EQUI

Chapter 3

    "Does anyone have my charger"

Damn it. Hope stopped her admiring and walked down the hall to Ren and Light's room. Ren and Light were calmly looking through their belongings to see if Light's charger was in there.

It dawned upon Hope that Flame most likely had Light's charger as he was the one who took it while Light was eating his crackers. Hope tiptoed down the hall to see if Flame had the charger instead of alerting Ren and Light and getting Light's hopes up.

"Blaze-" Hope was interrupted by the sound of shuffling coming from the inside of Flame and Essence's room before Essence opened the door.

"What's up" Essence questions, wiping his glasses clean with his sweater sleeve.

"Oh I was just gonna ask Blaze if he had Light's charger because Light and Ren are going to start tearing up their room looking for it."

"Oh, here, I saw it while I was unpacking one of Flames bags" Essence walked over to the bay window and retrieved the charger, handing it to Hope.

"Oh? Why were you unpacking Flame's bag, is he busy?" Hope curiously peeked behind Essences shoulder to see if her eyes could locate Flame in the room.

"No I just decided to help him out because I know he'll be lazy and won't unpack until next week or something, also he's in the bathroom" Essence addressed, knowing that Hope was scanning the room for Flame.

"Ok, thanks Ess" Hope turned to go return Light's charger and unpack her items.

"AHHH YOU FOUND IT THANK YOU THANK YOU HOPEY-HOPEY" Light yelled upon skipping to Hope to obtain his charger.

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Grouchat: Elements

HoeWithaP: Have you all unpacked? I'm starving

Essencial: Me and Flame are done but we're kinda tired, wanna order delivery?

Karmax: I'm down.

IKnowStuff: Me too

NotAJungle: That's fine, we'll go out and explore tomorrow

HoeWithaP: Ok but is everyone done with unpacking???

Seen at 22:03

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"Can you turn off the fucking light" Flame mumbled towards Essence after flopping onto his bed.

"See, I would've done it if you asked nicely. Remember that the eight of us do not take your bullshit like anyone else would" Essence calmly stated while keeping his eyes on his book.

"Whatever" Flame got up and trudged to the light switch, switching it off before trudging back to his bed.

Essence pushed his glasses up before feeling around for his bookmark and placing it on the page he left off. Essence got off his bed and trudged his way down to the library through the dark, dragging his blanket with him.

After two hours of sitting on one of the library's couches, Essence felt himself slowly drift off.

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"Is it so fucking hard for you to do anything right? I don't even want to lay hands on you but you always make it so difficult."

"I-I'm sorry, I'll be better I-I p-promise"

"Look at you, weak and stuttering. Dry those tears or else there'll be a repeat of yesterday. Now, be a good boy and go grab me another drink."

"I-I'm sorry I love you, I'll go grab you another"

"You love me? Isn't that cute. I love you too honey, you need to stop making me so angry so I can give you all the love I have."

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Essence jolted awake from his nightmare drowned in sweat and with tear filled eyes. Essence didn't think that would be the result of staying away from his PTSD prescription for a while. You see, Essence was used to the horrible and abusive experiences with his ex-girlfriend playing in his mind over and over again. Whether it'd been in his sleep, or on a random tuesday at the gym, or a grocery shopping trip.

A few days ago, Essence had reassured the rest of the gang that his flashbacks and nightmares had gone away even after he stopped taking his meds, the same meds that made him so anxious. Essence couldn't bring himself to tell the other 8 that he'd been having them again. Instead, Essence quietly crept upstairs to his and Flames bedroom.

After crawling into his own bed, Essence let the tears slip out of his eyes, letting out quiet and choked sobs. Not wanting to wake Flame up, Essence slipped into the ensuite bathroom and slowly slid down the bathroom door. The sobs caused his body to forcefully tremble, threatening to become one with the bathroom door.

By the time Essence got himself to calm down, it was already 4AM. He slowly slipped into his bed and let sleep overtake his body.

"I can be strong. If not for myself, then for Hope, Light, Flame, Karma, Ren, Forest, Truly, and Honesty. I can't go back to being that person." Essence repeated the same mantra he'd been repeated for weeks, running his fingers over scars that had faded over the last few years.

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A/N: Soooo, was i missed?