Chapter 2: Coming to terms.

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Till strummed the electric. Till won't lie, he's feeling nervous but he looked out into the crowd to see Ivan with his guardian, Unsha. Then his eyes glanced towards the direction of Urak. Urak had an expecting look on his face.

'This is nerve wracking..' Till thought to himself.

Just as he began to sing.

"Come on!
Nothing was my everything
The melody that filled the empty me"

Till looked over to see Mizi who is looking so lost and empty not having her girlfriend around. Till bit his tongue, to hold the nagging urge to comfort her. It was eating Till from inside. He continued to sing.

"It's you alright.
My feeling are..
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A shaking paradigm
I don't care if my world turns upside down
I wanna know all about you (Ya)
No more takin' it slow
The Edelweiss of my feelings that bloomed because of you
(You'll never know)
I don't wanna stop
I don't even think this time's enough
Cause you baby it's not enough.
(For me, alright?)
Don't ever leave me.."

While saying that last line he sounded a bit solemn, the anxiety was riding over the roof that he stroked the guitar's strings harder and faster with the guitar pick. Till was panting while he stared emotionlessly out to the crowd, not even meeting Ivan's eyes. This song isn't even for Ivan, it was for Mizi. That's why he made this song.

"Cause you baby, it's not enough.
How dare you think this time is enough!
Ain't no body but you, are the one that I'm feeling it's love!
Don't be afraid.. (Come on!)"

Till gripped onto the neck of his guitar before he brought the guitar over his head, BAM. That was the sound of his guitar smashing to pieces. This was him attempting to fight back against these aliens, took what they all had. This grey haired 17 year old looked towards Mizi as he sang the last bit of his song.

"I can't refuse this overdose."

With that, he looked down at his broken guitar. What he saw, was organs. He gagged a bit in shock. At the scene of green liquids seeping out from the broken guitar. This was disgusting to look at. Till heard a noise from behind him, then a sharp pain came from his head. He fell to the ground. Till glared up at the security before he got restrained. The cheering from the Audience was being drowned out by the ringing in his ears and his heartbeat.

Till was the only one who got this harsh treatment. It was due to how this teen was complicating things. By him fighting back, all the others aren't as violent as Till. Well, that still stands to be true. This grey haired male felt a lot of pain. It was due to him being hit at the top of his head with the butt of the gun that the security personnel had on them.

"It hurts.." Till thought to himself.

While he was being dragged off stage. Ivan stared at this scene. He looked emotionless, his piercing black voids of hues were watching Till's every movement. When Till completely left, his eyes were fixated onto the screen that read.

"Winner is Till"

Back with Till, he was currently contained in a small square room. He groaned as he felt warm wet liquid slowly trickle down his forehead. Till looked down, he saw blood droplets falling onto the ground. Hs couldn't really speak he had white halo-like contraptions over his mouth, which is called a Muffler. Till slowly began to realize that his effort to fight was pointless. The hope he had, was gone. Theres no chance of him living in the future. If he dies, he dies. What chance does he even get to choose his happiness let alone his death? Till sat in that closed room, silently sobbing.

Due to the head injury, Till couldn't stay awake. He ultimately passed out. Not long after him passing out, Mizi found Till. She rushed him to the infirmary. Mizi spoke to the nurse.

"Will he be okay..?" Mizi asked.

"How did this happen?" The human nurse asked.

"I-I dunno.. I.. like.." Mizi spoke.

Till could hear the conversation, but Mizi's voice began to fade from Till. Meaning, he couldn't hear the full extent of this conversation. For some reason memories are flooding in his mind.

These memories were happy ones with Sua and Mizi. Mizi was running up to Till with Sua in tow, hugging him. Till looked around before looking back at Mizi. This was when they Six years old. He smiled happily to himself as he chased after both Sua and Mizi. Till could still remember how full of hope and naivety he held. He was dreaming of his future, not knowing that he harboring false hope not for anyone, but himself.

Till had many fond memories. He ran around chasing other kids, picking fights with Ivan. A part of Till's mind got confused, why was Ivan in a lot of his dreams? He couldn't even control what he was dreaming about, since he was unconscious. Till replayed the events of himself and Ivan getting in a lot of fights, which he ended up losing almost all fights. Ivan was just too fierce even as a child at that time.

Which bad memories started to pop up in his mind. He was reliving the moment he got tied up by Urak and starved for two days. For 'misbehaving' or so most would put it. Little Till was always riddled with bruises as a young child which most would think its natural. These bruises were either from Ivan, who at that time was Seven years old. Then his master, who is Urak.

Most his childhood he didn't have a lot of freedom, after all he was more times than one, restrained or put in experiments. Even so, he still had a lot of happy memories, more happiness than he does now. Thats how Till met Ivan when he was Four and Ivan was Five years old.

. . .

Outside of Till's unconscious body, Mizi was waiting for Till to wake up for a few hours, but she had to leave because of her master. She walked out of the door. Her long pink locks flowed through the air behind her. Mizi's eyes glanced over to see no one..?

'Huh, that's odd.. I could've sworn I saw someone.. or something.. Ugh, I don't have time.' Mizi thought to herself while she continued to walk away.

The closed door to the infirmary slowly opened up. No one was in this room before, but now a large silhouette is cascading over Till's unconscious body. . .

To be continued.

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