SETTLING
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That night, Tori told how the group had been divided and Derek and the rest were somewhere unknown.
"That asshole had been wanting to be in charge since we found him" said Robbie. "I'm sorry about the asshole part, is just... It's a dangerous world now y'know? And he was willing to leave Tori by herself if he could" Robbie apologized to Simon.
Simon smiled, looking to oblivion. "It's okay. He is an asshole and I stuck with him 'cause he was the only one I knew. Even at school he was a douchebag... What does it say from me, talking like this about the person who helped me to run uh?"
"Well... I think we can talk and exchange comments tomorrow when we are well rested. There are mattresses down here but no beds, so, serve yourselves" said Sikowitz.
Tori had been hanging from Trina's arm since they met. She wanted to ask her how she had escaped and if she knew anything from their parents, but now it had to wait. "Sikowitz can I ask you something?"
"We're going to hide the car and take all our supplies in here. Is it okay Mr. Sikowitz?" asked Simon.
Sikowitz's eyes widened in horror "Dear Gandhi! Don't call me that! Just Sikowitz. And yeah it's okay unless you are not staying" he said and then motioned Tori to follow him to one corner of the room "Tell me, what's in your mind?"
"I was wondering, where is everybody else?" Tori asked.
"Well last time I saw everybody else, we were having a drive by acting exercise where you all were rocks and~"
"That... That's not what I was referring to" Tori interrupted. "I mean, first time we heard your transmission I understood you were many and that you were near the building of GEI and first, the only ones here are Trina and you and second, there is any kind of building in at least 5 miles around"
"To be honest, I thought you'd be more clever Tori" said Sikowitz, looking straight to Tori's eyes, raising an eyebrow.
"Okay, what am I missing?" she asked.
Trina, who was still in the room and listening, answered to her sister when Sikowitz turned to see her. "We have a place, close to the GEI place but it's just filled with things to transmit. I don't know the name of those things, but there's just a couple of boys working there, for safety"
"We are spread all along L.A." continued Sikowitz. "I thought you'd kneww since you've been out there all this time with your group. Did you never found any other group?"
"After a while of being just me, Cat, Robbie and Sinjin we found Freddie, Leah and Dana hiding in a basement when we were looking for shelter." Tori said, staring to space trying to remember the places she found with the rest of her old group. "We found Burf alone on the Hollywood Arts surroundings a month later. He said 'I thought that if they already had blowed down the place, there was no reason for they to come back'... really clever from him..."
Tori stayed in silence when she thought about her now disappeared school, and the image of bricks and stones was in her mind. She never had said it but Tori always said to herself "I hope nobody stayed inside when it fell... I hope all of us who were there got out in time"
"What about the others you were with?" Trina asked.
Tori snapped off her thoughts and continued. "Simon and Derek found Jeremy and Alana. I never asked where or how and they both escaped together from her school. Another performing school in L.A... We were looking for a hiding place in the sub station two weeks after we found Burf and they were already hiding there. They threatened us with tubes and stones nut we were more. I notices they looked hungry and, we had a lot of food and water so I offered them some in exchange of they letting us stay there"
"And then, they followed you?" Trina asked.
"Freddie and Robbie found the junk yard two days later and we were moving there. Simon asked if they could go with us and we said yes. However we left food in the sub station so we could be some of both places and we were together since then, until today"
"And are you okay? with they leaving?" Sikowitz asked.
"First I thought it was wrong, that we had to stay united but... when those caspers were about to get me, Derek would have left them do it... Simon was the one who knocked'em out so, they can do what they want. I just care about Burf and Leah... they were the only ones that had to leave because they had not much of a choice"
"Don't wory Tori, I'm checking tomorrow and see if we can comunicate with them. Burf hasa list of instuctions to try and we can bring him and Leah here with us" said Sinjin, who was helping to get the supplies in the place overheard the last sentence Tori said and then got out to keep helping.
They called it a night then, and Trina showed Tori all the rooms in the place.
"This is too big" Tori said.
"It belonged to one friend of Sikowitz, the man was obsessed with aliens and he thought the only place to be safe from them was underground" Trina said.
They entered to one room that seemed to be Trina's. Tori could notice there were some pictures from her family.
"Apparently..." Trina continued, while preparing a matress for Tori. "Apparently, the man died or got lost in one of his escursions while searching for little green men two years ago or something. But Sikowitz kept the place clean for his friend"
"I see... Treen... Do you know something about them?" Tori asked, staring at the family portrait Trina had on a little stool besides her improved bed.
"They are fine. They don't live at home anymore. Everybody was replaced. They were moved to one of those big grey departmental buildings" Trina answered.
"Why can't we go with them? I miss them" Tori said, tears appearing in her eyes.
"They don't want us there..." Trina said. Those words made Tori turn around really fast, starting to cry because of the words her sister had said. "Is not what you think Tori. They love us and wish we could be with them too, but they know we will be changed if we go. More now, after we've been hiding all this time"
Tori opened wide her eyes. "You talked with them? Do they know what's going on?"
"I did... a month after this all started and, they don't know much more than us... look, you need to sleep and I need it too. Rebellion, apocalypse or whatever this is, my beauty sleep will be always necessary" said Trina, trying to cheer uo her sister. "I'll tell you everything we know in the morning. I promise"
Next morning, Tori got out of the underground. She went straight to the RV Trina had told her was the one with a functional bathroom. She kept thinking about her parents and Sikowitz had said they'd talk about what they know after breakfast. She got in the shower, feeling like a big weight was off her shoulders.
"It's been a while since we could take a proper shower" she thought. They had to use buckets of water and it was better than nothing but feeling the water falling over her and running way down her body, Tori felt it like glory... and it was just a shower.
The half latina was immerse in her shower time, she didn't hear the noise of a motorcycle arriving and parking, either the door of the RV opening and then closing. She just noticed the sound of boots walking straight to her when she closed the water, and noticed a silouhette standind on the other side of the curtain.
Apparently a man, tall. He was not Robbie or Freddie, or Sinjin. And he was wearing white.
"You gotta be kidding me... why is it always me?" Tori thought.
When the man oppened the curtain pointing her with his hand on a gun shape and a grin, Tori took the body soup and threw it to his face and kicked him on the shin and was about to hurry out wrapped in the curtain when she saw him, and heard him complaining.
"Oww you hit my nose! I'm bleeding! what is wrong with you Trina?" said the guy, still closing his eyes in pains holding his nose brick with two fingers.
"I am not Trina! And I could ask you the same! what is wrong with you?"
"What? Tori? Tori Vega? That's Tori Vega's voice!" said the not so stranger trying to compose himself.
"Do not open your eyes!" Tori yelled, turning around to the guy and walking him to the door. "You better think about what you're doing before doing it next time, Ryder"
Once out, Trina was smiling at the scene. "May I ask what the actual fuck were you thinking?"
"I thought it was you. I was going to get my revenge from last time" Ryder said.
"Well, it didn't work" she said, turning around when the door opened behind Ryder and heading to the rv where they had breakfast. "Come Tori, let's eat something"
"Now you owe me one" said Ryder, looking at Tori and cleaning the string of blood that came out of his nose.
"Whatever you have to be with Trina, is not my business and I owe you nothing. What's wrong with you? You can't approach someone when they having a shower! Creepo!" Tori said, passing by Ryder.
"I kicked him "by accident" when I found him. He's been wanting to get even with me since but he never does. Last time he tried he got dirt in his eyes" Trina said. "So, get any thought of he and me kind of together because is not happening and never will"
"Keep saying that to yourself Trina. It's a fucked up world now" said Ryder, following the girls.
"Yeah? well, it was no when you were the only option and it's still no now. And there are more boys now... and two of them are hot" Trina said.
The three of them got in the place and the rest was already there.
"Oh! Daniels! Welcome back!" said Sikowitz when said guy got in behind Tori and Trina. "Why is your nose bleeding? And why are you limping?"
The Vega sisters smiled and waited for him to answer. "It doesn't matter... so, do we eat or do you want the news?" he said.
End of Chapter 3
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