"He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise."
IN WHICH two neighbors meet only to be thrown into a world that was the opposite of their own and forced to battle for their lives every night alongside...
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0035. THE PLAN
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"OKAY, I THINK everyone has the gist of the situation..." Emma gulped after the long retelling of everything that's been going on the past couple of months as she sat on the couch between Ji-Soo and Mike. "...Somewhat."
Kaia sighed at her words, her hands entangled in Aiden's hair as he had forced his head into her lap the moment they had all settled in. Though she couldn't really complain as messing with his hair gave her something to do alongside keeping her hands busy. Aiden's eyes were fluttered shut as he was leaning into her touch as he chewed slowly on his piece of pizza he held in his hands.
Taylor was beside the two of them, her head resting on Kaia's shoulder as Kaia's head leaned onto hers as the two girl's shared a look as they glanced around at the reactions of the parents. It seemed like while they didn't want to believe it, they were starting to finally come to the realization this was actually happening.
"...This is crazy." Jessica muttered out, pressing her cool wine glass to her burning forehead, her body hot with anxiety. "I haven't been this stressed since our publisher accidentally printed an extra ten-thousand copies."
"Agreed." Daniel muttered out, his head long since fallen into his hands as he tried to process everything he's been told. "So, the Tyler boy... has a tree stuck in him... and isn't dead..." He muttered out in complete shock before he turned towards Kaia, who was still playing with his son's hair. "And you, fell almost thirty feet off of a cliff... and you're somehow alive as well...?"
