I walked back into the room where I spotted Annabella quietly waiting for me. As I walked I thought about Robbie and I felt concerned about him. That he had fallen into the same position I can't escape. How will we escape this labyrinth of endless pain? I thought to myself."Ready?" I asked Annabella as I approached, "yeah" she responded. As soon as we walked outside I immediately felt relieved, I couldn't pinpoint why but every time I went outside I felt as though the winds washed me of fear, but I took back that thought when I realized fear is the new us. "So...how long have you been traveling alone," I asked both out of curiosity and trying to start a conversation. She looked as though she would cry and said "right before the encounter with the boys my dad died, we were eating and my dad got up for two seconds, I was so caught up in my enjoyment of not being hungry that I hadn't even heard his screams for help" a tear raced down her face. "I finally realized how long he had been gone and-and… they were surrounding him eating as though he were an animal" she spoke calmly but with anger. "I ran" she continued "but eventually lost breath and thats when the boys came… what about y-you? She asked still stumbling on her words. "Can't remember much of my parents" I lied. I felt embarrassed that while most kids had parents that loved their children ours abandon us, woke up one day and they were gone only to leave us with a note. "My brother" I continued, "he and I were playing near a cliff, I had suggested to him that we shouldn't have been playing near that cliff, but he insisted he wouldn't let anything happened to me, so stubborn he was, but I had only been 10 while he had been 13, I looked up to him and trusted him with my life, then everything went wrong I fell but he caught my hand and pulled me up, and before h-he could even tell me he told me so he f-fell. Suddenly I felt Annabella's hands on my back telling me it wasn't my fault, but I pulled back away from Annabella she didn't understand it was my fault, I hadn't even realized that I had been crying. I quickly wiped away my tears trying not to show weakness. "I- can I have a minute alone please?" I asked as I started walking away. I was angry at myself, after all these years trying to recover from Julius' death I was back to square one. It's like I fell in a hole and every time I tried to get out I just kept falling back down. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," I whispered to myself pulling at my hair in frustration, I heard a scream and quickly snapped out of it. I turned to see Annabella she was lying down, I saw roamers but they were too far away from her to have hurt her. I ran to her I hadn't known how but she had somehow broken her leg and hit her head on a rock. "Can you speak?" I asked trying to lift her, she just looked at me for a long moment and mumbled "head...hurts...alot". I attempted to try and lift her again but she was too heavy the roamers were now only two houses away. I looked at her trying to figure out how to move her, I slowly realized I couldn't. I slipped my hands away and mumbled "I'm sorry" and started to jog away leaving Annabella. I started to run, as I ran I again whispered in tears: "so...sorry". When I reached the store I told them we need to go now.