Okay Familia, I got a really good reason for this long time without any chapter, the thing it´s easy, right now I´m ending the scholar period, and I´m realizing the final tests of every matter that I have, fortunately, I end classes this week, that means more chapter during my vacations (almost One month), I´m really sorry guys but I was literally buried under homework, expositions, presentations and practices in the hospital, I´d try to create more chapters this vacations, okay? Sorry once again, and now, let´s go with the chapter (The last chapter didn´t have reviews to reply)
24._ Rookie´s Phobia
(Some time later)
− "So soft and warm…" − said the half-slept wolf hugging that thing that he thought was a pillow, but when he was half opening the eye, he could see the jackal chest in front of him, Zero was slept, hugging him, the wolf felt immediately how his cheeks were blushing, they were closer than never, and the peaceful expression in the jackal was getting the wolf nervous, the wolf was blocked, he hadn´t an idea of what to do, maybe wake him up, or get away from him, or maybe, get him closer, he has not an idea, the actions that he did were moved by the pointy nervous that he had.
− "Z-zero?" − began to say the wolf.
− "Ah?" − replied the half-slept jackal.
− "Come on, wake up, I think the caterpillar is gone" − said the wolf while he tried to got up from the ground.
− "That's a good new…" − said the jackal.
− "Oh no, Zero, it´s too late, look" − said the wolf a bit worried. – "We need to get back to the colony"
− "You´re right, I think we slept to much"
− "Let´s go, or we will lose the dinner"
And after the long time in the cave, the guys could return to the colony, the caterpillar was gone, and the snowing had stopped, the guys came back, just at time for the dinner, a lot of settlers were in the common dinning room, Leven specially was waiting for them, when they get reunited, they began to talk.
− "I can guess that your date was perfect, because I didn´t knew about you in all the day" − said Leven. – "But I´m still asking me, where you were when the snow storm began?"
− "Inside a cave" − replied Zero.
− "Sleeping like bears" − said the wolf.
− "Ouh, that's good, you surely are ready for this night" − said the cat.
− "What are you talking about?" − asked they.
− "I´m talking about the game in the Haunted Mansion of this night, Angle prepare it every year in the parties, tonight you have to go in…"
− "We really have to go?" − asked the interrupting the cat. – "I mean, why we have to go?"
− "I was explaining that… you have to go because inside the mansion, there is a crystal, detected the signal a few days ago, and this game is the perfect excuse for "lose a little" in the other floors of the floors of the mansion" − said the cat.
− "Leven, you are a genius" – said the jackal – "We could find the forth crystal"
− "And you two will pass a good time, only if you like the extreme emotions, because I have to admit that the mansion is able to freaking you out…" – since the moment, the wolf stopped listen them, a feeling of emptiness had seized him, because even with the adventures that he lived, there was something able to scare him more than anything, the Haunted Houses.
The wolf was like absent the complete dinner, and that attitude began to worry the jackal, when they where in the cabin again, the jackal began to ask.
− "Are you okay?"
− "Zero, I don´t want to go to the Haunted Mansion…" − said the wolf.
− "What?... but why?" − asked the jackal.
− "I just don´t want it"
− "Oh dude, come on, I can´t go alone, for entry I need a couple"
− "How do you know that?"
− "Leven told me that when we were eating, didn´t you hear him?" – for the reaction of the wolf, Zero knew that he was hiding something big – "Tell me what happen Rookie"
− "Nothing, I just want to sleep" − said the wolf while he was going to the bed, but immediately, the jackal stopped him, putting the hand over his shoulder"
− "Rookie"
− "I said no Zero, let me alone please" − said the wolf with a rough voice, and after that, the wolf lied down in the bed – "I don´t want to go Zero, but if you want it´s okay, I just need to sleep…"
The jackal was a bit angry with the wolf, the attitude that he had was despicable, guided by… something inside him that make him deaf to a dialogue, the wolf was acting really strange, and for a moment, it made the jackal angry, but just seconds later, he had a wonderful idea, because, what could calm the irrational behavior better than a bit of love?
For the wolf was a surprise when suddenly, the jackal was lied next to him.
− "Z-zero? What are you doing?" − asked the surprised wolf.
− "I want you as my couple in the game, I´ll not go if you don´t go with me" − said the jackal.
− "I mean, why you are here, you´re bed is right there"
− "You know why I´m doing this"
− "… You are wasting your time…"
− "You too, it´s better to waste the time with a friend" − replied the jackal. –"So, if we will waste a lot of time here, we better talk about…"
−"Nooooo"
− "Oh, come on! I´m trying Rookie…"
− "Stop trying then, I won´t talk about that theme, this is already quite uncomfortable for drop more dirt over this" – said the wolf. The patience of the jackal was reaching the limit, but he knows that an emotional explosion wasn´t the best for that situation, he had to act with cold head, or at least, something similar.
− "Oh Rookie, this is not uncomfortable enough"
− "I don´t know how this can be worst" − said the wolf.
− "Let me show you…" − and then, the jackal acted, taking the wolf with his hands and involving him in a really close hug, while they were still lied down in the bed.
− "Ze-ze- zero!" − screamed the wolf completely shamed.
− "I-I told you…" − anyway, the jackal was feeling exactly the same shame, "Someone kill me please" thought him while he was trying to evade the wolf eyes, because he knew that if they seen each other, the things would be impossible to handle.
− "Zero, come on, p-personal space…" − said the wolf with uncomfortable voice.
− "Only if you talk"
− "No!" − replied the wolf.
− "Okay, so you better get comfortable, we will stay like this all the night" − inside his mind, the jackal had divided emotions, one part inside him was thinking "I shouldn´t do this", but another part was happy, for the close contact that he was having with the wolf, was the greatest for the jackal.
− "… Okay, I´ll talk, just… let me go…" − finally, the improvised plan was working nicely.
− "Go on Rookie, I´ll let you go when you end" − said the jackal.
− "*Sigh* Okay… I never told you, but I´m scared of the haunted houses…" − said the wolf with the shamed impregned in his voice, at the same time, he hid his face against the jackal´s chest, maybe that could feel nice, but the jackal was distracted.
− "Really?" – asked the jackal, with strangeness.
− "It´s my worst fear… all this phobia began when I was a child, the carnival was in the city and my mother get me to the attractions, everything was wonderful, the colors, the music, the games, I was impressed… I don´t know how I got lost from my mom, when I was searching at her, accidentally got into the Haunted House alone, everything was the spookiest thing that I ever see… the employees tried to help me, but their costumes were tenebrous, my mother had to go into the haunted house for help me… since that day, I don´t even can stay close of an attraction like that, all those scary images came back to my mind, remembering me as a child, a coward and stupid child…."
− "That is… that´s…"
− "Stupid, I kwon…"
− "No… I mean, I understand why you are scared, but there nothing that a bit of "therapy" couldn´t eliminate" − said the jackal.
− "Are you a therapist?"
− "No, but that´s not necessary for make a therapy"
− "That´s exactly you need for make a therapy"
− "I don´t care, Rookie, let me help you, we are really close right now…"
− "You really said that in that moment?" – asked the wolf in sarcastic way.
− "What I´m trying to say is that, we just need two more crystals to get back, and now we have the opportunity to catch another one, come on pal" − said the jackal.
− "I´m not sure about it, Zero…"
− "I know, and I want to make you feel sure, just trust in me"
− "… *Sigh* What´s the plan?" − The jackal felt happiness when he heard that.
− "We go, we cross the haunted mansion, we find the crystal and then we come out, and you´ll see that the haunted attractions are less that you think"
− "Okay… let´s go"
− "Let´s go"
− "… Uhm, Zero?"
− "What?"
− "Let me go"
− "Oh, sure" – the jackal released the hug, and then the guys got up from the bed. – "Well, let´s go"
− "Fine…"
(Some time later, that same night)
The mansion had a precarious appearance, even Zero had to admit that the place by itself was giving a bad feeling, but he couldn´t say it, because the wolf could feel insecure, and all the time that he spent convincing him would go to the dump. In front of the building were more groups of teenagers, Leven was there, talking with them, group by group, until he finally was with them.
− "Are you ready guys?" − asked the cat.
− "Almost ready" − replied the wolf with nervousness.
− "Excellent, if someone is completely ready for the game, is because he really is completely scared" – replied the cat. – "Your part is easy, you go into the mansion, and you find the way to deviate to the second and third floor, because the people only play in the first floor and when we were checking the mansion, we don´t found the crystal in that floor, for that you got to look for it in the other floors."
− "Sounds easy" − replied the jackal.
− "It is easy, just open up your eyes and if something tries to cut your necks, just jump for a window, Hahahaha" − replied the cat trying to made a joke, the wolf looked at the jackal a bit afraid for that, the jackal looked at the cat with an expression like "Are you kidding me?" – "Hahaha… ha… Aaaahhh… wasn´t funny I know, just… take the lantern, the receiver and forget that I said that."
− "We already did it" − replied the jackal.
− "Okay… go ahead, I´ll wait for you right here"
− "Fine… come on Rookie"
− "Why I began to feel that this is a really bad idea…"
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