Nighttime was approaching rapidly. With the sky now becoming a dark blue colour. Arthur and Charlie were fast asleep, Lukas and Izzy weren't as lucky. At least Ethan and Drew were chilling in the front, doing and saying nothing to each other. Braxton was also waking up in the back, and saw the little girl from before, trying to get as far away as she could from him. Which kind of hurt his feelings.
"Yo! You're squishing me here…!" Izzy was trying to get some wiggle room, but Lukas was there too obviously.
Their wiggling around, woke up Charlie and Arthur once again. When Arthur saw that his head was on her shoulder, he moved away quickly, with his face being beet red. Charlie giggled a little bit when she saw his squirming.
"Hey uh… can you guys stop it back there…?" Drew suggested. "I don't want all of you tipping over the car…" The road ahead was way too boring from any of them to care. Just more fields, more trees, and a more straight road. "So, um… you mind telling us what happened to that town…?" Drew didn't know if it was a sensitive subject or not, but from the way she reacted it probably was. She lowered her head, and let it darken a bit, before lifting her head back.
"Apparently, she just strolled right in, and said she was a part of a station. She also apparently said that we heard harboring a terrorist, and that we should get punished. The next thing I remember is seeing my home get blown up from the inside, with the smell of fire coming right after…" Charlie explained.
"How do you know all of this, when you were inside the house…?" Drew softly asked.
"Because I heard her say all of that when I was on my bean bag chair… she used a microphone with sound ear piercing speakers to announce this…" she says whilst tapping her right ear.
"So… Anna came in, deafened anyone within a mile radius, and murdered hundreds of people…!" Ethan came to his own conclusion. "Wait, how close was that little girl to the fountain?" He asked.
"A little bit away…" Lukas answered.
Ethan then turns around, and points his face towards the trunk. "Hey! Can you hear me back there?!" He yelled.
"*groan,What do you guys want…?" Braxton was still super groggy somehow. With him shoving the little girl with his feet. She whined a little bit, and started to kick him in his stomach lightly. Now they were kicking each other, with the little girl making whining sounds.
"The hell are you doing back back…?" Arthur asked.
"She keeps kicking me, and then starts to whine whenever I return the favour…" Braxton wasn't in the best mood right now.
"Try and talk to her or something dumbass…!" Arthur says. Braxton lets out a deep, annoyed sigh, and turns his whole body to her direction. She stops kicking and whining for a second, and wonders what Braxton's going to do.
"Hello… what's your name…?" Braxton whispered.
She takes a minute, and stares immensely at his lips. Then, she puts her hands together, and signs: My name is Mia, I'm deaf. Braxton didn't know what she said, but now at least he knew why she hasn't said anything yet. "She's deaf I think!" He gets up, and looks over the back seat before yelling that. Everyone in the car gave knowing sounds and nods, like this was the most obvious conclusion. Mia then pulled him back, and tried to whisper into his ear, but it sounded broken.
"I can still hear a bit" Was what Braxton thought she said. It didn't seem too far off. At least they can figure out how to communicate with her. Plus, his mom wouldn't mind about another three mouths to feed anyway. It's like being a mom is the only thing she does anymore.
"Hey! I know sign language!" Izzy announced to the shock of everyone. "Once we get to wherever the hell you're taking us, then I might be able to translate what she is saying!"
"That's great! We're going to Sorina by the way…" Ethan says.
"Sorina?!" Izzy was baffled. "That's like, a shit while away! Why are you guys even out here in the first place?!" Lukas was still getting smushed by her, and was NOT enjoying it. Not at all… I swear…
"Um… Lukas, who you are next, and Drew, the one who is driving, were falsely taken away, and sent to camp delta. They broke out on their own, and saved us from camp gamma" Ethan explained. Charlie and Izzy were both skeptical about the whole falsely thing. They went along with it anyway, because what the hell were they going to do?
"If they were in a camp, wouldn't they be exiled by now? I mean, anyone with some sort of internet connection seems to think you guys are evil, so once you're spotted, you'll definitely get killed, or worse" Izzy stated, which none of them thought of. Lukas and Drew looked pretty shocked at the news, with now their lives were pretty much ruined living here. The only thing they could do is move away.
"It looks like we might have to make disguises for ourselves, I guess… fucking wonderful…" Drew gripped the wheel tighter. "We can worry about all of that later anyway, I wanted to ask Melissa about whoever did all of this when we get back. Plus I have a way to get there for times like this anyway…"
"Why…?" Ethan asked.
"I used to have a friend, who went through something like this a couple of years back. He was exiled for something he didn't do, so we both found a place to secretly hang out. That place would become station #52…" Drew explained. With Arthur nodding to everything.
"Wow! That's pretty cool I guess… what happened to him after that—"
"He hung himself."
The whole car got really quiet. Even Mia stopped to look from the back, when she saw Braxton's eyes widen.
"One day… I guess everything going on just made him snap, and I had to find him in the room with the mirror. He was dead, and I had to lug him out, and bury him outside like a dog." Drew said all of this with the most monotone voice ever.
"W-what was his name…?" Izzy shakingly asked.
"I don't feel like telling you guys anymore…" Drew determined. "How about we all just sit in silence…" They all couldn't agree more, nothing about this car ride was anything besides sad now.
You should've gone with him…