James's shoulders rose a little, "Am I a joke to you?" he suddenly demanded.

"You act like one most of the time," Yue replied.

James suddenly started to laugh, it was a cruel laugh that rang rather hollow. "You think I don't understand your pain?" he asked, "You think I don't know it never goes away?" He laughed a little louder but suddenly it morphed from his own laugh into Yue's. He had never heard her laugh and yet... there it was, resonating around the Juttle.

"Shut up!" Yue yelled at James as she turned around, tears coming a new.

James stopped but he turned, "Why should I?" came Yue's voice from his mouth, "Do you see what I am?" Then his voice switched, he was Nic now, "Yue, you think you're having a crisis of identity?" he laughed again, the laugh which would come from only Nic's mouth, "My whole life is a joke. I have no true identity."

When James started speaking in Nic's voice, Yue let out a shout as her hands flew up and covered her ears. "SHUT UP!" she screamed louder, a deep anger in her voice. It wasn't aimed entirely at James.

"I love you, Yue." James said, still in Nic's voice, "I love you."

Yue screamed louder as she fell to her knees. She was shaking a little now, but it wasn't from the cold. She was afraid.

James fell quiet after that. No sound coming from him for a long time. Then, slowly, nearly hysterical sobbing began to build up. He had shoved himself into a corner, arms covering his face.

Yue was still on her knees sobbing with her hands clamped so tightly against her ears that her knuckles were turning white. Between the tears, her eyes revealed she was lost off in some far away place.

James continued to sob hysterically but his sobbing was never consistent, as if he didn't have one set way of crying.

After a few minutes, Yue laid down on the ground. It didn't look like she planned on moving or stopping anytime soon.

After awhile, James stopped sobbing and started muttering. It wasn't coherent and he didn't stay in one voice for too long, every few words he seemed to switch.

Yue was too lost in her own world to notice.

James mutterings grew louder and more panicked until he was shouting again. This time, however, it was not in the voice of anyone Yue knew. The incoherent babble was a multitude of random voices.

Even the shouting didn't knock Yue out of it; she was in too deep.