The Very Amusing Discovery
As I looked up into Takeshi’s smirking face I had to fight the urge to smack him, what a tramp. Why did he have to go and do that I was only being nice to him, and before I could do anything else he had moved the knife away from my throat and ordered me to stand up once more. Eyebrow raised I glared at him, not wanting to speak for fear of the abuse that would come streaming out of my mouth.
“Well, are you going to get up and train with me or sit there on the floor like a retard?” he asked a tint of mirth to his voice.
“I am not a retard.”
Letting myself spring up from my place on the floor I land on my feet and stand still, letting my eyes move over Takeshi, judging which way he was going to move before he actually moved, not being very good at this yet as he moved right I also moved to the right but swiftly I raised my fist and slammed it into his stomach repeatedly.
“Don’t call me that.”
Voice low and hissing this last statement out I merely looked down at Takeshi and waited for him to get up again, I was not going to be fooled again. I’m glad that I didn’t try to check if he was alright or not because as he got up he spat at the ground, eyes tinted with anger, which despite myself made me a little bit intimidated. Even though he moved from the ground shakily he still moved and I didn’t quite know what to do, it didn’t feel right hitting him when he was down like this.
“Well what are you waiting for, finish me.”
When I heard this coming from his mouth, I couldn’t help but lower my hands which had been raised into fists again ready to strike it had amazed me that I was even able to hit Takeshi in the first place, I never thought that I could hurt anyone. Turns out I was wrong.
“No, what are you saying I’m not going to kill you.”
A small chuckle escaped his lips and he sprung up with a smile on his face which made my own transfigure into one of pure rage and disgust, he was joking again?! I seriously need to stop being such a pansy. Sighing I move away from him to sit on the branch of the tree that I had perched on before, it was just so typical of me to actually give a damn about someone who was so horrible to me all the time. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if I started liking Gervais after a while, or at least being able to tolerate his presence.
“Then you’re weak. You need to be able to kill and this is the first part of your training I guess we need to work upon.”
“Are you serious? What would I be killing?”
I never ever thought I’d be having this conversation, killing something, me? The nerd who ran away from wasps when they flew too close to her? Pfft like I’d ever be able to kill anything more deadly than a spider. My arms hugged themselves tighter around my body as I tried to calm myself down; I tried to take my mind off what I was going to have to do. Sadly I was jerked out of these thoughts a rough hand grabbed my wrist, almost instinctively I let out a whimper and pulled it out of Takeshi’s grip. What was it with people and grabbing my veins? Maybe I should make a rule sheet of things not to do to me, and that would be number one on that freaking rule sheet, after that rather unpleasant episode my arm tingled faintly and I knew that it would do so for hours now.
“You’d be killing those zombies that tried to eat you, they aren’t even proper humans anymore for Christ’s sake just screw up your non-existent courage and kill the buggers.”
It was that that made me raise my hand and back slap him across the face, he had no right to say that to me, he was in the army he chose the lifestyle of ‘serving his country’ and killing people but me? I didn’t choose this. I didn’t want to kill people. I bit down on my lip and choked back a sob, was I really so pathetic…I must be, maybe that’s why he doesn’t like me, maybe that’s why none of the men here like me because I’m weaker than they are.
Silently I move back away from him, back to the van to get away from him but just at that time I had to bump into one of the worst people to bump into at this time, Gervais and behind him were a new truckload of soldiers who were gawping at me like I was something escaped from the zoo. Biting my lip so hard it began to bleed I sobbed, finally letting my feelings out once more and I ran off in the direction of the forest hoping that they might not follow me and leave me to be alone here.
Darkness was blissful in the forest, it sat around me like the silence had before, letting the crimson tears fall to the ground I climbed up one of the boughs of an oak tree to try and get away from the faint shuffling of feet that she heard from down below her. There were two people. Who were they? I peered down from the branch, looking down through filtering columns of light to see that it was Gervais and Takeshi, Takeshi seemed to be swearing profusely. Dully I thought that it was a good thing that he was panicking about loosing me, serves him right for making me cry.
“Where the f*ck is she?!”
“She’s probably hiding from us, I think we came on a little too strong to her. Poor girl.”
“I don’t care how we appear to her, if the Sergeant finds out that she’s run off we’ll both be shot so stop sympathising with her and help me find her.”
I watched cautiously as he moved closer to my tree, I tried to flatten my body against the trunk so that I wouldn’t be seen as easily and it seemed to be working after all Takeshi passed her tree without a word in her direction. Shaking slightly I tried to calm down my hands not wanting to let one of my stray tears drop onto the forest floor to tip them off.
“Takeshi, listen to me man, you need to lay up on Abi. She’s going through a lot so you just nee-“
“Oh shut up you hypocrite! You’ve not exactly been nice to her either since you’ve been here you’ve called her pretty and hurt her physically what must she think of you.”
Takeshi snorted before moving to the base of my tree again and leaning against it, his head was in his hands and his groan filled the clearing that he was in, I wondered what was wrong with him, he never seemed to like me so why would he want me back? Despite the desire not to get shot that is. Actually, now I think about it, that’s a really good reason to be depressed. Gervais however looked livid and punches Takeshi in the face, a horrible crack echoing across the copse.
“Don’t you dare call me that. Never. Call. Me. That. I’m not a hypocrite and I honestly feel sorry for the way I came across to Abi, it’s not who I am and you know that, we just have to be careful around her after all, Dru hasn’t told her about the other side to her transformation.”
At this my ears pricked up, what other side? She’d just told me the physical changes to my body and all of that stuff so what on Earth could Dru have left out and what could these guys be talking about. Once again Takeshi groaned holding his cheek in his hand, a large blue bruise developing there.
“No, I guess she wouldn’t have done, it would be so much easier though if she would, soft cow.”
Inside I was screaming for either of them to mention what was wrong or different about me that they would have to be careful about, and as I popped my head around the side of the tree I was glad that I was wearing trousers because both of them were standing right below me, thankfully not looking up just yet. Biting my lip once again in a sort of nervous habit I wait for one of them to speak, not daring to even breathe.
“Dru’s just trying to look out for the girl, it’s not like she needs to know she’s…well, she provokes that sort of reaction with us. It’s not fair to her. It’ll creep her out, I know it would creep me out to know that for a week every month all the women in the vicinity would fancy the pants off…actually no it wouldn’t creep me out.”
“We don’t like her. It’s just the hormones that she gives off. There’s no attraction there.”
At those words I couldn’t contain my giggles, what on Earth? Hormones? Was that I guess part of the more animalistic nature of humanity; although, I thought that it might be a little creepy. Those guys being nice to me. Shuddering lightly I jump down from the bough of the tree with a little smirk on my lips, and I leant against the trunk of it, taking in the boys bewildered faces.
“You really don’t know how to look for a girl properly do you?”
I smile, wiping away the crimson streaks of tears from my face.
“So, basically instead of having ‘my time of the month’ because technically I’m dead once a month I give off these hormones or something? Seriously?”
“That’s about the shape of it.” Gervais blushed
“Well…I suppose it could be worse, I’ll just have to carry around the mace.”