#Chapter 41: The Calm Before the Storm

Enzo

I was just sitting down to watch a movie and drown my sorrows in a bowl of popcorn when my door suddenly burst open.

“What the fuck?!” I shouted, jumping up from my couch and spilling popcorn everywhere.

My eyes widened as I saw Luke come in, his skull exposed, carrying a limp Nina in his arms. He ran over to the couch and shoved me out of the way, laying her down while I stood there in complete shock.

“What did you do?!” I said.

“I saved her from getting sexually assaulted,” Luke said, stepping away so I could crouch down to Nina and feel her forehead. She was clammy and delirious, mumbling nonsense under

her breath.

and where is

growled, looking up

was covering his skull again.

was. “Don’t worry. I got him in the back of my car. Well, not my car, technically. A car that

set of keys out of his

rubbed my forehead with my hand, sighing. “You can’t just steal cars,” I replied. “But… Thank you. Can you get him somewhere secluded? I won’t let some

last glance over his shoulder at Nina before pulling his hood up and

over to the kitchen to grab a trash bag, but by the time I

case she puked again and running for

crusted vomit all over her and gently slid her shirt off over her head. I wiped her down with a clean, wet towel and soap and then put one of my shirts on

my shirts. She was so small that it was like a dress on her, and I was able to remove her dirty skirt

who had done this to my Nina. How could anyone do this to her? I just wanted

already come back into her face and she stopped sweating, which was surprising. Didn’t drugs like this make people sick for hours? Then again, Nina was proving more and more every day to be

agonize over whether Nina was human or not, I let out a deep sigh and scooped her small body up in my arms. I walked over to my bedroom and laid her down in the bed, pulling the covers up to her chin and

for a few moments, watching

for letting

been such a fuck-up

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