White Rabbit | Alice In Borderland

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I look distastefully at the bloodied man on the floor who doesn't look to have so many piercings anymore

I zipped around the front of the building and grabbed our bags while he was beating the poor guy

as I offer water, Aguni quickly takes the bottle and chugs it all down in a matter of seconds.

"Aguni" I start as he looks at me

"You don't need all the things you put in the backpack for yourself, it's clear. Where are you going?" I ask trying to make eye contact so he's more influenced to tell me the truth

He doesn't respond rather starts walking, "Aguni please answer" I ask subtly hissing at the pain of my back as we walk

"The beach, you've proved yourself intelligent so your coming" He sighs pulling jacket back above my back as if that'll help

"what's the beach?" I try ask

"Akira not right now" He says seriously

"Okay" I nod following him

We're walking for a while in what I thought to be comfortable silence until we got to a red car, it was one of those old style cars

Not old style like race car like an actual vintage car

I watched as he hopped in and started it, after noticing he was ready to go I quickly hopped in passengers with the bags.

"Are you in the mood for me yet?" I ask quietly looking at the buildings passing by

"No more questions?" he asks with a smirk

"No promises but for this ride sure"

He nods saying i'm free to talk

"What was your old life like?" I ask looking at him, surely he was a boxer or something

"In my old life I had a dog and she ran away one time and this big boxer dude showed up to give her back cause her address was on the back of her collar, were you a boxer?" I ask when he doesn't respond

he simply shakes his head

"oh"

there's a few seconds of silence

"what else did the boxer do?"

"Nothing, it was a lie i thought you were a boxer and i wanted to relate to you" I shrug opening my bag and grabbing some gum out of it.

I wind down the window and spit the current gum in my mouth out and replace it yet again.

"Why do you chew gum so frequently?" He asks me making a turn for the shore

"it helps me" I shrug

"with what?" He replies not taking his eyes off the road

"Look who's asking questions now" I accuse jokingly

"look who's avoiding answering me now" He replies with the same tone

"i'm not" I quickly protest

"then answer"

"I will"

a few more seconds of silence pass

he then turns to me with an eyebrow raised

"to stay the same weight" I sigh and look down

i can feel his stare burning into me

"you look fine"

"yeah now, but when you came into the store and I was eating those chips cause I was under the impression nobody would be there to judge me ever again, but here we are" I sigh looking outside to the lots of people entering back into the giant building we've pulled up to