My eyes opened to take in the sight of a familiar room. My room. But how? Wasn't I?

"Kid?" Came a familiar voice.

"How did I get here?" I questioned myself trying to remember the past events.

"Your father carried you back here, remember?"

I looked over to the two girls who sat beside the bed on the chairs they seemed to have dragged in. Oh come on! At least have one on each side so it would be symmetrical! Wait... Had Liz been... crying? What happened? My memory was all fuzzy like I had been asleep for a long time. I attempted to sit up only to wince and fall back down as pain engulfed the back of my right shoulder and a small portion below that. Dang it all. What happened?

"Careful. You got hit pretty hard." Liz explained.

"Yeah! It went like boom!" Patty added.

"Huh? What happened?" I finally decided to ask out loud.

"You... don't remember?" Liz questioned.

The girls exchanged glances nervously.

"Do you remember the midyear party?" Liz continued to which I nodded.

That was that party that father threw at the end of the first semester.

"I... was talking to Soul and... Arachne." I said slowly as the memories started to come back.

"So you do remember."

Liz seemed kind of relieved at that. Arachne had stood on a nearby rooftop and... she fired some... odd beam didn't she? And then I... I just reacted. I took the shot for whoever or whatever it was aimed for. I really didn't remember hitting the ground. Just the screams as the force struck me. Then what?

"... What happened after I got hit?"

"She taunted your father saying it wasn't the end and blah blah blah. Then she ditched." Liz recalled for me.

Tell me. is this worth continuing?