Chapter 24

I know its kind of sadistic of me to hope he doesn't find the blanket so I could tease him more and stare at his pretty face as he tries so hard not to die from embarrassment. But on second thought I hope it really is there coz with how the storm is fairing on it has not sign of stopping anytime soon either does the low temperature that came with it. Sharing my coat will only help for a while until it itself is gets too cold to keep us warm any longer.

We got to the living room and now having Light illuminating the whole room, it turned out to be bigger than what I had estimated it to be when we fast came in and could only see part of it as we were walking down the hallway.) There wasn't much too see since the room was almost empty with shadows on the wall and floor where certain furniture like cupboards and couches were. Dangling from the ceiling was a broken chain which seemed to have once held on to a massive chandelier due to width.

Where the window used to be now were several uneven like woods nailed to the wall to replace the broken glasses. The pieces of woods seemed to have come from broken chairs and table in the room but looking around I couldn't find the other extra pieces anywhere on the floor, we could have used them to make a fire which would hopefully save us from freezing to death.

"YES! THANK GOD I FOUND IT" I was startled by Alex's yell for joy. I was so distracted trying to picture and recreate how the room would have looked like back then that I had left Alex to look for his throw blanket on his own. He was kneeling at the furthest corner of the room hugging the blanket tightly to him with a huge smile. The place at which he knelt was the first spotless place I had seen in all the rooms we had been in. It had a sizeable cardboard cut out laid out on the floor, beside it some candy rappers which could only belong to Alex since he wasn't surprised to see them as he would have been if they belong to someone else.

"Is your excitement from finding your blanket or from the fact that you are relieved its actually real and I won't get the chance to tease you?" He pulled the blanket away from his chest, looked at me for a moment then his blanket as if debating whether to give me an answer or just brush it off.

" Maybe both, it's not my fault you are an asshole" His comeback had me throwing my head back in laughter. I wasn't even mad at the insult since it was more like a fact, I was an asshole a worse one than he thinks he knows. He stood up took off my coat handing it to me then rapped his thick throw blanket on himself and when he was done he just stared at me as if waiting for me to say something. I was the one who should be waiting for him to say something like a thank you perhaps.

" What?" Really! he's got to be kidding me, he's gonna stand there and just what me.

" Don't you have any thing to say to me?" Now his giving me a weird stare like am taking gibberish and he can not understand a single word am saying.

" Like what? Am warm or the blanket feels lovely?"

" Seriously! what about thank you for lending me your coat on just thank you!"

" But I already said it back then why do I have to say it again?" he can't be for real. Saying thank you before and after receiving something is like a unspoken rule everywhere doesn't he know this.

" You know what just forget it, is the fire place in good condition to be used? We can look for broken pieces of woods and get a fire started."

" yeah, I did fix it up enough to get a small fire going without smoking the whole room and you could use pieces of the top cabinets in the kitchen they are drier and less mouldy. You still got the lighter right? I don't want to make unnecessary journey down to the basement." I got the lighter out of my pocket to show him and he nodded in approval. He got several pieces of old newspaper under the cardboard in his corner and walked passed me to the fireplace, I followed his lead but rather than stopping by his side I crossed the hallway into the kitchen to grab the pieces of wood Alex had recommended.

We got the fire started in a few minutes and Alex pulled his cardboard closer to the fire place then made himself comfortable snuggling some more into his blanket while I just stood their watching him.

" You are not waiting for an invitation are you? coz if you are you might as well just stand there the whole night or until the storm passes." Nice, really isn't a word in his dictionary and sarcastic must be spelt in broad red ink. I was starting to get cold even with my coat so I took the not so inviting invitation and took a seat next to him. The fire seemed to help for sometime until when it got even colder and any part of me that wasn't facing the fire started to feel as if it was placed against a huge ice block making my body shiver from time to time and their wasn't much I could do if the fire wasn't enough to help then there was nothing that could.

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Dragoshi" Oh my goodness, this feels so good, It was definitely genius of me to leave this blanket behind, I knew it would come in handy one time."

Thanos" I thought you said you unintentionally forgot it and almost cried while trying to convince us." I could help but smile since it was the same thing I was thinking but how Thanos placed it into words was funny but Dragoshi's pouting showed he didn't find the joke amusing at all.

Dragoshi" Laugh all you want assholes, if it wasn't for me we would be freezing to death, but instead of being grateful you choose to be dickheads."

you are not any better yourself Dragoshi it just that this time you are the one receiving the shit end of the stick so stop slacking. Hey guys is it me or is Yan being awfully quite, I haven't had a peep from him for some time now.

Thanos" Maybe he just want sometime to himself and doesn't want us to bother him."

Dragoshi" And we know that how?"

Thanos" it doesn't take rocket science to figure that out just look at him, he has his knees to his chest and his hands round them and according to body language it means his reserving himself."

Dragoshi" Oh now you are a scientist or is it an FBI tell us which one it is Thanos or since you are so great may be it's both."

Thanos" So we are doing this now" and here we go again they will start bickering and go off topic again forgetting the main matter at hand. I choose to let them be and focus on Yan. I called his name a couple of time but he did not even blink he kept staring at the fire. Maybe Thanos was wright he just want sometime to himself and his so caught up in his thoughts that he did not hear me calling his name. I decided the best option was to give the guy his space but I was still unsure if that was the best decision so I kept stealing glances at him after ever few seconds and when his condition didn't chance at all I decided to shake him out of it but the moment my hands were on him they were off him as if i had not placed them there seconds ago.

Thanos" Shit is this guy still alive? he's body is so cold."

" Hey Yan, can you hear me? hey!" he was still not responding"

Dragoshi" you should shake him harder maybe that will do it" there is no way on earth am doing that, this two don't know that he has been like this for some time since they were busy chewing each other. Any vigorous movement may cause more damage if there is any. I have to find a gentler approach to get him to focus on me and without a second thought I did the only thing that I knew could be of help.

Thanos/Dragoshi" What the hell have you done Alex!"