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His steps walk through the graffiti hall, the lights flicker as his cigarette sits in his mouth. He opens a door then another till standing in front of the train, opening the door, he walks to the second section.
"Oi what are you doing?" Jesse puts his hands in his pockets with a grin
The girl in front of him looks up and squeaks, standing up and hugging him, "you're home!!" Roxie, Jesse's sister, says with excitement.
"Where's sage?" He hides his smile whilst breathing out the smoke
"She's with Rosemary, something about finding new makeup? I'm not sureee!" She bounces on her feet - too much energy inside her 19 year old body.
"Oh because we got a new person joining, I think she'd love to meet her. Kassana?" Jesse looks behind him to the purple haired girl who is looking around in awe at the graffiti
"Hm?" She looks at Jesse
Roxies eyes land on the purple haired and all of a sudden she doesn't know how to act. She fidgets and stiffens her back.
"You good?" Kassie smiles at roxie
She nods and then suddenly runs away into another section of the train, shutting the broken door behind her.
"Is she okay?" Kassie looks at Jesse who is thinking with a slight smirk.
"Huh? Oh yeah, she's like that with new people, she's autistic so she struggles to meet new people"
"Oh that's understandable, I hope she knows I'm no threat" kassie puts her hands on her hips unintentionally
"She will be, she' just gotta get use to you is all" he shrugs with the cigarette in his mouth, "alright let me you introduce you to everyone else, cmon" he walks her through to the the section of the train that sage is in with rosemary.
Roxie, being in her room in the train, gets out her artbook and bounces onto her knees on the ground where her blankets are. Her hand holds the pencil as she begins to draw, getting lost in her art with a smile whilst kicking her feet back and forth.
So much so she doesn't notice someone walks into the room, Jesse stands there leaning against the door frame. Smirking.
Roxie flinches when she sees him there, slamming her artbook shut.
"What??" Roxie sits up
"Nothing." Jesse rubs his own hair whilst looking away in thought. A smirk all over his face.
Roxie hugs her knees
"You like her."
"I DONT NOT!!" roxie squeaks and blushes, starting to fidget and rub at her hands
"Okay but you doo. It's okay, you want me to help you slide in?" Jesse smirks playfully
"I DONT!! NO!!" roxie hides her face in her hands and shakes her head
"Okayyy if you say so. But just so you're aware, you're terrible at lying." He pauses, "what you drawing?" He looks at the closed artbook
"Just pinkie.." roxie mumbles, opening it open and showing him the my little pony character
"Cute, you should show them to kassana" he nudges her
"NO!!"
"Why not? Hm?" Jesse questions
"she'll think it's weird." She mumbles
"I doubt it. She's a weird kid' like us rox."
Roxie goes silent
"Alright well, we're going out to find some new stuff' wanna come?"
Roxie immediately stands up, "YES!" She squeals, Jesse laughs, walking out with his sister, who bounces along excitedly whilst shaking her hands to stim excessively.
Whilst walking along the messy street, they walk in no order. Roxie in front, Jesse, kassana and sage in the middle. Then Jaden and Rosemary in the back talking.
Roxie is quickly running to the abandoned shop and rummaging through stuff that's piled in disaster.
"How did you find this place?" Sage asks Jesse, her boyfriend
"Mm.. just found out whilst walking around. Thought it might have stuff for roxies..interests."
"Oh look at you being all warm hearted." Sage jokes to him
"What's the interests? Roxies in I mean" kassana asks whilst watching the ginger girl be so happy to finding random things.
"Oh- she's into like animals and cartoons. Don't tell her that I told you though. She hates telling people her interests." Jesse shrugs
"So you told me?" Kassana suddenly looks at Jesse with a unreadable look
"Meh you'll find out soon anyway. Her bedroom is full of it all" Jesse remarks
Suddenly there's a gasp from roxie, picking up a dirty pinkie pie plush. She hugs it tightly. Then placing in her dirty bag.
"Is this a abandoned toy shop?" Rosemary from behind asks once caught up with them with Jaden
"Mhm, found it whilst walking around. New roxie would love it." Jesse crosses his arms
When Jesse looks back at where roxie was she's gone.
He goes inside and sees she opened a door that was slightly open. Her body is frozen, her eyes wide open.
Jesse's shoulders fall.
"What happened?" Kassana asks
"I think we should go.." Sage says slowly before they walk on. Leaving Jesse with roxie.
He walks up slowly and looks inside to see what's in there. His face falls and he shuts the door carefully before turning to roxie who is still frozen.
Gently Jesse assists roxie to the ground, noticing that she's struggling to breathe. He crouches in front of her and puts his hand on her chest. "Rox.. breathe.. in.. out.. yeah.. good.. keep going.."
After a moment, roxie starts breathing shakily but better than before. Tears fall down her face
"Can I hug you?" Jesse asks carefully
Roxie nods and Jesse hugs her firmly. Roxie just folds into him and clings tightly. In the room was a body, a random deceased body. And the body was in the position of the same way roxies father died. Lifted by a rope.
Jesse eventually lifts up roxie and walks back towards the others with roxies bag, they all give concern looks but no one asks any questions.
They decide to walk back home silently and roxie stays clinging to her brother.