(From Reed's perspective)
>It's 01:40 in the morning. But I can still hear Fang tossing and turning in her bed.
>Sleeping in a trailer with someone like her is...difficult.
>I slowly slide out from under the blanket and get up from my bed.
>"...Fang?"
>"..."
>"I know you're still up man..."
>"..."
>I walk over to her bed, looking at the ptero laying on the mattress below me. She discarded her blanket long ago, but was facing the wall.
>She's gotten so thin over the months. It...It feels wrong to know that she's not eating enough, but not being able to do anything about it.
>Everytime I think about it...I just feel like a shit friend.
>"...It's fine. You don't need to say anything."
>I sit down at the foot of her bed, next to her legs before looking up at the ceiling.
>"Gotta be honest, Fang...I kind of expected to end up in a place like this."
>More silence. I'll just go on then.
>"I mean...cmon dude. It would've been naive of me to assume that everything would just work out for me...I never studied except for math, I didn't give a shit about school or my education...I just kinda floated through life. I knew that I'd end up in a trailer someday."
>I look back at her, my chest tightening a little.
>"But you?...I thought you'd be able to get off better than me. You had the talent, the grades and the opportunites to. So then..."
>I pause for a second, before sighing.
>"So then, how did you end up sleeping here with me? Where did we go wrong that you followed my footsteps? The footsteps of a deadbeat?"
(Part one of two)