Chapter 3
victor slowly opened his eyes but his vision was too blurd to see anything. he could feel something wet being dabbed on his face, he thought it might be a wet cloth. He tried to move his hand to push it away but his hands were tied behind his back and so were his legs.
"What did you do to me?" he said in a painful groan.
"I saved your life, you stupid idiot" Her voice was angry but she wasn't shouting.
"It wasn't your life to save" Victor said still groaning.
"And is that the samething you said to yourself in the forest when I needed help" she had stoppd dabbing the object on his face now.
"No I said..."Victor's vision was returning and he could see the girl more clearly now"... Better safe...".
"Than sorry! That's your reason for no helping people who need help" She shouted.
"well you need help" victor groans as he slowly pushes himself off the floor with his behind his back. But he quickly falls to his left side when a hand smacks him across the face."Well you know how to put someone in their place".
"Only air heads like you" she says in a smug voice.
"could you untie me now?" victor sighs.
"NO!" the girl shouts, angry at how calm he is."you just tried to end your life right infront of me".
"what if I say i'm sorry?" he said half joking.
"are you?".
"maybe i should just leave you here to rot" she says half joking.
"now you know why I didn't want anyone to find me. I don't want to be hurt by anyone, any more." victor says sadly as he looks at the girl. She was holding his sword in her right hand.
"I... I guess we all have something holding us back" she says understanding his choice.
"your clothes seem to be in bad shape".
"what are you implying?" she says in a confused tone.
"I have spare leather clothing in my bag over there." he nods in the direction"the clothing is adjustable because most of it relies on belt like straps".
"ok, but don't look".
"flip me over onto my other side then" he said with no exspression on his face.
"I think i'll just go inside your house instead" she says nervously as if he was lieing.
"what ever you want I can't exactly disagree lady".
"Lady?"she says on the edge of laughing" that sounds like i'm thirty or something".
"well you haven't exactly told me your name" he says annoyed.
"That because you said it was pointless you ass!" she snaps at him.
"the names Jane, I doubt you care" she says annoyed from his behaviour.
"just go get changed already. The faster you get ready the faster we can be done with this awkward situation." victor says obviously bored.
"fine then" as she walks into the house and gets changed.
Afew minutes pass and Jane walks out the door wearing the same looking clothing as Victor but smaller so that it would fit her. She had blonde hair that went to her shoulders and had brown eyes. she walked over to victor and cut the rope around his legs.
"if I give you your stuff back you have to promise that you will help me find my father and brother"
"sure, I guess. Maybe I'll find peace on this adventure of yours"with out any emotions.
"good" she cuts the rope around his hands.
"so which way Jane".
she points towards the forest using the sword. Victor takes a quick glance at the sky to see what time it is. The sun was almost fully down.
"A day wasted because of this stupid event." Victor mutters.
"you're the only stupid thing here" Jane snaps.
"Are we traveling by night or my day? I think I already know the answer." he says with no real interest.
"Day. now get inside before we get eaten alive my zombies" Jane says rushing Victor inside.
Jane lightly pushes victor inside the house. She then locked the door with the same string that was always used and sat down with her back against a wall. Victor sat against the wall infront of her, he was trying to avoid eye contact but at the same time stay away from her.
"What do I smell or something?" Jane asked with a stare of anger.
"No. I... Just don't want you to get any ideas about us being Friends. That's all." He said still avoiding eye contact and keeping a emotionless face.
"Puff... Friend... You think that I would think that after how selfish you were." Her voice going from almost laughing to pure rage. Victor's head moved upward slightly to see how angry she was and then moved it away."So what happened to you victor that made you become such an ass?".
"What cat got your tongue?" she said with some concern.
"huh..."victor's head quickly focused on Jane."... Cat... that's what we call the green things." he said with a sad tone.
"we?" her voice hieghtened.
"Who was it tha..."she recomposees herself "When... You where out cold... You where talking. You said 'why, why did you do this', Was that a memory or just a dream?
the door in victors head opened once more. But this time it was different, instead of remembering just those words he could hear something else.
"why, why did you do this..." he pauses and asumes the role of someone else in his memory. "Because you're in my why". he felt his scar again, feeling the stubs of his shaved beard.
"who did that to you?" she asked with even more concern.
"someone I cared about" he said as if defeated.
"how close were you to this person?" her concern disappeared and pure curiosity took over.
"let's just say that if i had to chose between saving her or hundreds of other people. I would have chosen her each time.".
"Her, I guessed it was a girl.".
"That's why I don't trust people.".
"But you still haven't even told me what happened".
Victor glares at Jane, he doesn't want to talk about it any more. The door in his head closes again, as he drifts off to sleep.
