The Good & The Bad (41)

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Darryl Pov:

"HAHA! Really?!" Zak laughed.

"Yeah!" I laugh along with him.

We had spent the past few hours talking in his living room together. Both of us avoided the topic of him leaving, I could tell. But... I guess it had to come up at some point.

"So uhm... I started to pack my suitcase, hah.." Zak sighed.

I looked over to him staring at the ground.

"How soon are you leaving?" I asked.

"In six days," Zak's frown grew when he said that.

I let out a heavy sigh and scooted closer to his spot on the couch.

"Hey, it's okay. You'll be safer," I smiled as we made eye contact.

"But I feel safer with you."

I blushed, but kept eye contact.

"We can text every day. And, I'm not a call person, but I'll stay on call with you. We could FaceTime!" I say as a way to cheer him up. But it didn't work.

"But I want to be with you. In person."

The blush on my face became even redder, I'm sure.

I stared into his dark brown eyes, and he stared back.

"I can't do anything about that, I'm sorry," I said.

Zak's expression changed to a look that said 'I already know that.' But in a sad way.

Seeing Zak sad made me sad.

"Please don't be sad, I'll always be there with you, I promise," I told him.

He just sighed and looked away, finally breaking that long eye contact.

"I hate this," Zak said in a soft yet sad voice.

I grabbed his chin and made him face me, which made him gasp but he calmed down quickly.

"I will never leave your side, Zak. Even if you moved a million miles away. No matter where you go, I won't leave. And I don't want you to leave. I wish you would stay. I want you to stay. But I can't fix this, I wish that I could. You're gonna be fine, Zak. You'll make new friends just like your ones here, and maybe, even forget about all of this! It's for the best anyway," I told him, making stern eye contact.

He reached his hand out and held the hand I had on the couch, interlocking our fingers. Just like how I did in the hospital.

"But I don't want to forget Darryl. I don't want to forget you. And I don't want to forget this town and the friends that I've made along the way here. I don't want to leave. I know you're trying to make me feel better but please, stop talking like that. It's like you've accepted the fact that I'm leaving, which is something that I haven't even accepted myself. Let's just stop talking about this, yeah? Go back to the happy laughter, and not this sadness," Zak said while smiling at me.

After he finished talking we stayed in that same position. My left hand made its way to his cheek, and my right hand interlocked his.

We smiled at each other and admired each other's eyes, not looking away or even blinking once.

His hand interlocking mine softened, and his expression changed to a soft look with no smile.

I stared at his beauty.

"Hah! I knew he was your boyfriend!" We heard a voice come the stairway, making me retreat my hand from his face and making Zak shoot his head into the direction of the voice.

"SmIra! What are you dOing?!" Zak asked as his voice cracked.

"I came down to get a bowl of cereal, but then I saw you two making kissy kissy faces at each other," she said as she walked into the kitchen.

Zak puffed up his cheeks and made an angry face, furrowing his eyebrows.

"Calm down Zaky, I won't tell mom," Sam, his sister, said.

"He's not my boyfriend!" Zak half yelled half giggled.

"Well then stop acting like he is! Gay ass," Samira, or Sam, said.

"Language," I muttered.

Short silence.

"Oh, I like him! He seems adorable!" Zak's sister said cheerfully.

"Sam, stoooop!" Zak yelled annoyingly.

"Fine! Just let me get some milk! Damn!" She said.

I muttered another language and looked down to face the couch.

That's when I noticed that our hands were still interlocked.

That made me smile.

And before I even knew it, Sam had left and it was just me and Zak alone again.

"Sorry about her. She's weird. She has like these images in her head I don't kno-"

"If okay!" I said quickly, snapping out of my trance.

Zak smiled, and at that moment he noticed our hands as well.

"Oh! I'm sorry! It just felt so comfortable!" He said quickly as he pulled his hand away, leaving mine cold.

I wouldn't be lying if I said I wanted to keep holding his hand.

"It's fine, you muffin."

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Fundy Pov:

The next step.

Darryl and Zak both know what I look like, and who I am now, meaning that I can't go back to school. So I have to find a new way...

What do I tell Wilbur?

It doesn't matter! All that matters is that I get this mission completed! Or else- or else... what would happen to me actually? Would XD just immediately kill me? Or find something to torture me with? I don't know! Either way, it's bad.

If only this job didn't pay a lot.

In this job, it's filled with broke people, mostly kids with no parents, who get used to kill, most of the time, innocent people.

You get a certain amount of time to kill the people or person, and if you don't in time. Something happens. We don't know what, but everyone who has yet to finish a mission has wound up missing. We just assume you die.

I feel bad for some of my killing buddies, honestly. One of them had to kill Nick's boyfriend without him knowing. That's messed up. Nick had cried for hours to me about it. And honestly, I don't think that he ever found out that it was XD's doing.

It's not worth it.

None of this, is worth it.

But once you sign up, XD has control of everything you do.

Unless, you die. Unless you off yourself. Or unless XD kills you himself instead.

This whole thing is just messed the hell up. Like who came up with this?! That sociopath XD?

And right now, I'm doing just what I claimed was messed up.

I'm heading to Zak's house, since I happened to see Darryl walk inside a few hours ago, and has yet to come out.

Let's get this 'party' started.

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...so. Uhm. I'm sorry. Yeah- uhm. I honestly had it in my head that Nick killed Karl since the very beginning, but it still hurts just thinking about it. So, you're welcome! โœŒ๏ธ
Have a good day/night! Love you little ducklings! ๐Ÿฆ†

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