Chapter II: What is she thinking?
Leon and Steve were heading to a swap. They found some hostile citizens. Leon neutralized them as they were only flies. Steve was look where he got his feet to, he was very careful. Leon smiled and he passed before the teenager. Suddenly, he raise his left arm, Steve stopped walking.
"Is something wrong?" he murmured.
"I heard some voices and gunshots."
"Maybe we found Claire."
The blond agreed. The only thing they saw was a big muscle heard with apparently no brain at all. He was fighting with his knife... not his gun. On his side, they both reconized Claire. They heard the brainless main yelled.
"Gotta kill them all!"
"Chris, stop kidding with your knife, you may hurt someone!"
"Who do you want to hurt? Those who attack us in first?" he replied.
"True, true, but..." she said.
Steve was now near to Claire, he touched her shoulder. Thinking it was an aggressive citizen, she smack him on the face, she hit him, and hit him and hit him. Steve wasn't able to talk, even if he was able to, there was to many noises to be heard. Leon gasped.
"Claire stop it, STOP IT!"
"Oh, Leon... Steve! I'm so sorry, are you alright?" she screamed.
"G-glad you f-finally notice t-that it w-was me..." said Steve with an hurting voice.
"For god's sake Claire, you've could kill him!" mention Chris to his sister.
"I'm soooooooooooooooorry!"
Claire was sobbing that she is sorry, Chris tries to comfort her as the best he can. Steve had the feeling that he was hit by a train but only one his face. Just a little while after, Steve was okay and they started to talk seriously.
"Leon, Steve, this is Chris, my big brother." she said with an huge smile on her face.
"Leon, it's nice to see you again and hello kiddo."
"Hi Chris, it's good to see you in a perfect health." replied Leon to his friend.
"Steve, I got some GREAT new!" she said. "Everyone's here, were suppose to meet here. The rest of us aren't here, but they will come."
"How is that suppose to be a great new?" answer Steve who was not giving a damn at what se was saying.
Claire sighs and Chris started to explain to the teenager.
"That's not funny kiddo. Jill, Rebecca and I were here for vacation, but tourist were not accepted here, that wasn't mentioned. So citizen start to act like they were zombies but they aren't, they can talk like we do just like now. We stay here for the night waiting the girls to come back."
"You let them alone?" the blond said.
"No worries about them, they're tough girls." said Claire with conviction.
"Yeah... but Rebecca?"
"As long as she's with Jill, everything is fine."
Leon agreed. The girls came back in the night. They found something to eat and other stuff to survive. Chris thought it was a great idea to let this job to the girls because they're provident. Claire introduces Steve to them. The red-haired was a little uncomfortable, he didn't trust them, didn't know them. Even if Claire knows them, what proves that they aren't bad person, he just can't stand them.
"Guys, there's three bedroom; we can make groups of two."
"Great idea Chris, I'll split my bedroom with Rebecca, if she agreed." said Jill.
"No problem with it!" replied Rebecca.
"Hmm..." started Claire "There's two bed per rooms; I'll spent mine with my brother I guess."
"What!" yelled Steve. "Y-you leave me with... Leon?"
"What is it, Leon's not a bad person you know." noticed Chris.
"You forget that Leon's gay." explained Claire.
Jill and Rebecca also agreed while looking at Chris. The muscle-head started to laugh.
"Okay, Steve, I'll get an eye on Leon, watch your back kiddo."
"No! I won't sleep in the same room!" said Steve who was scared to dead.
"It's not if I wanted to rape you." noticed Leon.
The night comes in a hurry. Steve finally accepted to sleep in the same room of Leon. He was tired of all of this shit. He began to think of suicide. Letting those crazy citizens kill him. Alfred and Alexia were something, but the crazy citizen overloads his capacity to deal. He closed his eyes. Memories of Leon kissing him began to attack him. The red-hair shivers.
"Are you all right?" asked Leon even if he knew the answer.
Claire walked in the corridor; she wanted to say 'Good Night' at Steve and Leon. As she was next to the door she heard them speaking. The curious nature of Claire makes her spying at their bedroom door. When she heard Steve saying that sentence, she was chocked. Steve might be gay and in love with Leon? That same catchy sentence cannot stop turning in her head.
"What did you do to me! I can't take that kiss of you out of my mind!"
She left the door, not saying 'Good Night' at them; she just walked to reach her room.
The blond pushed Steve on the wall and talked softly in his ear.
"I want you, I notice that your body responses to mine, why do you hide yourself. You don't have to hide if you're gay, that doesn't matter."
"I'm NOT, I'm in love with Claire, I don't like boys, it's just because I want to... I need to..."
"In love with Claire?" he repeats. "She loves someone else."
Steve froze. He was blind. He didn't notice all the signs that Claire was showing him. She treated him like he was her little brother, not a lover. His view was covered by his tears. He was crying for love, his heart was broken. Steve slid along the wall. No sound came out of his throat. Leon was just looking at him, not knowing how to react with him. Steve could punch him in the face, scream or just doing nothing if he reaches him. He just caresses Steve's cheek.
"Don't touch me..." he said with a low voice.
"I won't until you asked me for it."
"You never give up..." he sighs.