Sanity - Kevin Day

Chapter Two

NEIL

If the ride with Aaron wasn't interesting enough, Neil being greeted on the curb outside Wymack's by the twins, Nicholas, Kevin, and Eris certainly was going to be.

Neil looked them over curiously, Aaron now looked bored that he had fulfilled his duty to get him here. He and Andrew were wearing identical clothes, and Andrew had on a wide smile. Eris was sitting down on the curb, her legs outstretched and crossed over one another next to Kevin.

Neil took this as an opportunity to focus on anything but Kevin, instead focusing all of his attention on her instead.

What Neil thought to be a cigarette was between her lips before she pulled it away from herself with her two fingers and studied him curiously. She was wearing black ripped jean shorts, a flannel tied around her waist, tennis shoes, her golden pendant, and a white muscle t-shirt that showed off a black sports bra from the sides.

Her wavy black hair was pulled back in a tight neat ponytail, a lanyard around her neck where keys jangled, and by her side she was clutching onto a rather boxy black leather purse that was zipped halfway shut.

She didn't have on her normal resting bitch face anymore, but he could see the glint of violence in her eyes still there. Her eyes were cold and looking to start a fight. Neil had heard a rumor that she set the record in exy for being carded the most in a season, but usually she was smart enough to not get red cards. Now, however, her eyes were hooded and hanging low, she looked tired.

As Neil walked closer, clutching his duffle bag to himself, he started to realize why she no longer had her usual coldness. She breathed out a cloud of smoke and the scent of skunk hit him as he approached her. She wasn't smoking a cigarette, she was smoking marijuana.

"Isn't that illegal here?" He raised an eyebrow at her, she looked up at him lazily, but a slight lopsided smile tugged on her lip.

"What are you, a cop?" She asked, taking another puff as he shook his head. She rolled her eyes, holding it in between her lips as she shifted and pulled out something from her pocket.

"It's medical, I have a license and everything" Eris waved a hand dismissively at him, showing now what she had pulled out from her pocket was paper. It was a license to legally carry medical marijuana. Neil wasn't quite sure if that piece of paper was forged or not, but he really didn't care either way.

What people did in their free time wasn't any of his business, he was here purely to play exy, and that's what he intended to do.

However, what he knew was illegal was when Nicholas reached down and plucked it from her hands and put it between his own lips, Eris didn't object but sent him an annoyed look as he handed it back after a moment.

He really didn't like this girl already. It wasn't her personality or anything (though he believed she could still use some great fixing in that area too along with Andrew), but it was her ability to read him.

It seemed like she had gained so much of the truth from just a mere look and a rather short conversation with him than anyone else had in his entire time on the run.

She had already guessed correctly he was a runaway and that his parents hurt him in some way and/or that they were the entire reason he was on the run.

He was very keen not to spend too much time with her, he felt like Eris could have him spilling his darkest secrets without him even realizing it until the next day, if given the chance.

For that reason he decided silently that he would avoid her as best as possible over this time. Although, he wasn't quite sure how he was going to do that considering they were spending a summer alone and then a whole year together after.