Price of the Truth

Zara sighs.

"Its 2 in the morning, you all can continue your chat tomorrow but for now, lets vote already."

"She's right" Michael unnecessarily adds.

"Yea, alright." - Asma

"Okay." I add as i look at glare angrily at Matias.

"Lets do it! guys!" Haruta proclaims enthusiastically swinging the paper and the pen with her hands.

We always vote in alphabetical order, so Haruta gives Asma the pen and paper.

We're not supposed to look at eachothers votes but i see that she writes a tick.

Asma then passes it to Matias though Ezekiel always voted second.

"Kinda weird, without him yeah?"

"Yea." Michael adds and everyone nods in agreement.

Mattias passes to Michael, Michael to Haruta, then its my turn.

Damn, here i am, actually voting for a new member, especially after.. nevermind, though i never thought id be persuaded to get another member here but fine, i'll do it, ill sign tick.

i cast my vote and pass the paper and pen to Zara, after a not so thorough examination, Zara votes.

We all have voted, now what's left is to see the results, we all gather around and flip the paper

4 have voted for her to stay and 2 have voted for her to leave.

No one knows who voted what, as the votes anonymous but its pretty clear.

Everyone quickly looks at Michael and Haruta

"Hey, what, i never said i'd vote for another member." He says as he crosses his arms and gets up.

Michael admitted it and no surpise as Haruta follows whatever Michael does like a braindead zombie, im pretty sure she's got a crush on him but i don't really care enough to dive deep into that.

"Haruta, really you too?" Matias asks, immediately accusing her

As haruta is about to reply, I interrupt

"It doesn't matter who voted what, she's apart of the team now, Matias, be happy and go to sleep now."

Matias flinches as i put my hand on his shoulder but after im done talking, he nods and leaves for sleep, also takes Max with him.

I wanted to stay a little longer, watch Zara treat her, and learn more from her, afterall im her student now i cant just be skipping classes there and then.

But my duties come first and i decide to go send Asma to her bed first, i start approaching her and start to put her on my back but i feel Michaels hand on my shoulder and Haruta hand on the other, they stop me.

"Zayna, we got it."

"Yes, teamwork make a dream work."

I nod and smile to them as a sign of gratefulness.

As they leave , me and Zara stay behind with the unconscious girl body. Me and Zara grab the girl and we go lead her to the medical room, as we are walking, Sara says to me.

"About the girl, you realized, yeah?"

Realized? Realized what?

"What do you mean?"

"You remember that one guy that tried to join us a few months ago?"

"Yeah? What about him"

What could she be possibly be talking about, how does that guy and the girl here correlate?

"When we sit her down, Take a good look at the girls shirt." Zara immediately replies

My curiosity peaks through the roof, what about the shirt? what does it have to do with that guy from months ago, i didn't notice anything on her shirt earlier.

we enter the medic room, lay her down by the medic bed, and i finally get a good look at her shirt.

"Uhh" i follow up with a small scratch on my head.

"I dont, no, what, what about the shirt?"

"She has the exact same logo on her shirt as the guy."

She, what, she noticed that?

I barely remember how the guy looked, nontheless what logo he had on his fucking shirt.

"You remember?" I ask

"Yea, im sure of it"

"Infact i think Ezekiel had a shirt with one of these too, but i aint 100% sure" Zara adds

Ezekiel? One of these also? No, what, maybe, though what could possibly be the correlation bewteen these 3?

"Y'know let's continue this tomorrow"

"Yea, yea, you're right."

I quickly add on, not wanting to tax my mind anymore, Zara examinates her body, she puts her to her side first, so she can't choke on her self. Afterwards get the Oxygen cilinder mask, i dont really know why a person dying of starvation and thirst doesn't immediately need food but Zara knows what she's doing. Later that night, after modifying the mask a little, she uses it as a feeding tube.

"Wow."

She's so smart, i like that about her.

We stay there for a little longer, Zara checks her pulse to make sure she's alive, we leave for the hallway and then we head off to our bedrooms.

Hopefully our new member is feeling better by tomorrow, she can also explain what's all that logo stuff all about.

I get on top of my bunkbed, the one Ezekiel made, specifically for me and Asma, i hope he's alright.

As i hop on top, i decide to not worry my mind anymore, i lay on my bed, close my eyes, tuck myself in and go to sleep.