"Subway through the dark, carriage through the park
Taxi down the street, get out and use my feet"

"Yuri!"

The said girl turned around.

Otto was running to catch up.

Her red hair was flying everywhere.

They had stopped calling her Ottomatic.

Now they just called her Otto.

Or Otty.

Mostly Otto.

Otto stopped in front of Yuri.

She was huffing and puffing.

Yuri laughed.

"You need to stop leaving me behind." Otto wheezed.

Yuri shook her head.

"You need to keep up."

Yuri turned around and continued walking.

Otto was right on her heels.

9 years.

They had lived in the City for 9 years.

They knew the whole place like the back of their hands.

They knew the City.

The two girls walked through the grungy neighborhoods.

Yuri had a bag of groceries.

They approached a house.

A house they so lovingly fixed up.

Their house.

Otto bounced up the steps and into the house.

Yuri did the same.

But she didn't bounce.

She walked in to see Cricket and Ace high as .

Silver was sitting on the stairs.

Scowling.

Silver and Ace never really saw eye to eye.

Such as siblings do.

Ace is Silvers sister.

Twin sister.

Ace had moved in a couple years prior.

Silver cried the whole day.

She thought she had lost Ace forever.

But they stumbled upon Ace one day.

Wandering the city.

They brought Ace back with them.

But Ace brought problems.

Ace was a loose canon.

She couldn't stop.

It's not like they could kill her.

She liked drugs.

She liked alcohol.

Silver didn't.

Cricket did.

He had gotten himself wrapped up in Ace's habits.

Bad things.

Bad things.

Otto skipped over and poked Cricket.

He only chuckled.

"Ignore them." Silver stood. "Someone go wake up Taver."

Otto immediately sat down.

"I'll do it." Yuri sighed.

She dropped the grocery bag.

She climbed up the stairs.

They creaked.

They groaned.

One cracked when she stepped on it.

It needed fixing.

Yuri walked into one of the bedrooms.

One of the three bedrooms.

In one of the beds,

not really beds

single mattresses and futons

they couldn't afford real beds

was a guy.

Tangled in h