understandable." after getting him up from his spot. I quickly gotten the both of us out of the circle of attention we swapped in by his little show. And once getting us out of there, seeing there wasn't any use for him anymore; I quickly started walking away from him.

"Wh-what!" hearing him behind me as I tried to abandon him, "Why did you help me if you're just going to abandon me so quickly?" seeing I won't get rid of him at this point anymore since he actually started acting like a puppy now. Sighing out while choosing a fireplace to stay put with him for now, "You hungry? Thirsty?" giving him my rations out of pity since seeing how in just a span of a week in this world without the care of luxuries or something that noble do, his appearance made him look like he was homeless and his posture showing he'll probably attack you if you had any food or water on display. And like I thought, but not exactly as planned.

He did have the motive to grab them and quickly devour them once he had them, but he only held back his human's urgent physical as one arm was desperately trying to grab the ration from my hand while another arm was literally forcing himself to not take it whatsoever, when it gotten to the point where he was grinding his teeth down in the hopes of concentrating on something else than his own needs.

Bugging out a little about this unexpected moment with him, and actually slowly started worrying about his psyche now by seeing this. So the only thing I thought that'll help was placing the ration down slowly so it won't look like I was pitying him and just leaving this unneeded stuff anymore. And with them now on the ground and me backing away from them so it'll look like I actually don't need them anymore, and once I taken that last step away from it. He instantly came running towards them like a vicious animal getting it's pray, and thinking he'll just tear through the food as well, but to the contrary of that, he only slowly started eating the food humane like while slowly shedding tears as he ate.

".t..hank..you.." he only spit out as he was finish with the rations I was saving, "No prob." was the only thing I could answer back with as I continued to wait, "But why go to such length for me?" he once again asked, but this time having strength to actually do so instead of looking homeless, "Well I'm going to be real with you since I feel like you deserve it Hunter, It's wasn't out of the gratefulness of my heart to help you in your time of need at all," shaking my head at that very thought while smiling about it, "No the real reason why I did that, was because the whole show was meant to signal somebody that I am here and now waiting for them right here with you."

"And I know she won't just watch from the sidelines," pausing for dramatic effect when speaking to Hunter, "Unless I was the one was dealing with it. Right Liz?" Without turning my back, I've knew she was standing behind me as Hunter suddenly jumped out of surprised when I said that.

"Grey," she sounded angrily when calling me out, "You'd go so far to find us that you'll destroy our small society!?" smiling a bit at hearing that, "How insane are!?" she didn't even brother coming closer to me as she said that, "If it was that easy to destroy, then, well you know the generic villain line with weakness and stuff." just raising my shoulders up to her question about destroying our small society right now, "Plus I didn't actually destroy it you know." as those around us were now moving away slowly once I started talking was weird, "I gave them a choice in letting poor Hunter over here go," pointing my thumb at him and the state he's in because of them, "Or letting their society crumb down if they didn't comply. I felt like that was a pretty agreeable trade in finding you guys quickly."

"You're insane!" she only shouted back.

"So you're telling me I should have left poor Hunter to them? You do know that guard was serious in snapping his arm off." only answering her back at leaving Hunter with them if I haven't stepped in.

"I would have!-"

"You'd just make it worse for both you and Hunter if you'd tried your way!" correcting her quickly so she won't get ahead of herself from her hubris, "Elizabeth." trying to calm her down so this won't escalate any further then it needed. "Look around," waving my hand around the center, "Nobody fighting with each others, or needed to be because I dealt with it swiftly and carefully so nobody would be harmed or worse killed over some dumbass person mistake." heavily implying Hunter as that person who was the dumbass.

She only quietly grit her teeths as she couldn't make a comeback at my logic on the matter, "...." couldn't hear her mumble from this distance between us, but as she only sighed out as she came closer to me without any hidden malice.

"See?" turning around to give her a smile for complying, "Maybe I'll teach you how to deal with them with your words instead of a all out fight." offering something great for her.

"I'll pass.." she only sounded disgusted by my offer, "And I guess I'll stick with you since I better make sure you don't try to pull that stunt again..." she only sighed once again at me.

"Pog," smiling at reuniting once again with her, "I wouldn't have it any other way." smiling I once again had someone holding me down once again so I won't do anything too crazy here.

"You're kidding with the whole society thing right...?" seeing Hunter join us with our own personal fire for ourselves here, "He was just kidding with tearing down our small society right..?" Hunter only looked scared at asking this question, much more knowing the answer to it.

"..." liz only looked down as he asked, "...no..." she only spit that out, "...he was serious with that stunt.." she didn't sound so proud at knowing her best friend was capable of using his words to bind people to his will when needed.

"But hey!" smiling at Hunter, "I managed to save your arm while getting my friend to notice I was here, which it turn shortened my search time here." at this point, I was just listing my wins on just one small victory, "Don't need to thank me Hunter, it's the least I could do since I embarrassed you back then." now thinking about it, I was being incredibly generous to Hunter at this point. And now thinking maybe it time for him to return some generous as well, "So Hunter, how's it been going on your end? Anything new or exciting happened to you in this week? Besides the whole world ending, and this war thingy that been going on?"

As saying that to Hunter, Liz only found that incredibly horrible on my end as she gave me a look of displeasement while giving me hand signal on dropping my question as a whole as she plead to me. But craving more knowledge on how it was effecting everyone, and the lore of how it happened as a whole only driven me to ask these questions to him since he still kinda owns me on saving his arm and his 'dignity' as a whole.

"What's there to say about my part?" he question back while looking sad about it, "I was like the rest when it happened, oblivious to the sudden change once that explosion went off." as he looked off to the distance without actually looking at anything, I had a guess he was remembering the awful parts when that explosion happened, "Terrified by the outcome, I thought I was just dreaming about the whole day like a nightmare. And so, I desperately tried waking up," as he paused, he rolled up his sleeve to show what length he when to on 'waking up' in this nightmare as those cuts were pretty deep when looking at them, "Day in, and day out, it was the same as usual. Don't die and look after yourself since being a noble doesn't mean a damn thing anymore."

With little he gave me for information or any kind of lore whatsoever, I was sorely disappointed in him and his lame ass story. But as I was about to speak my mind and tell him to get gud at his storytelling skill and tell me something worthwhile for saving him, "I get that..." was Liz said to him as she beat me to the punch when speaking to him, "It's a struggle Hunter, everyone been trying to cope with this change for the better," she looked over to another fireplace where everyone looked kind normal-ish with them helping each other by hiding together for warmth, "So don't try to lose hope since it not here." she only gave him a somber smile. And just like that, she finally managed to breakdown his guard he held up pretty well all consider when actually thinking about it. To him now shedding tears after she spoke those words.

"Great you made him cry." coming closer to her so Hunter won't hear me and Liz whispering to each other, "It's you're fault since you brought up his poor story." she only frowned at me, "I didn't go so far to make him cry." retorted back at her, "I just wanted to give him hope!" she only answered back harshly, "So it's okay for you to used psychology, but when I use it. It's bad?" confused by her statement, "Unlike you who proclaim you're trained in the field of therapy, my father was!" she snapped back at me, "So yes! I am allowed to use psychology to help others since my father taught me so!" she whispered a bit too loudly in my ear that my ear started ringing, "Oh and why haven't you ever used your so taught psychology skills when dealing with unnecessary problems like that chick back then?!" firing back with a loud whisper to get back from her, "I was taught to not abuse what I was taught!"

Now heated up from arguing about this topic that I didn't think Liz had any experience in, much less know about her father being a actually therapist. It only gotten worse as we were now much closer at each other as we only looked angry with each other on this view about using what we learned to used or not.

"It's much more easier this way.." growling at her for being dumb about her view, "Your way of using your gift is wrong and corrupt.." she only looked displeased with my view with using this knowledge for my gain, "Oh please, this is the real world Liz, if you don't have an edge somewhat, then you'll be swallowed by someone who'll have no sense of value like you." I only back away from her.

As I broke away from her. There were only silent as the fire was the only thing that been speaking in this moment between us..

Seeing this unexpected outcome folded out, the only thing I felt doing was looking down in shame at how poorly I spoke to her....