✴CHERRY BLOSSOMS✴ Alexei (ST3)

chp. 12: e pluribus unum pt. i

Cherry's POV:

Since we were hungry Jim decided to go get Burger King, we were sitting in Murray's living room. Alexei was on a chair in front of the TV watching Looney tunes, a cartoon that I love me and Joyce were sitting on one of the couches and Marray on the other.

I heard the door open and in came gym with a bag of Burger King. "Two whoppers extra ketchup, large fry a pack of Marlboro Reds and one extra large...Slurpee." Jim listen off the the items, I saw Alexei's eyes widen with glee when he saw his drink.

I smiled at his childish nature, I handed him a napkin so he doesn't get anything on him. He smiled at me and took it, our fingers brushing each other's making us blush and making me look away with a little smile. (it sounds cliche i know)

We both looked away, he done put it in the collar of his shirt. " Burger King is nowhere near the 7-Eleven, by the way." Jim stated with a monotone voice. "Never said it was." Murray shot back with a sarcastic smile.

Jim then looked to Alexei, "Let's try this again. Joyce." He said pointing in the direction Joyce was, which was right next to him.

"Alexei," Joyce started making him look to her, "the generators, what are they powering?" She asked. "And tell him that we know it is not the Starcourt Mall, so he can stop telling us that crap." Jim said, and I could tell he was getting fed up with everything that's been going on recently.

"Those generators you were working on, what are you powering?" Murray asked in Russian, "We know it's not the mall." After he finished saying that Alexei choked on his Slurpee, I got up from my seat and started patting his back.

"What's wrong?" I asked in his original language, "This tastes like shit strawberry." He told me. "What'd he say?" Jim asked. "He says..." Murray started, "'it's strawberry', Jim...strawberry." I told him. "I'm sorry?" Jim asked, trying not to blow. "His...slurpee. He says its strawberry." While they were talking I took the napkin out of Alexei's shirt collar and wiped his face off from the slurpee he spit out, he looked up at me, after I was done I looked down at him, I gave a little smile and he smiled back.

"So what?" Jim questioned. "Hop, he did ask for cherry, I mean..." Joyce tried to reason. "Well they didn't have cherry," Jim responded, "they didn't have it. And it doesn't matter, because it all tastes the same, okay? It is sugar on ice." He turned back to look at Murray, "You tell him that." He finished his rant.

"Tell him what?" Murray asked. "You tell him it all tastes the goddamn same!" Jim yelled, and Murray smiles. "It's all the same. Sugar on ice. No difference." Murray explained to Alexei.

"Tell that stupid man it is not the same in the slightest, and I would like the cherry I requested." After he said that I let out a little laugh. "He respectfully disagrees, it's not the same at all, and he would like cherry." Murray said to Jim. "Wow Alexei" I started, "if you wanted me so bad all you had to do was ask." I whispered to him in Russian, and I saw him try to hold back a blush.

"Oh, yeah? You tell him...he can forget it." Jim said sounding very aggravated.

Murray nodded slightly, "He says forget it, no cherry." He said to Alexei. Alexei looked toward Jim, and Jim looked back at him. Alexei then spoke, "No cherry, no deal." He then laughed at the TV that saw showing Woody wood pecker fighting with a sword.

"He says, 'No cherry, no deal.'" Murray quoted Alexei.

Jim started licking his fingers, "Yeah." Murray stated. "Hm." Jim hummed and inhale sharply, I knew what was coming before it even happened "Jim, don't." And before I can say anything else Jim jumped out of his place on the couch going for Alexei, "Oh, shit!"

"No, Hop!" Joyce yelled.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!" Murray called out.

"I'm not gonna hurt him!" Jim exclaimed

"What are you doing?!" Me and Joyce asked him.

Jim then threw Alexei back, "Come on! Come on!" Murray tried to stop everything.

Jim was taking Alexei to the front door, "I'm just giving him an opportunity to get him his own damn...cherry Slurpee!" Jim threw Alexei to the ground, and tossed him the car keys.

"Jim, that man is an enemy of the state." Murray told him. "Yeah, who's been jerking us around for a full day! I get him his cherry Slurpee, then what? He want a helicopter to charter him his own private island. I've felt with asswholes like this my entire life."

I face palm myself. " yesterday in the woods he could have escaped, but he didn't. He's stuck with us. Why do you think that is? It's because...he's scared. He's scared. Not of us, of them. He's scared of that seven-foot-tall Russian freak who could've killed him just as easily as us. Smirnoff knows that if he runs back to his comrades without a scratch on him, they're gonna think he spilled his guts. So, whether he likes it or not, we...are the best chance he got." He finished. "I give him 30 seconds before he comes knocking on that door, right back into our arms, with a new sense of humility."

"Jim..."

"Uh..."

"I, uh, believe he has started the car." Murray states.

"He'll be back, he has to." I say agreeing with my brother.

"You know, testing us. He's just calling my bluff." Jim said. "I believe he is now driving away." Murray told Jim. Joyce then tried to move past him.

"Joyce, Joyce--"

"Move, move, move!"

Murray and Joyce run outside while Jim and I walk out to see that Alexei was in the entrance. Until he backed up. Me and Jim smirk at each other.

I hold out my hand for him to give me the keys while he was mumbling under his breath making me smile.

"I'm sorry, what did he say?" Jim asked with a smile.

"He says, he likes strawberry, too." Murray translated for Jim.

Now it's time to get answers...

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I'M BACK BITCHES!!

hey sorry i haven't been posting i just had some family stuff that has been happening and i am packing up and getting ready to move and i kinda wanted to do some reading also but anyway hope you enjoyed this chapter

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