Supernova

Date night for one

Date: June 10, 2067

Time: 1:24 am

Subject: Date night for one

----Ezekial----

A lot of thoughts were going through my head right now. I was relieved to be walking side by side with Elijah tonight, but I was scared and flustered as well. I wasn’t as pro as her and I was the guy who should protect her and sweep her off her feet. I shook my head in frustration, but covered it up by pretending to just be flipping my hair. Elijah was not the type of girl to ‘need assistance’. She took care of herself, and hated the idea of being understated. She was a leader, an independent person, and an all or nothing kind of girl. She didn’t like arguing but she was great at it. She hid her feelings to show her strength. She had no idea that I understood her, but I just kept my thoughts to myself because I knew she would just deny it, and get angry if I confronted her.

Griffin was being quiet for once in his life because Akemi had jinxed him fifteen minutes ago, and when Akemi jinxes someone its horrible if you talk, because he can do these sick Asian snake bite pinches that hurt like hell. Akemi was teasing Griffin trying to make him talk, but Griffin was just like Elijah. Scarily just like her. Looks and personality. Griffin wouldn’t lose if his life depended on it. I wondered what if would be like if Griffin and Elijah ever were against each other one something. All hell would break loose.

Elijah and I weren’t speaking. We were just humbly walking in silence. There was no awkward vibes bouncing off our skin. It had been a whole 7 months since we had been ‘us’. I still thought about ‘us’. We were the types of kids that went and burned the whole town down hand in hand. We were insane, but all in all, we were radiant. Griffin envied me so much when me and Elijah were dating. He had, had feelings for her at a time. She almost got with him at one point, but she realized she didn’t like him as much as she thought she did because he was a player. Like I said, she’s an all or nothing kind of girl. Even if they had dated, I doubt she’d have gotten hurt. She knows the game like the back of her hand. In fact she used to play, but that was just a phase of immaturity. She knows every rule to being on top and she is not afraid to use them, in fact I had a feeling she encouraged the use. Maybe that’s why she kicked my heart in the ass.

No, no, no. She did not intend to do that. I was just thinking selfish thoughts again. In fact I was the douche bag in the relationship. I screwed up. She left me broken so I dragged her down with me. I didn’t want to think of the details about leading her on when I knew she still had feeling for me. It was wrong and a low point of my life. We were past that now, obviously. Walking side by side with someone had never felt so good. I wondered if she still had feeling for me. What was this feeling inside of me right now?

Did I want her to have feelings for me? Did I have feelings for her..? My mind felt like an unmitigated disaster. Thought clusters were running up flights of steps and down the city blocks. So I stopped thinking and decided to talk.

“So how about this weather, partner?” I asked with a smile. I knew it was a dumb and awkward question but I was an awkward child. I saw a sly smile skim across her porcelain cheeks.

“Kind of chilly for a June night, but other than that, pretty dandy. It’s not often Griffinshuts up.” Elijah responded looking at me with those electric blue eyes. Why was I taking her features in so heavily? Gah. I was annoying myself with my own feelings. I laughed a response though.

“I know right? So, where to Madam?” I asked addressing her as a royal subject. She smiled wider. An expression of glee passed her face.

“Missouri. I need to find Aiden and Jedidiah. I just have a gut feeling Jedidiah is still at his house. He’s pretty stupid sometimes” She said with a slight laugh. I laughed to. I remembered Jedidiah. He’s Elijah’s best friend. A man I would never stand up against. He was funny, cool, smooth, and good looking. I knew Elijah didn’t have feelings for him and he was just her best friend as well as Aiden, but I worried sometimes. I worried one day me and Elijah would possibly be together and Jedidiah would try to win her over. What if she liked him as well? What if I got angry enough and I screwed things up for me and her? She almost left her last boyfriend Chase because he was discussing fighting him. I don’t know what I’d do. I had a sinking feeling Jedidiah cared about Elijah more than a friend. Maybe even more than, more than a friend. Maybe he loved her. Like a genuine love. I sighed.

“What’cha thinking about?” Elijah asked in a sing song voice. I could feel my cheeks get warm.

“Oh, you know life.” I replied. I kind of wanted her, like now. I knew right now wasn’t appropriate, but my body just wanted to bend her backwards and kiss her rosy lips. A part of me wanted her to push me to tell her I was thinking about ‘us’. Another part of me wanted to keep walking in silence. I didn’t know what I wanted. I wanted her. No. Yes. Maybe? Gah.

“Oh, yeah this whole zombie thing can be pretty intense.” She replied somberly.

“You could say that again.” That feeling where your heart falls into your stomach occurred when she said that to me. My parents were killed by them. Killed, and ate. I couldn’t get the images out of my mind. I had to stay calm; I didn’t want to make Elijah believe I was crazy. When I got mad, I got mad. Elijah nodded.

“What if the world hadn’t turned out like this? We would still probably be hanging out tonight. It’s Friday. Most likely we’d be at the rink, you’d have a grape slushy, and we’d talk about the craziest things. This is why I think everything that’s meant to happen happens. I think even if all this crazy apocalyptic junk had never happened, I would still be standing next to you right now.” She said with a smile on her face. She was a dreamer, a thinker. She was completely insane, but seemed to know everything. I was astounded by everything she told me, but I always seemed like I already knew. I didn’t like feeling less intuitive. I nodded curtly unsure of how to respond. I heard a rustle in the woods but Elijah had heard it first because when I went to grab her wrist, it wasn’t there. Elijah put her finger to her lips motioning us to stay quiet. Somehow she had managed to leap into a tree in less than a second.

A ninja star was placed in her hands.Griffin had his shotgun, so did Akemi. I had my AK-47 with the screwed on silencer. I didn’t want to attract more of the outcomes.Griffin glowed in the dark which was a major set back because he attracted outcomes easily. A swarm of outcomes busted out of the darkness and Elijah, quick as lightning, shot out six ninja stars slicing six heads clean off their shoulders in a second. Nine remained. I shot two in the legs slowing them down and finished them off with head shots.Griffinand Akemi blindly fired aimlessly at the crowd. Even though they never had a specific way of shooting and only blind fired it always worked out good for them somehow. It wasn’t because of math either because, Griffin sucked in school. It was just luck I guess, because every single time it would be headshot, after headshot, after headshot.

Elijah gasped from the tree in astonishment to Griffinand Akemi’s set of unintentional skills. “Omg! Dude that was amazing!” She exclaimed.

“I try, I try.” Griffinsaid winking. Akemi grinned evilly andGriffin flinched in fear. Akemi pinched Griffin and twisted his arm in a weird way. Griffin squealed so high dogs would probably howl. Elijah and I cracked up laughing along with Akemi. I gave Akemi a huge high five and then turned to Elijah with my arms open inferring her to jump into them. It seemed like a smooth move. Elijah smiled and opened her arms like a bird as she did a triple front flip into my arms.

“Show off” I said with a teasing smirk. She did the same.

“If you got it, flaunt it.” She sassily said hopping out of my arms and turning around.

I put my hands in my hoodie pocket and followed her.