The 6 Broken Friends

Twisting Paths

Astrid walks with Victor her dog thoughts long gone as she comes across her 27th door. She starts to wonder, 'Have the others gone through so many doors, wonder how they are doing, why are we here, who set those dogs out?' Her mind went on and on for what seemed like days Crossing dead bodies and blood puddles, all of it seemed like the new normal.

She wondered. 'Will I ever smell fresh air again?' Victor on the other hand was thinking. 'Why do I feed off of drugs, why did I have to do all those horrible things.....Why did Toby say that to me?' He starts to think on what Toby said to do since they both thought they all were gonna die down here and then he looked at Astrid. She was everything he was not, a good student, always listening, always caring. But why did she do this, was it for bragging rights? Did she enjoy convincing others she was kind? What the hell was her motive on being so good for absolutely no reward.

He didn't understand Astrid. But then he remembers Ayana saying 'No one really understands her, she never speaks her deep thoughts, just pushes everything down.' Was this how she always was? What if she gets mad and chokes me like she did Toby ? Where the hell are we going? He sighed tired of all this bullshit he just wanted to smoke and forget the world.

Lucas had never minded the smell of the rotting flesh around him, he was always around animals that would die or eat each other. He didn't see why Carter had such a problem, didn't he walk past a dead animal atleast once? But at least Carter got used to it, but the one thing he could never get over was the fact that Victor was around someone so different from himself. Victor hated people like that but he kept hiding it from everyone. Carter was infront of Lucas, he couldn't stop thinking about Astrid praying she was ok. They were walking for what seemed like forever to him.

Toby had his shirt off he didn't like the fact that his shirt was sticking to him when he was wearing it. Ayana hasn't spoken for a long time which isn't like her at all, she seemed like only one thing was on her mind. Usually Ayana would talk to Toby about things but at this point he gave up caring but he would smirk every time he looked at her walking like there was no tomorrow infront of him.

Ayana stayed silent while walking, her mind going wild worried about the others, she was worried about Astrid. She knows that Astrid keeps a lot inside, she worried about Victor getting pissed without his cigarettes and other drugs he used with Toby. She was scared Lucas and Carter were hurt or even killed. All she could think about for the last few days was that and more, she didn't speak what-so-ever to Toby, even when he started a conversation she never replied. And Toby was starting to stop trying as his past would rush to his mind.

As Victors legs started to grow tired he simply asked form her. "Hey can we stop, Maybe catch some Z's?" Astrid heard him and then stopped realizing how her feet hurt like hell, she simply sighed at how weak she was when she thought to herself. 'Crackhead is right, if we are gonna walk down these paths we need to get our energy.' She turned around and walked up to Victor and simply stated. "May you go find a place to sleep? I don't wanna sleep in the blood."

Victor nods his head understanding because he doesn't either he closes the door they came out of and marks it with this very dark almost black blood so they don't go backwards and then he finds a spot on the floor and starts kicking the big pools of blood away as he finishes up he lays his shirt on the ground and whistle towards Astrid and says. "Beds made princess."

Astrid walks over rolling her eyes and lays down next to Victor as she then falls fast asleep not realizing how tired she actually was, so does Victor. As they sleep Scott roams down his halls whistling 'Kill Bill' as he swings his jacket over his shoulder and walks down the hallway smirking. He sighs as he thinks about the kids and he starts to get a headache as he growls and punches a wall so hard it breaks the wall as he then starts to laugh. After a few minutes of laughing he pulls his hand out and fixes his hair as he chuckles and then continues to walk.

Lucas looked at Carter they hadn't stopped walking for a long time and his feet were feeling so numb that he thought his heals were rubbed to the muscle. Carter stopped and sighed wanting to sleep but wanting to see Astrid in person. Lucas sat down and laid back after moving bones away and says "We should sleep, I'm sure our feet and minds will feel better" Carter knew he was right and didn't disagree and responds with "Fine but when we wake up back to walking no waiting, and if I wake up before you I'm not waking you up!" all Lucas does is chuckle and close his eyes falling asleep. Carter does the same hoping he will see Astrid again in no time.

Toby sighs feeling like he hasn't smoked or slept in weeks, he looks up at Ayana and notices she's slowed down sweating from the damp air around us. "Ayana we need to stop!" Toby says loudly to grab her attention and she turns around looking at him saying "Your right..." Her voice sounds tired and worried at the same time. She leans against the wall as she feels her legs tingling from not stopping the whole time they walked.

Toby sits and watches her wipe the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand before she sits down and curls into a ball next to the wall falling asleep. He didn't understand her lately she didn't talk she didn't even act like he was there and it was pissing him off. He wanted to slap her back to how she was before, but instead he lays on his back growling. He really need a smoke or a hit, he wanted to punch everything he saw. But Toby eventually drifted off into a deep sleep.

Scott yawns a bit tired he pulls a watch out of his pocket of his jacket and sees the time, it had only been a day, he figured the teens had all fell deep asleep. He then remembered the hole in the wall that he had made, two of the teens would see it, they'd find out they were right next to each other wall to wall. He cursed under his breath frustrated with himself and sighed shrugging it off as he rested in the blood and bones. Quickly he fell asleep too.

To Be Continued......