A Story

"But then … the girl accidentally saw her boyfriend having sex with her step-sister in another room …" Curt told everyone 'except' Blake about his fictional story.

It's been over 45 minutes since he began the story, and Blake hasn't been interested yet in hearing him, while everyone else seems to have enjoyed the story very much so far. They're all (except Blake) gathering near the campfire while looking at Curt, all of them have finished their respective dinner. They got potatoes as their dinner, there were about 20kg potatoes that Aksel's team brought, and of course The Saviors couldn't eat them all, so they saved the potatoes that they haven't eaten yet. 

Chandler was the only one who still took more potatoes some time while hearing Curt's fictional story, but he finished his last roast potato about 3 minutes ago and hasn't taken any potato again, at least for now.

"What?!" Everyone seemed so surprised after hearing Curt's latest words, some of them expressed it by saying the word "what" at the same time as the others, while the rest could only put a shocked expression.

"H-how …? I thought it was her stepbrother instead of her step-sister?!" Cole commented.

"What the f*ck you just said?!" Jade immediately replied to Cole.

"All this time I thought her boyfriend is actually gay and only dating her so that he can approach her step-brother, and I thought her step-brother also had a feeling towards him judging by how their interactions were, but … turns out her boyfriend actually targeted her step-sister," Cole explained his reason.

"To be honest, I also thought the same thing, it's very surprising that actually her boyfriend targeted her step-sister," Jake joined the conversation.

"Actually, her boyfriend's target is her stepmother," Curt said.

"What?!" They just got more shocked because of what Curt had just said.

"What the hell is your story?! This is nonsense! Now I see why no one wanted to hear your stories!" Jade protested at Curt.

"Girl, at least appreciate my masterpiece, and we're not even in the middle of the whole story yet, be patient, you'll understand the whole point of this story later," Curt spoke to Jade who's sitting right next to him.

"Ugh! Whatever! I don't wanna hear any of your stories anymore, I better sleep now," Jade replied to him as she got up and started to search for the best place to sleep.

"You guys still want to hear my story, right?" Curt then asked everyone else and made sure of this thing.

"Yes, it's quite entertaining though," Shawn said with a little smile.

"Of course," Aksel said, he looked so serious in hearing Curt's story.

"Sure," Jake said, he responded very nicely as always.

"I don't mind," Cheryl said.

"Me too, even though it's quite confusing," Cole said just shortly after Cheryl spoke.

"It's called plot twist, if a plot twist managed to surprise you, then it means the plot twist is excellent and worked very well," Curt replied to Cole.

"No one minds the plot twist, your story is weird and confusing indeed," Jade suddenly spoke to Curt while she's still trying to find the best place to sleep.

"Ayo, woman-" Curt looked doesn't happy with what Jade just said to him, he actually wanted to say more than those two words, but he chose to stop because he didn't want to fight with her.

"I-I agree with Shawn, b-but I think I'll fall asleep not long after this, I'm sleepy and tired, s-sorry ..." Chandler said, he looked quite doubtful to say that but he had to.

"Ain't a problem, brother. By the way, thank you so much, everyone, I'll continue my story now," Curt replied to the answers happily afterwards, his face became very bright after got so many positive responses, but he forgot that Rosemarie hasn't given her answer yet.

"U-uh … I- … I … I haven't g-given my answer … y-yet … Curt …" Rosemarie is finally spoken, she stuttered with the low tone of her soft voice.

"Oh! I'm so sorry, Rosemarie! So, do you want to keep listening to my story?" Curt then asked.

"Y-yeah …" Rosemarie responded very softly, but she low-key looked scared.

"Are you scared?" Aksel, who's sitting next to Rosemarie, realized that the girl looked a little bit scared.

"U-uh …?" The girl looked quite surprised that Aksel realized that, and she also turned her head towards him afterwards.

"Kind of …" she continued while averting her gaze down.

"What are you scared of? There's nothing scary here, and Curt's story isn't a horror story," Aksel said, he is indeed a fearful boy, but he has no fear of something supernatural, horror, and the like, he only would get scared of something that he can see.

"I-I know … but the way Curt told the story … it's sort of scary for me …" Rosemarie explained her fear, it turns out that it's because of Curt's tone while saying his latest words of the story, it was indeed kinda dramatic and horror due to how low his voice tone was while spoke the words.

"Aaaaaaaah!!!" Jade suddenly screamed in the whistle tone and made everyone else including Blake who's sitting on one of the branches of a big tree shocked by her whistle.

"Aaah!!" Rosemarie also screamed due to Jade's shocking whistle scream and she immediately hugged Aksel very hard because of her fear. Although she screamed, the soft tone of her voice didn't disappear and it made her scream sound a little bit cute.

"What happened?!" Jake asked Jade and got up just shortly after, he also came over to her very quickly to get to know by himself what was the thing that made the girl scream.

Jade wasn't able to answer Jake's question, she looked shocked and scared at the same time, she also immediately covered up her mouth with both of her hands the moment after she screamed.

"Oh my God," Jake said after he saw what was 'that thing', he also stood next to Jade now, while none of the other Saviors at least had the intention to approach the girl.

"It's okay, just choose another place to sleep," the Captain continued, he talked to Jade.

"But … Captain, don't you think we should just search for another place to rest?" Jade then asked him.

"It's no use, there should be skeletons everywhere, almost all humans died due to the zombie pandemic, Jade, we forgot to consider this thing before, and we should get used to it," Jake replied.

"Skeletons? There are skeletons near us, Captain?" Aksel asked Jake afterwards.

"Yes, there are some skeletons here and Jade shocked when she saw it, but keep in mind that we're probably will see more skeletons everywhere, because as all of you already know, hundreds of years ago, seven billion people had turned into zombies due to an extreme pandemic, and the zombies would dead when no humans left on this planet, well basically the zombies were dead humans already, but to say that they would die if no humans left is actually correct as well. All the humans on this planet had turned into zombies hundreds of years ago, just sometime after one hundred thousands of humans that later called The Martians, moved to Mars, and The Martians are the last human race that still survives to this day. When finally there was no human left here, the mass deaths of the zombies started to happen, more than seven billion zombies died just in several days, and now, all of them are just skeletons that spread everywhere, it should've not too shocking for us to see skeletons on this planet, but we kind of forgot about it because of what happened earlier this day, so I just wanted you guys to keep this in your respective minds again that skeletons will be a normal view for us here, we must get used to it," Jake spoke to everyone and reminded them about a little bit of history while took Jade back near the campfire.

None of them say anything else after Jake spoke, making a silence created and no one has the intention to break it, not even Curt.

"Alright, why are you guys being silent now? Curt, just continue your story," Jake finally broke the silence, he looked quite confused because all the teens suddenly said nothing after he reminded them about a little bit of some big things that happened on the Earth hundreds of years ago.

"Oh, yeah, yeah, right, ahem, I'm sorry, I just didn't expect that the situation would be kinda creepy like this, but, anyway, everyone except Jade wants to hear the continuation of my story, but how about you, Blake? Perhaps you also still want to know what happens next in my story?" Curt said after Jake broke the silence.

"Hm? Me? I didn't even listen to your story, but I do appreciate your masterpiece, and I support your interest, it's cool," Blake then responded to Curt very nicely.

"Hey, thanks a lot, man, appreciate that," Curt replied while stopped looking above the big tree where Blake is sitting.

Jade looked quite irritated by Blake's response towards Curt, she knew that it was sarcasm addressed towards her, but she chose not to think about it or else she would just be more irritated by it.

"U-uh … I'm s-so sorry, Aksel …" Rosemarie said to Aksel, she just realized that she still hugged the boy and she immediately let go of him shyly, her cheeks even blushed, surprisingly.

"No problem," Aksel responded very nicely, it looks like he wasn't aware of the blush on her face, none of them realized it actually … except for someone,

Cole, and he wasn't happy at all to see it.

'Disgusting,' he thought. He then averted his gaze towards Curt.