22***Unnerved

Nylon

"Angus. Hey, Angus? Are you still mad at me?" I asked for the up tenth time on our way through the outskirts of Hobside. It has been a few minutes since we left to look for monsters to fight, but the spawn nests changed and all the monsters we crossed were eliminated on sight by Angus, so I was getting no action! If this keeps up, I might as well be a lecher!!! I'd rather die a few times before that happens!

Or at least, that's what would have happened if My one party member wasn't already pretty sick of me dying by now....

"I'm not mad at you." She replied, with her cheeks slightly puffed. She was still speed walking, and I had given up on walking beside her and was currently running beside her.

"Then why won't you let me kill any monsters?" I asked as a Wild Cat jumped out of some bushes and growled at us, and I readied up some essence to do a Shield Bash.

"What are you talking about? You have plenty of monsters to kill." She said back as one of her Flint Daggers shot out faster than I could blink and shot straight through it's neck, killing it instantly.

"No I don't, since you keep killing them too fast!" I shouted back at her.

"Oh, I was too fast for you? Sorry, I figured that, with all that time you were spending in the Smith shop, you would have equipment for killing faster." She said with sarcasm subtly flowing through her words as two more wild card fell with a quick sweep of one of her daggers.

"Aw, come on! I didn't talk that long!!!" I retorted as I picked up the newly dropped drops and dropped them in the new cart I was carrying.

"Or maybe it's because you're tired? I'm sorry for being so heartless. It must be exhausting reacting to famous players twice a day." She continued without looking at me as she continued speed walking.

"Hey! That only happened today and you know it!" I was starting to feel pissed that she started to guilt trip me, but alas, I could do nothing to stop her.

"Not to mention dying as many times as you did. Surely you must be so much more tired than..."

"Alright, alright, you've made your point already! Geeze." I say as I deflate as a ball of silent, liquid guilt slowly runs through me. Geeze, I know I'm being a royal pain in her usually fast pace style, but I can't help it! I'm an adventurer! Meeting famous people is half the fun!

I was successfully silenced though, so we continued traveling without another word to each other, monsters falling in our wake as we walked through the area.

Angus

I feel miserable...

Its been at least 4 hours since Nylon stopped talking, and we haven't spoken another word to each other since then! We walked around so much, we ended up finding back the spawn nests of the wild cats and the sub-urban wolves again (separated this time though) and we were laden with loot!

These flint daggers are way too OP! It only took one piercing shot with them from my Revolver Shot to down the wild cat Boss Monster and I killed the sub-urban wolf Boss Monster within seconds with them! But I digress.

Through-out all of those four hours, has been avoiding me like the plague! He dresses back whenever a monster appears, he lets me take the lead when the path is too narrow, and any time I try to prompt him to kill monsters as well, he looks at me like I had two heads that were invisible til now!!!

All he does is just push that damned cart!!!!

At least, it would have been better if that was the case, but he was there playing support all the time without even a glance in my direction!!! Any time monsters try to flank me, he was always in the perfect spot to fend them off! And every time the go after the cart, he would fight and kill them! Any time the cart he's dragging gets full, the makes some camouflage to hide it and make a new one! And all without even a grunt!!!

And I don't even know why that pisses me off, but it does!!!

By now, we were finishing up another group of mobs, and I was at the end of my rope.

"WILL YOU JUST STOP DOING THAT!!!!!!!!" I yelled at him all of a sudden. He slowed down only to raise his eyebrow at me, before continuing as if I wasn't taking to him!

"YES, THAT YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!! STOP IT! YOU'RE PISSING ME THE HECK OFF!!!!!!" I shouted back at him. I had long since stopped being mad at him for taking up my precious time, but his reaction to it is just stressing me out. My gut had been scrunching up at a slow yet steady pace since I did what I did, and now it's eating me alive!!!

"WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU HUH?!! GET MAD!!! GET ANGRY, PISSED, TICKED OFF, ANNOYED, HECK ACT SCARED AT LEAST BUT STOP THIS!!!!!" Me screaming my head off felt so weird I almost cringed, even in my enraged state, but I had no other way of venting this unreasonable frustration I was feeling, so I shouted.... and it wasn't helping!

He stopped for a second, and I could already feel the pressure in my gut alleviate, till he said,

"16..."

"..... What?" I replied, slightly stunned at the unexpected response.

"I'm 16, not a brat." he replied calmly before continuing walking.

"Oi. What the heck? Is that it?!" he continued walking, gait natural and relaxed, absolutely unhurried.

"Oi, hold on." I called out mutely, more to myself than anyone as the gut clenching returned with a vengeance, "What the heck." It became near unbearable within seconds and I teetered to the side, about to fall. I was on a small hill, so the fall would do some damage, but it would be almost insignificant. Add that and the fact that I didn't feel like moving to stop myself, so I let gravity to it's thing for once. This was a new feeling to me, so I had now idea how to handle it, so for the first time in a while, I thought up a scary thought...

'Maybe I should just.... die.....' and then I accelerated to the ground...

"What are you doing?" A voice said beside me as an arm stopped my forward descent!

"Huh?" I said, turning to the voice to see Nylon with a worried expression on his face, and I felt my eyes get heavy all of a sudden!

"Why do you have such a dumb look on your face, stupid." I said, my voice growing shaky without my control!

He looked me like I just asked him why is air important, and funnily enough, I understood what his gaze was saying, and also what was trying to turn my abdomen into a meat ball. And then, I broke...

"Sorry..... for being petty... and for shouting at you...." I said, using the last shreds of dignity I had to not cry.

"Why did you ask me to be your party member?" he asked me. It was strictly curiosity, I could tell from the tone and the look he was giving me. This unexpected question made by blush a little and I almost reached my hands up to cover my face!

"Do I have to answer that?" I answered instead, and mentally slammed my head into a wall because of it!

"Nope *muffled giggle*" I spare a peek at his face, only to see the biggest sh*t eating grin in history on it, and I immediately pushed him away from me, landing on my bum in the process.

"Damned brat!" I said through my teeth, irritation etched unto my brow.

"Come on, let's go back to the village and actually sell this loot." He said, stretching out his hand to me.

".... Yeah, let's." I said, grabbing his hand and pulling myself up.

He then ran to fetch the loot as I checked the map to see where we were.

*Ding*

.... Wait a minute... where the heck are we??????!!!!!!