Them Humans

Untitled Part 8

MADDY'S POV

    I listened to the beat carefully and moved my feet to the beat. It got faster and I couldn't help but let myself go. Troy grinned at me and put his hands against my waist tightly. He danced next to me and when the beat stopped, we looked at each other and giggled at each other. He combed his hair back with both hands and I smiled. He reminded me of Charlie. 

   "Haven't seen you around." He mutters into my ear. 

   "Maybe you haven't looked hard enough." I say and he just chuckles with a nod. The beat starts again and he grabbed my arm, pulling me outside instead of dancing more. 

   "You know how to swim?" He asks with a grin. 

   "Yeah." I nod my head and see a swimming pool filled with a bunch of people. Some people inside were making out and some were playing marco polo; a game the Edmin always played. 

   "Wanna go?" He asks, taking his shirt off and I nod my head.  "You got extra clothes?"

   "Nope." I shake my head but he grins with a sweet smile. He grabs my hand, and we jump in together into the deep end. I felt water consume me and when we were heading upwards, I felt his hands around my waist, helping me even if I could swim. I wondered what he was thinking. 

   We floated and swam to the end where I could barely stand. He helped me up and his eyes glowed against the lights. 

   "She's so beautiful...." I heard his thoughts. "Beautiful."

   I looked into his eyes and I couldn't help but think of Charlie. He smiled and I realized our faces were close. A little too close. 

   "Troy! Are you with a girl?" I heard someone ask. I looked to see a bunch of girls. They smiled and giggled and began to tease him. I wasn't his girl. 

 ZEFF'S POV

    "So, what I was saying is that she tried to ask me for homework again!" Ilyn says to me. I nod my head, not listening to her, but watching Maddy inside the pool with her clothes on, with Troy; one of our school's STD producers, and his hands on her waist under the water. I felt jealousy rise inside along with anger that she was with him. 

   "Oh really?" I ask, pretending to be interested. "So what did you do next?"

   "Oh you have no idea...." SHe goes on, but I couldn't hear her voice. I just saw Maddy's forehead against Troy's forehead, and they were both smiling. I kept watching them but making sure Ilyn didn't notice. 

     Maddy listened to what Troy was saying, giggled a little; looking into his eyes again, nodded her head, and sighed. They were so close together and I didn't like it. His hand creeped up to her hair and he collected her hair, touching her skin. He put all her hair behind her, exposing her collar bones, and her neck as well as her shoulder. He put his hand on her neck and leaned his head into hers. I felt my grip tighten around the plastic cup as my drink began to leak. 

   "Zeff!? Are you listening?" Ilyn asks and I nod my head with a smile. "Okay well anyways..."

    I watched as Maddy was kissed by Troy deeply. I watched as underwater, he lifted her legs on his waist, and pushed her against the wall of the pool. She closed her eyes and her hand came up on his neck. I didn't like it. They broke off the long ass kiss as Maddy made him let her go. 

   Troy said something to Maddy as Maddy didn't say anything at first. If only I got closer I could hear! I watched as Maddy's face looked disapproving and she tried to push herself up and out of the pool. When her muscles were too weak, Troy helped her up, but in thankfulness, Maddy scowled at him. She walked angrily towards the door but he came back out and pulled her back in from the entrance of the pool.  He said a few words and she kicked water at his face, with an angry face. 

   "Ilyn hold on." I say as I get up and run after Maddy who was already inside the living room. "WHere are you going?"

   "Home." She snaps at me, shaking me off her. She looked really angry and offended. 

  "What happened?" I ask. "What did Troy do to you?"

   "Nothing you would understand." She says and walks off. What the hell? I stomp back to where Troy was. He had his shirt back on, and he was flirting with a bunch of girls. I grabbed him by his shirt collar in anger. I didn't like the thought of him hurting Maddy and the thought of him kissing her made me even angrier. 

   "Z-Zeff? Dude what the hell?" He puts his hand on my wrist but I keep my grip firm. I wasn't gonna let this bastard go.  "Let me go."

   "What the hell did you do?" I growl at him and he looks confused but then he frowns. 

   "Oh was that your girl?" He asks. "Didn't know sorry man." 

   I didn't know what to say. Part of me wanted to say she was my girl and part of me wanted to tell him he should be sorry for whatever the hell he did but then I saw Ilyn. 

   "Watch yourself." I say and shove him into the pool where everyone began to whisper. I stomped out of the place and saw Maddy waiting in front of the car, soaking the water out of her hair and her tanktop. 

   I opened the car and we got in quickly. THe way back was not exactly awkward, but she was in a lot of thought. 

   "Hey, whatever happened with Troy, I promise you that he didn't mean anything offensive." I say to her and she looks at me.

   "I know." She nods. "If I told you what he thought, you wouldn't believe me."

   "Try me." I say to her but she just looks away.

   When we got home, we washed up, and sat to eat dinner. We began to talk about school life and surprisingly, she seemed really interested about the topic. She kept asking me questions that a normal student should know and even asked me many questions that weren't related to school but were related to daily life activities.

   That same night, we stayed up till late sitting on the couch, talking about how the world works generally. She kept asking me endless questions like she wasn't humans or she wasn't from around here. 

   "So what's it feel like to drive?" She would ask me and ask another before I could answer. Before she even knew it, she fell asleep listening to me talking. I had no choice but to carry her to her bed and tuck her in. She seemed troubled, uncomfortable, scared, and small.