CHAPTER II
POPULARITY
"Gotta keep up with me, Slick." Kay was casually walking, normally striding the length of his legs, and calmly looking the sidewalk in front of him. Jay was jogging to keep up behind him, worn out from tracking down a Ditanian with too many drug assets all afternoon. Now that it was well into the night, he thought he'd get a break from Kay's calm rushing around, but poor Jay was wrong and now stuck practically running back to the Headquarters with a call from Zed.
The man in the tunnel, still reading his newspaper said,
"Hello Kay!" as kay walked passed, Jay beside him, on the right, closer to the man. When there came no hello for Jay he rolled his eyes and kept on his pace beside Kay.
When they got into the elevator, Jay sighed.
"Somethin' bothering you, Slick?"
"Nah." Jay said. Kay kept looking straight ahead as he gave a half a smile and said,
"I'm sure."
They stepped off the elevator and then walked to the elevator that would take them up to Zed's office. On the way a Bricornian said,
"Hi Kay!" then the whole group of worm guys ran up around Kay and spoke in their language mixed with English and said hello until Kay scattered them off. Agent Qu looked up and smiled, straightening his black tie whilst saying hello to Kay.
Kay nodded to all the greetings he received. The suck-up agent Iy asked if he could grab Kay coffee, as he had been doing ever since Kay'd returned from being a postmaster. Though Kay declined, Jay sighed again and speed to the elevator. They rode up to Zed's office. As they did, Kay looked down at the busy hub below. A group of miscellaneous aliens waved at Kay. Jay noticed them, and looked at Kay; a disgusted expression was on his face.
"What is wrong with these people?" Kay didn't turn, and his expression didn't change from the half-smile he wore.
"Hmm?"
"You-them-the agents… they all think you're some big-shot hero, everybody's buddy, but in reality you're no fun. You're always just grumpy and aggravating."
"What aggravates you about me?"
"I-wait what? Wait, you think I'm jealous? You think I envy the fact that you get people saying hi to you and asking you if you want coffee every time you walk in the door. Is that what you think is happening?"
"That is what's happening."
"Yeah that's right-wait. You are really full of yourself. Mister big-shot." Jay spat the last sentence out as they walked into Zed's white ovular office.
"What's the trouble, Zed?" Kay asked.
"A Ditanian loner has been causing trouble lately; we want you to bring him in." Zed tried to lie well enough, and he hoped it worked.
"Ditanian? Huh, thought they traveled in groups." Zed didn't move just smiled and said,
"You can take care of him. If he gets risky just bring him down, save more lives that way."
"Uh-huh. Well, see you." Zed couldn't tell if Kay believed him, as he watched the man rub a finger over his lower lip. They turned and left and Zed sunk into his white chair, hoping they wouldn't get hurt.