Radio Active

Section 10

"I thought you wouldn't show." The deep voice startles me and I jump, I turn around to see Eric standing behind me with a smirk on his face.

"I thought I was shown up!" I say back hitting him on his arm. I lean back on the wall behind me and look at him and he looks at me. "What do you what?" I say a bit more bluntly than I meant, he chuckles.

"Well you weren't partying where you?" I huff out,

"Yeah I guess I wasn't. Why weren't you?" he doesn't answer for a moment then he opens his mouth,

"It's not my thing." I nod my head at his answer and slide down to a sitting position on the floor.

I look out of the opening in the carriage, it's pretty dark outside and I can just about make out crumpled up buildings. I look away from the outside world and turn my attention to Eric who is staring at me blankly, "Where are we going?" I say breaking the silence, taking him out of his daze.

"Where do you want to go?" I think about his question for a moment.

"I don't know, wherever." Eric moves from his space and comes to sit next to me on the floor.

"I don't know where we're going we can just go around the city." I look at Eric and nod, he gives me a quick smile back.

"Did the Landscape work okay after we left?" I say to him moving around to get more comfortable.

"Yeah it did they all went well." Eric straightens his legs and crosses his feet over the other.

"Did Penny do okay?" He rolls his eyes.

"Why do you care?" His voice harsh.

"Well if you remember rightly she is my sister." I stare at him looking for a reaction.

"Yeah I guess, what even happened?"
Why do people keep asking this question!

"I don't want to talk about it, but want I will say is, is that I don't understand why she hates me I didn't do anything wrong but she hates me as supposedly I didn't care or try hard enough." Eric nods and leaves the subject alone. I want to tell him but I don't trust him I haven't even told Jackson or Tash and they're my best friends, I can't even go over what happened in my mind fully without getting too overwhelmed.

"How's your arm?" Eric nods towards where my wound is. I move my arm a bit,

"It's better but it's still a bit sore on occasion."

"Can I, have a look?" I nod my head and take off my hoodie feeling the cold air almost immediately, I move my arm closer to Eric for him to get a better look. He takes my arm carefully and examines the forming scare, he rubs his thumb over and I wince as a shot of pain runs through my arm. He notices and stops taking his hand away from my arm, "Sorry."

"Its, its okay." I give him a smile and put my hoodie back on. "So nurse Eric how does it look?" I smirk and he glares at me.

"It looks good it's not infected and it's scarring well so it should be fine." I nod my head,

"Will it scar permanently?"

He sighs, "Yeah probably."

"Great." I give him a sarcastic thumbs up.

We sit in silence for awhile the only noise of the train going over the tracks and the wind, the train jolts sending me into Eric so I am leaning against him. I push myself up from his arm, suppressing a laugh, his arm is extremely firm so he obviously works on his arms and pecks. "Sorry!" I say in a singing tune.

"Don't worry about it." He replies crossing his arms over his chest. His black jacket hikes up and I see the start of his arm tattoos that are on his wrist.