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(𝐒𝟐) 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟔

TW; slight profanity

𝟑ʳᵈ 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖.

𝐀𝐬 Tyler ran out into the hallway, he pushed anything in his path. A few doctors and nurses getting startled as they see the teenage boy shove everything in his way and run.

Tyler held his side. 'Don't pass out, don't pass out.' He kept repeating to himself.

Once Tyler turns the corner he stops. Sweat drips from his forehead. In front of him stood his twin, along with Aiden and Logan hold her back, Ben in front of her, making sure she didn't get by.

They all froze and turned to look at Tyler's direction. Logan and Aiden's hold against Taylor loosens and she uses it to her advantage as she gets away from their grip and runs to Tyler.

With tears in her eyes she hugged him. Tyler slightly stumbles to the ground. He hugs his twin back tightly, tears pricking in his eyes.

Both the twins embrace each other as they cry. Taylor was sobbing, Tyler tried to comfort his twin.

"It's alright, i'm here. I'm right here." He tells her as he holds her tightly.

"Tyler?" He heard a voice, he slowly looks up, tears in his eyes. He meets eyes with his mother.

"Sweetheart, you're bleeding.." His mother says in a worried tone as she crouches down and reaches over to look at his arm.

'Mom..' Tyler thinks as he grips his mothers jacket.

'I thought..i would never see them again..' He buried his face into his twin's shoulder as he hugs her tightly and holds his mother's sleeve, hand slightly shaking.

"Excuse me-" Two doctors come into the lounging area, panting as they catch their breath.

"-Would you happen to be his legal guardian?" The doctors asked Marianna.

"I'm his mother, Marianna Hernandez." Marianna responded.

"I see. Your son isn't in very good condition Mrs. Hernández. We need to do some testing and see if we can figure out the problem." The doctor informs her.

"So, if you could please help us get him back peacefully, it would be appreciated. We also need to look at the IV wound." The doctors tells her. She nods.

The teens surround Tyler. Logan behind him, holding onto him as he slightly cries for his friend. Ben and Aiden in front of him. Aiden, poking the side of Tyler's head.

"Are you dumb? What are you gonna do if you bleed out?" Aiden asks Tyler, still wearing his smile but looking more worried.

"Stop poking me." Tyler grumbled.

Ben puts his phone in front of Tyler, reading. "R u ok?"

Taylor and their mother come over and helps Tyler off of the ground and walk him back to his hospital room.

"Halfwit." Aiden mumbled under his breath. He then felt his phone vibrate from his pocket. He grabs his phone and checks the called before he answered the call.

"Ash?" He asked.

"Yeah, everything's okay for the most part.. Tyler's in rough shape but he's awake, there's no news about (Your name). How'd you know to call?" Aiden asked Ashlyn.

"..What are we supposed to do in this situation...?" Daniel asks as his voice slightly cracks.

"..I suppose we can start by believing them." James tells them, he scratches the back of his neck.

"..Believe them?" Jessica asked.

"It's a hard pill to swallow, but we all saw what happened a moment ago. To try and pretend we didn't would make us some pathetic ass parents and guardians, wouldn't you agree?" James asked.

"If everything they've said is true, then those kids have gone through hell together. Hell, i'm surprised they've lasted this long on their own." James added.

All the adults stay silent for a moment.

"..But given what they've told us so far.. are we even able to help? And why are we just now starting to see the same things?" Naomi asked, wearily.

'Those are big questions aren't they? What's our course of action from here?' Emma asked herself as she presses her lips together.

𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐊𝐈𝐏.

𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐥𝐲𝐧 quickly opens the hospital room door. "Oh, it's Ash!" Aiden says happily with a smile as he looks at the door.

Ashlyn slowly takes a few steps to be next to Tyler's hospital bed.

"..I'm sorry." Ashlyn apologizes. Tyler, whom was eating looked at her with wide eyes, shocked.

He adverts his gaze back to his food as he sweatdrops slightly. "Not your fault... so stop acting so mopey carrot-top." Tyler tells her, a hint of tease in his voice.

Ashlyn looks at him, a bit flabbergasted at what he had called her. "What." She says.

"Your hair is orange, so i'm calling you carrot-top from now on." Tyler says with a shrug as he takes a sip from his soup.

"No you're not." Ashlyn protest.

"Too late, already made up my mind." Tyler says with a grin.

Ashlyn sigh and shakes her head. "So, there hasn't been any news on (Your name)?" She asked the group.

They all shook their head. Logan was in thought for a moment before a realization came across his mind.

"...She's still in the phantom dimension.."

𝟏ˢᵗ 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖.

'SIGHHHHHHHHH' I exaggerate a sigh out of boredom.

Will you quit that already? You've been sighing for the past hour.

'There's nothing to do and i'm so boredddd.' I say as i groan.

Well what do you expect? You can't do much here.

'Yeah, yeah, i know.' I say with a sigh.

'I should be bullying little kids on roblox y'know. I shouldn't be here. I should be in roblox.'

We don't have roblox here so you have to suck it up.

'SIGHHHHHHHHHH'

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Word count; 949
June 23ʳᵈ, 2024
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