N°8

~5~

He reassures me again. He treats me like a queen. I love him!

"We're here" I say stopping the engine. We both get out and walk to the door which was kindly being held open by a man who was leaving.

After sitting ourselves in seats next to the front counter, Five -being a kid at heart- rings the bell twice. "Childish" I sneer at him. He laughs at me and places his hand on my thigh.

Another man walks into the shop and sits next to Five, he takes off his hat and begins writing on some paper when a lady walks in 'Agnes' her apron read.

"Sorry, sink was clogged" she chuckles and pulls her notepad and pen out. "So, what'll it be?" She asks the man next to us.

"Uh- get me a chocolate eclair" he says, she nods and writes it down. "Can I get the kids glasses of milk or something?"

Five scoffs "The kids will have coffee just one, black" she looks at us in awe, both of us give a cheesy smile that definitely read 'innocent'.

"Cute kids" she says chuckling to the man. He doesn't say anything and Agnes walks away to make the coffee and get the man his order.

"Don't remember this place being such a shit hole" this caught the mans attention, "used to come here as a kids, didn't we" he looks towards the man. "We used to sneak out with our brothers and sisters... and, eat doughnuts till we puked". "Simpler times huh?" He said still with his hand resting on my thigh.

"Eh, I suppose" the man agrees, at this time the waitress arrives with our coffee.

"I got theirs" the man said handing the woman money. "Thanks" Five said taking a sip of the coffee.

I gave the man a half smile and nodded in his direction as a polite but non communicative way, shocked by his sudden act of kindness towards 2 strange children.

I mean if I was him and saw 2 kids rock up to a doughnut shop at this time of night, well... I'd be pretty suspicious, but then again that might just be me being paranoid.

After the kind man finished he left almost immediately.

"You want the rest" I handed Five the half empty cup he nodded his head and took it from me.

The noise of the door open which sent a cold chill through my spine. Five griped my thigh a little as I shivered. Turning my head slightly to see the following customers enter the building. Well one might guess they were just coming here for a few jam doughnuts and coffee after a long working day. But from the hardcore instruments of destruction that were tightly locked in each members arms, I seemed to get a different impression from them.

"This them?" I ask Five and he nods placing down his own coffee cup.

"Hmm, that's was fast" he says casually. "Thought we would have more time before they found us" he begins.

"Okay, so let's all be professional about this... On your feet and come with us. They want to talk" the person with the massive weapon behind us said.

"we've got nothing to say".

"It doesn't have to go this way" he notices Fives hand on my thigh and points the gun at my head.

I close my eyes and think shit I'm going to die

"You think I wanna shoot a little girl, go home with that on my conscience?" Five sighs at him "well as long as the gun stays away from this so called 'little girl', I wouldn't worry about that because I'm not so sure that your going home".

I notice Five take his hand away from the empty coffee cup and pick up a blunt knife that was sat on a napkin, used for cutlery in the diner.

"You got a weak spot for her" the man chuckles slyly not realising what Five was doing, Five spacial jumps behind him and stabs him with the knife.

I Run and hide underneath a table, somehow one of them see me but I got quick to knock the gun out of their hands. He runs towards me and a quickly grab the car keys I had and stabbed him in the neck.

"Hey assholes" I hear at the other side of the room. I knew it was Five from his 'unneeded sarcasm in the worst times but was cool about it'

Bullets shoot the wall behind where Five once lay taunting the men. He then reappeared outside the door.

Waving off to them as he got shot at he spacial jumped behind the shooter and stabbed him in his eye with a pen he must have picked up along the way.

Once we were finished Five ran to me to make sure I was okay, he took the bloody Key from me not wanting me holding a murder weapon,and sat me on a stool.

He picked up a what looked like a tracking device from the floor then picked up a large knife sat on the table.

"I'll do it for you, then you can for me yeah?" I ask knowing what he was thinking of doing. "Yeah" he hands me the knife and I make a small incision on his arm.

He winces and I begin to search around inside his arm for a tracking device. I found it and threw it on the table.

He then picked up the knife and rolled up my sleeve. "This is going to hurt okay?" I nod and let him cut me.

He digs around for a while unable to find it. Until he finally finds it, causing a lot of pain he pulls it out and throws them both on the floor.

He pulls me off the stool and wraps his arm around my waist leading me outside.

We begin walking to a set of apartments, I'm not sure where but Five special jumped us inside of one. I looked around until I saw music sheets and realized it must have been Vanya's apartment.

"How's your arm?" I shrug while looking around Vanya's apartment, he laughs knowing I wasn't supposed to come off rude or ignorant, he knew I just simply couldn't find words to describe how I was feeling. I do this quite often but Five always find the right words for me.

"Come here then, let me see". He was sat on an arm chair where there was no room for me so I sat on the arm of the chair, my back facing him and ended up flopping the upper half of my body over his legs and my legs went over the arm of the chair.

He laughs at my weird position but then inspects my arm. He leans down to me and kisses me, "I think you'll be fine" I smile into the kiss.

That is until Vanya walks through the door, she looks at us with furrowed eyebrows "Were you guys making out in my apartment?" Me and Five look at each other. "no" I say attempting to keep my dignity although Five has other plans "yes" we replied at the same time which was a little embarrassing.

"You guys are so weird" she closes her door. She sits down on her sofa and notices my arm "Is that blood?" I roll down my sleeve, "It's nothing".

She looks at five "Why- eh why are you guys here?" I sigh and look at the ceiling. "We decided you are the only one we can trust" Five says "why me?" She questions "because your ordinary" I elbow five in the stomach "I mean... because you'll listen" she nods and gets up.

She returns with first aid supplies and started to clean Fives arm.

"When I jumped forward and got us stuck into the future, do you know what I found?"

"No"

"Nothing... absolutely nothing" he says looking straight at Vanya.

"As far as we could tell, we were the last people alive. We never figured out what killed the human race, but... we did find something else. The date it happens." She looks at me then Five.

"Long story short" I click my fingers. "The world ends in 8 days and we don't have a single fucking idea on how to stop it"

Vanya stops and stairs for a moment but finally says "I'll put on a pot of coffee"

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Sorry I said I was going to release my new book 'philophobia', I will soon I just haven't gotten around to doing it yet
-olivia <3