Better Off Without Me

Chapter 7: Attempted suicide

As the hours went by, Poco made sure Mortis stayed alive. Everyone was home already. Bull and Colt stayed with both Mortis and Poco.

"Mortis is incredibly weak! It was easy to, almost, kill him!" Shelly said.

"Why did you say almost?" Pam asked.

"Both Poco and Piper stopped me before I could actually kill him."

Soon, everyone was talking bad about Mortis.
Piper was by Poco's room, thinking. Nita, Leon, and Jessie were worried about Mortis. They were all suprised that Mortis was still unconsious after what seemed to be forever. The seven of them were all hoping and wishing for Mortis to wake up soon, and that he stayed alive.

"Why did Shelly have to do this to him..? He doesn't deserve it! The poor thing is already hurt enough by them, he doesn't need to be injured even more. One day they'll all regret the things they did." Piper thought.

Jessie was rambling on and on with questions.

"Is he going to wake up soon?"

"Is he going to be ok?"

The three kids all paniced. Piper hugged her knees and put her head on her arms, that were on her knees. Piper started crying. Bull hugged Mortis tightly, crying. Poco and Colt were also crying. Soon, the seven of them had tears running down their faces.

"Don't leave us, please." Bull sadly said.

It was around midnight, the seven couldn't sleep, they were also in Poco's room. They all had their pajamas on. All of them started to play card games for a way to pass time.
After a couple hours, it was four AM, they all fell asleep on the floor. Mortis slowly gained consciousness again. Once Mortis was full conscious, he sat up. He looked around, it was dark, he didn't know Poco, Colt, Bull, Piper, Nita, Leon, and Jessie were in the room with him. Mortis was a bit scared. He layed back down and put the blankets over himself.

"How did you not die from that you worthless piece of garbage?!"

"You should've died from that!"

"Whoever saved you must be an idiot to do so!"

"You already know that no one loves you."

Louder and louder with each thing they say, the voices started to say the most vile thing.
Mortis tried to shut them up quietly, but it wasn't working. Mortis started crying, he wanted the voices to shut up.
In the early morning, the voices were gone and Mortis was staring at the ceiling, he didn't get any sleep at all. Mortis sat up and looked around, he saw the seven sleeping on the floor with a bunch of cards all over the floor. They were in the middle of a game when they all fell asleep. Mortis lyed back down. He started thinking.

"When will these voices shut up and leave me alone..? I don't want them harassing me anymore. They get loud and don't shut up til something happens to me..." Mortis thought.

After a couple hours, it was late morning, and they all started to wake up. Mortis had taken off all the things that were attached to him. He was under the blankets, all curled up, trying to sleep. Leon was the one to wake up first, he woke up everyone else, he didn't know Mortis was awake. Soon, everyone was awake. Mortis couldn't sleep. They were still tired. Bull checked on Mortis, he noticed that Mortis was awake.

"Mortis is awake!" Bull said happily.

"He is?!" Poco said, suprised.

They all hugged Mortis tightly. They were all so very happy to see he was awake, and that he was also alive. Mortis, still curled up in the blankets, was happy knowing that his friends missed him, but he didn't know Piper, Nita, Leon, or Jessie were going to be his friends.
After all the hugging, Mortis felt happy.