The Darkest Time

Our home now

We were going to head home but when we were going near the border, their were many psi guards. We decided against going home and just wanted to head back to the store. 

It didn't take us long to get back to the store. Nobody claimed it while we were gone. We weren't gone very long.  When we were here it turned out this place was a mall. There was a  'toys'r'us' that didn't have a lot of stuff in it. We turned that store into our bedroom. 

 We grabbed a few mattresses from a different store. Didn't remember the name of that store but Layla probably does. We just grabbed a bunch of stuff from different stores. I think this is what we have, Mattresses, blankets(hung up on the windows and on the beds), pillows, stuffed animals, fairy lights around the room, books, a pile with clothes, I can't remember the rest. 

I wasn't in our group bedroom. I was looking around for anything interesting. The sun was just starting to set so I had a flashlight with me. Ryan came up to me.

 "Hey Sasha, how is life." 

"Crappy, same as yours and Layla's. What do you want?"

"I don't want anything. I'm just uh.. checking up on you. Ya know making sure your okay. With your foot and all"

 Ryan seemed off ever since he came back from getting that car. That sentence he just said was not like him at all. He was nervous and just acting weirder than normal. It almost makes me thinks he has feeling for me which is impossible. He's hated my guts since we were younger. I despised him then but now I don't. I have feelings for him which is weird. I sometimes wish he felt the same but he could never. He couldn't pick on me because we were separated. I wouldn't be surprised if he started picking on me again. 

"My foot is fine. If that is all you need you can go now.""No...wait. Sorry not what I meant. I know you wanted to go home. How are you doing since were stuck here?" What is this. Does he actually... care? "It's fine. . My parents and brother worked together so I was usually left out. We still did stuff as a family though and we loved each other. But I guarantee the house is quiet. When I was little I talked all the time." I was smiling while I remembered when I was little. 

"Y'know I regret one thing about when you and I were younger." 

"Oh really. And what is that?" I was curious at what Ryan was saying.

"I know I picked on you a lot growing up and I wish I didn't. We were little yes, but that doesn't mean it was right.  I most especially regret it now."

I was getting worried at where he was going with this. He was acting mature now though, so I was thankful for that. 

I remembered something I had been thinking about. "I want to do something with this place."

"What do you want to do?" 

"Make this a place for psi kids. A sanctuary of some sorts. We can figure out a way to make sure Tracers or people who work at the camps can't get here. We have enough room." I had a wide smile. 

"I like it. We should do that. I'll let Layla know and we can come up with a plan." Ryan went off to go find Layla.