Guilty

Zane

"I mean...I'll take it..." I say casually. My eyes rested on the animal in front of us.

Josh turns his whole body to stare at me, his mouth falling open, "No, Zane. You absolutely will not take it. It's probably..radioactive."

The creature that is supposedly radioactive gave out a loud oink and I bit back a smile. I have to take it, or else someone might cook it.

"That's right, you insult bacon and she'll kill you."

"Don't name the fucking pig." Josh sighs, taking out his phone to take a picture. I see, he wants to post the poor piglet on the internet without saving it.

"I'll do what I want," I say to him harshly.

I wasn't entirely sure if I was in a good position to make rational decisions. I was suffering through one mean hangover and my fake failed test still hung over me.

I'd do it again for Juliette. I know she worked hard on studying for it. She probably just forgot her studies, not everyone had a photographic memory like yours truly.

Regardless, a fake fail is still a fail that goes on my record. It won't do much damage considering my usual grades. I just had to make sure my father didn't catch wind of it or else I was truly fucked.

The only reason I'd agreed to go with Josh on this walk was to clear my head. He said it was a good way to do some cardio. I, like most men, prefer to practise cardio the more fun away. As in..in a bed with a woman.

But Josh was weird as fuck.

Then again, if I hadn't gone out on my little run I never would have seen the baby pig on campus. I had no idea what it was doing here or why someone had brought it but I wanted it. I'd always wanted an animal growing up but my father would have never allowed it. I guess a piglet is the next best thing.

"I'm gonna take this pig, Bacon, and I'm going love it," I stated.

"Now how are you gonna look after a pig?" Josh questions, rolling his eyes.

"Walk it, feed it..love it," I replied.

"You don't have time to walk it...and you don't even know what pigs eat, Zane."

"It's eating the grass happily, look I can just google what its preferred eating habits are. And I can make time for Bacon. I'll just cancel all my hook-up plans." I say with a smile.

"In that case, you've just freed up about a hundred hours of your schedule," Josh says dryly.

"That's not true, I'm not a whore."

Well...

"Fine, take the damn pig," Josh sighed.

I walked forward and scooped it into my arms. Bacon was surprisingly chill about that, maybe it had already been socialised by whoever brought it on campus.

It was like a dog, but it was a pig.

Obviously.

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I was walking back to my room slowly when something faintly touched my arm.

I spun around and saw Juliette standing there. Her hair was in a high ponytail and she had a black skirt and a blue top on.

She looked pretty.

"What?" I ask her, rudely.

"Did you- are you...is that a pig?" She asks, her eyes dropping to the small animal in my arms.

My Juliette is always so perceptive.

"Yeah, his name is Bacon."

"Zane, why do you have a piglet?" She asks me, exasperated.