Even without Robert there everything was still so loud, Mike could hear it all like it was right there in the room with him. He'd never experienced anything like it before.
The earplugs didn't really help maybe it blocked out the sounds coming from halfway across the city, sounds he shouldn't be hearing from here, but they're there all the same filling up his head past the breaking point. It was like he didn't have anything in his ears at all though with Robert in the room with him, he could still hear all of that as clearly as he ever had.
"I'm just gonna stay right here like this." Mike said shaking his head. He wasn't moving, it hurt too much, and moving the mattress was going to make too much noise and he couldn't take anymore, he could wait for this to pass or his brain to explode right where he was. "Just - you don't have to stay," In fact it was probably better if he didn't as far as his head was concerned. "I'll be alright," Or maybe he wouldn't - either way it would stop so Mike was going to add that as a mark to the winning tally.