The Wires{Got The Best of Him}

Solutions

 When Josh returned from what Aaron presumed to be the bathroom, there was silence. Aaron was avoiding looking at him for fear he may try to start a conversation again. Even so, he had too many questions that needed to be answered. How was he even going to approach the subject? It's not like he could up and blurt out his questions. Josh eventually spoke up, postponing Aaron's mental struggle.

"You've probably got some questions about this place yeah?"

"I wasn't going to ask because I--"

"You didn't want to make it awkward right? Don't worry, I've been in this place long enough for it to not bother me anymore. The silence." Aaron let his eyes wander over to Josh. He looked completely fine, not at all unhealthy. He was even smiling. How can he seem so happy in a situation like this? I can't imagine how much pain he must be in.

"Do you know anything about the guards?"

"I know that they're people who have contracted an illness that is similar to the one we all have. The one they have isn't fatal, and symptoms last for a week."

"How'd you know that?"

"Well, the officials around here don't exactly watch what they say around us, considering our fate."

"... Oh. What about the rest of the people here?"

"You've probably noticed that this room looks like it's only made for one person. That's because it is only made for one person. They told all of the originals that the reason was because they didn't know if people could catch more symptoms from being around others who had different ones. It was bullshit, obviously... How would you get the same sickness twice?

"Anyway, no contact of any kind is allowed. The only people who even come near us really are the guards because they're immune. The only reason why you're in here with me is because you passed out. Good news though, I'm pretty sure they don't care enough to move you to your room. I'm happy, 'cause I was starting to lose it in here, being by myself all the time..." For as split second, Aaron saw something that seemed a lot like the look of someone who'd given up flash across Josh's face. Then it was back to normal. "Nevermind that. Anymore questions?"

"No." Aaron thought for a minute. "Actually I do have another question. What are we gonna do about sleeping arrangements? The floor's got nothing on it, and this place doesn't seem to have any heating."

"Good question. Well, there's towels in the bathroom, and push comes to shove we could just share the bed."

"Alright. What exactly do you do to occupy yourself around here?"

"As you can see, there isn't much to do around here. I've been spending most of my time sleeping and coughing. There's nothing that you can do to keep your mind off the situation at hand when you're by yourself. I've thought off a couple other things to do however, so don't despair! You could take a bath and fall asleep, or take some of the soap in there and carve it, although I still don't know what to use for carving."

"I'll take a look around."

Aaron got out of bed and continued to the bathroom, feeling around the wall where he remembered the near invisible door was. He found the door and pushed it. It swung open into a gray room smaller than the main room. Inside was a small bath tub with a shower head above it. It was against the wall and there were no curtains to be seen. On the wall opposite from the bathtub was a toilet with a bunch of toilet paper rolls next to it. He counted near 20 of them. Lastly, he saw the sink, which was directly opposite from the door. There was a rectangular mirror attached to the wall above it and a towel rack with 3 towels on it next to it. Everything in the room was gray. When Aaron turned one of the knobs on the sink, even the water looked like it had a grayish tint to it. He winced as he heard Josh coughing in the other room.

Well, I guess I better look around for something that can be used for carving. Aaron could see from the doorway that there were no objects in the room that even looked sharp, but he was going to search anyway. Worse case scenario, we could just break the mirror.

After searching the area from top to bottom, he found a grand total of nothing except for cracks in the walls and more soap. Time to break the mirror. I hope Josh won't be mad. It's not like that thing serves any real purpose, anyway. He picked up a bar of soap and threw it at the mirror. It cracked but didn't shatter like he was hoping it would. "What was that? Aaron, are you okay?"

"Fine!" He wasn't going to be if glass shards went towards him when the mirror shattered. With this in mind, he threw another soap bar and dove to the ground. Thankfully, the glass went to the ground instead to his face, so he was unharmed. However, falling glass isn't exactly the quietest thing.

Josh heard another thud and the sound of someone falling and came running into the bathroom. What he saw however, confused him to no end. Aaron was on the floor with his hands over his head. There were two soap bars in the sink. There was glass all over the floor and no mirror where there was supposed to be one. "What did you do?"

Same stuff as the last 2 chapters, tell me if I messed up anywhere, blah blah blah. Also, if you were interested, I've got more background on the current situation bc it'll never come up in the story:

-Leni, Aaron's girlfriend, still lives in Germany for the sake of my sanity. She has tried to come in contact with Aaron many times, but due to the UK cutting itself off from the rest of the world, she hasn't been able to connect.

-Danni's not in the story either, she was out of country when it happened and isn't aware of the current situation. She's taking a road-trip to (insert far away country here) and hasn't had time to check the news and find out that the UK closed it's borders.

-Josh was kidnapped by the evil scientists while on his way to Aaron's house. :)

Oh and, the next chapter will be up tomorrow. I've got a headache.