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- 13 | 𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙣𝙠

Althea

Diego, Luther, and I all arrive at the library. 

"So you think he's here?" Luther asks as we all stand in the front doors of the library. I look at him and nod as we all walk in through the doors. The building from head to toe covered in books. "Let's split up." Luther says snapping me out of my daze of admiring the building. "Wow. Good thinking." Diego says as Luther goes right and Diego and I go left. We walk up the floors and I get bored and hit the woah vanishing and appearing different palaces and then appearing in the middle of Luther and Diego at the top floor. 

"Anything?" Luther asks Diego and I. I shake my head as Diego and I say no. 

Luther sighs and walks a little away from "You know why I left?" Diego asks, I look up at him and he turns away. "What? What are you talking about?" Luther asks "Why I left the academy?" Diego rephrases. "Yeah, 'cause you couldn't handle me being number one." Luther says bluntly, I hold a laugh, "You really thought-" I was cut off by Diego looking at me to shut up. "No, because that's what you do when you're 17." Diego starts looking over at where Luther was standing but at his feet "You move out, become your own person, grow up." He says 

"Oh, yeah." Luther says as if he really agreed. "You're a real grown-up." He says nodding his head. "At least I make my own decisions." Diego says bluntly. We all look at each other in silence as Diego continues. "You never had to hold down a job." I nod in agreement. "Or pay bills." I add 

"Have you ever been with a girl?" Diego asks, I look at him with a look of 'this is not the time to start something'. 

"I-" Luther couldn't really answer the question with the right words of saying no. "I don't know what you're talking about." 

Diego chuckles "Look, you wanna blame me, blame us for leaving, that's okay." Diego says looking from me to Luther. "But maybe you're asking yourself the wrong question." Diego tells him. "Maybe it's not about why we left. Maybe it's because why you stayed." I tell Luther and they both turn to look at me. We all coming together to somewhat forgive each other. But I was wrong as Luther walked up to me "I stayed because the world needed me." He told me getting worked up. Luther gets stopped with Diego's arm in the middle of us. "Hey big guy, this is between me and you." He told him. "You stayed because you couldn't let go of the way things used to be. The Academy, dad, with Allison." Diego says as Luther looks with listening ears and backs up a little to lean against the railing. 

"Dad's dead. Mom too, now." I tell them as we all face each other for support staring off at walls, feet, and the ceiling. "We're orphans again." I say with a sad tone slowly shaking my head. I sigh "And things are never gonna go back to the way they used-" I look up from the ground to make eye contact with my brothers.  "-to be." I finish with a big sigh as they look away when hearing women laughing. "Do you ever stop talking?" Luther asks me. I smile and hear the women talking .

"Where are his parents?" one asks

Diego starts walking towards the direction of the women. 

"That was easy." Luther says as I smile and we walk behind Diego. 

A lady who works hear walks away saying she was going to call security as we turned the corner and saw the missing boy snoring holding onto Deloris. "Is he, um?" Luther starts trying to find the right words to describe Five's position. "Drunk as a skunk." Diego says for him. I let out a laugh and take hold of Deloris and look at the equations on the pillars. 

"We gotta go. Luther grab the kiddo." I say and we make our way out the building. 

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Hey guys hope you enjoy this chapter. Sorry it's short, but i'll write a longer one the next update. I do plan on making this book finished before they put out the second season lmao. So if you have anything you want me to do or add comment or message me. 

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