"He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise."
IN WHICH two neighbors meet only to be thrown into a world that was the opposite of their own and forced to battle for their lives every night alongside...
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KAIA SAT SILENTLY with her back pressed against the emergency door of the bus that they were currently all gathered in after returning to Ashlyn's house after the arcade trip. The seven of them hadn't spoke much after Ashlyn's reveal as they were all silent in their thoughts of what this meant for them.
Aiden was sat above her on the seat she was sitting in with Ben sitting across from her in the seat just beyond the isle. Ashlyn was beside her sitting on the cooler with her head resting on her palm, her other hand toying mindlessly with her braid in an attempt to calm her nerves, Logan was beside her, curled up within one of the tires they had brought aboard for a reason Kaia didn't care to remember in that moment. Tyler and Taylor were sat across from Logan and Ashlyn in two of the bus seats they had pressed against the windows.
"So..." Tyler was the first to break the silence that fell over them after they had entered the bus. "You think the phantom dimension is influencing us?"
"No only that but..." Ashlyn trailed off for a moment as she sighed staring down at the ground intently as Kaia's eyes fell on the green eyed girl's form, watching as she hesitates before continuing. "... I think we're also impacting the real world as well."
Kaia's stomach churned unpleasantly at Ashlyn's reveal of her theory as silence overtook the group once again. Kaia stared down at her lap, her fingers playing mindlessly with her black belt that was styled with her light pink cargo pants. It wasn't like it was a hard theory for her to believe, no Kaia believed it completely. That was the issue.
