Colorblind: A Jeff The Killer Story

Chapter Three

Zero and I drank through the night. She would not tell me her name though, I only knew Zero. I saw her starting to get sleepy as the night progressed. I was mostly sober, just a little tipsy. Her on the other hand got messed up. She was starting to lean herself against me as we sat on my couch. I wrapped my arm around her reluctantly. "Are you tired?" I asked her. She nodded ,as she nuzzled into my bare chest.  I placed my hand onto her hair and began to pet the young woman. She looked up at me. Our eyes met and I felt a fire growing between us. Zero reached up to caressed my cheek. I leaned my head into her soft, pale hands. I leaned down and kissed her softly. Zero moved herself from next to me to on my lap. "Zero you're drunk. It's best we don't continue." I suggested nervously. "Don't want a young girl like you to make a mistake." I moved her from my lap and stood from the couch.

      "Jeff?" She looked up at me confused. "I want....this....I promise." Zero's eyes were filled with drunken passion. I walked back to my room and swiftly returned with a blanket.

       "Here I think it's best you sleep this off." I suggested as I handed her the blanket. "Sleep where you like Zero. My room is the one at the end of the hall if you want a bed, or you can sleep on the couch." I walked to the door of my cabin, I looked back at her before leaving the cabin. I walked to the two other elite's cabin.  I sat on the railing of their porch. The knob jiggled before Tim walked into the porch. "Hey." I looked up at him.

      "Why are you always on my porch?" He said in a joking manner. "You look like you've done something wrong."

"Define wrong." I looked up at him than back down at the wooden planks.

"What did you do?" His tone changed, and he spoke in almost a whisper.

"I let Zero get trashed. I made moves, but I just felt guilty. I stopped and told her to go to sleep."

"I'll let her skip training tomorrow if she needs too. You should have just kept going. You would have gotten what you wanted." Tim's comment confused me greatly. He had just told me to take advantage of her drunken state. I stood from the railing of their porch. I walked inside their cabin. Brian was sitting on the couch, his feet propped up on the coffee table and a glass of whiskey in his hand.

"It's late Jeff." He said calmly. "Should you not be asleep?" Brian didn't turn to face me. He sipped his whiskey before placing it on the coffee table.

"I just was letting you kno-"

"She's drunk I know." He interrupted me. "Nothing happens here without my knowledge Jeff. Don't forget that." He stood up from the couch. "I also know about Tim's comment, don't listen to him. And I know about your conversation with Zero. She is not ready for that kind of reasonability. Give her time,plus after tonight she may fall in love with you. Women are strange."

        "You don't understand women Brian. I mean you've been with men and women disgust you." I looked the shorter male in the eyes. They looked dead, encased in dark black circles. Every time I see him he looks worse.

        "Jeff I had a woman once. Long ago when I was not infected with the slender sickness. She was so backwards and vindictive. Men are simple, as long as I keep him fed he's happy." He picked up his glass from the table. He walked to the kitchen. Brian placed the glass onto the counter and grabbed a bottle from the liquor cabinet. "Drink?"

       "No Brian. I've had enough to drink tonight. I don't want to be unable to perform in an emergency." I looked at him as he filled his glass. He overfilled past the normal pour for a whiskey glass. The brown liquid was filled to the brim. "Don't you think that's a little much? I mean what if something happens."

        "Don't worry about me. Worry about you. I know how much I can drink before it affects me too much." Brian sipped on his drink. "Reminds me, can you check on our poor Toby tomorrow? We will all take turns making sure that he is alive." I nodded at the man. "Good you are dismissed. I wish to drink alone."

       I turned on my heels towards the door. I walked onto the porch, Tim had vanished. I shrugged it off as him comforting some other woman. I walked to my cabin. I was concerned about Brian. He has a substance abuse problem, Tim doesn't do much to help my mentor. Tim doesn't do much of anything to think of it. I walked back to my cabin. Zero had passed out on the couch.  I walked past her and took the bottle from the floor next to her. I sulked back to my room, and sat on my mattress.  I looked down the hall at the woman on the couch.  I fell back onto the mattress.

       A few moments later before I fell asleep I heard soft footsteps make their way to my room. I looked up and saw the woman, she stood rubbing her eye. She got on the ground and laid next to me on my mattress. She placed her hand and head onto my chest. Her leg wrapped around mine. I placed my arm around her cautiously.