He was gone from my life soon after that day. I didn't know it at the time, but in just a week my life would change so drastically. I never told him I loved him. It was just commonly known that we 'loved' each-other because we lived together, but neither of us said it. I loved him like he was really my brother.

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"Are you really sure that we can take it?" I asked again, just to verify that he thought we could.

"Yeah, why wouldn't we be able to?" he asked in reply. We didn't use those cheesy accents like they do in the movie. Some of us did, I'll give them that, but not all of them. Not even all the orphans.

"I dunno, just a thought." This was after the strike, so it didn't matter if we sold them all. They didn't put the prices back down, they just made it so we could sell back all of the papers that didn't get sold. Another stupid screw up of the producers. They did a bunch of that.

"Ok, I guess you could worry about that."

I screamed the headlines at the top of my lungs. Crap ones, it took me the first hour to sell just the first three. That sucked.

4 hours, and that was just the morning addition. The afternoon was worse. It was this day that I noticed stuff starting to go bad.

There were a few selling spots, that were never left un-occupied, that were empty. That's the first un-usual thing that I'd noticed in my last seven days. I hadn't known any of the first who disappeared, so I didn't really notice any specific absents.

It was late when we got to Tibby's, so I thought nothing of the fact that very few people had gathered there. It was late, there shouldn't be too many, right?

We got our food and sat down to eat it. Cost us near all of our earnings of the day, and that wasn't much.

"See, told you we could handle it," Michel said to me after a few bite of what he'd ordered.

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I'm gonna leave you with that for now. Shout outs.

Imaginelet- See, updating. Yes, if you hadn't realized she was a girl, I'd worry.

Little Bit- Yes, everything does, tell me no different.

Race da hottie- Short, yeah yeah, I noticed.

Seraph- I'll change the classification.