Violet stood just beside the doors in the monorail. She breathed out with laughter, walking towards the back rows, dropping her body on them. "That was fun. Breathtaking even-no breathless."
Ben snapped his head to turn to Violet, looking at her like she was crazy. "Violet! How can you say something like that-"
"Ben." Violet calmly called his name. Her smile dropped as she looked at him with a serious look. "We've known each other for how long and you still don't understand my humor?"
"That wasn't humor." Ben shook his head. He rested his hands on top of his lap. "It was not funny."
Violet sighed and smiled then looked beside Ben, seeing Connor. She motioned a hand at him, "Tell that to Connor, his humor is worse than mine because he actually means it."
Connor formed a small proud smile in return. His smile quickly froze and slowly left his face as he saw Ben turn to him with a look which made Connor turn to the window. Connor had sat by the window while Ben sat on the open spot beside him.
Darius turned to them all with a wide smile. "We did it. We're going home."
Everyone had hope in their eyes. Almost everyone. Violet lifted one leg up, resting her elbow on her knee as she looked out the window. Hope, that wasn't something Violet had believed in. Hope, destiny, she may use those words and joke about it but she'd never truly believed in those pointless things because to her they don't exist.
Kenji glanced at Violet, the two meeting eyes with similar facial expressions. The two read each other like an open book. They weren't smiling full of hope or loudly cheering because they didn't believe they were truly safe.
Violet glanced away at seeing Yasmina cheer.
"This calls for a celebration." Brooklynn smiled as she sat down on the seats behind Ben and Connor.
Violet took her eyes off the dark island and to Ben who spoke up, "I might be able to help with that."
He pulled out a ton of snacks from his pouch bag and held them all up. "Stashed a few treats for the road."
"Oh my god." Violet turned her body in the seat, facing Ben. She held up her hand, "Snacks? Throw me one." He threw one across to her as everyone else grabbed one for themselves. She then unwrapped the snack bar and lifted it up to her mouth. Violet bit down on it and immediately took it out of her mouth. "I guess hunger doesn't force you to eat everything."
Sammy spat it out, "This is nasty."
"Get it off! Get it off!" Kenji shouted as he roughly wiped his tongue off.
