The Good, the Bad, and the Love Interest?
"Dame it," yelled Christopher.
"What, what is it?" David replied
"We're being followed."
I thought, oh great, another wonderful day in Everworld. However, as I don't particularly like being followed I said (AN: Isn't sarcasm fun): "How can you tell"
"Well," said Christopher, "lets see, theirs a slight dust cloud in the distance that's been keeping the same gap, and heading in the same direction as us for over four hours now."
"And you just now telling us?"
"I couldn't be cretin before."
"So how are you now?"
"Well, David and I have been,"
"Hay," cut in David, "don't bring me into this. I wanted to tell them something when we first suspected."
"Yeah, well, anyway, like I was saying, David and I have been changing are direction steadily for the past few hours now. And do you know what? Every time we change direction, they do. So to me that signifies following."
At this point I gave Christopher one of my famous 'I'm going to hurt you', looks. But unfortunately he was either not looking or didn't care.
"The point is," said David. "We need to do something about. Are they friends or enemies? And why are they following us in the first place?"
"All good questions." Jalil interjected. "Now all we need is answers to them."
That pretty much sums up the reason why Jalil annoys me so much. He dose exactly what he accused Senna of doing all the time, stating the obvious and spouting out whole paragraphs that say absolutely nothing. I could see the cynical remark forming in Christopher's mind and I gave him a warning look. This time he saw.
That's what I like about what I've now started calling "my guys". It's usually pretty easy to control them with a look. Sometime not, but usually it works. The three of them, Christopher, David, and Jalil are so different form each other. Sometimes I think I know them and then the next day they'll surprise you. Jalil acts like he doesn't care but he's usually the one defending me when it really hits the fan. David is our unofficial leader and he protects us all. He takes all the responsibility for everything and blames himself whenever anything goes wrong. He's Hero, or wants to be and the goddess Athena's General, her champion. Christopher is the hardest to figure out. He changes more then the landscapes of Everworld. Sometime he can be so kind, compassionate and tender. Other time he's cynical, rude and barbaric. He has or had a drinking problem we, that is to say David, Jalil and I think. We think he's getting over it. But that's when he is barbaric.
The last time I really saw, or Jalil and David saw rather, Christopher get really smashed was with Sir Percival when we where in one of Galahad's castles. I think he's become a little more serious since then.
I, I think I might have feelings for him. I don't know if I really want these feeling or not. Sometime I try not to have them, pretend there not there, but they are, and it scares me. It scares me because I don't know what to expect form Christopher. Sometimes he can be so sweet other times so crude, and then, if we where to get together and them brake up, what would it do to our group? Would it brake up as well?
"Earth to April, come in April. The mother ship is about to beam you up." Christopher of course.
"What, what happened?" I asked.
"Well I was asking you if you wanted to bare my children and you got this vacant look on your face like you were imagining your wedding dress." Said Christopher, a half-smile on his face. I decide to turn it around on him like I usually do. I walked over to Christopher and pulled him close, close enough to kiss him.
"And it was such a beautiful wedding too." I whispered in his ear seductively. "And the honeymoon was even better," at that point I gave him a seductive wink and wiggled a little closer to him, all the while David and Jalil where behind Christopher stifling their laughter. Then, as Christopher was, I think, about to kiss me, I pushed him away.
"That was cold-blooded April." He said with a warm smile.
"I know, but it's just so funny that keep falling for that."
"I'm trying to be optimistic April, help me out." He smiled at me again and returned to talking to David and Jalil.
All I could think about after that moment was how I shouldn't do that anymore. I had almost given in that time. I had almost let him kiss me for real, and that's why I'm so glad Christopher doesn't know how I feel about him. If Christopher were to try what that I do to him as a joke as a joke all the time, I don't think I'd be able to stop myself. It scares me.