Party emerged from the bathroom looking at me as he walked past the door I looked away I knew in my heart he wasn't this cruel. Ghoul walked past me and out of the room. I didn't know what to do but to be honest I haven't for the past few hours. Walking over to the futon I sat down whistling a tune that I couldn't even being to remember where I heard it. I started knocking my knuckles on the wall along to the tune moving down the wall something abruptly made me stop, the wall itself. I knocked on the same part again slightly harder it made a different noise that the rest of the wall. The texture was also different it was rough while the rest of the wall was smooth and one piece stuck out slightly further then the rest of the wall. I started picking at in the paint peeling from the rough piece of wall, finally I fit my fingertips under the piece pulling, pulling with everything I had. It just snapped the thing that was holding it, whatever it was the snapped piece came flying at me. I looked into a hole in the wall what it lead to was oddly stunning. It was another room smaller than this one but a room all the same. I furrowed my brows at it until someone grabbed my shoulder hard I yelp as I looked up to see Party he looked like he could kill I dropped the piece of wood quickly as he pulled me up by my shoulder I screamed out in pain in agony he quickly grabbed my throat squeezing his hand around it gritted my teeth grinding them together. Gasping for air I kicked at him back couldn't get my legs high enough "YOU ARE ONLY A VISITOR HERE!" He yelled at me he looked like he was on the verge of tears Ghoul ran into the room panting "I was outside what h-" he stopped looking at Poison, at Me and then finally at the hole in the wall the broken piece laying on the stone ground. He ran over to us pounding on Party's back "Party LET GO OF HER!" He yelled out I finally dropped to the ground gasping for air. Party shot around looking at Ghoul "You want her?" He exclaimed at him "here take her, and leave" he grabbed me pushing me towards the door Ghoul stood there looking at Party unmoving. It didn't seem like he was even breathing, I tugged on his shoulder "let's go Ghoul" I started my shoulder burning from the way I landed on the ground "I'm sorry". He brushed me off walking out behind him, Party steamed over slamming the door but, before he did he said something I didn't understand "Why don't you go visit Grace?" He hissed at us the door frame shook and the door rattled locked in its place. Ghoul stood there looking at the ground in front of the door, before he turned heel towards the diner. "What is he talking about?" I knew I didn't have room to talk I shouldn't have been sticking my nose in people's business, he shook his head actually his whole body was jittering. He slid into the booth patting the other side of the table, I quickly rushed over sliding myself in. He cleared his throat "remember how I said he-" he stopped gulping hard "we had lost a lot?" I nodded quickly my eyes darted away from his gaze. "We had more, in our group, in our life.." He drifted off "1 year ago everything changed, the corporation grew stronger as if over night" his eyes swelled with tears "they found us, all of us in one convenient place". He slumped his head "it seems too easy, we didn't see anyone patrolling, nothing" he roughly sighed "Grace was a girl a special girl to us, like a little sister none of us had; but one day she just disappeared off the map". "It was after Better Living attacked us we were further out in Zone 4. A makeshift hang out I guess you could call it, we let our guard down for a minute.." He sniffed tears rolling down his face "we had two other people here, they were here since the beginning; one of them was Poison's brother the other a very close friend of ours." I started chewing on my lip, I felt like a piece of shit. I put these men though hell, "We were split up during the attack, we were on foot while they took the Trans out there" he nodded towards the vehicle outside before wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. "We found the Trans a few days after with no sign of either one of them, we pronounced them ghosted two weeks later." He let out a sharp breath "Poison still refuses to believe his brother and close friend is dead and pushes anyone and everyone away". I was still confused so I cleared my throat "so, what happened to Grace?" He looked from the window back to me "we don't know, we assume a lot of theories but who really knows for sure; she left with one of our close friends. He used to run everything in the outer zones, before he left; he never woke us up never tried to get us, nothing. We woke up to a empty room beside us, a clean empty room only a few pieces of clothing here and there; it's like she never existed" he folded his hands on the table fumbling his fingers around. I closed my eyes and then proceed to rub the bridge of my nose, I was almost on the brink of tears everything that happened to these men was horrifying. Ghoul pulled up the collar of his shirt to his eyes wiping away the tears, "I have accepted that they have all left us-" he swallowed hard then proceeded smacked his lips together before continuing "I have accepted we are alone in this desert, in our own little bubble away from all other units". "Party on the other hand has lost all hope, he's seen everyone die around him and people have left him behind, people he cared about. He is no longer the man he was a year ago, he's a shell of his former self; the life and glow he brought everywhere died when our brothers died" he sighed running his fingers through his hair "he doesn't even cry anymore, I guess he has run out of tears." I slid out getting up from my place at the booth before walking away without a word I slowly look back at Ghoul to find he was staring back at me, I stopped looking at for a moment before he nodded at me like he was reading my mind. I silently crept down the hallway as I reach their door my hand reached up to knock on the door but before I even brought my knuckles to the door it swung open reveling a pissed off looking Party I quickly dodged his glance unable to look him it the eyes. "I'm sorry-" I croaked out, I sincerely was sorry; not for just pulling a piece of wood off the wall and making him upset in the first place. It was more an apology for everything the they have been through and everything I had put them through, I looked up at him as he looked me in the eyes running his fingers through his greasy hair. I launched myself at him pulling him into a hug, he was surprised he didn't even respond; I whispered while I hugged him something that he probably never expected "Ghoul told me everything that happened to you two, to your friends,to Grace-" I paused taking a deep breath "your brother" I spoke softly like I was speaking to a wounded child "I'm sorry." I felt a wet substance drip onto my shoulder as he reached his arms around my small body hugging back, I heard his slight sobbing as he leaned over burying his face into my shoulder "sometimes we have to let go of the past even if it kills us" I added. We stood there just like that for awhile before finally he let go looking down at me his tear streaked cheeks and red puffy blood shot eyes, "I'm sorry too" he slightly smiled at me "I've been sort of an idiot" I chuckled at him shaking my head "It's getting late, do you want to come out to the diner with us" I asked him he wiped his eyes with his fingers making them even puffier he shook his head yes before sliding past me into the hallway I reached for the knob looking into the room before pulling the door shut.