Aletta woke up in a daze as I restrained her movement, I hadn't slept at all. I remembered why it was like this. She had cut her arms all the way down so that it looked like sleeves. It was because before she even met The Grumps in their normal state, Aletta had to deal with children. Heck, she'd even met them in spirit form before their humanoid form.

"Aletta," I whispered. "Why? All you had to do is say how you felt and the next time I got to talk to them I'd ask."

~~~~~~~~~~~~Aletta's POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~

He asked me why. I asked him how after apologizing. I made him cry, not so he woke the spirit ghosts, though. He even tried to fix me up, but I denied and carried on sleeping.

Mark wasn't going to let me run from my problems or treat him like a complete idiot. He knew, and still knows, as he'd heard of it before.

"Aletta," He said. "Don't you even try this one more time! You'll catch a cold, next time!"

I replied with, "I'm sorry but like I've said before," I turned to him and finished my sentence. "This is our life…"

"I know, I know, I know, you know what?" Mark said. "I'll ask them, I'll ask them how to help them."

I watched anime a lot so at the moment so the sound clip of Konata Izumi saying "You need love!" from the second episode of Lucky Star was echoing in my head, somehow since it wasn't a quote I'd usually think of I kept it in mind. He was getting out of bed but I fully rolled over so that I looked like a spring roll in the duvet and grabbed on to his bicep.

"Baby, they're only children, you can't do that." I tried to get him to stay.

"What are we to do, then?" Mark asked.

"Hold on, Mark, hold on until tonight. We'll deal with it then. Until then, though I'll cook a nice roast." Convincing Mark to let me go in to the kitchen was no easy task after I did.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Marks POV~~~~~~~~~~~~

"No," I said climbing back in to bed. "Not after what you've done to yourself."

"If you…" She said trying to hold back tears. "If you can't trust me… Why? Just why am I still here?" Aletta jumped out of the bed as she forced m arms from around her stomach. The hoodie returned to her body as she walked out of the room.

It was about 1 in the morning so I tried not to shout. I called for her and realized the balcony doors were open. I looked out to find her leaning on the barrier in the short night gown that she was wearing when she left the room and the hoodie, listening to her favourite calm music. Crying, Aletta looked over the world. Early mornings like this weren't ever gonna be the same if we were to help the Grumps soon.

The song was muffled but I heard Dan's singing mixed with peaceful music through the headphones. Aletta was humming to Skyhill's 'The City as You Walk.' I walked over to her and put my hand on her shoulder but not too soon after once she realized it was me, Aletta rolled her shoulder causing it to fall to my side. My girlfriend stepped forward creating more space between us and her stomach was uncomfortably pressed up against the barrier.

"We will start fixing this as soon as we know what to do." I said, my voice was deep. I got no reply in which indicated the perfect time for me to leave her alone. When I left I finished with- "Everything… everything will turn out for the better. Now when I entered the building all I heard behind me was the whistling of the wind and soft sobs.