Minutes melted into hours and the hours seemed endless within themselves. The five of them drifted together into a silent huddle of unsaid companionship. Lisha wished for someone to speak, break the odd silence. They hadn't been this quiet since the announcement of first place in state finals last year. Those announcers always loved to drag it out, and the pain was almost equivalent to what they were all feeling in the current moment.

"So what's everyone thinking about?" Lisha whispered to break the silence.

"Food," Ian said and Abbie whispered, "Water."

Tony hugged his jacket to his chest like it was his last attachment to a world that seemed so distant. His eyes stared feverishly off into the distance like freedom would happen of he looked hard enough. For the longest moment it appeared that he didn't even hear the question. Then, with a great shudder of his spine, he turned his head back to the others with a lop sided grin. "My cousin."

"Cousin?" Lisha repeated.

"Yeah, you guys met her once. Last year...state finals?"

"Was she the one who kept making the comments about you wearing a soggy chicken on your head all season?" Michael asked as he gently stroked Abbie's hair. Last year the Trojan Marching Band had received a streak of bad luck when it came to the weather. It came to a point where they just took their uniforms back home after every competition. Their plumes started looking and smelling a lot like wet chickens.

"Yeah, that's her, Laura," Tony confirmed, pronouncing it with a roll on the R and an accent on the -ura, like la-ora. "I was thinking about how last week, she called me up at like three in the morning and asked of I was okay... She sounded either drunk or tired -- leaning toward tired -- and I don't know. She was always so attuned to what was happening around her...she'd always seem to know what was right and wrong with everyone," he chuckled to himself. "You couldn't plan a surprise parry for that girl to save your life." He sighed. "I didn't think anything of it...."

"Do you think she could have predicted this?" Michael asked quietly

Tony blinked slowly. "I don't even know at this point...some pretty freaky stuff happens when she's around."

Nobody was really in the mood to discuss freaky, so they welcomed the return of the silence with a bit of tact. It scared Lisha a little, just how easily the hours broke their will to talk. It was almost as if Ian, Abbie, and Tony knew about Michael's and her's secret death pact, because there came not a point where the three of them slept simultaneously as before.

Lisha peered up at the ceiling and cursed the fates for all she was worth.

"You know what I'm thinking about?" Michael spoke after a while. He didn't even wait for the rest of them to answer and spoke away. "Remember freshman year, me and Ian had that film project and made a full out music video for that Owl City song. Unbelievable?"

Abbie laughed halfheartedly. "It's unbelievable, this is as good as gets..."

Lisha didn't know what prompted her to pick up the song, but the next thing she knew she was murmuring the next set of lyrics at the floor. "It's unbelievable, don't know what's gonna happen next."

Tony scoffed. "It's unbelievable, you haven't seen nothing yet. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable."

Ian. "When I was kid I saved up all my dough so I could buy C3PO. Put Mentos in my diet Coke."

"In the backseat of the bus."

In strange hushed whisper, the five of them took up the song in a strange effort to throwback to better times, when things were simpler and the most they had to worry about was how they would pass their tests the next day.

"When I was a kid I eat Spaghetti-Os, played laser tag and GI Joes and if you vowed no girls allowed, then you could join the club."

Lisha laughed in spite of herself.

"When I was a kid I spend my Saturday's blowing on Nintendo Games. The newest thing was Lion King, and I could feel the love.

The chorus came and went.

Michael, remembering his old part, sang. "When I was a kid I dreamed of Power Wheels, stayed up late watching action films, and I won't lie, my friends and I,"

They chorused, "Were too legit to quit!" In the film, they had a lot of fun with that line. There was a lot of finger snapping and jumping on each other's backs involved.

"When I was a kid I left for commentaries," they always got that line wrong. "Ate Dr. Pepper jelly beans. My favorite part of Jurassic Park was how real the raptors looked. When I was a kid I still had VHS something something Jazzy Jess, and something, the first cell phone, it was off the hook. "

Chorus.

"Got parks and flown and Home Alone, Bernstein Bears and beanbag chairs, my holly looks and Goose Bumps books, oh Etch-a-Sketch, what happens next? Grape Juicy Juicy, and Dr. Seuss, piggyback rides and slip and slides, McDonald's prizes were the best, what happens next?"

"Its unbelievable. This is as good as it gets. Its unbelievable. Don't know what's gonna happen next. Its unbelievable, you haven't see nothing yet. Its unbelievable. When I think back on the main. It's unbelievable, cause baby, those were the days. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable."

Tony snorted and grinned, for a moment showing the crazy idiot he was two days ago. "We need to carry around a sign that says, this is group is prone to breaking it into song. Approach with caution."

They all laughed,though the tenor was different. In one five minute period, they were back in survival mode. They needed to live for more moments of pure....unbelievable. It couldn't end here, it wouldn't.

"Let's work on a plan."

Lisha was glad she broke the silence, because maybe now they had a chance at getting out of there.

A/N

What....the Hades....? I didn't write this..it's too happy...I mean its a good song...but no, they're supposed to be miserable. -.-....

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I wonder how much longer I can drag this out. Don't worry. I have stuff planned for them.