Price of the Truth

I hug him tight.

** ??? POV **

"Yo, guys check this out." Michael invites us to take a look from the top of the building.

"What is it?" I ask quickly, interested.

"What?" Haruta asks next.

"Yall know how we sent Max, to look for some food right?" Michael continues.

"The dog?" Haruta asks.

"Yeah, what about him? Matias asks after.

"Can you see him?" And i ask final.

"Come, come take a look for yourself." Michael adds

This dude.

I sigh of annoyance and start climbing the ladder, behind Matias.

"I swear if its nothing interesting Michael" I say then i add.

"Better not be one of your stargazing bulls-"

I stop climbing for a second, what, whats that smell.

That awful, horrendous smell cursing my nostrils for ever having the ability of smelling.

"Matias." I say in a cold tone.

"Yes?" Matias turns his head, its clear as day that he's holding his laugh back.

"Did you really just, fart, on me?" This fucker, he really farted, the audacity, on my face too.

He bursts out laughing and climbs as fast as possible.

Me, Haruta and Matias all reach the top.

Haruta quickly rushes and goes beside Michael to see what he's talking about.

"Yo wait for me!" Matias tries to follow Haruta but i grab him by his curly hair.

I kick him in his gut and afterwards put him in a chokehold.

"Listen here you little shit." I say as i whisper in his ear.

"Pull that shit again, and not only will i throw you off the roof, but i will feed your remains to Max." I kick him in the gut again.

"Am i clear?"

Matias gulps.

"Y- Yes Zayna, i promi-"

"Guys if you wanna miss it, take longer with whatever yall got going on." we get interrupted by Michael.

"Yes, guys, come." Haruta turns to us and adds with her broken english. Atleast she's trying.

I let go of Matias, and we start walking to finally see whats all the commotion about.

"Who's that lovely looking girl?" Matias asks.

"Max think it food." Haruta says

Michael bursts laughin and punches her lightly on the shoulder. "Good one, though max is way too trained for that."

"Dude." I punch Michael after his smart remark

"Owww, what was that for?" - Max complains

The girl unexpectedly hugs Max, and she, she passes out, she did look like she's in need of urgent care but none of us said anything about it.

"Wow" - Haruta

"Should we, well yknow help her?" - Michael

"What are we waiting for, lets go." - Matias

I grab matias by the arm preventing him from going to her aid.

"Wait, think about it"

"What's there to think about?!"

"We'd have to put food on another plate, thats 7 plates, 8 if we count Max and 9 if we count him."

Matias breaks from my grasp.

"I dont care if its 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 100 plates im going."

"Matias we need to think rationally." Michael adds and helps me a little.

Matias sighs and click his tongues.

"We cant agree on something, so, lets do it what we do when we cant agree on something."

"Vote?" - Haruta ask

"Yes, we vote."

"My sister's asleep though." i remind them.

"Then we'll wake her up."

Never seen Matias look so stuck up, he's usually laidback but after hearing what happend to his family i guess i cant blame him.

"In that case, lets move fast. She dont got forever." Michael adds

We immediately start moving, we go down the ladder, 1 by 1.

i go to wake Asma up and explain her the situation, Matias has gone to get back Max and the unconscious girl, Haruta has gone to gather the voting supplies and Michaels explaining the situation to Zara.

We all gather up at our lunch table and wait for Matias.

"Good morning Asma." Michael says, joking as its clearly middle of the night.

"Sorry" - Haruta

Zara waves at her.

Asma greets them all.

With the sitauation at head, its pretty awkward for a minute, after a while i decide to break the silence, i slam my hand on the table.

"We cannot possibly have another member here, especially with someone as capable as Ezekiel missing, the last thing we need is someone replacing him, eating up his part of the food, taking his place here, eating his reserves etc."

I start getting looks from everybody, its the middle of the night and im screaming like someone's coming to kill us.

"Look, i apologize for my outburst but i just simply cant accept another member, we're filled to the brim, and another member is the last thing we need."

Matias enters the room carrying the girl in his hands, and Max beside him.

"Zayna, convincing members on which side to vote is against the rules isnt it?" Matias says as he calmly lets the unconscious' girls body on our table.

"He's right." Michael adds.