Gods Sinners

Chapter 10: Old Man

Ray's POV

"Watch your words Zack or I will make you regret it," the man tells Zack.
"Whatever, "Zack responds. The man's eyes went to me and he scans me.
"Zack, have you finally found a girl for yourself," once he said that, I realized that Zack and I were still holding hands. I quickly pulled away and turned back to the man.
"No, we're just friends..., my name is Rachel Gardner, "I tell him as I distant myself from Zack a little.
"Oh, I see, well my name is Gray," he tells me as he sticks out his hand. I go with the idea and shake is hand.
"Anyway, what brings you here, Isaac???"Gray asks. Zack doesn't make eye contact with him at first till he had the courage to speak.
"I need a favor, could you let us stay here for a few days??" he mumbles.
"Oh...what's that I couldn't hear you Isaac, "Grays jokes.
"FOR FUCKING GOD's SAKE, COULD YOU PLEASE LET US STAY HERE!!!!"Zack yells.
"Isaac, please restrain yourself from speaking a foul language,".
"Whatever, "Zack mumbles. Gray smiles and then gives us a gesture telling us to come in. Zack tells me to go in first so I did and he followed behind me. We walk into the kitchen which was decorated nicely.
"Gray~"I then hear someone call. Zack and I both turn to see a tall young guy with brown hair and wearing a scientific coat. He was most likely in his 30s.
"Oh it seems we have guest," the brown-haired man said.
"Danny this is Zack and Rachel, "Gray introduces.
"Pleasure to me both of you," he then turns back to Gray, "Gray I need to show you something if you don't mind".
"Regarding the corpse, yes I will go with you right now. Just allow me to finish with Zack and Rachel here" Gray explains, I turn to see that Danny and as he walks away he smiles weirdly.
"Why do you guys have a fucking corpse?!"Zack asks.
"Danny works with the police department on detective stuff and helping solve murder mysteries"Gray explains, "anyway, I will be showing your room, sadly I only have one room left and you guys will have to share but luckily I have two beds." He then makes a gesture for us to follow him and we do. Our room is across from the restroom and is the last one down the hall.
"Please relax and get cozy, later we will discuss other things," then he leaves. I walk in first and sit down on the bed on the left and Zack lays on the one on the right.
"YES, finally a good ass quality bed," Zack says as he relaxes. I see Zack turnover and I ignore him.
"Come on Ray...don't tell me you're still mad about what happened at the forest," he says as he sits up. I still ignore him and face the ground.
"Ray you can't be fucking mad forever, I didn't do shit that was really bad,"
"Will you continue to kill forever, till you die?"I ask. I want Zack to be better, I know he grew up with horrible parents and this miserable lifetime, but I want to see if I can change him.
"IDK, it's a fucked up addiction," he responds.
"What if I wanted you to change, not so you could just stop killing but to be a better person for yourself so you wouldn't have to keep on running and hiding," this time he looked away and didn't make eye contact with me. He got up and left the room, leaving me alone. I couldn't help but cry a little because I want him to know that I care for him and want to help him.

Not knowing that I fell asleep, a few hours past and it had already become night. I haven't eaten since breakfast, so I decided to go and look for food. I quickly walked to the kitchen and saw Danny there, instead of walking in, I waited till he left. I don't feel that I can fully trust him yet, so I will wait till he leaves.

After a good 30 minutes, he left but as he leaves, he turns back and smiles.
"Did he notice me?!"I thought. I quietly walk into the kitchen and went for the fridge to find any snacks. As I open the fridge, I hear someone walk in and I quickly back away and find Gray, holding Zack?!
"Gray??? What happened to Zack?!?!"I ask.
"Well, I guess after the fight you to had, he came to me and we went to go have a few drinks but after the fourth one, he got drunk," Gray explains to me. I then sigh.
"Sorry about that, he can be a mess," I say.
"Ha, you're telling me, I use to watch this kid when he was under the watch Eboshi and his evil followers," he tells me.
"Oh, I see, how was he back then??" I ask.
"Well, he would always act strong and fearless, but deep inside he was scared, just didn't want to admit it. He also hated every adult, including me till he found out that I wasn't like the others. He also hated that one girl who would send him creepy love letters, if I'm correct her name was Cathy Ward," I then laughed inside a little cause I knew there was something that Zack forgot to tell me.
"Well actually, Zack hated everyone. It's still unusual that he friends with you," he points out.
"Zack says that he didn't want to kill me because I had a dead doll face," I respond.
"That does sound like him a little," he says as he smiles. I smile knowing that Gray has Zack's back.
"Well, I will take him from here," I say as I take a hold of Zack and carry him with all the strength I have.  I quickly turn to Gray and tell him goodnight as I then walk to our room.

Carrying Zack was the easy part, the hard part was that due to him being drunk, he would hug me tight and say weird things.
"RAY!!! WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS MAD AT ME?!?!" he cries, "RAY I SAVED YOU BUT YOUR MAD AT ME, WHY??!!". Once we get it his bed, I lay him down and help him with his clothing till he then pulled me in a hug.
"Zack what are y-"
"Ray...Ray..."
"Yes?"
"Ray, can't you see, I do this to protect you,"
"What?"
"Ray, I care for you," I could feel my heart beating fast and my body heating up. I tried to leave but Zack was hugging me very tightly. I then decide to go with it and I hugged him back and... fell asleep with him, in his arms.

- thank you guys for reading my story and hope you enjoyed it ☺️