The Tale Of The Zones: Bondaged (Book 2)

Chapter 3:

"I just want to apologize if I offended you the yesterday." Val Velocity said as he ran up to me as I was walking down the beat up Nest.

I sigh and turn around," It's fine." I say shortly. I'm still a little ticked off at him because of how rude he came off as. "Just go, Val."

I start walking down to the living room. I trailed my fingers along the walls, occasionally picking off the green, peeling wallpaper.

I still hear footsteps behind me and stop and turn without warning, causing Val to run into me.

The collision caused me to fall back a little, but he grabs me in time to prevent me from hitting the ground.

"I gotcha." He smiled.

"Thanks."I mutter as I rub my arm.

"Toxic, really. I'm sorry for being an ass. I was just trying to state my opinion." He said as he let me go.

" I understand that you have an opinion, but you can say it in a whole different way than being a jerk about it."

He looked down at his bright yellow boots, then back to my eyes again,"I just don't want to be a screw up. Especially in front of you." He stated, looking a little embarrassed.

I was taken aback by his comment. I felt the heat rising to my cheeks as I pit my hands behind my back and pursed my lips.

"Why wouldn't you want to screw up in front of me?" I ask.

He fiddles with his feet jacket for the longest time as he bit his lip,"I uh."

I lean against the wall as I raise my eyebrows,"You what?" I say curiously.

I have a feeling I know what he is going to say. It is a little obvious. Isn't it?

"I like you, Toxic." He said ad he looked everywhere besides my eyes.

Yup, that was what I thought he was going to say, but why was I stil shocked?

I think about it. I think to when Poison had told me he liked me, I felt warm and fuzzy inside. If Poison would've caught me like Val had earlier, then my heart would've been racing faster than the trans am ever could.

"I don't expect you to like me back, I mean you lost someone you loved, and you are carrying a kid, but I just thought you should know " he said after a few minutes of silence.

He then walked the opposite way of where I was going, leaving me in the hallway.

"Well, shit." I whisper.
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"Come on guys, let's get messed up tonight!" A killjoy named Vaya said, her pink hair spiked up. She was a part of Val's crew.

Her twin sister, Vamos grabbed a pack of beer and held it up.
"Let's party!" She squealed as I cringed and decided to leave the room to go see Cherri Cola and Electric Rose.

I make my way to the other side of the Nest to their room, silently praying that I'm not interrupting anything they might be doing.

I hesitantly knock on their door and stand around for a few seconds before the door creaked open and Electric Rose peeked her head out of the door.

"Hi." I wave.

"Hey, come on in. Cherri Cola and I were just chilling." She said as she welcomed me into her room.

"Yeah. Chilling." I smirk, earning a light smack on my cheek. Her room was done in light pink. The paint was chipped off the walls, and her pink bedsheets were mixed in with blue pillowcases.