Hyped_Taco
Pierce the heavens
After having barely survived the attack on the lodge by the large horde of undead, not being able to eat for two days straight and still disturbed by what Luca and his little mobster sidekick had done to him previously just had Michael fed up already. Knowing that he still was forbidden from eating, the neckbeard went straight to plan B… drinking coffee.
He looked around the lodge for the coffee bag, but when he found it in a cabinet inside of the kitchen, he found them all burned up; Michael then remembered that he had helped in burning them before, and felt pretty stupid for not remembering it. But the neckbeard was not about to surrender in his mission, specifically, cause it would help with his current hunger; since there were none to be found inside of the cabin, or well none that weren’t burned as fuck, he would need to find it somewhere else.
Michael first searched his RV, yet found that there was nothing in there, for all he knew it was either taken out of there before he arrived or he himself has used it yet couldn´t remember; with seemingly most of his options discarded he only had one left… the RV of the redneck.
Michael quickly jogged towards the vehicle, and while he felt bad in entering the house of a deceased man his hunger was just too much, so he entered anyway. The neckbeard checked everywhere, and finally found it, a jar containing coffee beans. He started preparing them in the coffee maker, and once they were done drank it black, usually, he would add milk and sugar to it, but the milk that was inside the RV was already expired and there was no sugar to be found, so he would do with what he had at his disposal. Surely no one would have a problem with the coffee… probably, so it would be better if no one saw him, just in case.
Aderyn was back to patrolling the perimeter after the most recent zombie attack. She wound through the shed and the fences that were (slowly) being propped back up, if not fully repaired, and made her way over to the RV. The sight of the motorhome made her frown. She stepped up the stairs and rapped on the door, tilting her head for the sound of somebody inside.
When nobody answered, she pushed the door open, and stopped in her tracks as she saw the man sitting at the dinette in Cletus’ trailer. They’d never spoken before. She grimaced.
“Uh, if you’re busy, I can leave you to it?”
The girl had felt bad for him after hearing what Luca had done, but wasn’t sure he would want her company, seeing as she resembled her cousin closely.
¨SHIT¨ Michael thought after a little girl entered the vehicle, now that his plan of nobody seeing him had failed, he needed to act natural… somewhat.
¨I-Uhhh- no no, not busy at all, sure come in… if you wanna¨ Michael replied, hoping that this girl whom he had never seen before would ́not snitch on him to Luca or somebody else.
“Sorry, I uh, didn’t know you were staying here now.” The girl’s voice was awkward. She sat down on the couch, shrugging her backpack off, and started to root through it. After a moment she produced a bag of cheese-flavoured taralli from the variety store. She busted it open, taking one for herself, and offering the bag to Michael. “The name’s Aderyn. You mind grabbing me a coffee?”
¨Haha,̈ the man awkwardly laughed ¨So uhh- the thing is… I’m actually staying in the other RV, you know to sleep and such, I’m just here for the coffee.¨ he decided to tell her the truth, since seeing that each time he had tried to lie before had ended backfiring on him then he would attempt to do the opposite.
The pretzel looking snacks that she then offered to Michael tempted him more than any food in his life had ever done before but after a moment of reflecting about it he answered ¨Oh, no thanks, they would beat the crap out of me if they found me eating or something.¨ Although they never actually told him that they would beat the shit out of him if he ate, it was extremely insinuated beforehand, and the neckbeard was not about to take the risk right now.
¨y-Yeah sure¨ Michael said after the girl requested a coffee, although in his opinion she seemed to be too young to be drinking it, but in the end, who was he to judge her decisions in the middle of the fucking zombie apocalypse.
̈Oh, my name is Michael, by the way,¨ the neckbeard said ¨So uh…. Sorry for not remembering but when did you arrive at the lodge?¨ Michael asked her.
“Don’t worry about it, if you want some have some,” the girl started, taking another for herself, “I went back to the variety store to get these and if Luca tries to tell me who to share them with I’ll beat the shit outta him.” She shrugged. “A month and a bit ago, but I headed off after the hazmat raid, and got back just about the time the zombies fucked us up. So you’ve probably not seen me around much.”
¨Welp, since you insist.¨ Michael said while quickly grabbing some of the tiny pretzels and proceeded to chug them down his throat as if there were no tomorrow. He heard the girl say how she was gonna beat the shit out of Luca and snickered about it ¨Well I wish you luck with that then, cause from what I heard he beat the fuck outta the big guy- what was his name again?... oh yeah, Owen, he beat the hell outta him.¨
"I know." Aderyn shrugged. "But what's he going to do, mortally wound his little cousin? Hold me back because he doesn't want to be smacked by a kid? Nah. It's a matter of reputation." She grinned at Michael. "He'd only hit me once, I bet. That'd be all it takes."
She took the coffee from him and blew on the top, taking a slow sip. The cup was pleasantly warm in her hands.
̈ ̈Well, I guess one punch of his would hu-¨ Michael stopped himself mid-sentence when the words of her being his cousin sank on him; ¨If Luca finds out I talked to his cousin he is definitely gonna kick my ass¨ Michael thought to himself. Beginning to panic Michael tried to find a way in which not to interact with the Italian today. If he ran out of the RV then Aderyn would probably tell someone about it, so that plan was quickly discarded. After not being able to find an alternative, Michael sat back down in his place trying to hide his panic as well as he could just so maybe, only maybe he wouldn´t have to face Luca´s wrath today.
The girl looked at him oddly. He looked suddenly uncomfortable, but surely her relation to Luca wouldn’t be new information, if he’d even looked at her when she’d come inside.
“Anyway,” she stressed, “Did you work at, like, the GameStop? You look really familiar.”
¨Wha-¨ Michael was about to ask; being asked something about himself in a non-threatening matter seemed almost rare to him these days ¨y-yeah I did, for at least 8 months actually, ¨ the man told Aderyn ¨Sorry for not being able to recall,l but were you a regular or something?¨
The girl laughed. Shaking her head, she went for another pretzel, seemingly unbothered.
“Nah. Too many cameras in there for me. Just used to peer in the windows a lot, you know, reminiscing. Really just full of angst.” The girl shrugged. “Was before, though. You play anything in particular, or just like, it was work?”
¨Afraid of cameras or something?¨ Michael jokingly said, not knowing why she would stop going to a specific store that had cameras… If almost all stores had cameras in the first place. ¨Oh, I worked there part-time, you know, due to college and stuff.¨
The girl stared at him in disbelief. Did he really - it didn’t matter, and nobody cared, but did he really never watch the news? Turn on the radio? Still smiling, but now more in a confused way, she spoke slowly.
“Does the name Aderyn Weber-Brasi mean anything to you? Like, really. I want to know.” She distracted herself with more crackers and another sip of her coffee.
¨Well...¨ With his entire available brainpower, Michael tried thinking from where he may have known or meet this girl before, in the way in which she had asked the question it almost seemed as if she was someone well known around the area, but due to only having lived here for like a year he didn´t know, but he still needed to reply with something ¨Well... I know you´re the cousin of the guy that beat my ass a few days ago, but other than that, sorry, I can´t say I know who you are¨
¨... Rude¨
Starring:
- Hyped_Taco as Michael the Lard Lord
- Meredith As that other Kid
Mentioned:
- Brax As Luca "Hold her tighter, she's a fighter" Brazi
- Maj As Andy, The Hawkeye of the team (Too lazy to go check if she was actually mentioned, but just for good measure I mentioned you here)
- shadowz1995 FireMaiden The Mad Queen As the medical team that´s required to check both Michael and Aderyn since they drank that MF coffee right after it was made, goddamn they probably burned their mouths
- Togy Cause he needs to be reminded to finish the freaking wall as Nile
- Corgi Moist Panties (Your message is currently hidden, to see what it is you need to click with your mouse right after your name, and then drag it to the right)