-Across America- Diego Brando x reader

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I don't have anything to say but hope you enjoy!

After about 5 minutes, Diego showed up...

He was carrying his stuff. He gave me a quick look and then proceeded to put all his baggage on his horse. "Soo.. They gave us some supplies." I pointed to the bags. He wasn't saying anything. He was looking away. "Hey are you deaf?" I tried getting his attention. It was quite annoying when he did that. "Huh? What is it?" He looked back at me. "I said that they gave us food... What's up with you today? You look really distracted..." I got on my horse. "It's nothing really. I was just looking at the sunrise... It's pretty." His eyes darted off away once again. I looked in the direction of the sun too. It was indeed very pleasant to look at. It had all sorts of red, purple and pink shades.
"Alright, let's go." He jumped up on his horse. We departed from the village.

"So what's the plan for today?" I asked him. "A plan? I don't really have one. I'm going for the next corpse part. That's the plan. You will be coming with me, yes?" He sounded really serious. "Well, yeah I'm coming with you. But let's get one thing clear. I'm not going to fight against Johnny or Gyro. So don't expect me helping you with that." I straight up said. "Okay. I never expected you to do that. I just want you to stay with me." He looked unbothered about me mentioning that I wasn't planning on helping him at all.

I took out a map of the 4th stage. "Diego... Which route will we be taking?" There were a lot of small rivers diverging from Mississippi. "I was actually thinking about that. We should take the northern one. There are the least rivers and it will be the fastest one. We will also spend the night near that one small lake. We will continue the rest of it tomorrow." He said. "And are you sure you don't want to complete the 4th stage first before going for the part?" I thought this was better. "No. Already told you what we'll do." He confidently said. "Alright... And you act different today. What happened?" I asked because he seemed off. "...I'll maybe tell you later, but I may not. Depends." He sighed. I felt sort of anxious about it.. "Did I do something?" I worried. I decided to just give him some time. It wasn't nice seeing him act so cold. "I want him to talk to me.." We kept going forward...

Diego and I had a little left before that lake. It was starting to get really dark so I just followed behind him. He could see better at night than me. I was really tired. We had been running for about 9 hours and we hadn't talked much.
I noticed that he slowed his pace. "We're here." I spotted a small lake and a wooden house next to it. The water was reflecting the moonlight and it had trees surrounding the little house."Is this where we will be staying at?" I asked. "Yes. But there's is already someone at that house there..." I noticed that the lights were on. Someone had arrived before us.

We got closer. We saw that there was a horse outside. "Y/N.. Could you get the things off the horses? I'll check who's inside." He jumped off. "Okay.." He opened the front door and got in. I was confused, but did as he said anyways..

After few minutes, I was done. I left all the baggage on the porch. Diego was still inside. I decided to go check what he was doing. I entered the house and closed the door behind me. Then I took a good look of the inside. There was a nicely decorated corridor. I didn't see anyone. The corridor was leading to some other doors. I began walking towards the closest one on the right. I reached out for the handle, but hesitated.. It was really quiet and tense, almost uncanny. The atmosphere was startling me... "Y/N.. what are you doing??" I got scared and jumped back. I looked up and saw that it was just my stand. "Oh god.. don't frighten me like that-" "Are you scared? I sensed an anxious feeling and decided to check what's going on." It looked around. "It's nothing.. I'm just searching for Diego." I grabbed the handle and finally opened the door. I turned on the lights, and there was a cozy kitchen. "What's that smell Y/N?" B2T flew over me. I walked towards some cabinets. It seemed like the place was recently used, with some utensils left uncleaned. "I don't know, maybe some food-" "No, not that. I smell blood." It looked at me. "Huh- Blood?" I got out of that room. "Where's Diego??" I got worried.