Life After Death

Chapter 28

Vivian's POV

For the first time since we could remember, the sun beams that illuminated our rooms wasn't what woke us, but rather the noise outside - children playing with one another. And like every cliche movie ever, we woke up with the best stretches of our lives.

Me and Jade were in our rather pink room, the night previous having decided strategically which bed we should take each. Jade taking the bed against the left wall, meaning should anyone - or anything - enter the room, her good eye would be facing the door as opposed to her blind side.

"How'd you sleep?" I asked Jade as we both sat up, more a less at the same time as one another.

"Like a damn baby," she laughed, wiping her eye clean from any fogginess, "You?"

"Literally better than I knew was possible. Even better than at that hotel."

After adjusting to the light, and the cold temperature, we headed as a pair downstairs, where Jace and Nathaniel already were. Both of which were staring in awe at the toaster, as if they had never seen an appliance like that. They weren't even using it, it had just been so long since they'd acknowledged their existence, that it seemed like some foreign object.

"Are you guys okay?" Jade laughed.

"This must be what time travellers feel like if they came from the past," Nathaniel still gawked slightly.

As I walked beside the island, heading to grab a bottle of water on the side, I smacked him round the back of the head, laughing as I snapped him out of his state. Although, even I was in an awe-like state as I poured my water into an actual glass. For a moment I thought I might've forgot how to use it, it had been so long. But nevertheless, it just felt strange.

Me and Nathaniel were having our own conversation, mainly us examining each other's cuts and wounds now we had had them looked at and were somewhere fairly clean.

"Are you sure your arm is okay? Like, it was pulled out of its whole socket," I asked, feeling his shoulder as though testing it for pain.

"That was ages ago Viv," he smiled softly, "You put it back in place for me yourself."

"Yeah, but, I'm no nurse. Plus, I'm pretty sure you're supposed to rest it and you didn't exactly get much chance to do that."

"Well, if it falls off, you can say you told me so," he teased, when there was a knock on the door, ending our conversation.

Jace was the first to reach the door, revealing an eager looking Aanya behind it, a smile encrypted on her face as though she was thrilled at the sight of us still being here, and looking considerably more rested. Still with a sports cap atop her head, though a different one today.

We hadn't paid much attention to whatever the weather was doing outside, the blinds and curtains as we'd left them last night - more closed than anything else - but when the door opened a beam of sunlight projected inwards, though the coldness of her breath was still visible as she spoke, despite the sun's appearance.

"Great! You're all up!" She smiled before furrowing her brows quickly "Wait, why are you all up? Not gotten comfortable?"

"No, no!" Jade laughed at her response, as though we were likely to complain at the immense amount they'd provided us "It was perfect. We're just used to being awake early right now. The other three are still sleeping I think anyway."

"Okay, that's great then!" she nodded, smiling as though relieved at our satisfaction, "Well, I figured you guys could probably use a tour later on. Just a quick one, meet some of us too. You've certainly piqued their interest with your arrival - or rather, your escape from the Reapers."