This is just a little something I came up with while writing the new update to December 21st. Hope you guys like it :)

-Legion

I sat with my head in my hands, trying to stop the insults and cruel words that swam around in my head.

Pile of junk.

Scrap metal.

Freak.

Mistake.

I tried so hard. I really did, but it wouldn't have mattered. It could have been any of us, Lloyd would have ended up in the hospital anyway. But it was me. I tried to do what I thought was right, but...I was wrong.

Lloyd told me to. He told me to help them. They were surrounded by Fangpyre, and they had all been bitten. Lloyd and I were facing problems of our own, about a million Hypnobri, but we were handling it fine. Aryan was trying to distract Pythor so he would leave the rest of us alone. Cole, Kai, and Jay, on the other hand, were not. Lloyd knew they needed help, so he told me to go. I saw Scales behind him, I knew what he was going to do. But, I didn't stop him. I get the Anti-venom for the Fangpyre bite, but not the Hypnobri.

And the bite of a Hypnobri, is highly poisonous.

When we got back from the hospital, it was nothing but shouting, and those four insults, floating around and repeating. I couldn't take it anymore, so I ran, and I hid myself in this secluded place on the Bounty. Only two people know about it's location, me and...

"Zane?" A familiar female voice called out. "Are you here?" I kept quiet, maybe if I didn't say anything, she would leave. I really wasn't much up for talking right now.

"Zane, I know you're in here. Please come out." She was pleading now. I sighed, she knows I hate it when she pleads.

"Over here." She peered over the stack of crates I was sitting against and put on a thin-lipped smile, like she was trying to make things okay, even though she knew they weren't. She sat down gently beside me, and began to rub my back in large circles. It was soothing, but still not enough to make me feel better. I laid my head against her shoulder, and she laid her head on mine. We just sat there for what seemed like hours, but I know I had to face the music sometime. I sighed. "What am I going to do, Aryan?"

She sighed, and kissed me gently on the head. "I don't know, but I might know how to make it up to you." She placed her finger under my chin and pulled it upwards, so I was looking her dead in the eyes. Before I knew it, we were kissing. And not just gentle, trying to make things better kissing. Real, passionate kissing. When we pulled away, I couldn't help myself, it just shot out.

"When I'm with you, I feel something I've never felt before." She gave me a confused look, like she didn't know what to say, but I couldn't stop there. "When you're here with me, all that stuff they said out there, it doesn't matter. Because you make me feel...almost human." Aryan smiled, and laid her hand on the side of my face.

"Zane, what you just said, that makes you more human than any of the others." I smiled and we leaned in, our lips about to touch, when her phone rang. I pulled back, letting the disappointment show on my face. She pulled her phone out of her pocket and looked up at me. "It's the hospital." I looked away from her, trying hard not to cry. She got up to take the call and I sat on the edge of my seat the entire time. When she came back in, the look on her fave said it all. I buried my face in my hands.

It was all over. I would have to leave home. I would have to leave my family.

I glanced back up, Aryan was standing over me, a huge smile on her face. She took both my hands in hers. "Lloyd is gonna be okay, Zane. He's gonna be okay."

I wasn't ashamed when I cried. It made me feel more...human.