DEVAB: Empty Thoughts

Chapter 1: Have a minute?

It was a vibrant, dark blue sky that night and the gang had decided to sleep in a cave in a forest before going, they couldn'tbe bothered with a hotel. Evanna had slept in a sleeping bag, which Darrell bought it at the store for her.
While Evanna started to get comfy, Brock waved a hand outside the cave, as a sign for Darrell to come to him. Darrell wished goodnight to Evanna, and went to see Brock, who was trying to light a fire, simply by rubbing two sticks together.

Darrell simply sighed and asked, "Do you want me to do that for you?" Brock rolled his eyes. "I don't need your help, I can do this by myself, only reason I can't right now is that there isn't any damn light nearby!"
Darrell put on a slight smile. "It's funny to see you like this, ya know? You act all tough and cool during the day, but the moment you're put somewhere without any bit of light, a fly could kill you, that's just fun-"
"Piss off with that, would ya?" Brock interrupted him with anger in his voice, before going blank and eventually looking up at Darrell. "...Could you do this for me?"
Darrell simply replied "Sure." And then went to start the Fife.

After a few minutes, Darrell had eventually started the fire and Brock went to sit by it, with Darrell sitting near him. Darrell was the first to talk. "So...anything else you'd like me to do? Like just chat or anything?" Brock replied with a simple: "Yea." Before continuing. "It's about Eva, our little lass. Why did you bother getting all the stuff for her today? Why did you get her a diary? What's the point of that?" Brock pressed on with questions. "Hell, why did you even bother shopping stuff for only HER? Do I just not mat-" Darrell interrupted him "Hey hey, calm down, I did get something for you, be right back!"

Darrell came back from the cave, where they left their equipment with a pack of cigarettes for Brock. Brick thanked him with a chuckle and a smile afterwards, before opening the pack and popping one in his mouth.
Brock then light the cig with a simple snap of his fingers, causing a small flame to pop out for a split second and light the cigarette, like his own personal lighter. Brock tried to start up a conversation again: "I'm actually looking forward to this holiday now, I can finally get the chance to visit nice places, and go wild, ye know? Maybe you two can just relax, have fun, whatever crap you two wanna do. Me? I just wanna mess around and fuck up a few places, is that OK with you?" Darrell grunted and thought about it. "Hm, I think Eva would definitely like that, but for me? I'm not as sure, so nah, stay with us for the time being, we're just gonna relax, visit the beach or whatever and we'll start travelling again, this is just meant to be a nice break for all of us, so you won't be breaking anything under my control, is that clear?"
Brock mumbled to himself and threw his cigarette he had in his mouth into the fire, not before puffing out a cloud of smoke. "Welp, can't do anything near yall, got it. Anyways I'll stay near this fire for a while, you two get rest."
Darrell shrugged. "Alright, whatever you say. Night Brock!" He said with a hint of sass. "Just go to sleep already, and goodnight." Brock answered back. As Darrell began to huddle up by himself, Brock just looked up at the moon, wishing it would hit daytime already.

In the morning, Evanna was the first to wake up, getting excited for the holiday and immediately scrambling over to get Darrell up. Darrell just moaned as Evanna constantly told him to get up. Darrell finally talked. "We'll be going off in a minute, just get Brock for me while I pack away our stuff.." He didn't have the heart to tell her if he could rest for 10 more minutes. Evanna went to wake up Brock, who sleep asleep near the, now burnt out, fire. He just grunted and gave his stuff to Darrell when he left the cave.

"God, Eva. We aren't in a rush, just wai-" Brock wanted fo say before Evanna interrupted him as soon as she could react. "C'mon!!! It's just waiting for us! Let's go!!" Sprinting off infront of Brock and Darrell, who just followed her out of the forest, unknowing of what would trouble them later on, or the horrors that would occur.