Morning came sooner than I would have liked. If I thought the air was heavy the previous day, then this was simply suffocating. Everything hurt. From my chest up to my throat. And my head hurt so bad, I could barely move without wincing. The silence around me added to the pain I felt. I could feel them mourning. The overly loud men that always had a way of shaking the very ground with their laughter and need to always brawl were so quiet and sad. Their silence was pulling apart the tenders of my own heart. "Hey," Kai was pushing the door open before I got up from the bed, looking worse than he had been looking the previous day. I couldn't even care if he knocked or not. "Are you alright?" I started towards him. He didn't bother smiling. Not even a small one, and I hated it because it did

