Tainted Hearts

Oof! Caught You

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The two eventually returned back to the secret basement around 2AM.
Not much happened so fast forward to the arrival of the morning.
The sun rises from the seemingly infinite horizon, shining everything with its yellow light radiating hope.
Although, not for Verosha.

Alex looked over at the clock, it was 6:13 AM. He leaned against the wall, pondering something.

"You didn't slept?" A voice, which belonged to Laila, suddenly asked him. Alex was startled but quickly regained his composure before clearing his throat.

"Ahem.. No, no.. I don't need sleep.. Geez, you surprised me."

Laila scratched the back of her head with an apologetic expression.

"Sorry.."

"It's alright."

A silence emerged. To be honest, Alex was bored of the constant silence.

"Hey, Denny said you're from The North, correct?"

"Ah... Yeah."

"... I.. I lived there once, I was born there.."

"Oh... I see."

"It's been centuries.. So I want to know, how was that place now..?"

"Umm... It's the worst place to live or to be, in my opinion.."

"... It didn't change.. Hah, guess should've expected that from every president of Verosha."

".. I wish... I wish I could've saved my parents... If only I was strong enough.. They wouldn't die.. The damned authority and their governments..!"

'.. She and I are very much alike, just with different outcome..'

"Yaaaaawwnnnn..." Denny had woken up. She sat and rubbed her eye.

"Good morning, Denny!"

"G'mornin'!!!"

"Morrniiing, guysss.." She replied back, followed with another yawn.

The other 4 members of the kids woken up after, all of them started their morning activity with some conversations.

Soon, it was 8AM. The ground above became noisy, and they sent one kid to take look at the situation.
The demon awoken up angrily by the noises above.

"My God, will they ever stop and just... Shut up?!"

"Calm down.. And also, good morning."

Andrew gave Alex a small nod before glancing around the base. He then approached one of the kids.
Kid 2, who was formerly reading a book, looked at him confused.
The demon snatched the book violently before burning it, tossing the book away.
The kid looked at him in disbelief, they both exchanged stare.

"Ehe." Andrew only chuckled before wandered off.

"H-he seriously just did that, for absolutely no reason at all-?" Kid 3 asked himself and everyone else.

"He really got nothing to do else." The ghost mumbled quietly.

Not a moment later-

"Guys!!" Kid 1 slid and appeared from the slide with a concerned look.

"What is it, Maya?!" Laila asked.

"I-i.. I asked someone what happened a-and they said The President ordered every adults to work extra harder without a break a-and cutting 90% of their earnings!! A-and the soldiers are looking for you three!!" Maya explained and pointed at our three protagonists on the last part.