Not much has happened with the brunette after her accident. Well, nothing, ignoring the constant appearance of the phantoms and the tightening feeling in her chest. But what could she do? She was told that she could go back to her room tomorrow, until then, she had to stay in the infirmary for most of the time. And well, the other dimension.

"Rylee, you're getting blood on my clothes!-"

"Guys, seriously-"

"-LET ME UP!"

The redhead struggled to escape the grip of the trio, as Aiden, Taylor and her sister were all on top of her, hugging her. The brunette was in a white shirt, a big circle of blood at her stomach from her worn out bandages. Ignoring the pain and her sister, she just tightened her grip on her sister. Her eyes were scrunched up, her face burried in her sisters neck. Ben was sitting, with his usual glare on his face, meanwhile Tyler and Logan were standing next to each other, leaning on the wall with their arms crossed. Tyler was the first to break the silence. "So this man, 'Maverick' wants to help us?"

"DON'T IGNORE ME!"

Ashlyn exclaimed, as she tried sitting up, but was once again pushed back by the trio around her. She let out a sigh, putting a hand on her sisters head, cradling it close to herself. "And no, I doubt it. By the way Ben described his looks, he was the man standing next to the woman who put us in this mess. It seemed as if he was her boss. He doesn't want to help us, he wants to use us." She let out a sigh, taking a fast glance at her younger sister, before focusing back forwards again. Meanwhile Ashlyn was speaking, the trio formed a circle around the redhead. Taylor was half hugging Ash and at the same time the brunette too. Aiden was hugging her from behind, with one of his arms around the wounded girl too. And Rylee just tried hugging all of them, but couldnt reach that far. "...It doesn't matter. If we join him and destroy this place, we'll have our freedom back and we can deal with them later."

At this, Tyler raised a brow and turned to the green eyes girl, raising a brow. "He never mentioned our freedom though, did he? Just that his group wanted to take the facility down." Taylor opened her eyes, peeking out from behind her arm with a tired expression. "Ben, we're just as upset about this, but we can't rush into trusting this guy." After her words, she closed her eyes, and buried her face back into Ashlyns side, tightening her grip. Logan was just as confused, upset and angry about this, as he spoke up whilst looking down at the four on the floor. "We can't rush into it.. But do we have a choice? Alex offered to do whatever he can to help us escape... But escape and taking this place down are to different things. This is the government. We'd have to leave the country or something and even then we could still be tracked. As well as we likely wouldn't be able to escape and free our parents at the same time." Ashlyn sighed as finally the blonde behind her loosened his grip on her, while resting his chin on her shoulder. "I agree with Ben and Logan.. We join this group, take the facility down, and if Maverick turns on us, then we have to deal with him. I'd rather go up against some vigilante group than the government."

The redhead gave him the side eye, before turning her head around and opening her mouth. "So, what exactly is he wanting us to join him for?" As the question was asked, Ben began typing. Meanwhile the brunette took her head out of her sisters neck, and let go of her, making the redhead take a deep breath in. Rylee gave her a side eye, as her sister just rolled her eyes. Slowly and carefully, she slid away from the group still sitting on the floor, and was now sitting at the edge of her bed. Putting both hands on the bed, she tried hoisting herself up. But knowing her injury, she was still weaker in this dimension. And the thought of that made her frustrated. As she gave another try, she felt a pair of hands under her arms, hoisting her up to sit on the bed. Looking to the side, she was met with the usual scowling expression of Tyler. She held in a laugh, thanking him, while Tyler just turned his head away. As the brunette sat on the bed, the boy l kept standing next to her, listening to the converstation going on around them. Ben showed what he wrote on the phone.

-He thinks that we can potentially open 'rifts' between our two dimensions. That if we can figure out how to control it, then we can mess with their system like what happened with Ashlyn earlier. But it wasn't just Ashlyn, all of the cameras in our rooms blacked out expect Ashlyn's since she was in that other room. The only reason our light didn't stay off was because there was a backup generator for them, but it takes a bit for the camera system to reboot. Atleast that's how he explained it.

Tyler scrunched his face up, before plopping down on the bed next to the girl. "So basically, he's saying if we all hold hands and believe in the power of friendship-" The brunette let out a chuckle at his sarcasm, but quickly held it back when she received a glare from him. "-we'll make a 'rift' large enough to completely screw over their system?"

"...This is giving me a headache."

"I need the aspirin more than you."

"I just want to go home.."

Everyone glanced at the brunette, before Taylor peeked out from her place in the hug.

"..Me too.."

". . ."

"Let's take a break tonight."

"You ass! I caught you now!"

The brunette yelled angrily at the blonde, who just grinned back at her. All of them sat in a circle around a table, playing a board game. In reality, Rylee wasnt really playing with them. Just resting against the wall with the twins on either side of her. They were playing for some time now, but as expected from Aiden, he didnt try to play fair, and this time, the brown eyed sister caught him. "Stop taking from the bank!" But Aiden only tried defending himself. "I'm not, i'm only taking what I landed on! And you aren't even playing-"

"You took 200 extra than you were supposed to!"

"Aiden.. I'll be the banker from now on."

Ashlyn was sitting on the ground, hugging a yellow pillow close to herself, before innocently smiling at the blonde. "You landed on my property, you owe me 1200."

"Why is everyone attacking me?!"

Taylor, who was making some.. bracelets? spoke up without even looking at them. "It's the karma from cheating- Ry, can you hand me the black bead?" Nodding, the brunette quickly hurried to give it to her, while also watching closely on what she was doing. Ashlyn on the other side of Tay leaned closer too, and inspected the work of the girl.

"SBG?"



"𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝑩𝒖𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒚𝒂𝒓𝒅."

"I figured it was where we all hung out the most.. so it felt right adding it, like a group name or something. It became a safe place. A home for all of us I guess.."

"..I miss it."



TAP.

"We'll make it back."

Logan hung his head down, letting out a sigh as he fixed his glasses. "...Well, I mean, we've always been in bad situations. Since Savannah, anyway. What made it bearable wasn't really where we were but more that we had company during it... I also miss it though." Aiden threw his head back with a stupid smile on his lips, speaking up. "Basically- we've just got to make this place entertaining till we can get back to the graveyard."

"..Right. And how are we gonna do that?"

"Dunno yet."

The three girls sat huddled up on one side of the table, all watching the bracelet Taylor made. Ry rested her face on her shoulder, peeking over it. "..Hey. How about we each add a color to those?" The redhead only nodded at this, and pointed at it, speaking to Taylor. "And we can re-make it when we wake up too."

"Oh.. Sure. Here."

𝑾𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏,

The teenagers were seen hudled up on the bed. Ben being the only one sitting up, with Taylor resting her head on his shoulder, possibly asleep. Tylers head rested in his twins lap, meanwhile his hands were wrapped around the sleeping brunette next to him. Rylee, as usual, had her arms, and even her legs wrapped around the twin, with her face resting on his chest. His chin was on the top of her head. Next to the brown eyed sister, was the redhead with her back against hers. Then came the spycho blonde, with his arm wrapped around Ash, and even reaching around Rylee. Then Logan on the side, curled up into a ball, the bracelets on everyones wrists.

𝑾𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕.



I BADLY NEED SOMEONE TO DRAW THIS +RYLEE BECAUSE HOLY SHIT I CANT DRAW