"If she weren't here, I don't know what I would do with myself." Sure, he still didn't know a ton about Donny, but she was the only connection to home that he had and it was a tiny bit comforting. "I don't know. I hadn't known her long before we were pulled here."
He laughed a little. "Alright."
Mitch saw the look on Derek's face and he could tell that Derek knew exactly how he was feeling. "Once this stuff is gone, I'll be fine." he only had to look at it for a few more weeks.
"Did they ever catch who did it?" That sounded pretty fucked up. "At least your sister got out of it okay. What about your dad?" He noticed that Derek didn't mention him. Had he died too or had he not been in the picture at all? "Katrina wasn't the first time I've lost somebody. My parents were killed in a car accident when I was fourteen."