CRAZE

6

I had no idea what was on that hard drive, but by the looks of it I didn't want to. I'd changed back into regular clothes after quickly getting out of the pool and looked in the mirror as best could being backwards. There was nothing on my neck, but there probably would be later.

I walked out of the huge bathroom slowly, and when I didn't see Craze anywhere I raced toward the door to my room. I shut the door behind me and to my mysterious luck, he wasn't there either. Then it occurred to me that I was really bored. I wished I had something to read, or even look at a colour other than grey. That green bikini was a break all on its own. And those waffles. They were really good and made perfectly to be a toasty-golden colour. I sat on the bed and looked around, looking for something, anything to do.

I jumped as Craze came in through the hallway door. "Do you want to watch tv with me, Doll Face?" He asked, standing at the edge of the bed. Watch tv, yes. With him, not really. But I got up and followed him anyway, practically dying from the lack of amusement.

Craze was ahead of me and already on the couch, laying long ways so he took up the whole thing with a slight mischievous grin. I was about to take a seat in one of the soft-looking armchairs, but he grabbed my arm and pulled me down so I was laying like him. He clicked a button on the remote and it turned on to an episode of Criminal Minds. It was Veronica's favourite show, so I watched it a lot. My mind trailed back to them again.

Craze then put his arm out below my head and folded it so his hand was under his own head. His left hand lightly pushed my head down onto his arm and his warm hand rubbed up and down my arm. Wow. There was a lot happening with limbs right then.

I couldn't help it. The way he was touching me this time...it made me feel important. I hadn't felt that way in a long time. His body pressed against mine wasn't like those previous times when I was terrified with every muscle in me. It was relaxed, calm, gentle. I liked it. Then I scolded myself immediately. I couldn't do that. I couldn't like what he was doing to me. So I tensed up.

"Don't be afraid of me. I know you're not," Craze said, intertwining his long, muscled fingers with my nothing-to-write-home-about ones. Now I was nervous. He usually did this, touched me affectionately, then got mad at nothing. I bit my lip. But the anger never came. He just laid his head on the crook of my neck, staying silent. That made me wonder. Had he really not tried to hurt me all those times? Or was he just messing with me? I had absolutely no clue.

Just when I was beginning to be distracted by the tv, the deafening sound of the alarm that gone off a few days ago went off. I instinctively covered my ears and Craze jumped off the couch and ran out the door so fast I almost fell off of the couch. But the alarm didn't shut off as quickly as last time. In fact, it went on for what felt like ten minutes.

~~~C~~~

Craze

Shit. If it was Ghost, I was going to kill him. I'd called all of my friends that I told Dread about, Ghost, Zerda, Everest and Iris. These were all nicknames for them that most people used. But I liked to call them Go-Go, Zerdie, Mr. Big and, well I couldn't come up with one for Iris.

I hoped Doll wasn't too scared. I didn't like it when she was anything but happy.

Turning the corner down the hall to my weapons room, I felt a cool shiver down my bare spine. I smiled and spun around, roughly shoving my elbow into Go-Go's neck. He chuckled against the wall as if I hadn't just pinned him. Of course he wouldn't have felt it. He was practically dead. Ghost was a scientist. One day he had an idea to make himself immortal. And it worked!