Apocalypse calypso

Chapter 6

"What now?"

"I don't know."

"Should we go outside too?"

"Usually, one of us always stays here."

"Okay.", I placed my hand on his leg and my head on his shoulder.

He put his arm around me and pulled me closer, I looked at him and smiled. He came closer and kissed me again, this time more passionate but still gentle. I pulled him on my lap, kissing him, pulling his hair. I laid down on my back, him kneeling over me, laughing and giggling.

"What's wrong?", I asked.

"Nothing, it's just strange, you know, in these times. It's been a while."

"Then it's time.", I smiled and pulled him down.

I turned us around, kissing his neck, I felt how he pulled my shirt, biting his lip. I pulled up his shirt a bit and traced my fingertips up and down his sides.

"Please don't stop.", he whispered with closed eyes.

I opened his pants and touched him, he couldn't escape a slight moan from escaping his lips. He did the same to me, I pulled his hair. After a few minutes we were just in shirt and boxers. We didn't go any further, but it was pleasing enough. When we were done, I sat back up, ruffling his hair one more time.

"That was something.", he smiled happily.

He pushed himself up on his arms, from the corner of my eye I saw something black fall on the ground and when I looked at him, I met both of his eyes.

"Don't look!", he covered the eye with his hand.

"Come on, show me.", I grabbed his hand and pushed it away.

Slowly he turned his head, revealing his fake eye. It almost had the same colour as the real one, three greyish circles in the middle, the camera and flashlight easy to identify. The skin around it looked thin, revealing the thick and damaged blood vessels, shimmering in a purple and dark blue shade, looking like a bunch of lightnings coming from his eye.

I noticed how his eye got wet, I gently placed my hand on his cheek, rubbing it with my thumb.

"You look beautiful, don't worry.", I smiled.

"I'm not beautiful."

"You are, with or without eye patch or fake eye, it's you."

"Thank you."

"Do you feel it?"

"No, I can activate the camera on will, but it's very sensitive, I rarely use it."

"Can you take everything out?"

"You mean the cables? No, they basically melted them to my nerves. I can just take out the eyeball and disconnect it from the cables."

"Oh, okay. That's quite cool, sad you lost it but this doesn't sound too bad.", I nervously smiled.

"Yeah, it is. I can see like three times better and zoom in on very small things, my vision on this eye is comparable to an eagle's eye."

"Oh, wow. That's a pretty good eye."

"Yeah."

"Can you take photos with it?"

"No, sadly, but we're working on that."

"Okay last question, what's the third circle?"

"Night vision, pretty useful.", he smiled.

"How did you fit all that in there?!"

"Well, the prosthetic ball that keeps my eye socket from collapsing is not as big as usual, but the eye is, so everything has space but my eye isn't empty. See.", he pulled it out.

"You really went from not showing me at all to taking your entire eye out in seconds, wow."

"Yeah, if we're here already I can tell you everything. So, that's what it looks from behind.", he showed me the small parts, disconnecting it from the cables.

"That's so cool. But the cable hanging out of your head is weird."

"Sorry.", he laughed and put everything back in place.

"Oh the camera does that funny zoom in and out thing when starting too."

"Sure, not me zooming in on you on purpose."

"What?"

"What?"

He just laughed and laid back down. I placed my head on his chest, relaxing. He ruffled my hair and held my hand after a while I felt how I got sleepy.

"Oh, had fun you love birds?", a female voice asked. Seconds later Milo sat up pushing me away.

"How long have you been standing there?!", he said with an upset tone.

"Long enough.", Ella said, shortly followed by the others.

"It's not what it looks like!", Milo stuttered.

"It is.", Sam added, throwing a toclerfare on the table.

"I'm not gay.", I knew what we had wasn't serious yet, but it hurt me.

"Wouldn't be so sure about that, honey.", Jo mumbled.

"I...okay....I am indeed gay.", he admitted embarrassed.

"We know, bro.", Pat laughed.

"Wait know what?"

"That you're gay."

"How?! I didn't say a word."

"Oh, come on, I thought you were smarter.", Sam dryly said.

"You kept the distance to us but not our girlfriends, not because you flirted with them.", Pat explained.

"How do you know?"

"You didn't try to hide it, you hugged them and kissed their cheeks in front of us."

"I...."

"Also, just the way you looked at Azra. You smile every time he's near you, you put your arm around him, and your eyes are sparkling when you look at him.", Ella smiled.

"And you thought we wouldn't notice your hand in his back pocket?", and I blushed that they noticed.

"Bro, we don't care, we are taken so why not you too? Enjoy your life as long as you can, you won't get out alive anyway. Especially not in these times.", Sam tinkered around not looking up.

"Thank you.", he turned around to me.

"Go on kiss and then check out the flying bowling ball.", Sam pointed at me.
"And then put your pants back on."

We did as he said and walked over to the table.