Warning- swearing, sorta depression?

I sit there as Basically yells at me. It's not like Lui heard me. He never hears our fights.

I hear a door get slammed shut and assume it's Mini being a dramatic bitch.

I look out into the living room and see Mini tending to Scotty. That wasn't Mini

Basically looks away from me and towards the front door. Seeming as it's the only door closed right now, I assume it was Lui leaving.

"Well you should know not to get in my damn way." I look at Wildcat as he argues with Vanoss, who's still holding his chest. He was hit pretty hard.

I get up and Basically throws me back to the floor. I push Basically away from me and he stumbles a bit. I stand up without any trouble from Basically and walk past him.

I walk to the front door and when I look out it I freeze. I watch as Lui, maybe 10 feet away stands in tears while talking with some guy in a grey shirt.

The guy looks behind him at me and glares at me. I freeze up as I see the one guy almost all the group once admired.

(God dammit Wildcat. If I didn't make you such an asshole I could say all the group)

We stare at each other for a while until Lui looks at me. Then the guy, who I'm assuming to be Delirious, looks away and Basically runs past me.

He stops short as Delirious looks back and makes eye contact with him. I run back inside and to Vanoss to get him to do something.

Lui is in the hands of a killer. He won't want to listen to me but maybe Delirious will listen to Vanoss.

I run to Vanoss who's still fighting with Wildcat and pull on his arm, dragging him outside.

By the time he obeys me and goes outside, Lui, Basically, and Delirious are gone. "What? You want me to be away from Wildcat?"

Normally I don't fight with Vanoss, but I guess I'm just scared that Lui will be hurt. "He was right there! I saw him!"

I point to where Lui and Delirious were and he looks over, skeptical. "There's nobody there Nogla. You sure you aren't seeing things?"

"I wasn't seeing things he was literally right there." "Who was?" "Delirious!"

Vanoss looks shocked then mad. "You think I'm going to fall for that? He's been gone for three months and you think he's just going to stand outside the house taunting us?"

I go to say something but he beats me to it. "I'm not fucking retarded Nogla. I know I haven't been myself but I'm not fucking gullible." "I'm not saying you are I'm just-"

"Obviously you are! You think you can just come up to me and tell me he's here and expect me to believe you?"

"Vanoss why would I lie? What do I have to gain? If I lied I'd lose your trust and right now that's the only thing keeping me in this damn gang."

"Nobody here is ok- none of us! Moo's drinking, Mini's depressed- if not more depressed than he already was. Look around! If you paid more attention you'd see that with you being how you are everyone else is down. If you care you'd-"

"Shut up." I glare at Vanoss and he sighs. "I know. I haven't been the best. And.. If it made it better, I can ask Terroriser and Moo to watch out for him." "You really think Moo's sober?"

"Nope." I chuckle thinking about it. Poor Terroriser. Has to deal with him. Moo's probably already drunk. "But Terroriser should be with him so I'm sure he'll do it."

He walks inside and I sigh, leaning against the wall. I look around and notice Basically is gone too. If Lui's ok, he would be at home. So that's where I'm going.

I don't care about Delirious right now. He's ok. Lui though, I don't know if he's safe. I step off the porch and start on my way to Lui's house.

While walking I see Basically sitting at the bottom of a tree, his hands over his left leg. I walk over to him and see a bloody knife beside him. The handle is blue and the only part of the silver blade you can see is right above the handle.

I move his hands away from his leg and see he has a stab wound in his thigh. I place his hands back over it and sigh, taking off my shirt.

I wrap the shirt around his thigh and tie it tightly. I help him up and wrap his arm around my shoulders. I put my hand on the opposite side of his body, right above the hip.

I help him walk back to the house and when we get on the porch and I go to open the door, the door opens quickly and smacks me in the head.

I fall making Basically fall and when I look up I see Wildcat, who is once again fighting with Vanoss. He doesn't see us and pushes Vanoss outside.

Vanoss steps on my leg and falls, landing on top of me. Thankfully Basically didn't get hurt from him.

Vanoss gets up and slams the door in Wildcats face. He sighs and looks down at me. He helps me up then looks at Basically.

I look down at Basically and help him up, but by now he's half unconscious. I hold him as he's barely staying up on his own, and look at Vanoss.

He knows he can't go inside. It'd start a fight. "But we can't leave Basically like this." Did he just read my mind?

"Let's bring him to Lui's. He's the closest and I have a huge suspicion bringing Basically to the hospital wouldn't be a good idea."

I nod and he helps me carry Basically. We carry him to Lui's and halfway there Basically passes out. We take that as note to go faster and once we're there, I give Basically to Vanoss.

"What are you doing?" "Lui won't want to see me. So if anything I'll wait out here." I sit down on the sidewalk in front of Lui's house and hear Vanoss knock on the door.

I hear the door open and I feel lucky Lui made it here safely. I hear a gasp and some footsteps, meaning they're inside.

I feel cold as I look up, seeing snow start to fall. I shiver and hug my legs close to my bare chest. I look down at the ground and my eyes tear up.

I stand up and walk home, not bothering to grab my phone from inside Lui's house. It seems the more I walk the more it snows.

Soon it's a full on blizzard. I've been walking for about ten minutes and I have no idea where I am.

I never watch the news so I had no idea it would snow this bad. As I'm walking through the snow I see a raccoon walk up to me.

I back away from it and it looks up at me. Something about it's eyes are calming. Baby blue eyes. I don't know much about raccoons, but when it bites and pulls on my pant leg, I get a little suspicious.

I bend down and pet it's head. The raccoon jumps on my arm and climbs up onto my shoulder. I do nothing as it rubs it's nose on my cheek.

I look at it and it sorta points ahead of me and motions for me to continue walking. I don't know why, but I continue walking.

I look at the raccoon as it motions me to take a left. I take a left, with no clue why I'm doing it.

It digs it's claws into my shoulder and I stop. By this point I'm freezing. I can't feel one of my arms and both of my legs are numb.

The raccoon jumps off and walks to my right. It turns it's head and sees that I'm not following. It comes back and pulls on my pant leg a bit, so I follow.

I keep my eyes on the raccoon and trip, almost landing on the poor thing. I get up, now shivering as snow is basically covering me.

In front of me is a house. My house, to be exact. I look down at the raccoon and smile, picking it up.

My parents are going to be furious, but I don't mind. This raccoon led me to my house so the least I can do is let it in.

I have to shovel out the way to the door, but once I get there and get inside, I notice my parents aren't home.

I shrug it off and set the raccoon down on the floor, closing the door after. I shiver and go to the living room.

I notice the fireplace has been put out and I wonder how long it's been since my parents have been home.

I start a fire in the fire place and feel warmer instantly. I'm surprised I didn't freeze out there. I probably would've if not for the raccoon.

I hear footsteps coming from behind me and I turn around, only to be met with the man I've learned to fear.

I back up, startled. He raises his hands up to about where his head is, and when he talks I barely recognize him as the same man I once knew.

"It's ok. I won't hurt you." His voice is so different. More bitter, yet a small bit more high pitched? He looks to have grown.

"How do I know?" He sighs and looks me in the eyes. "Nogla. If I was going to hurt you, I wouldn't have let my footsteps be able to be heard. I also would've done it already."

I'm still really cold, and if he doesn't kill me, I'll probably die from illness. I close my eyes and wait for him to do something. If he was to kill me, he'd do it now.

"Just go put a shirt on." I open my eyes and look at him. He's serious? I trust him enough to walk to my room. I go to my closet and grab a shirt.

Right after putting it on I feel arms wrap around me. One hand covering my mouth, another wrapped around my waist, keeping my hands in place.

"Stay still. Someone else is here." I do as told and stay still. I hear it. The quiet footsteps of someone wandering through my house.

Delirious let's go of me and quietly goes over to my door. He closes the door as quietly as possible.

"David! Sweetie are you home?" I sigh of relief. I go up to the door and Delirious moves in my way. "It's ok. It's just my mom"

He moves out of the way and I go out of my room. "Yeah! I'm here" My mom comes out of the kitchen and comes over to me.

"What happened? You're hair's covered in snow and- did you walk home in the blizzard?"

I shiver and nervously smile. "Yeah.." "You should've stayed at Lui's. It's not safe outside." I look at the ground and she gets a hint.

"You two fight?" "I.. Did something I shouldn't have, yes." She puts her finger under my chin and pushes up slightly to make me look at her.

I can tell that she understands, maybe even relates. "It's alright. I'm sure it wasn't that bad. If anything, you can just apologize on Monday when you see him at school."

I smile and nod. I look back into my room and see Delirious hiding in the corner. I motion for him to come over to me and he sighs. He stands up and walks over.

Soon he's standing behind me, and I look at my mom. "Is this one of your friends?" I look back at Delirious and tilt my head. Are we still friends?

He nods and I look back to my mom, smiling. "Yeah. He is" She has me move a little as Delirious is hiding directly behind me.

I move to my right and she smiles, looking at Delirious. "I'm guessing you're an outdoor person, huh?"

I look at him, seeing him looking at me. He seems to take a deep breath and looks back at my mom. "Yeah. Something like that."

She smiles and looks at me. "Well, how about I make some lunch while you two hang out. Do you have any allergies...?"

"Jonathan, and no I don't." She smiles and claps her hands together. "Great! How about a fruit salad?" I nod and see Jonathan nod.

Mom goes into the kitchen and me and Delirious go back in my room. I sit on my bed and motion him to sit on the bed as well.

He rolls his eyes and sits down. He looks me in the eyes and I smile, seeing him again is so nice.

We were never that close, but I guess the longer he was with us the more I sorta.. observed him. I guess I grew to like seeing him. That may be why it affected me so much when he left.

"Hey Jon, can I ask a question without you getting mad at me?" "Sure. Go ahead." I look down and find myself messing with my hands, as I'm really nervous.

"Why did you leave?" I look up at him and see him looking down at my hands. He puts his hand on mine, stopping me from moving them.

He looks up at me and I can see some type of regret forming. "I had to." "But why?" "I can't say." "Please!"

I look him in the eyes as I become desperate. "Three months of not knowing where you were. Three months of trying to cope with you being gone! One answer is all I ask"

He sighs and closes his eyes. "I can't give specifics, but know it was for the best" I get mad at that.

"How the hell was you leaving for the best? From what I can tell, what Vanoss used to fear would happen, did happen. We all need you. Why won't you just tell me?"

He looks down and my vision gets blurry, as I feel tears run down my face. "It's hard for me to explain. Harder for me to fully understand myself."

"Then explain what you understand. I don't care if it's a really short and vivid answer, I just want one." He looks up at me and sighs.

"Remember when Voorhees left?" "Who?" He looks irritated at me, then rolls his eyes. "The demon that attacked Terroriser and saved Vanoss' life?"

I nod and see him tense up a bit. "When he left I gained some type of.. ability" "Like, a superpower?" He chuckles and nods. "You could think of it like that."

I nod and wait for him to continue. "I didn't want you guys to think I was a freak.. So I decided to get away. I thought doing so would be good for the group as well."

I give a sad smile and put my hand on his. "I'm assuming you'll be leaving soon, huh?" He nods and I wipe away the tears. I hug him and hear the front door slam open.

"Nogla get your ass out here right now!" I flinch as I hear Vanoss yelling for me. I silently tell Delirious to stay put as I leave the room, closing the door as I do so.

I go to the living room and see Vanoss and Lui. Vanoss is standing in front of Lui, looking as pissed off as ever. Lui is standing behind Vanoss, less mad.

I go up to them and cross my arms. "What?" Vanoss stares me down and I see Lui looking at me, worried. "What the fuck were you thinking? Walking home in a fucking blizzard without a goddamn shirt"

I roll my eyes and stare at Lui, who's hiding behind Vanoss, looking at me as though he's scared.

"You could've gone back to Mini's house. It's a shorter walk so you would've had less of a chance of fucking freezing. Since you're not, 'welcomed in Lui's House'"

"Yeah well maybe I wanted to freeze." Vanoss looks shocked at my remark, and I feel myself grow frustrated and sad and just a whole bunch of emotions I couldn't understand nor name.

"Maybe I wanted to fokin die out there. Once it started snowing I didn't give a shit about whether or not I died. Making it here was just an achievement. You know, maybe if I died, the group would be a little bit more happy."

I keep my eyes fixated on Vanoss, who looks shocked and has no response. I groan in frustration and turn away, walking to my couch. I sit down and try not to cry.

Whenever I get really worked up, I cry. I can't cry right now. I need to prove a point. I just don't know what point I'm trying to prove.

I hear quiet footsteps walk over to me, and I expect them to be Lui. I'm shocked as I feel a hand on my shoulder and I look at the person.

There stands Delirious. By my side and here for me. Even in front of Vanoss. I get up and Delirious comes over to me. He hugs me and I hug back, my eyes stinging.

I blink a few times and feel a few tears fall down my face. I bury my face into his shoulder and he rubs my back. He doesn't let me go and by now I'm letting myself cry into his shoulder. He doesn't mind though.

I take a deep breath as I try to calm myself down, but I can't. I keep crying and I can't stop. So many thoughts are running through my mind. My own words ring in my head and I can't get it to stop.

My grip on him gets tighter and I can tell I'm shaking. The more I think about what I said the more I believe it's true.

I feel Delirious petting my head and hear him whispering to me. Telling me I'm ok, I'll be ok.

I feel my shaking slow but I keep my grip, as it feels if I don't I'll fall. He notices the reason I have a tight grip, and his arms tighten around my waist.

He continues whispering to me to calm me down and I slowly stop shaking altogether. I still feel like I'll fall so I keep my grip. I hear a small ringing and I begin freaking out. It's the type of ringing you'd hear after a bomb went off, but I heard no explosion.

My head starts throbbing and I begin shaking again. Delirious' grip on me tightens and I look up and see a blurry Lui running over to me. I close my eyes and feel myself falling, but not for long.

I open my eyes and notice my head is still throbbing, but not as much. I'm also laying on the couch.

I hear Vanoss talking and assume it's to Delirious, as when I look around I don't see either. Instead, I see Lui sitting beside me on the floor, holding my hand.

"So that's it, huh? You just going to come here, cheer up Lui and help Nogla then leave? Fuck everyone else. None of us mattered to you anyways."

"Shut the fuck up Vanoss. I came back to do what I had to do. I just managed to find them on the way. If I wasn't afraid of making too much of an impact on everyone before I left again I probably would've at least made sure you knew I'm ok."

I don't move. I'm not sure if Lui knows if I'm awake or not, but if he doesn't, I don't want to bother him.

"Listen to yourself. Now you're saying that Lui and Nogla's mental and emotional state doesn't affect the group."

"Well. Good to know you're one of those people who think your shit don't stink. You know I've become a lot better at listening, and from what I've heard, you've been a lot worse than them. I've heard, maybe half of the guys say that your attitude is affecting everyone. Even Wildcat, and that fucker can be heartless at times."

"How did you hear half of them say that?"

"Today isn't the only day I've been around. It's just that none of you have noticed me."

I hear Lui sigh and I tilt my head a bit to look at him. He's holding our hands in the air, his elbow resting on the couch cushion. Our fingers are intertwined and I smile.

I feel the need to sneeze but I hope it's just a false alarm.

"That's bullshit. We took turns looking out for you for-"

I sneeze, interrupting Vanoss. Lui looks at my and calmly smiles. I move closer to the back of the couch and Lui sits next to me. Our hands unravel and he strokes his through my hair.

I sneeze again and roll my eyes. My head hurts and I take a deep breath. I hear footsteps and Lui looks behind me. I look behind me, seeing my mom with a small bowl of fruit.

"Here you go. Eat this and get some sleep." I nod and take the bowl. I'm handed a fork and Lui takes it. He takes the bowl from me and I look at him, a little confused.

He stabs a piece of cantaloupe and puts the fork up to my mouth, saying "let me feed you!"

I chuckle and open my mouth. He puts the fork in my mouth and I eat the cantaloupe. He takes the fork back and smiles, looking really happy right now.

He continues feeding me and once all the fruit is gone, he gets up and sets the bowl down on the coffee table.

He goes over to the fireplace and I see him feed the fire a little more. He looks over to me and smiles, seeing me watching him.

He comes over to me and covers me with a blanket, telling me to sleep. I smirk when he goes to kiss my forehead. I pull him down onto me and hold him there, him laying with me.

"Nuuu! I'll get sick toooo!" I chuckle and hold him tighter. He continues to try to get out of my grip and after about ten minutes I get tired. I let him go and he gets up. He chuckles quietly as he sees me smirking.

He re wraps the blanket around me and kisses my forehead again. He walks out of the room and I hear Vanoss and Delirious continue to argue.

"Shut up Nogla's tryna sleep!" I hear Lui yell at them and all is quiet. I close my eyes and happily take a deep breath.

"I'm staying here to help take care of him. If either of you want to stay you're welcome to, but if you get in another fight you're both dead."

I sneeze again and close my eyes, feeling exhausted. I hear Vanoss and Delirious come to an agreement on something but I'm not sure what.

I slowly fall asleep and am met with a peaceful sleep.

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