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?－－(S2) [Not So Easy To Kill]

All they could do was sleep and hope everything was alright...

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Florentino: ["-But I do think he is too soft for his own good"]

He concluded while taking a swing from the bottle, his seventh one in the past half-an-hour alone. The flames of the campfire crackled and danced in the middle of the group who remained sitting together, Elio sitting right by the side of his older master. The rest of the families remained quiet for a while after the blonde had just concluded his story, everyone allowing for the silence to comfortably take reign...

Florentino: ["What'd you mean by "strange things" back then, though?"] His interest suddenly sparked up again when he glanced towards Naomi and William — Ben's parents and Aiden's uncle/aunt ["About the two of you seeing things, I mean"]

Naomi: ["Well- It might seem strange, but we have been seeing stuff in the shadows lately"] Most of the people around seemed surprised or to tense up. Elio and Florentino kept their usual neutrality, just listening on ["Though it's probably just because we aren't used to this area and are on edge, haha..."] She tried to conceal her nervousness with a fake laugh. It didn't work ["We keep thinking we're seeing things in dark areas..."]

Jessica: ["Wait-.. .You've been seeing the shadow things in the house too?"]

As Aiden's mother spoke up, everyone fell silent. A quick gaze from Florentino made it obvious to him that, apparently, everyone else had been dealing with his problem. He concealed a smirk, forcing his mouth to go down in a neutral state. Elio glanced at the man who leaned forward, clearly interested in whatever these people were talking about — He could tell the excitement and malice in his eyes from a mile away.

Jessica: ["Yo-You aren't just trying to scare us, right?!"]

Mary: ["Well, this is a weird coincidence..."] Logan's grandmother spoke, keeping her disturbance at bay ["Since me and James have also been getting spooked by shadows... And it's even more strange-"] She glanced at Ashlyn's parents with an analytical gaze, though one that wasn't nowhere near as cold and silent as Floretino's ["When Mike and Emma both look like the same thing has been tormenting them as of late as well"]

Emma: ["... Yeah... We've also..."]

Mariana: ["I think it was the same for me as well...?"]

There was a sudden motion, almost as if the world had been rapidly thrown up and down. Everybody's blood pressure dropped and they felt dizzy. Everyone but the italian blonde, who put on his best act — That Elio saw right through — to feign dizziness as well. Their heads throbbed in ache, and their bodies shook. Mike, in particular, appeared to be ready to question out loud what happened, all until-

YYYYYYYY/NNNNNNNN !!!

The cry rang through the entire night, coming from the inside of the bus where everyone had been laying down. The first one to step forward was Elio, leaving behind his dizziness to deal with another time and rushing to the bus. Inside of it, everyone flocked around Y/N, particularly Ashlyn who had her head laying on his shoulder the night before. She did her best to keep herself under control, as difficult as it was.