Strangers
"How is he doing?" Lumi asked, turning to Taio who just shook his head sadly as he entered the room.
The bare empty room with plain beds lying on every corner of the room. There is nothing else in the room aside from the freshly painted walls and the single open window to the outside world but that is tightly shut.
"I don't know. He is not talking to anyone and Lily wants to talk to him but he is refusing to talk to her at all." He said, sucking in a breath. "He is not in good shape at all, Lumi."
"I can understand." She said, turning to Barrette who just sat there on one of the beds with a dull expression on his face. "We are in no better condition, are we?" Chuckling bitterly, she leaned against the wall, sucking in a breath, "If he could have just told us about all these things. If only … I don't know."