On The Run

Worms and Epiphanies

SD's POV:
The next morning, I went over to the mess hall and got my tray, heading over to a table near the middle of the room. I carefully cut the sushi, if that's what it was, and then started to chew it. It honestly wasn't as bad as I made it out to be all the time, but it was still pretty awful. It tasted really salty, and I think it was because they soaked it in soy sauce. I didn't realize that until I took a second bite, because the first was kinda that loner piece at the end of the tray. I immediately spit out the second slice and took a long drink of my water. I HATE soy sauce. "Hey, that was perfectly good sushi! Why'd you spit it out?"

I nearly chocked on my water as Rusty appeared next to me, and jumped in the process. "God, stop scaring me like that, you're gonna give me a heart attack!" Rusty Jo laughed. "You're cute when you're annoyed." I scrunched up my face and yelled, "Shut up! No I'm not! Now quit flirting." Rusty Jo gave me a hurt look that was so fake. "Me? Flirting? I'm NOT! Take a compliment every once and a while! Most people look quite stupid when they're being pestered by me, which by the way is pretty often."

I rolled my eyes, and poked the apple, and it started to wiggle around, as if it were alive. "Ummm... last time I checked, apples don't move around this much when they're poked.." Rusty looked at the apple in disgust from the other side. "Oh yeah, sometimes the apples have worms.. Hehe, should've warned you..." I screeched, "WHAT?!?" Just then, a dirty salmon colored worm popped out. I screamed so loud, and ran out of the room, and suddenly, all my eyes saw was gray.

Rusty's POV:

Well, now I feel bad for not telling her that earlier, but it was still hilarious for me watching her scream down a hallway over a worm! I started to laugh, and threw away her tray anyways, because I don't think she'll be eating in here again for a while. I started to laugh as I walked down the hallway headed towards where she had ran. I yelled after her, "Sugar, you should've seen the look on yo- SUGAR!" I looked down next to me, and saw SD face down on the gray tiles. "Oh my god, SD! Are you okay?!?"

Sugar groaned. Her voice was muffled as she spoke, so I didn't know what she said. "What was that?" She lifted her head up, and her nose was cut and bleeding. "I hate you and prison food. Period." I gasped and asked, "Are you okay?" I was honestly pretty concerned, both her nose was bleeding and she had a bruise on her forehead from where she fell. "My head hurts..." She groaned. She got up, and started to go to the cell, which wasn't too far from here. "Here. Just lie down." She shook her head. "But it doesn't hurt THAT ba-"

"I don't care, just lie down, would ya? I don't want you getting hurt anymore than you already are." She once again shook her head. "I wanted to call my mom on the public phone over there." She pointed over to the line of blue and silver phones on the wall. "Oh, sure, go ahead! You can go call her if you want. But come right back! Because I don't want you tripping over a rock or something." I laughed. "I won't, Rusty, jeez."

SD's POV:

I strutted over to the phone, my head throbbing, and tried to call her. The only response on it was, "I'm sorry, but this number was disconnected. Please try again." I growled and tried again. Same response. She couldn't have gotten a new phone, she literally just got a MePhone 6+ last month! I called the phone service. "Excuse me, hello. I'm trying to call my mom, but they're saying that she got disconnected from your service somehow."

The lady cleared her throat and replied, "What is her number?" I told her the number and she gasped. "Is your mom's name Fluorescent Bulb Static?" I quickly said yes, and she sounded shocked as she asked, "You didn't know?" I flinched my head back. I questioned, "Didn't know what...? Did something happen?" I looked over at Rusty, and he just shrugged, also confused. "Well, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but not too long ago, your mom.. And dad... They both got in a bad car accident... And were both.. killed by the forceful impact of the other car. I'm very sorry, dear."

The moment I heard car accident, I knew. I knew something like this would happen to them. I just felt it in my gut. My face went pale, and it felt as if everything just had no meaning anymore. They really were the only people that I wasn't a huge prick towards. They were the reason I was finally free from that god awful orphanage. I had finally had a family. "T-T-Thank you for telling me.... goodbye..." I stammered, trying not to cry. "I'm sorry, goodbye." The lady hung up, and I just dropped the phone, which was caught by the swirled cord attached to the box.

Rusty Jo looked at me, still confused, his expression softened a bit this time. "S-Sugar?" A single tear dripped down my cheek, and I calmly said, "I-I just need s-some time. Gotta go...." I chocked on those last two words, not wanting to cry in front of him. I ran and I heard him yell something to me, but I didn't hear. I just ran back to our cell as fast as I could, and started bursting out in tears in my now comforting blanket.

I had sat there for a short period of time, a blanket over my head and small sniffles and little trickles of tears traveling down my cheeks, when I heard a creek come from the other side of the room. Then I felt someone sit next to me. "Go a-away, I d-don't w-wanna talk!" Them I heard what revealed to be Rusty say, "Tell me what happened, SD. I want to help." I shook my head inside of the blanket. "THERE'S NO WAY. Unless have the power to bring p-people back to life..."

Rusty gasped. "I'm so sorry... I didn't know.." I replied shakily, "I-It's not your fault... You couldn't have known... Now I'm a emotional m-mess." He suddenly lifted the covers off my head, revealing my pale face. "You have a reason to be as broken as you look.. Who? I understand if you don't want to talk about it.." I lowered my face, my messy light blue hair covering my face, and quietly said, "M-My parents.." Rusty tried to comfort me, but nothing worked. It was like a saw had literally cut my heart into pieces. I felt awful. "Now that they're gone... I have no one... my sister hates me now, you probably hate me for hurting my sister, and now the entire WORLD has it broadcasted that I said I hated her..... it's my fault they're dead.. they might've been out looking for me... I'm the reason they're gone."

I sat there, ready to start crying again, when I felt Rusty grab me. He started to hug me, not too tightly, but not too loosely either. He whispered, "Not everyone hates you, SD. I don't hate you! In fact... I think you're pretty great." I perked up a bit at the last comment. Maybe trying to be good wouldn't be so bad... if Rusty likes me, then I wonder who else could! It opened up so many better possibilities! I had an epiphany, and I think I finally understood!

I let him hug me, and eventually, I started to hug him back. Slowly, I smiled, and was feeling a bit better about their passing. They were in a better place now... I blushed as Rusty Jo suddenly took my hands. "Are feeling okay now?" I nodded my head, and he hugged me again. Maybe being in prison wasn't going to be as bad as I thought.

(A/N: HAIIII! I'm here! How'd you like it? Was that enough Rusty Drop for you? 😂 Anyways, comment what you thought!)