Zodiac

Chapter 8

I woke up with the waves crashing into shore, “Sammy, Sammy West, wake up.” His eyes fluttered opened.

“I-is it morning?”

“Yeah, we slept through the night,”

“Oh crap, we are so dead,”

“I know, I’ll see you later?”

“Yeah, tomorrow,”

“Okay,”

I walked back to Aquarius, still it was quiet, it was probably still like, five in the morning. I opened the door to my room and saw Emma sitting there on my bed wearing only her bra and panties (again), her eyes completely on her phone screen. “Emma! What the hell are you doing in my room?” I demanded, she looked up and smiled,

“I was looking for you,”

“In the middle of the night?”

“Yeah, you snuck out again didn’t you?”

“No, fine, yes, I snuck out, why?”

“You are going to be in so much trouble,”

I turned away from her and changed out of my clothes, “Yeah, well, it’s not like the Gods don’t know or anything. They’re supernatural beings that live high above the clouds and they can pretty much see everything.” There was no response, I turned around, “Emma?” she was asleep. “Emma!” she jolted awake.

“Huh, what?”

“Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I’m fine. I didn’t get much sleep that’s all.”

“What? Too busy making out with Zach to get any sleep?”

“Wait, how did you know?” that caught her off guard, I couldn’t help but smile to myself, feeling pleased.

“Well, first of all, your lips are swollen, your boobs are red, you have lipstick smear on your cheek, neck and chest. But who the hell wears lipstick to bed?”

“I do,” she looked down, “Yeah, we kind of made out a bit,”

I came over and sat next to her, “Yeah, Sammy and I made out too,” I looked at her, “You know that I’m not your responsibility, you don’t have to worry about me all the time.”

“Yeah, but I’m older than you and-”

“Only by like a year,”

“I just feel like I need to make sure you’re okay,” I gave her a hug.

“Look, why don’t you get some sleep, and I’ll bring you breakfast,”

“Yeah, okay. Thanks Tess,” and she fell asleep.

I walked over to breakfast and sat next to Zach, “Hey,” he said through a mouthful of food, I smiled at him.

“You look tired,”

“Yeah, I didn’t get much sleep,”

“Yeah, Emma said the same thing, so, how was the make out session?”

“Uh, what?” he blushed, it was kind of cute.

“The make out with Emma,”

“Um, yeah…it was okay, well, fun.” I laughed, I grabbed some food and brought it over to my room. Emma was still sleeping, I put the food down on the bedside table and wrote the note saying:

Hey Em,

Here is the food, sorry if you don’t like it, but there is still some left in the cafeteria. Zach says that he isn’t going anywhere, Sammy and I are going to the Market, I told Zach if you wanted to come when you wake up then I’ll be at the Commando Survival station, Booth 17.

Bye,

© Love Tess ©

***

By the time I got to the markets, Sammy was already waiting for me, “Hey Tess,” he kissed me on top of my forehead, “Commando Survival?”

“Commando Survival.” He grabbed my hand a dragged me to the Commando Survival station, people were already starting to come in, I waved at the manager, “Hey Chloe,” she waved back, “Booth 17?” I asked, it was the same booth that Sammy and I go in to play every time.

“Sure,” she shouted back. The booth was still the same, a leather couch was placed in the corner and two bean bags in the middle. Sammy turned on the control and chose two players. I was Captain Bronze Sun, and Sammy was Commander Iron Blade, we played voice command, you had to give instructions to your player in the game.

Game: Captain Bronze Sun, identify your voice.

Me: Listen computer, this is my voice.

Game: Commander Iron Blade, identify your voice.

Sammy: This is Iron Blade’s sexy voice.

Game: Mission begin.

Me: Take left route to the cave.

Game: Taking left route, arriving at cave.

Sammy: Build a wall at the opening of the cave.

Game: Building wall, wall successfully built.

Sammy: Start a fire.

Game: Fire started.

Me: Build a tent.

Game: Tent built.

Sammy: Both go inside tent.

Game: Both players are now inside tent.

Sammy: Set up double bed.

Game: Set up double bed.

Me: Both players climb into bed.

Game: Both players are now in bed.

Sammy: Hump Captain Bronze Sun.

Game: If you intend to jump on-

Me: No, not jump, hump!

Game: If you intend to jump-

Sammy: Fine, make love with Captain Bronze Sun

Game: If-

Me: Ugh, sleep on bed.

Game: Sleeping on bed.

Sammy: Pause.

I looked over at him, he was wearing his grin, the grin of mischief, he looked at me, “What?”

“Nothing,” I got up and turned off the console, “Just what are you thinking? Stop looking at me like that.” He got up and press me against the wall and kissed me hard, each kiss grew deeper and deeper. I heard him moan my name softly against my lips, and I reached up and put my arms around his neck.

“Really? Have you two ever heard of ‘get a room’?” Emma was standing by the door with Zach whose face is completely red.

I walked over and gave them both a hug, “We are in a room. Anyway, are you feeling better?”

She nodded, “Yeah.”

Sammy popped up behind me and said, “Does anyone want to play Commando Survival?”