"A....y..."
"A...r....y..."
"Arty..."
I opened my eyes when I heard Mia's voice calling out my name.
"Arty!" Mia's call forced me awake.
"Mia...?" I muttered in a feeble voice, doing my best to push myself up.
'Huh?' I only had the time to utter a small moan of shock when my body refused to work the way it should.
I attempted to push myself up, prompting myself off the ground with my hands... Sadly, the muscles in my hands refused to cooperate, giving up the second I put any weight on them.
"Arty!" Mia screamed out from the bottom of her lungs when she noticed I finally started to move. And then, as if not aware of my feeble state, she lunged forward, smashing herself right in my chest.
"Ugh..." I released a pained moan when the girl's head pressed against my ribs, squeezing all the air out of my lungs.
"You are alive, you are alive, you are alive!" the girl chanted through her tears, rubbing her face against my chest.
