Escape (Keith X OC)

Chapter 4

      Tera walked until she got to the kitchen. She realized she hadn't eaten since last morning. As she walked in, she saw some in there. He had a bandana on and he was eating some green goop.

      He heard her come in, "Oh, hey...Tera, right? You hungry? There's a bunch of this stuff." He pointed at the green goop on another plate, "It's not as bad as it looks, trust me. I'm Hunk by the way."

     She relaxed her shoulders, "Thank you, Hunk...I, uh, haven't eaten since yesterday morning..." Tera was shy with new people she met, especially when trying to befriend them.

     Hunk gasped, "Oh, gee, then here! Go ahead and eat. You must be starving, I know I would be." Tera took the plate and smiled kindly. She poked the green blob, sniffed it, gave it a lick, gagged, and ate the goop anyway. She needed the extra energy to be able to keep up and could not afford to be picky.

      "So, how is it?" said Hunk with a curious look on his face, full of hope.

      Tera laughed, "It's alright. Yeah, it's fine." Hunk laughed along with her. She thought it was nice to have someone to joke around with.

"What's so funny?" the man with a white tuft of hair said with a polite smile.

     Hunk explained, "Oh, Tera here is trying the green stuff for the first time."

     The man chuckled a bit to himself and turned to face Tera, "Well, it is a very interesting dish. Hi, I'm Shiro and you are Tera, is that right?"

     She responded as best as possible, "Yes, Tera. It's nice to meet you."

     He nodded to her response, "Same to you. Well, It was nice to stop by. I'll be checking the perimeter of the palace." And just like that, he was gone.

      Tera was feeling much better than the night before now that she had met a few other people properly. She told Hunk goodbye and headed out after finishing her "intresting dish". She didn't know where to go next, usually on her "days off" she'd train, so she made her way to the training room.

     While walking over she felt something or someone tap her shoulder, she looked over. Nothing. Then there was another tap on her other shoulder. Again, she looks but sees no one. There it is, another tap. She quickly grabbed whatever was poking her and turned around to face them, their arm twisted in her hand's grasp. The tapping culprit was none other than Lance.

He smiled a bit while in slight pain, "Woah, ow, so you are tougher than you look. You're still cute though, ow." She let go of his wrist and apologized. He spoke again," So, how are you liking your stay here?"

        Tera shrugged, "Well...I like it. So far, everyone here is pretty, uh, chill? I mean, you know, they're nice."

      He grinned," Yeah, pretty much everyone's cool here, EXCEPT FOR KEITH." She wasn't expecting that response at the end.

      She asked, "Why?" Keith seemed nice when she first met him. Heck, he backed her up when no one else would.

      Lance looked at her, "Well, he's always acting like the 'cool guy' and- and, he's not!"

     She could not help it but to laugh while raising an eyebrow, "Oh, yeah? And who is the 'cool guy' then, hm?"

    Lance tried to say something, but all that came out was, "weh- wah?eh, uh." He could feel his face heat up as he stopped his walking and watched Tera leaving. She looked over her shoulder while moving, "See you later I guess, Mr. Real Cool-Guy '." She didn't know why she was worrying so much before, everyone's so friendly.