This Killjoy Has A Bulletproof Heart

Checkers and Dracs

"Hey! Look what Mikey and I made!" was the first thing I heard Aileen when I woke up from my nap. I had been leaning on Frank's shoulder in one of the booths.

"A baby?" I muttered, half asleep. Frank looked down at me and smiled, giving me a raised eyebrow. I put my index finger to my lips motioning for him to not say anything.

"It'll be another of our little secrets." he told me and winked. He put his arm up my thigh and I smacked it away, blushing.

"What is that?" Frank asked, giving his attention back to Aileen and Mikey.

"Well we made a checker board to play with." Mikey said.

"Oh that's cool." Ray and Evelyn said at the same time.

"That's what we were doing outside in the shade." Aileen explains.

"Is that what you were doing?" Mayra laughs. I raise my eyebrows at her, my baby making theory coming back. Aileen blushes.

"We should play and bet!" Gerard exclaims. Mayra smiles at him while Frank groans and shoots Mayra a sorry look.

"We can bet something that doesn't involve lips." Grace suggests after silently fanning herself.

"Like what?" Ray asked. Grace shrugged.

"We can bet chores or something." I suggest.

"I suck at checkers!" Grace exclaims and we all laugh.

"Well we can figure it out later." Evelyn said. "Let's play."

"Girls against guys." Gerard said. Gerard and Evelyn play and Gerard. Next, it's Gerard versus me. I win. Ha!

Thank goodness Aileen and Mikey made the checkers. They did a great job at it too. The checker board is painted with black and blue squares and they used old bottle caps as the checker pieces. They're painted black and blue as well.

Our obsession over the game gets us distracted and we don't hear when the ray-guns start shooting.

After we hear a male voice scream, we stay silent. After we put our bandanas on, we go out to investigate.

"Stay behind me." Frank said and held my hand. He put me on back of him, protectively. He started shooting at dracs and I followed his lead.

During the chaos, Frank and I got separated. I look around frantically searching for him. I locate him near the diner and I walk over to him, killing more dracs.

There's blurs of color in mixed with the dracs. The shooting stops and I look at Frank. He looks bothered.

"What's wrong?" I asked him.

"I told you to stay behind me." he says, in a somewhat cold tone. I frowned.

"I didn't mean to." I say

"You could've gotten hurt." he snaps.

"Well sorry." I snapped back. He sighed and I walked away from him. Mayra was crouching next to someone. I walked closer and I saw it was a man.

"I don't want to die..." I heard him whisper.

"Shh..." Mayra said and smiled at him sadly.

"We're killjoys...we came because..." he breathed out. The rest came and Frank went on back of me. He put his hand on my waist but I pushed it away. I was not in the mood after what he just got mad about.

"Dracs were chasing us and ruining our lives. They're my siblings. I'm the oldest. I promised I would take care of them. And now they're dead!" he cries.

"Calm down. I'm going to try and help you." Mayra says and looks at Gerard pleadingly. Gerard and Mikey take him inside while Evelyn looks over the other bodies.

"This one's alive!" Evelyn exclaims referring to a girl with pink hair.

I look over the rest of the bodies and look at the guy's siblings. They were two girls.

They were running.

Like us.

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