Sydney was on the brink of laughing. Restaining herself, she wrote faster. "You can leave."

"Nonono. I'm staying with you." He said bravely.

"Then you're staying here another night." Sydney flipped the sheet of paper then glanced at Matt.

"Fine." He was trying his best to hide his fear.

"Good." Sydney showed very little fear around people. "If you're that scared, you could stay with me the entire time."

"Oh.. Haha, i'm not THAT scared." He lied.

"Offer's still up." Sydney went down stairs and looked around there.

Matt marched to the fridge, and shivered at cobwebs.

Sydney remembered her childhood. "Matt?"

"Yes sydney?" He said looking for something in the fridge.

She had been bothered by this. "Why do you never talk about your family?"

"Well, its not much of a story.. I had a brother named Jason, who was captured and tortured in New York... He is dead now. My parents, they were held hostage in front of me, and I tried to shoot the soldiers, but I missed and they were killed..." He teared a bit.

"Oh." Sydney cried a little for him. Then she walked over and hugged him

Matt hugged her, but tried not to get his tears on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry I brought it up." Sydney held Matt close. She knew how to comfort people.

"No, it's fine. You should be able to know about me, if you we are gonna be together." Matt's tears were stopped in her comfort.

"They're screwed if they stay there one more night. The third night is always the worst." Steve worried about them.

Sydney let go. "Thank you for forgiving me."

"I could never be mad at you." He said trying to flirt a bit.

Sydney smiled. "If there's anything you want to know about me, just ask."

"Well, on a scale from 1-10, how much do you like me?" He said touching his abs.

"7.5" Sydney felt awkward.

"Anyways..." He grabbed a sandwich from the fridge.

Sydney kept wandering around.

"Wanna split the sandwich with me?" He said awkwardly, not knowing what to do.

"What type?" Sydney wasn't picky about food.

"Meatball marinara. My favorite. Want some?" He said with a knife, about to slice it in half.

"Sure." Sydney walked over toward him.

"I should tell them to get out of there." Steve flied down to them.

Sydney sat at the table.

Matt cut the sandwich, and gave the half to her. He sat down, and began to eat.

"Sydney you need to get out of here fast. Get Matt out too."

Sydney ate the sandwich and thought "Why?"

"Your both in danger. I'll explain later when your all safe." Steve quickly grabbed their things. "Hurry."

Matt finally finished.

"He can't hear me. Explain to him what I'm saying when we leave." Steve opened the door. "We have no time to lose."

"Yeah, you really don't want to stay here. How 'bout we grab a hotel." Sydney thought about why Steve want them out.

"So, your interested in paranormal activity.." Matt shivered. "Alright, lets go!" He didn't decide to argue...

"Quickly, quickly." Steve gave Sydney her bag. And Matt his. "I'll explain in the car."

Sydney got into the car, passenger side of course, and started drumming her fingers along the dashboard.

"Okay I'll wait for Matt." Steve sat on the back of the car.

"Umm, wtf?! HOW DID MY BAG GET IN MY HAND?!!!??!?!" Matt ran to the car to be near Sydney, as she was the 'paranormal expert'.

"Get in." Sydney grew impatient.

Matt got into the car. "Explain please?"

Sydney was angry Steve made her leave. "I was thinking of you."

"Tell him no time. The spirits maybe are after us." Steve looked behind. "Just made it."

"Aww!" Matt's heart warmed. "So, where should we go?"

"Anywhere." Sydney looked at the house. She swore there was a girl looking at her from the small bedroom upstairs.

"Whew." Steve saw the girl. "Sister." Steve held out his hand to wave and it disappeared. "We can't stop."

Matt started driving to New York.

Sydney sat there in silence. It was for the best.

"Don't stop driving until we reach New York. We need to go away. Far away." Steve sighed.

"Fine." Sydney whispered softly.

Matt drove and got hungry again. "My stomach is growling..."

"You just ate." Sydney leaned back and closed her eyes.

"I would like a sandwich." Steve takes wallet and pulls out a 5. "I'm a ghost. I can't go in. Can you please do it?"

Sydney put out her hand to recieve the $5. "Matt, can you stop?"

"Even ghosts get hungry." Steve laughed.

"Sure." He saw the Subway nearby. "YES! MORE MEATBALL!"

Sydney opened her eyes and sat up. "What you want?" She whispered extremely soft.

"Hmm..." Steve opened wallet. "Footlong combo. 9-grain wheat bread with roast beef and mozzerella cheese. Then lettuce. Then baked. I want a Coke. With 2 chocolate chunk cookies." Hands her another 5.

Matt got out of the car, and asked for what she wanted. "It's all on me."

Steve grabbed the 5's. "This is Canadian. And it's on him so ya." Steve put his wallet away.

"Okay thanks Matt." Sydney tried to remember the order.

"And if they asked for sauce say no. I'm a no sauce guy." Steve chuckled.

"Got it." Sydney ordered as close as she could get. "Hope that was right."

"Alright, no problem!"They walked inside the restaurant.

Sydney kept thinking about it. She sucked at remembering.

"Sydney, you order first."

Steve told her telepathically. "That should do it."

Sydney ordered. "Footlong combo. 9-grain wheat bread with roast beef and mozzerella cheese. Then lettuce."

"Baked..." Steve chuckled.

"Baked please." Sydney thought about if there was anything else.

"Wow, thats a difficult order!" The guy says. "I'll just have a baked meatball marinara on flat bread." Matt said.

Sydney waited patiently.

Steve started humming the Subway tune.

Sydney got the sandwich. She casually set it on the table and waited for Matt

Matt walked to the table with the sandwich.

Sydney was mad at Steve for making her remember everything.

"Are you actually going to eat all of that Syd?" He wondered if she was just doing this to waste his money as a joke.

"Yeah." Sydney knew she wasn't. She normally ate a meatball marina on Italian with provolone, salt, and pepper.

"Well, we better get some rest. Come to the car when your ready. K X and Syd?" He walked to the car.

(...I shall now reappear!.. Hopefully.)

Taryn had been watching the car, hidden in a nearby bush.

..On the other hand, Sea had been on the run from a soldier, after having shot a couple of them in a shootout, right nearby.

Nana quietly walked around the town, sighing. "..I'm so lonely.."

"Hmm...?" Steve's spirit looked around cautiously as if he heard something.

Nana stopped for a second, after hearing a gunshot. A totally random nearby soldier had seen her, and decided she was a rebel. She quickly tried running away, towards the house pretty much everyone seemed to be. (Of course, she wouldn't know this.)

"I thought I heard something." Steve looked around. He stood up and hopped out of the car.

"Yo, guys you comin'?!" He said impatient.

Fine. I wasn't hungry. Let's go.

"Coming." Sydney was irate for some reason. She wanted to get more info on the house.

"Wait Sydney." Steve looked around. He looked for the voice he heard.

"Hm? What's to be the problem, Steve?"

(You can't see me I'm a ghost) "Sydney come here. I hear something." Steve looked near the bushes.

(as i posted before, i can see ghosts due to affiliations with darkness.)

(That's... fine. ) "Stay quiet X."

Xemnas whispers, "All right. What did you say, Steve? A sound?"

"What sound?" Sydney looked at him.

"Get down. This person is near." Steve kneeled.

*gets down* "I'd like to know who this person is."

Sydney got down.

"It's sounds familiar." Steve had a memory of when he saved Sydney. "The nurse. Marina."