Talk About Double Trouble

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Zenith tilts his head. "Never mind." He says into the phone. He quickly hangs up ignoring the "What the hell is going on over there??" From the other end of the phone. The boy gives a sheepish smile. "Uh… whoops? That's going to be fun to explain later."

(Lol Zenith is not smart.)

(XD I'm glad you like him! He's angst at times, but he's not usually)

Zenith hesitates for a moment outside the shop, unsure if he's supposed to keep following. After a moment, he follows anyway. He glances at the graphic novels. He knows a little bit about reading and writing- enough to get by in a texting conversation- but maybe books with pictures could help him learn faster. "Uh, sorry I assumed your mom was my mom friend." He's heard John and Katsumi describe Crystal as a 'mom friend' before, and he's pretty sure he's using the term right. Pretty sure.

(He's so precious and pure, like Evelyn's gonna corrupt the shit out of him and I'm sorry in advance)

(Lol that's okay, he's not as innocent as he can seem to be)

Zenith notes that she's chatting with the clerk, but doesn't really give it much thought. He walks over and picks up a Deadpool comic. He flips through it a little, and immediately decides he likes Deadpool. Checking the price of the comics and how much money he has on hand, he decides he can afford three of them with his current budget.
He picks out three comics about the merc and goes up to the counter. He waits patiently behind Evelyn, not sure if she's just talking or trying to buy something.

(He is so bad at flirting things it doesn't even cross his mind that she might be doing that- even after he hears what she's saying, unless she's bluntly asking him out)

Zenith smiles, waves goodbye to the clerk, thinking nothing of the number on his hand. Without Evelyn noticing, he slips the money that the comics were worth into her bag. "The library sounds good. I mean, if you were inviting me to come along."

Zenith is holding onto the bag and laughing. He's always liked high speeds- y'know, unless it was a high speed object hitting him. That wasn't so fun. Zenith shoves those thoughts out of his head and just enjoys the ride, laughing as they make their way to the library.

Zenith's injuries heal in seconds, bruises fading away and cuts vanishing. Zenith gets to his feet. "You okay? You seem to be crashing into things a lot." He hesitates a moment. "You okay to walk? If necessary, I can take you back to my place and call a friend- John's a nurse, he can probably help."

Zenith picks her up bridal style. "Here, my place isn't too far." He silently complains about how Crystal is going to yell at him and Katsumi tease him. "I mean, technically I live there, Katsumi, Crystal, Cherry and I all live together. But if we hide in my room and drag John through the window we'll probably be fine. And don't worry- the only person John actually insults is me."

"I don't know much about normal people's injuries, but I'm pretty sure you don't need broken bones to be badly hurt. And you can rest in my place. I've got video games- will you be my player two?" Zenith knows that John has said that last bit to him before, so it's probably a saying. "As for cuddles, well, never really done that before, but how hard can it be?"

(John may have a crush on a oblivious Zenith)

Zenith resists the urge to question what the lip-touching means. "I mean, yeah, that's implied, if you're player two its implied I'll be player one."

Zenith blinks. "Oh. Wait…" His thoughts flash back to John, the person who said that to him. "You sure it's not just a figure of speech?" He's not entirely sure what she's referring to when she says 'kiss' but maybe it's best not to ask.

Zenith silently swears as he realizes that John was flirting with him and wonders how he's going to react to Evelyn. "Oh. I didn't realize that." He gives a small nervous laugh. Finally, they reach Zenith's place.

He steps inside, and it's a bar. "This is just the downstairs- Katsumi and Crystal run a business here." He explains. He starts walking up the stairs.

"Zenith what the f*ck is going- who is that?" A girl with long, dark hair and caramel skin storms into the room.

"This is Evelyn, we're going upstairs now, tell Crystal I said hi." Without waiting for a response, he quickly walks the rest of the way to his room, carefully sets Evelyn down on the couch, then closes and locks the door. He breathes a sigh of relief. "Thats Katsumi. I think her sole purpose in life is to make mine hell."

Zenith hesitates. It would probably be better not to call John… but still…
He glances at her injuries. Before he can think, he says- "I can heal them in less than a minute if you'd like."

Oh. Oh no. Why did he just say that, he's going to share his secret and she's going to try to turn him into the government, holy f*ck why did he say that?!