✴CHERRY BLOSSOMS✴ Alexei (ST3)

chp. 10: the flayed pt. iii

Third POV: 

The group of four were walking, for what felt like hours, through the woods "I'm so tired." Cherry whined from next to Alexei. The said guy looked next to him at the brown haired girl. He would glace at her when he thought she wasn't looking, but she knew, she would catch the small glaces and smile, and he would turn red like a cherry and look away and pretend to be looking some where else.

"I thought this friend of yours lived in Illinois." Joyce said to Jim. "He's not really a friend. He's more like an acquaintance." Cherry and Jim answered Joyce. She looked at both of them, "You two need to stop doing that." She said to the siblings.

Cherry and Jim looked at her then to each other. "Damnit, we did it again didn't we?" They said together again. "Hey stop that! I said stop it!" They both growl in annoyance. "anyway..." Joyce started. "Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Keep up, keep up, keep up." Jim said trying to get Alexei in front of them. "Hey woah." "Easy" Joyce and Cherry said at the same time.

"Okay, so this acquaintance...lives in Illinois? Correct?" Joyce asked. "Yeah, yeah" Jim answered the question. "So we're walking to Illinois?" She asks. "Yeah, yeah, we're gonna walk to Illinois." He said. His sister turned to look at him, while walking backwards and Alexei making sure she doesn't trip and fall, "So, we're gonna walk all the way to Illinois, in this blazing heat, and we don't even know where the hell we are? That's just great Jimbo, just great." Cherry says turning back around to walk forward again.

Jim ignored her comment and stuck to the conversation he was having with Joyce. Cher rolls her eyes and keeps walking, but not missing the glance Alexei shot her with a little hint of a smile on his face, Cherry could admit he was quit a looker, but she could never say it.

Cherry got sucked back into reality when Jim grabbed Alexei's arm. "I'm all ears Joyce." He said while letting go of Alexei's arm roughly. "Just saying." she replied. "Gah!" he exclaimed while trying to kill a mosquito that landed on the side of his neck. 

time skip

"WHY ARE THERE SO MANY FUCKING MOSQUITOS!" Cherry yelled out and killed the, what felt like, thousandth mosquito the landed on her. "Oh, my God. Can you not walk so close?" Joyce asked the oldest sibling. "What?" He asked. "Can you not walk so close to me?" She repeated "You stink." She then added. "I get it, I get it. You're upset, right?" He asked her. "Tuning out that conversation." Cherry said to herself. 

Cherry tuned back in when she heard Joyce say Alexei is running, followed by little whimpers that cam out of him in the cutest way ever (that's me talking lol) Jim turned around stunned. "Son of a bitch." Jim said through gritted teeth and running after him. Joyce didn't look fazed at all, and Cherry was laughing her ass off, it was always funny to her when she sees Jim run and she didn't know why.

"Alright lets go." Cherry says while chuckling and running along with Joyce.  They catch up to the guys by a little hill, Cherry bumps into Alexei's back while panting and looking over here shoulder to see he found a 7 Eleven (hehehe 7 ELEVEN i'll stop) "Good job Alexei," She said while patting his shoulder still looking at the gas station.

He looks at her with a bright smile and she gives him one of her brightest smiles back, she started going down, to the station with a big smile, happy to have found something.

They all go in, and go straight to the sodas Cherry gets two cokes, one for her and one for Alexei, he gives her a happy smile, they all open their drinks as start chugging the cool liquid down their throat, "You all gonna pay for those?" A voice that belonged to the clerk spoke up, no one said anything right away, but the silence was broken by Jim who just burped in response.

Jim goes to pay for his stuff while Joyce was still looking around, he saw Alexei try some of the cherry slurpee with his hands, he then sees his sister laugh a walk up to him, "Here, use this." She said while getting a large slurpee cup and filling it with the cherry flavor slurpee. He also saw Alexei look at her with a little glint in his eyes that made Jim look at him suspiciously.

They went out of the store, Cherry saw Joyce talking on the payphone that was near the front of the station, "Just keep your mouth shut, alright?" He said to Alexei. But Alexei just looked at him while taking a gulp of his slurpee. 

"Alright, alright, hop in. Come on, get in." He said while opening the door for Alexei and Cherry. "Hey!" The guy that owned the car said while throwing his arms in the air. "Hey!" Jim said back pointing a finger at him. "You 'hey!' you 'hey!' This is a police emergency, alright?" Jim said. Cherry got in and sat next to Alexei. Cherry looked to them Jim asked the guy his name, and he replied 'Todd' then Jim said to him, "Listen to me, that man in there, I know he doesn't look it, but he is one of the most dangerous men in the world." Cherry chuckled under her breath at her brothers lie. 

She looks to Alexei to see him drinking his slurpee with a sly smile. "He's, uh...murdered many children." At that part she almost couldn't control her laughter but she kept it in the best she could, "What?" Todd asked. "Yeah, he's a true psychopath. I tracked him over two state lines." He continued. "Hey, what's going on?" Joyce asked coming over to them. Cherry tuned out of the conversation, for what felt like the thousandth time that day, while putting her hear back against her seat. After a second she the last thing she heard was her brother saying that Todd was doing the right thing before driving out of the station.

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sorry I haven't posted in a while but I had a lot of shit to do I had to help my family move our stuff to one storage to the other and school has been a bitch but anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter

and as always...stay jiggy