Invasion

Chapter 6: Tension

Jeff walked out of the dining room with an unconscious Kliff over his shoulders, and walked over to where Flake and Dustin were sitting. They were sitting silently on a couch in the center of the room. Dustin looked up and saw Jeff approaching them with Kliff and greeted them, but Flake kept his head down and stayed silent.

"Jeff Jeff how's Kliff, how is he?!" Dustin asked with a worried expression on his face.

"Well he's uh-" Jeff began.

"When I saw Grace walked out of the dining room with Alice and Lisa I got kinda worried about him" Dustin started.

"I wanted to run into the dining room and see what was going on but I also didn't want to leave Flake here by himself so..." Dustin stopped, took a deep breath and looked at Jeff.

"Is he alright?" Dustin asked with a serious look on his face.

"Yeah he should be fine, but he'll probably be unconscious for the rest of the day" Jeff said placing Kliff down on a couch.

"Jeez Kliff..." Dustin sighed in relief, rubbing his hair.

"How's Flake?" Jeff asked.

"He, calmed down..." Dustin began, looking in Flake's direction.

"But he's been really quiet ever since" Dustin sighed.

"Isn't that normal?" Jeff questioned taking up a chair and sitting in it.

"Well sort of, but Kliff and I got him to open up a bit more" Dustin explained.

"But... it's like that didn't even happen..." Dustin sighed.

"Hm I see, what happened earlier probably caused a bit of tension..." Jeff thought aloud.

"A bit?" Dustin asked looking at Jeff in confusion.

"That definitely caused a lot of tension!" Dustin exclaimed.

"My best bud is in bad shape because of those Bloodeyes twins, and all he wanted to do was bring us all together to fight the aliens!" Dustin ranted.

"Huh... now that's ironic... he trying to bring us together just tore us further apart..." Dustin sighed and rested his head in his lap.

"Yeah..." Jeff sighed, looking down.

It was silent for awhile, no one knew what to say that would brighten the mood. They were all feeling down so that's why no one could find the right words to say. The chances of uniting everyone to work together now seems near to impossible. Jeff got up and walked over to the desk the computer was on, he went in one of the drawers and took out a first aid kit.

"Hey... Dustin, where'd Grace take Alice and Lisa?" Jeff asked, walking over to Kliff.

"Through the hallway in the top right corner" Dustin responded, keeping his head down.

"The kitchen..." Jeff thought aloud, looking over in that direction.

"I hope she gets them to at least be cooperative" Jeff hoped, treating Kliff's wounds.

Meanwhile in the kitchen...

"Can you tell me what happened in there?" Grace asked Alice and Lisa politely, sitting on a nearby counter.

Neither of them were looking in her direction and neither of them said anything. They were silently standing in front of Grace, who sighed from their silence.

"What if I got you food, would you talk then?" Grace pleaded.

Alice and Lisa simultaneously looked up at her with pleading eyes. They looked at each other, wondering if to agree to Grace's proposal, although they really wanted to. They slowly looked back at Grace and nodded reluctantly.