Aj and Courtney sat in silence at the edge of her grandparents' bed.
The three of them had left, but Odessa had stayed behind because she seemed to be unwilling to leave her sister after seeing her 'sleep' for so long.
The child rambunctiously crawled all over her sister, seemingly impervious to the tense atmosphere in the room.
"I... I really don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was when I saw your brother bring you in." Aj finally broke the silence. His hands were clammy, and a thin layer of sweat was plastered across his brow.
"You weren't moving. You barely seemed like you were breathing, and you were so pale that I thought..." He could barely finish. Courtney and Odessa stared at him with patient gazes.
"...I've been thinking... what if we just kind of got away from all of this? We could... maybe start our own lives where we didn't have to fight, or worry about lines of succession, or... savin' the world. Just each other."
