25th July 2013 Thursday

Day 206

Thank you for your ideas (been a while since I asked, huh) so hopefully I can incorporate all of your ideas; this one goes out to all the reviewers! Despite the fact that one-shots are unrelated to the story, this one will be the exception to the rule.

Disclaimer: I own nothing…that includes Dex Hamilton.

"Dex would've killed you," Bream commented, grunting as she pulled the door to the enclosure shut. Tung slammed his big eyes against the glass, cupping his goggles as he peered in.

"Relax, no one knows the bug escaped," he peeled his face off the window, leaving a grimy imprint. "We'll just rake a broom through that area the bug went through and no one will know otherwise."

"That room looks like a hurricane's ripped through it, and it might as well have, you set loose a tornado drone!"

"Doesn't matter now, it's safely locked up," his boots clicked against the floor as he walked away; Bream following closely. "So, why did you want to talk in the remote part of the habitat?"

Bream shifted uncomfortably in her stride, crossing her arms over her chest. "I just thought we needed to get away from all the other couples. Can you believe it? In a matter of days, we'll be the only unmarried people in the crew."

"Wow, I had no idea," Tung said, staring blankly forward. The two walked together in silence down the never-ending hall way, however, the tracker had a feeling that Bream wanted to say more.

"Everything's just moving so fast," she mumbled, perhaps more to herself than to her conversationalist. Tung looked away, uncomfortable and drawing a blank on something, anything that he could say.

"Heh, well you know what they say; if it's not moving fast, then it's not moving at all."

Bream stopped dead in her tracks, and it wasn't after a few waddling footsteps forward that Tung realised he was no longer side by side with the girl.

"Who says that?" she asked sceptically.

"Just…people from this-this book I read."

"What book?"

"Ok, it was one of Jane's magazines," a smirk spread on the girl's lips. "It was just something they said in this relationship article."

"Tung, do we need to do something in our relationship?" the question caught the little tracker off guard as he felt the heat surge up to his face; sweat pouring from the top of his brow at an alarming rate.

"Wh- what makes you say that?"

"You did," she said bluntly, raising an eyebrow. "Everyone around us is moving on and away, do you think we should take another step."

When she noticed his trembling expression, her gaze softened, relaxing him. "Just let me ask this; are you happy with where we are in our relationship?"

His head moved around quickly as though looking for an answer, an escape or a distraction. When he realised nothing would come to his rescue, he drew a deep breath, ready to say how he felt and ready to deal with the consequences.

"I am very happy with where we are."

At first, panic grew on his face as she cast her gaze down. Internally regretting his decision, the frog boy closed his eyes in preparation for a slap or a scream; whichever came first.

Relief washed over him when he peeled open his eyes, seeing a glowing smile on the girl he adored. She leant down and gave him a quick kiss on his cheek, turning him beetroot red. "So am I."

These two are so innocent and cute, that I hardly think anything new would come to their relationship. This is a Zap and Jenny based story the whole way through. R&R! And thanks so much for everyone's support.

Another fun fact because I forgot to mention it the chapter after the other fun fact: Anyone remember that cartoon show Get Ed? It was about a group of teens who delivered packages? Main guy in blue, pretty girl in pink, muscle boy in red flames, little girl in purple and skinny guy in green with a puppet on his hand? Well if you listen to the titular character's voice, you'll hear Zap's voice!