New Age

Chapter 5 ~ He's Hot, I Don't Like Him

We had a talk. Spencer, Juliette and I, we chose to go on another raid. This time, we know there’s Robo at the site, and we plan to kill them.

Juliette had the idea; she was bored of doing nothing, apart from a raid every now and then, and the way I killed all those Robo, she started to think of killing more of them and finally, she reached the point where all the Robo’s were gone from our planet.

Yeah, that’s along way off yet.

We head out tomorrow; I’ve been training them both in guns and short hand fighting. They already know a lot, I was just testing them and adding a few extra skills to the heap.

“Night guys, I’m gonna crash.” Spencer yawns, already up the stairs.

“Okay!” Juliette yells. I walk to the bottom of the stairs and smile up at a very tired Spencer.

“Sleep well Spence.” I say to him. A massive smile lights up his face, he then continues to climb the stairs. I go back to my chair and slump in it. I pull out my book and when I make sure Juliette’s not looking, I bring my glasses out of their case. I put them on and start to read.

“Nice glasses.” I hear Juliette say. I look over my book and find that she too is wearing glasses, but they’re nice designer ones. I have crappy ones from the chemist. When we had chemists.

“Uh, thanks. Yours are better though.” I put my head back in my book.

I read for ages, Juliette goes to bed before me and I just sit there reading. It’s about 1am; I think it’s best I go to bed now. I put my book and glasses down on the desk and start to head up the stairs. I brush my teeth and get into my pyjamas, which is pretty much my underwear. Juliette has given me PJ’s, all my clothes were from her, but I don’t feel like I need to wear PJ’s, so I just strip down and sleep.

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BANG!

What the hell? I sit up, fully awake. I look at my watch and find it’s only 4am. Great. I’m going to be buggered in the morning.

Eeek, click.

That’s the noise of the door closing. Someone’s in the house. I grab my dagger from my bedside table and get out of bed. I slowly and quietly walk down the hallway to the top of the stairs. From there I can hear rustling in the kitchen. They’re stealing our food! I can’t scare them away though; I need to catch them. I cautiously creep down the stairs, dagger in hand and poised up, ready to strike. The person’s still in the kitchen, I can hear the rustle of a packet being opened. I’m nearly down the stairs now, one, more, step.

“FREEZE!” I shout, jumping in the doorway to the kitchen where I find a guy with dried noodles stuffed in his mouth. He sees me and his eyes widen. He tries to speak but he’s forgotten he has noodles in his mouth, so they all fall out. I keep my eyes on him and wait until he has rid his mouth of noodles. He finally speaks.

“Who the hell are you?” He asks in a defensive yet confused tone.

“Why should I tell you?” I begin to advance, my dagger still poised.

“Because I live here.” He reaches in his back pocket.

“No you don’t, Juliette and Spencer do.” I keep my eyes on his face. He’s hot; I don’t like him.

“You know them?” God forbid this man have any more questions!

“Yes. Now, have you got any more questions or are you going to finally explain to me who the hell you are?” I stop advancing him; I’ve got him backed into a corner. Now he seems to be checking me out.

“Why are you in just your underwear?” He asks with a sly smile on his face. Now that caught me by surprise.

“Because I was sleeping.” I say dismissively.

 “You sleep in your underwear?” He’s still grinning. Before I can start beating up this jerk, Juliette walks in.

“Lucas?” Her eyes are wide; if Juliette was a bit tired at all before, she definitely isn’t now.

“Ju!” He exclaims, he runs past me and envelops Juliette in a massive hug. I put my dagger down, feeling silly and wait until they’ve finished reuniting.

“You know him?” I ask Juliette.

“Yeah, Mika, this is Lucas. Lucas, this is Mika.” Juliette introduces us, great, now I have a name to put to the guy. I still don’t like him.

“What were you both doing down here?” Juliette asks, finally put’s the pieces together.

“Talking about Mika’s underwear.” Lucas smiles, I swear, this asshole is winding me up on purpose. Juliette looks at me and gasps.

“Mika! Get some clothes on! Go!” Juliette rushes to shove mw out the kitchen; I just have enough time to glare at Lucas before I’m out the door. He winks back which makes me even more pissed off. I can’t stand him; hopefully I won’t have to put up with him for long.