68 Dirty little secrets
“Am I supposed to now ignore the fact that you snuck on me to watch me jerk off?” Mathew asked, forcing the question out of his mouth while ignoring the extreme embarrassment that it caused him.
‘I might not be a virgin anymore, but to have my dirty secrets pulled out like that…’ he thought, a strange feeling of anger welling up in his soul.
And then, something clicked in his mind.
“Wait, don’t answer that,” Mathew requested as a small smirk appeared on his lips. “What I want to know instead is how could you know how long those sessions were?” he asked while gracing Nadia with the loveliest of the smiles he could produce.
“Huh? I…” the girl attempted to answer right away, only to figure out the meaning behind Mathew’s words when her own lips had already started to move.
Nadia then turned her eyes away, her blush only intensifying.
“Come on, it’s not nice to ask a lady such a question!” she finally responded, protesting rather than giving a straight-out answer.
“Are you seriously going to slap me with gender roles and privileges now?” Mathew asked, raising his eyebrows. Even though he cared little to not at all about those topics, he just couldn’t help himself but parody them right now. pᴀɴᴅᴀ-ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ.ᴄᴏᴍ
“The world falling into pieces doesn’t mean you should be rude!” Nadia protested again.
‘So you can embarrass me, but I can’t repay you back in kind?’ Mathew thought, only to end up rolling his eyes and dropping the topic. ‘It’s better to pull back now than to get on her bad side and suffer the consequences later,’ he thought, ignoring just how obvious Nadia’s attempt at changing the topic was.
“Anyway, we will need to watch this wall at all times,” Mathew said as he turned his head to the school compound. He took only a moment to notice a single face flattened against one of the few windows that remained in place.
‘Thinking about this, isn’t it getting cold?’ Mathew thought when he caught himself up rubbing his hands against his exposed arms. ‘The winter might still be a few weeks away, but I guess we need to start looking after some basic necessities,’ he thought.
It took only a second for the young man to recall all the trouble he went through to obtain simple stuff like food and clean water in his first run.
‘At least we won’t need to worry about wood to burn and warm ourselves or cook,’ he thought, recalling all sorts of burnable furniture they could still find within the school’s grounds.
“This is going to turn into a pain,” Leila muttered under her nose. “But I guess you are right,” she added a moment later as she turned her head around and looked in the direction of the city. pᴀɴᴅᴀ ɴoᴠᴇʟ
She and Daria were the only ones in Mathew’s group that actually walked outside. As such, it was no wonder they could readily accept the importance of this weak point of the school’s defenses.
“But why?” Daria asked, quickly proving Mathew’s quick assumptions wrong. “It’s not like this wall was designed to stop anyone in the first place,” she stated as she knocked her knuckles against the healthy part of the wall.
The dull, reverberating sound that followed only served to prove her point.
“Murphy’s law,” Mathew replied with a wry smile as he grabbed Nadia’s hand and started to move back into the partially ruined compound. “This place is the weak spot of the wall. On the other hand, the gate should be the strongest,” he pointed out.
Then, Mathew shrugged his shoulders and released a deep breath.
“What do you want to bet that it will be this part of the wall that will see the bulk of the next horde that will attack this place?”
Daria turned silent upon hearing Mathew’s words. ρꪖꪕᦔꪖꪕꪫꪣꫀꪶ
“We will just have to deal with it once it happens.” Contrary to the others, Leila didn’t seem to be bothered by the perspective of the wall falling. “It’s not like we struggle when fighting zombies anymore, isn’t it?”
Leila’s question fell on deaf ears, as Mathew already moved too far to even hear her words.
Yet, Leila didn’t bother to move yet. Instead, she looked at the young man’s back. Then, her expression soured.
“Give you some time, huh?” she muttered to herself, ignoring the fact that even her own partner already moved ahead. She then turned her head to the back, throwing one last look towards the city outside the walls of the school.
“It doesn’t look like we have that much time left, though,” she muttered before shaking her head and following after the rest of the group.
“Did you seriously watch me masturbate?” Mathew asked in a low voice once he realized the girls ended up straying a bit to the back.
“You are still on this?” Nadia moaned a little only to then aver her eyes and for her face to cover in blush again. “Yes, I did,” she admitted in a tiny voice, giving up on slapping Mat’s thrust with further excuses.
“Do you want to get even, then?” Mathew leaned over Nadia’s ear and whispered, only to see with satisfaction how even the girl’s earlobe turned red from embarrassment.
“Wait, what?” Nadia nearly shouted, only managing to keep the reins of her voice at the very last moment.
“Huh?” Daria suddenly appeared behind them, her hurried breath signaling she gave it a bit of effort to catch up. “What was that?” she asked while moving her eyes from one lovebird to the other.
She didn’t seem to hear the exchange… but the shy looks on the couple’s faces were enough of a hint for the clever girl.
“I guess it wasn’t anything important,” Daria commented before taking a stop and looking back behind the corner she had just emerged from. When she turned her head back in the right direction, there was no more sign of confusion on it.
It was replaced with a small, smuggish smile.
“I want to go check on some things,” Daria announced before hurrying forward and passing the couple. Yet, rather than stopping then, she accelerated her steps even further, fully ignoring how treacherous the area of the collapsed part of the compound was to tread on.
Yet, rather than keeping with her pretend act of not knowing what happened, Daria suddenly stopped and turned around on her heel.
“You know, I’m also extremely jealous of you,” she suddenly announced, putting an end to the small flirt going on between Mathew and Nadia. “But I also want to respect your wish,” Daria added, lowering her head.
For but a moment, there was only silence between the trio as all of them thought hard over what should they say next.
Yet, it turned out that Daria had it the easiest out of all three of them.
“I’m not going to impose on you right now. Heck, I will even make sure to pull Leila away as well so you two can get some well-deserved time together,” Daria offered up, only to then lower her head and tighten her fists.
She then raised her eyes and looked directly into Nadia’s face.
“I just hope… I hope this time that you need won’t last longer than our lives in this brutal world,” she explained before turning her eyes to Mathew. “You know, the two of us want to forget about all this shit, even if only for a moment, too,” she explained before turning around on her heel and rushing back into the school’s building.