Black & White

P5- Midnight Adventure

I hope I didn't just basically give away the chapter with the title.. I probably did... Ehhhh... *holds up fanart* METTATONNNNN

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Travis's POV
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Zane had been sobbing, we were all confused, and this movie night went from zero to a hundred really quick. I didn't know what to do...

After about thirty minutes we got Zane to calm down, he pulled back, the tears drying from his cheeks, but his eye red and puffy. He looked around at us, looked at the ground, and huffed, a cough leaving his mouth. Aphmau hugged him again, then she whispered something in his ear. He coughed and nodded, his ears getting a little bit red. He looked up again. "What?" He muttered. Aphmau jumped up, a giddy smile on her face. "Okay! Everyone, since it's the middle of the night and we have a couple of mini-vans with us... We're gonna go on a midnight adventure to MCDONALD'S!" She squealed. "Heck yeah!" I shouted,  and most of us started walking to the door, Garroth, Vylad, and Aphmau were still talking to Zane. I drifted out of the line at the door and walked over to them, Zane was being hugged by the three of them.

They pulled back, Aphmau was shivering, rubbing her arms. "Uh.. You need to borrow my sweater Aph...?" Zane asked, somewhat shyly. She hesitated, then nodded. He pulled it up over his head and gave it to her. "Oh dear Irene, how cold do you girls keep it in here?! It's like a meat locker!" Zane shivered. "Come on Baby Brother, you have long sleeves. You're fine." Garroth said. "You're always hot, give me yours." Zane said, pulling Garroth's plaid shirt off of him. He wrapped up in it and Garroth rolled his eyes. "Wow, so I'm not allowed to donate clothes?" Vylad asked. Aphmau snatched his scarf and wrapped it around her. "Let's roll guys, McDonald's is calling for us." I said, making them jump. I snickered and Aphmau tugged Zane's arm. He stared at me for a moment, a hint of fear in his eye, then he followed her out to the van. I was second to last out, Katelyn stayed to lock the door after me. We pretty much packed ourselves into the mini-vans. Aaron was driving our van, and Katelyn was driving the girls'.  "Okay guys, you good?" Aaron slightly turned his head to hear us. "Dude, we aren't kids.." Laurence said. Garroth nodded. Aaron just laughed. He turned on the radio, turning the sound up to about forty. An Undertale remix started playing from his phone.. "HELL YEAH!" Laurence and Garroth yelled. "NOPE!" Aaron said, hitting the skip button. Garroth and Laurence looked mad, slumping back in their  seats, mumbling angry curse words. Another song started playing, I think it was called Sabotage..? All I know is that Zane was quietly singing along and it is hard to sing quietly to this song. It kind of makes you want to drink and party... Or something along those lines. I sat back and listened, slowly remembering the words. Aaron rolled down the passenger window to the girls, they had theirs down. They didn't notice us, so Aaron turned his head a bit and said something to us. "Okay, on the count of three, everyone yell, 'Listen all of y'all, it's Sabotage!' At the girls. Roll down your windows on that side, too. This'll be hilarious.." Aaron started counting as we rolled down our windows.. "One... Two... Three!"

We all yelled the song phrase to the girls, it scared the hell out of Katelyn, she nearly swerved their car. Katelyn almost made a very rude hand gesture at us, Aphmau covered Katelyn's hand and pushed it down, laughing her head off. We were all snickering while the girls were giggling. After about a minute we pulled into the McDonalds. "Okay, come on guys." I said. The girls were already heading in, we were dragging behind. Laurence was leaning on the seat, waiting for Garroth to pull it forward so us back-seaters could get out. Let's just say that now they were on the ground rolling around and laughing. Dante and I got out, trying not to step on Garroth and Laurence. "Come on guys, get up.." I said, reaching for Garroth's hand to pull him up. Zane looked like he wanted to offer a hand, but held back because of his arm. I smiled and helped both of them up, and Zane looked down with a pink hue dusting his cheeks. We headed into the McDonalds, where the girls were. They were giggly, and they were already ordering. Aphmau straightened up but was still giggling when Aaron walked in, so I walked over to her, saying "Ooooh, somebody's crushin'!" Just loud enough for the girls to hear, Aphmau went red and the girls started giggling again. The cashiers looked a little weirded out. "This is what happens when we take midnight trips to McDonalds.." I said when I finally got up to the counter. The girl at the counter giggled and smiled, then welcomed me to McDonalds. I ordered my food, and walked to a table. Zane was looking for a place to sit down.. Aphmau's table was already full. "I'm so sorry my baby!" Aphmau said. "It's fine.." Zane muttered, looking down. "Zane! You can sit over here," I said, slapping the table by accident. I jerked my hand back, rubbing it.. Zane hesitated, but walked over and sat down.

"So..."

Zane stayed quiet, looking at me. I think he was plotting to kill me and take my soul, but that's highly unlikely. "It's a nice night out.. Huh?" I said. "Crickets are chirping, flowers are.. Being evil.. On nights like these, kids like us.. Should go to McDonalds!" I joked. Zane snickered a little. "Aw, come on, you know that was hilarious." I said, smiling. He looked sad..

"Heh... She used to love that stupid game.." Zane mumbled.

She...?

My smile faded. He cleared his throat. He must have seen the look on my face. "She was an old friend from middle school.. Her name was Josefina. Josefina Stalin..."

He sighed. "We were together every day, but I was so quiet nobody knew we were friends. One day.." He took a breath. "One day.. she didn't come to school. I got a text from her that night.. She.. She said she was in the hospital." He said. He was breathing a little shakily, but kept the same look on his face. "So.. I went to see her. She wasn't doing well.. The doctor broke the news to me.. She had.. She had cancer. Neuroblastoma.. I think it was stage two.. Or three..? She was so angry at herself. So after that.. I went to see her every day. She was surviving for about two or three years.. B-But th-then one n-night.." I could've sworn I saw him tear up. He cleared his throat, wiping his eyes with his sleeve. "I went to visit her. I knew I should've... I knew I should've taken that damn pocket knife.."

I dedicate dis chapper to KarlLans because he came up with the name Josefina Stalin a while back, before I re-wrote this book, we had made a lot of plans originally but I changed them. A lot. Fort, if you're reading this.. Remember, I am NOT going to make him slip on a land mine with explosive fricken diarrhea. Ever. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂