Chapter Three:
Friendship
Jessica
stared at Zack silently, the next morning as the pair ate the breakfast at the
kitchen table. They had been up all last night, talking about their childhoods,
their ambitions, and where they thought they were headed in life. Jessica found
it hard not relate to Zack's bitterness. He, after all, was the C.O. of 12 or
more younger 'siblings', the older brother to all of them, as well as the one
who dug 'em out when they got into shit. And he was blaming himself, for the death
of one of his younger brothers,' Ben', who he had told her about last night.
Not that she would let him know, that she knew all of this. She, herself didn't
have the burden of being the protector to younger brothers and sisters. But, on
the other hand, she knew what it was like to be chased hunted down, one by one,
until there was no one left standing. Which is why, she had decided to save
him. 'That, and the fact that he was attractive,' Jessica thought grinning to
herself. She couldn't deny that his good-looks were what had first caught her
attention. His blond locks, his deep blue abysses that he called eyes, and his
well-muscled torso, of which she had stared at the day before, when she was
cleaning his wounds. 'Yep,' Jessica thought, she could honestly, say, even
knowing who he was, that she was falling for him, falling hard, and she wasn't
afraid to admit it, if that is, he felt the same way. Had she known that Zack
was feeling the same way about her, she might just have told him, right then
and there, but he chose to keep it buried. All of a sudden, Zack snapped his
fingers at her. "Jess, JESS, JESSICA!!" he yelled finally. "What??" Jessica
said startled out of her day dream. "I asked what you were thinking about,
"Zack replied slightly annoyed. But all the while, hoping that it was him she had been thinking about. "Listen
Zack," Jessica began, "I have a confession to make." Zack swallowed hard. Could
this be it, could this be the moment he had been waiting for since her had met
her?? But, no, what she told him was even more shocking than that. "I know who
you are," she stated simply. "What do you mean??" Zack said, trying to play
innocent, although his mind was racing with trying to comprehend what she had
just said. "Don't try and screw with me, Zack, you know what I'm talking
about." "How do you know??" Zack asked. "I'm like you," Jessica said. "I'm
genetically enhanced, but not a killing machine, nor was I created by
Lydecker." "I don't have a barcode, no seizures, and I don't take pills either.
But, in essence I'm the same as you." "Why should I believe you??" Zack said.
"Spar with me, "Jessica replied "Then you'll know." Zack got up and began to
engage Jessica in hand to hand combat. She was indeed his equal, in strength, speed, and endurance. She was
telling the truth after all. "Wow," Zack said amazed. "Who created you??" he
asked. "I don't know," Jessica replied shrugging, "since the beginning, it's
just been me, my sisters, and brothers, that's it." "We get hunted down too,
but, there are more of us, and we stay spread out, around the same area."
"That's why, although I hate it, only one of us has died in the last ten years
or so." "So, your enemies aren't your creators then," Zack said. "No, they're
just other people who hate our kind." Jessica replied, distastefully. "Listen
Jess, I kinda have a confession to make to you too………………………………….."
tbc……..